Bullet vs Crystal Zdunich

Off-Camera

Thursday, August 19, 2021
Great Room
Home of Eavan, Adriana and Katra Zdunich
New Orleans, Louisiana
3:09 PM CDT




The day had started off with a good day at the garage. A project had finished early and everyone was able to just look to their own devices only an hour after lunch.

Caveman had gone to look at a car that could become a personal project.

Taza had run off to prepare for Killer’s birthday festivities that would happen on Friday, taking Killer with her just in case the guest of honor’s opinion was needed.

Vice had gone back to the Chrome Dragons’ clubhouse to deal with some club business.

Boner, Goldie and Kyojin had decided to head out for an afternoon beer.

Spectre and Cisco had decided to stay behind in case somebody happened by in the last couple of hours the place was supposed to be open for business, knowing that Dammit, Doomsday and Devastator would be next door at the gym.

For Alex “Bullet” Carbajal, it left her able to go over and visit Jenni Taylor to see how the woman was doing in the wake of the death of her longtime boyfriend, Jackson Shane. She had called over to the home of Eavan “Krigare” Maloney and her wives, Adriana and Katra Zdunich. Bullet had ridden over on her bike and now found herself seated inside a room with all three homeowners, Jenni Taylor, Kelly Taylor, Emilie Taylor, Alissa Lacroix, Linnéa Lacroix, Zenna Zdunich, Maja Lindström and Valkyrja Lindström. Bullet surveys the family and nods, happy to see most of them there to help Jenni through her situation.

Alex "Bullet" CarbajAlissa Lacroix: ¿A la orden?

Jenni tries to force a smile but none is coming.

Jenni Taylor: I’m…

She shrugs and Bullet nods sympathetically.

Alex "Bullet" CarbajAlissa Lacroix: It is understandable.

She looks around the room.

Alex "Bullet" CarbajAlissa Lacroix: It is good to see your whole family here with you.

Krigare shrugs.

Eavan "Krigare" Maloney: Well, not the whole family but, most of it.

Bullet frowns

Alex "Bullet" CarbajAlissa Lacroix: Who is missing?

Alissa grins.

Alissa Lacroix: Kajsa’s in Asheville with her girlfriend, Jessie. I think she’s training to be able to work at the tattoo parlor there run by Riley Fajardo, the Mouse Trap.

Zenna Zdunich: Freja and Nadja are with Sarabi in Cali or Vegas, depending on which house they’re in right now. They both work for Seleana.

Bullet smirks.

Alex "Bullet" CarbajAlissa Lacroix: And Crystal.

Almost immediately, she sees a ripple go through the room. Adriana even crosses her arms as if to say, “Do not get me started.”

Alex "Bullet" CarbajAlissa Lacroix: Is she not?

Zenna shrugs.

Zenna Zdunich: She and our sister…

She motions between herself and Katra.

Zenna Zdunich: Are married, but she tends to run hot and cold with our family. We do not know why but…

Krigare shakes her head.

Eavan "Krigare" Maloney: Yeah, we do, Bitch be fucking crazy…

She turns back to Zenna and nods pointedly.

Eavan "Krigare" Maloney: Trust me, takes one to know one and that bitch be fucking crazy.

Zenna shrugs almost sadly.

Zenna Zdunich: We have tried to accept her. We have offered her the same as we offered Eavan. Christina would have it be so, but Christina is not always driving…

Bullet nods slowly, knowingly.

Alex "Bullet" CarbajAlissa Lacroix: Crystal...

Zenna nods sadly while Krigare nods almost like she’s saying, “I told you so!”

Eavan "Krigare" Maloney: And like you said, she seems to have rubbed off on Sullivan…

Bullet nods in response.

Alex "Bullet" CarbajAlissa Lacroix: I felt bad saying that knowing Nadja would see but…

Krigare raises her hand to stop her club president right there.

Eavan "Krigare" Maloney: It’s ok, Ale. We…

She motions at everyone else in the room.

Eavan "Krigare" Maloney: We all know how she is. Some of us were in WWA to see it first hand. Others were there in WWR to see other things and we all watched the SCW shows and saw the shit there. She doesn’t even keep up with her own children, her wife does that. What she would do without her…

Krigare exhales through gritted teeth.

