Sisters of All Styles vs. The Valkyries - Blooded

Mako started to complain as Reiko began to work Alice around, switching up with her hold. It seemed kind of pointless - they had the bitch, what was she doing? Ruining a perfectly good thing, right when the two of them finally got on the same page.

She didn’t get the chance to make a formal complaint, though, and she was glad. Given what the Valkyrie-In-Training did next, it would’ve been a stupid complaint, because it was kind of a badass move. If anything, she was kind of mad at herself for not trying it. The choke was an effective one, keeping Alice in prime position, squeezing the life out of her and making her an easy target. So easy, in fact, that Mako had to take better advantage of it.

She moved to the side and pushed Reiko a foot or so towards the ring, getting her in position. ”Keep her still, gonna score a field goal on her head.”

Mako hopped up on the apron and took a few steps back, getting close to the ring post. From there, she bent over, readied herself, then broke into a short run along the side, preparing to leap off and score a hellacious kick on her foe’s skull as she soared over them.

After a brief respite in Reiko choking her, Alice realized that things were going from bad to worse from her as Reiko switched the grip on the chain, now tugging with such a strength that she actually lifted the girl onto her back as if she were a human torture rack. Alice desperately tugged against the chain, but between fighting her own weight and Reiko's strength, she had no chance, as her vision got darker...

With her seeing Mako readying for some sort of attack between her flashes of consciousness. Putting everything in the last possible reserves of her strength, Alice instead went along with the tugging motion, flipping over Reiko's back in the last possible moment before Mako's attack hit!

Reiko was content to keep Alice like this forever… or until the woman passed out and she had to let her go or horace serious legal troubles. Rocking her body with every debilitating choke even with the chain starting to dig into her own skin with her grip as it was. It was worth it for this moment of triumph. Where she would stand tall beside Mako and throw up the horns to the roaring boos of the asshole fans. Valkyries were on top and they would know soon enough…

The young biker blinked and she punched forward a bit too far, Alice's body heaving off of her, briefly dragging their heads over top of one another until the other wrestler in front of her. The chain loose in her hands. Her eyes flared with anger as she started to stand up, really to whip the ever loving shit out of this audacious woman who had the nerve to escape her totally sick submission.

Then she was booted in the back of the head by Mako. The impact carried with it all the spots and napkins the long sized pugilist reserved for her most hated of foes as per usual. So when it caught Reiko in the back of the skull unprepared, the jolt of it rolled her eyes back and sent her straight to the floor in a heap. She didn't make a sound, didn't move at all. She had her lights knocked clean out by her own partner.

It was all going well. Makoto was close, this close, to putting this entire match on lockdown. One knee and it would all be over. Maybe it was just because this was going so much better than she’d planned, but she was feeling it more now than ever. She even had to give Reiko props. She might’ve been a brownnoser, but she held in there when things counted. Maybe she could invest a little more into the rugrat…

One second. That was all it took to screw it up.

Alice’s timing was on point. She spun Reiko around at the exact worst moment - soon enough for her to realize what was going to happen, but late enough that she couldn’t stop it anymore than she could stop a bullet from a fired gun. The blow clocked Reiko in the skull, making a noise not unlike a coconut getting hit with a hammer, and the Valkyrie-In-Training went down. Lights out. No one home.

”Oh, fuck!” The shock of it all, the sudden change, put Mako in an instant panic mode. That had been a nasty hit, made all the worse by her partner not being ready for it. She moved over to Reiko’s side, flipping her over, and started trying to shake her awake. ”Reiko? Reiko!”

"'GAAAASP!'"

Alice didn't know she could miss the concept of air, but here she was, taking a massive heap of oxygen into her lungs as the chain stopped pressing against her throat. And better yet, a second after she was free, her choker was nailed in the back of the head by her own partner. Reiko was out cold, her partner checking up on her, opportunity open for Alice to attack...or check on her sister.

She quickly glanced over at Clara, who was stirring, but still moving very sluggishly with her mask on the ground...

...meaning Mako took priority.

With Alice somewhat sorting her bearings, the Pale Rider launched her left leg at the standing Valkyrie's face, wincing at pressing her weight into her right, as she tried to knock out her remaining foe out cold with a Super Kick!