We're All Stars Now...

"Allie..." Allie said, furrowing her brow as she was about to stand up just to fall back down with a girlish yelp as Shiki feinted a punch at her.

"Eiiy!"

She stared at the girl with an unsure look and then back to Syd. no doubt Syd wouldn't lift a finger to stop Shiki if she tried to mug Allie but would her and Syd actually find some sort of delight in gang beating the red head? Allie clenched her fists. One rabid dog was enough but Shiki still could be useful. Until real violence against her started, she would just have to endure their bullying. At least she was smarter and far more attractive then them. Shiki might have been a star and Syd might have been a thug but Allie was a princess and her kingdom was anywhere she trod.

Allie sighed. "Naturally." She said, trying to stand back up once more. "But, what's a rockstar doin here in AFW? Was the thrill of the stage not enough?" Allie asked with a hopeful grin on her face. "Syd likes to get her kicks in the ring too. Right, Syd?" She said, giving the girl another elbow. A little harder than just a poke just for Syd punching her earlier.

"I know, it's-"

Syd was cut off by Allie when the redhead came back to run her mouth. Apparently, Syd just didn't hit her hard enough. Then Allie elbowed her. She scowled.

"This place is crawling with mindless idiots. Drones. They don't understand anything. They just want to dress like sluts and act like they're lesbians." Syd snorted. "It's so stupid. But that just makes it so much more satisfying when I get in the ring and wreck one of their precious bimbos."

She looked at Allie, begrudgingly. She would have preferred that Allie not even be there. She was being so annoying today. "What are we doing here?" She asked, and glanced at Shiki.

Now, there was a question Shiki had heard around a million times. Who hadn't asked her, why wrestling, Shiki? Her bandmates, her agent, her fans... fucking magazines, too. Her answer had always been something simple, indecisive, or even reserved--of all things. The punkette now found herself halfway across the world, in Tokyo, speaking with two, more or less, complete strangers.

Shiki's answer came without the slightest hesitation, "I joined the AFW because someone told me I couldn't. They told me, no, Shiki, you can't... Motherfucker." A frown touched the punkette's pouty features as her tone became bitter. "So, now, I'm going to burn this whole fucking building to the ground, right along with all of its superstars and their fancy belts."

Shiki's gaze became distant as she spoke though her grin grew deviously content. Snapping back to reality, the punkette briefly glanced at both girls before simply offering a nonchalant shrug to Syd.

A serious look came over Syd's face, though to the casual onlooker it would've been impossible to tell the difference.

"You want to burn it down?" She asked. She furrowed her brow and looked down in thought.

Little by little, the corners of her mouth tugged outward into a slow smile. Her lips pulled back to bring out the dimples on her cheeks, and showed just a hint of teeth. Her eyes rounded and became big as visions of it all filled her head, the possibilities. She saw fire and carnage and hysterical sheep running around in a panic. Syd walked calmly through their midst while the flames crept higher. If anyone tried to stop her, she'd stomp their faces in, and if she got any trouble, well... her dad was a very important lawyer.

When she looked back up at Shiki, she wore an unhinged grin, and hardly looked like the same person.

"Let's burn it down."

Allie was intrigued by Shiki's response. Now that was something she could get behind and she also knew that this girl had some buttons Allie could press if they ever had some more interaction with this girl. However, it was SYD'S response that was the most interesting. For all the time that they had lived together, she was pretty sure she'd never seen that look on Syd.

It was surprisingly... nice... even if the thoughts that spawned it were wholly delusional and deranged.

Still, if she let Syd do it, she'd do it but maybe she could teach Syd that way. She ran her fingers through her silky ginger hair. "Ok, Syd. Go right ahead. Burn it down. Set fire to all that brick..." She gave a patronizing pat on Syd's shoulder and turned to Shiki.

"So, have you had any matches yet? Syd's undefeated right now because she's pretty awesome." And fought cream puffs... No need to mention that though.

Shiki rolled her pretty green eyes, "I was speaking figuratively, Red. Don't be an idiot. Syd knows what I mean, these morons around here need to suffer slowly and painfully. Death is too good for them." Then again, maybe Syd was serious. It was hard to tell simply by looking at the hellbent girl... Could Shiki have asked for a more badass fan!? It was like a dream come true!

"And undefeated? According to who? Their rules? Fuck their rules! I'm tired of playing by their bullshit rules. If you ask me, it's time we make our own damn rules," Shiki bristled as she crossed both arms over her chest. Of course, she had dodged the question because she didn't like the answer she'd have to give, but it didn't make her words any less true, at least, in her eyes. She'd play by her own rules from now on.

As Shiki had once explained eloquently before in the past, she was nobody's bitch!

Syd looked at Allie and her smile disappeared, but her eyes stayed just as crazy. Maybe she did want to burn it down for real. Who was going to stop her?

And obviously only the outside was brick, which Allie would know if her head wasn't filled with lip gloss and Bud Light.

"There are no rules," Syd said, in her lecturing tone. "No one can make you do anything, and the only true way to live is to do exactly what you want. Rules are meaningless things made up by people who are afraid of what people like us would do if they didn't control us, but the enlightened ones of us know that they can't really control us. So we do whatever we want."

Syd nodded to affirm the hefty ball of truth she had just shoved at the other two, and waited for it to sink in.

"See? This is what I mean! Anarchy, chaos, discord! We can do whatever the hell we want! This girl gets it!" Shiki knew there was a reason she liked Syd. The girl obviously had fantastic taste in music and a great sense of style, but it clearly went even deeper than that. It was as if every song Shiki had ever wrote had gathered for one giant gang bang and Sydney Anastasia Vasquez was the magnificent offspring of the unholy union. Shiki couldn't help but feel a new and strange sensation.

Was she actually proud of the other girl? Was this what it was like to have a child, or whatever?...

The punkette hastily disregarded the gag inducing thought from her warped, little, mind.

Anyway, the point here was this: when had Shiki's fabulous intuition ever failed her? Never, of course. The young rockstar wore a broad, mischievous, grin across her pretty features as her green gaze settled back on Allie rather expectantly. Shiki and Syd were clearly on the same page, but what about the redhead?

"Allie."

She said almost subconsciously. It seemed like the two of them really were about to go on a crusade of Anarchy. Allie didn't mind a lil mischief making but she wasn't in on this whole revolution of anarchy. She looked at the AFW building. She really didn't see what the point of burning the place you worked was. Then again, as she looked back at Syd and Shiki, neither of them were relying too much on the AFW stipends. Allie too, really. She had to coral this a bit still.

"You know what's even better than burning things?" She said. "Kicking some stupid bitch's ass in the ring and celebrating a good beat down with a nice drink!"

Allie grinned. "In faaaact, since we're all pretty awesome, why don't we go celebrate our future victories right now! My treat!" Maybe that would help steer them away from all of this talk of fire?

Syd turned her head to look down at Allie. Little Allie. There was something in Syd's face, aside from the excitement of her deranged pleasures. For the first time, Syd had an ally, and majority ruled. Allie was outnumbered and Syd was in control. She showed Allie her teeth before tossing her ponytail onto her back and leaning in toward Shiki.

"Hey. Do you want to go do something fun?" She asked, with clear bad intentions in the tone of her voice.