Eavan "Krigare" Maloney: I mean, Kate Steele and her hubby, Teddy, stole her company and who got it back for her?

Zenna nods.

Zenna Zdunich: Sarabi did.

Krigare nods angrily.

Eavan "Krigare" Maloney: And she wonders why everyone who has seen even a hint of what goes on jumped on that hashtag in the last year?

She shakes her head.

Eavan "Krigare" Maloney: My God, Chryslina is lucky there wasn’t more. We’ve all heard stories about other skeletons in that closet that are just waiting to climb out…

Bullet nods in agreement.

Alex "Bullet" CarbajAlissa Lacroix: I have heard it said it would look like the end of Princess and the Frog if that were to happen. ¿Es la verdad?

Krigare nods back.

Eavan "Krigare" Maloney: I’ve heard the same and I’ve heard it from some pretty reliable sources.

Bullet almost laughs.

Alex "Bullet" CarbajAlissa Lacroix: Simply Scandalous take lessons?

Zenna shakes her head.

Zenna Zdunich: It is sad, she did not have that reputation in WWR. Before she came to Mile High, Stephanie Sullivan was the nice Sullivan Sister.

Krigare nods in agreement with her sister-in-law.

Eavan "Krigare" Maloney: And now she’s followed Chrystalina’s lead on fucking around on somebody just to try and get ahead without putting in any actual work.

Linnéa sighs.

Linnéa Lacroix: I thought Nadja was going to be happy too. Did they even get to really properly start?

Krigare shrugs.

Eavan "Krigare" Maloney: Does it matter? If Sullivan’s listening to Chrystalina about that shit, we should have that hashtag ready to go now. Maybe call Jane Harper and Chiaki Sanada about where they got their FreeSeleana2021 merch from and see about some FreeNadja merch too.

Maja shakes her head.

Maja Lindström: I do not understand that at all. Why Sullivan do such things? Why she do it in Nadja’s face like that?

Krigare shrugs again.

Eavan "Krigare" Maloney: Chrystalina lights the path…

Bullet just shakes her head.

Alex "Bullet" CarbajAlissa Lacroix: She is just not well received, is she?

Krigare bows her head, almost ashamed.

Eavan "Krigare" Maloney: We try, ok? We really, really try for Seleana. We promised Sel we would try to understand and accept her. We would try and love her as one of us but Chrystalina slaps our hand away every time we extend it and then demands to know why we don’t still have our hand extended anymore. Over and over again…

Bullet nods sympathetically.

Alex "Bullet" CarbajAlissa Lacroix: I am sorry to bring such a subject to you.

Zenna shakes her head.

Zenna Zdunich: It is not your fault.

Krigare nods in agreement.

Eavan "Krigare" Maloney: It’s not your fault, Ale.

Bullet nods and they get off the subject, all trying to cheer Jenni up and getting her to talk about other things.




On-Camera

Friday, August 20, 2021
Warehouse Gym
Shieldmaidens Clubhouse
New Orleans, Louisiana
6:09 PM CDT




The camera opens on Alex “Bullet” Carbajal walking through the door to the gym in her usual ensemble of black tactical boots, black tactical pants, black t-shirt, black fingerless gloves and her Shieldmaidens kutte. She glances off to the right at the table currently holding the MHW Phoenix Championship belt and then steps into the center of the shot.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Crystal Zdunich...

Looking down from the camera, Bullet almost laughs.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: How did I see this coming?

She looks into the camera, looking like she really had alway seen this coming.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: The Burning Rose…

Looking away, Bullet just starts to shake her head in disbelief.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: I would ask what that is really supposed to mean, but I know that you would just start acting again, spin some bullshit platitude designed to make yourself feel better about what you are doing at the moment and it will all be empty rhetoric…

She almost laughs again.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: A walking shadow, a poor player that frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Turning back to the camera, Bullet nods forcefully.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Let’s be honest, you are basically Macbeth hugging Icarus and the Prodigal Son.

She nods, her eyes bulging slightly for emphasis.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Because like Macbeth, you are a Shakespearean tragedy that should be worthy of myth, but it’s the kind of mythology you use as a parable to tell somebody else what not to do. And what makes it even more tragic is you both know that is true and it should be the exact opposite!

Bullet points to the camera in an angrily accusatory manner.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: You should be the paragon of what to aspire to be in this sport! You started as less than, lower than low, below zero on any scale. You were a teenage single mother who had been abandoned by your own mother onto the doorstep of her sister. You should have been a statistic that amounted to nothing, just another welfare mother praying for something to come along and change your futures, praying for ships that never come in, staring out at the Detroit River, Lake Erie and anywhere else good things could come from and hoping one of them would be for you! The fact that you are NOT one of those, should be an inspiring tae that sets you above others just from that…

Looking away, Bullet shakes her head.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Here you are, twenty years later, you are a champion that should have had Robert Mack down on his knees begging you to come here and have dream matches with Skrabz, with me, with Solomon Cain, with Leah Aguero, with El D, with Mad Dog, with Psycho and half the rest of the roster!

She holds her hand up, looking like she’s holding something dn almost shaking it at the camera.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: He should have been rolling out the red carpet for a champion like you. You should have been twice the get that Anaquin Adams was! Robert and Katrina Mack should have been arguing with each other about whose champion you were!

Bullet glares into the camera and points violently to the ground.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Eighteen world championships, four halls of fame, countless other lesser championships, a career that should dwarf everyone else here combined.

Her arms sweep out to the sides in grandiose fashion.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: And yet, here we are, on a random Throwdown, no special announcements, no special promotion, no major build, no championship implications and even then, the story should be enough to inspire…

Her arms turn as if to beseech the heavens, her face turning up so she can look up as well.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: A black latina from the streets of Detroit who lived like a poor immigrant and made something of herself versus an actual immigrant who has also made something of herself. That should sell us by itself as well…

Her hands drop out of the shot as she looks back to the camera, seemingly deflated.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: But no one thinks of you like that, do they, Christina?

Bullet shakes her head, looking almost sad and apologetic about it.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: No, you’re a monster of your own making. You blame others for it, but it is ALL you and your doing!

She points to the camera angrily again.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: You are why no one thinks of where you came from. You are why no one realizes what they are looking at that way and you are why #FreeSeleana2021 took on a life of its own beyond even its creators’ wildest dreams!

Her point somehow becomes even more aggressive and accusatory.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: You have sent your entire adult life creating drama where it didn’t need to be. It’s why I said last show that Stepghanie Sullivan seemed like a poor copy of you, her supposed best friend, because even you two have had drama come between you at times and it was all because of choices you made that you didn’t need to make. You could have allowed your talent and natural charisma shine through and tell the story for you. If you had, you would be a lot happier, your legend would be untouchable and no one would be telling your wife to run away from you as fast as humanly possible and in some cases as fast as anything human built can get her away from you!

Her hand sweeps away the previous idea put forth.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: But like Robert Mack, you could not do that. You CANnot do that.

A look of monetary disgust crosses Bullet’s face.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Robert and Katrina Mack have been playing this bullshit game of one upmanship almost since the company started and it has always been pointless because when it comes down to it, no one cares which one of them is sitting in the big seat because neither ever bothers to build up any equity with us or the people before they piss it away and do things to make people question their very sanity. Robert has had knee jerk reactions that made little sense, he has stepped out on his wife and created drama all in an effort to get others talking about him because he took off the Snakebite persona, but could not get enough of the attention so now sees fit to do this to satisfy that craving.

the look of disgust returns again.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Katrina is no better. She has supposedly stepped out on her marriage as well and also allegedly attempted to have him removed from the picture entirely and now I sit watching their current domestic drama waiting for when they both go, “Ha, fooled you!” I am waiting for them to tell us they dreamed this up together to begin with, there was never any true affair and they did all of this just to get people talking even though it does nothing to help business because where can it end up?

She shrugs.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: While it is true that Rob is a former wrestler himself, Katrina usually likes to sit above it all and does anyone really care if they ever fight if no one really ever rooted for either one of them?

Pointing again, Bullet’s finger starts to bop up and down rhythmically.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: And this is why Rob should love you, because you are the same way! You always have been, it is almost pathological at this point with you. You are the perfect example of the true meaning of prodigal that way, not because you always return, which is what everyone always believes it means.

She shakes her head.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: No, prodigal has nothing to do with a return. It means you spend things recklessly and thoughtlessly, which you do with everything. How many times alone have you been gifted Eavan Maloney’s love, trust and admiration as a sister-in-law just to take that gift, spit on it, throw it on the floor and stomp on it until Eavan both looks and feels like a complete pelota for having ever even considered giving it to you?

She points back to the door as if the family should be standing there.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: How many times has that family embraced you despite something you have stupidly done that should have gotten you excommunicated?

Her hands move to be balled into fists in front of her.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: All those that have told your wife to run, they always say to do it before you show your true colors and turn on her, but the truth is you already have something like four times, have you not?

She nods, her left hand dropping out of the shot while her right unfolds but for the first two fingers.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: And yet, she is still there, still loves you, still remains loyal and even as we speak, you are probably trying to think of a fifth way to take what that woman has given you, spit on it, throw it on the ground, stomp on it and make her look and feel like a complete pelota for saying she loves you and married you!

Her left hand returns as if it contains a list to go down.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: The Kate Steele video in SCW, her world championship opportunity/win in SCW, Alexandra Caldwell in WWR and the ending of your Trios Championships in WWA says you have already done what they warned her about four separate times and what did you ever get out of any of that?

Her hands fall out of the shot again.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: The Kate Steele video meant you spent the holidays that year alone as Seleana moved out of your home and lived with Kate Storm and Eavan during Storm’s pregnancy until you were literally begging her to come back to you! Her world championship, you accepted a bribe from the authority figure that was angry at her for sticking up for you and punching him dead in the face, breaking his face and getting herself fired for you and you thanked her by stabbing her in the back, taking away her ability to say she had truly beaten that champion and then attacked her to get yourself added to the re-match.

She points into the camera again, a look of absolute fury upon her face.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Both times, you made the choice to get yourself attention and both times, she took you back and like the true prodigal you are, you spent the trust and forgiveness she’d given you like it meant nothing and there would always be more of it to go around! You spent it like a rich person who has no concept of what it is like to go without and that should never be you!

Her point changes to two fingers extended.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Two more times, you betrayed her that we know of publicly. I do not even want to start thinking about how many of these you have buried out of the public eye, Christina, because it will be sad for you. Every time you start to crawl out of the hole, you take out your shovel, start digging a new one and then when you hit water and start drowning, you start screaming, woe is me, help me, save me, I’m drowning and it is always your own damn fault! If you would just put the shovel away, people would have the chance to love you for what you have been through and what you have overcome but you never let them!

The fingers jab forward again, slashing like an accusing cutlass finding its mark.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Like Icarus, you arrogantly strapped on wings made of feathers, string and wax, knowing full well you won’t be able to fly as high as you want to and then are surprised when you come screaming back down to earth because they melted off your back!

Her hands swep out wide again.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: And now, here you are again, you’ve only recently made peace with everyone in your own family again and like the time you told the world you were too injured to compete as your wife and sister-in-law’s partner and had your own daughter step in for you, watched them lose and then ran out to attack the Purge because they were supposed to smack that carechimba you call a sister around after everything she’d done and proved you were perfectly healthy, you come here and start pissing all of that away because you know it’ll get you noticed and you are the kind of attention whore who is scared shitless of losing it because the truth is, you are addicted to it!

Again, she points angrily into the camera.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: It is like your cocaine and you cannot wait to hoover up the next batch! It is your heroin and you cannot wait to slam that needle in your arm and feel the rush! And even though you are on the bad side of that addiction where instead of doing it to feel good, you are doing it to try and avoid feeling bad, you still do it because you have no idea what to do without it! Under all of the names, all of the Hollywood glitz and glamour, all of the rest of the fake bullshit you have covered yourself in, you continue to remain just the scared little girl from Detroit that everyone abandoned! Crystal Hilton was always a lie, it was never really your name!

The pointer is joined by its second brother again.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: You are Christina: Little Girl Lost, and you have never figured out how to fix that hole inside you! You fill it with sex, with booze, with drama, with all the attention even whe it’s bad and then you cry yourself to sleep at night because no one stop to see the eighteen world championships, the four halls of fame, or any other of your laundry list of achievements that should make you the legend nobody can touch!

She points one last time with the two extended fingers.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: You are a scared little girl Christina and while I wish I could feel sorry for you, you spent that and pissed it away a long time ago! You reached your credit limit a long time ago and now I get to be the one to collect that debt!

She rubs her fingers together in the universal money sign.

Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Time to pay up!