The video begins and we see Zoe Sperling sitting in front of the camera in the middle of the shot. There’s a bed behind her that she’s sitting against but aside from the white of the sheets and the blue colour of the wall off in the distance there’s nothing that obviously places the location or timing of the video. You can see on her forehead there are still a few healed over cuts but aside from that she seems to be showing no obvious signs of anything from almost two weeks ago at Perfect Destruction.

“Hey everyone,” she begins confidently, a smile forming on her face. “So I know what you’re probably thinking right now, and it’s probably something along the lines that you were expecting a lot of a text and not a link to a video, right? I know, and I hate to disappoint all you people who just love reading – yah, because those people really exist – but I was going to sit down earlier and start writing a blog entry about everything that’s happened since last Sunday and then I got talking to my little sister and she said something that kind of hit a nerve. She said about ‘hiding behind a keyboard’ after everything that happened last week. You see I like writing my blogs, I can do them anywhere and normally I fit them in when I’m on the road and I’m in the back of a car or whatever, and normally it doesn’t bother me what people say about them. You guys have kind of figured that out by now, right? But this week it did. This week it bothered me that anyone would think I would ‘hide behind a keyboard’ after what happened to me last Sunday, like I’m ashamed to show my face or something. And maybe I should be ashamed to show my face, you know? Do you think I should? The last time the SCW audience saw me I was lying in the middle of the ring unconscious, choked out by Rachel Frost with a pool of my own blood collecting around me. It was NOT a good moment for me, ending the final Sunday pay per view of 2013 unconscious and beaten in the ring, but THAT was only the beginning. What you guys didn’t see, what there isn’t a video of anywhere, is me being helped from the ring after the match. What you didn’t see was me being taken to the hospital because I couldn’t breathe properly after what she did to me. What you didn’t see was that I couldn’t stand up straight the next day, that I spent most of last week with a fucking bandage on my head. So if you think I should be ashamed to show my face after the last time you saw me then what you saw was just the beginning of one of the worst weeks of my life, and yet here I sit today, not ashamed of any of it!”

“Should I be? I’m willing to bet there are plenty of people out there who think I should be. Rachel Frost is probably one of them. She probably did a little happy dance after what she did to me. And you know what? Jake Starr is probably another. Hell there are a LOT of people in that locker room who saw what happened to me and probably thought it was fitting, that I deserved it all, and expected me to do one thing after a beating like that. They expected me to put my tail between my legs and slink away. That was the whole point in last week, wasn’t it? Rachel Frost got her revenge. Syren pinned Rachel, Syren upset Rachel, Syren ‘created’ Rachel and Rachel got all pissy about it and beat the hell out of Syren and what follows that is the same story we’ve seen so many times. The former World Champion falls from grace, the up and coming superstar beats the hell out of the former World Champion and the former champion disappears for months. Sometimes those former champions don’t actually ever come back. I can name a few, like Masquerade for example, who slinked off in the darkness and never came back. And I know that that’s what people expected from me as well. You expected me to be done. You expected me to give up, to say that I couldn’t do it anymore. But I’m not doing that. If you think I should be ashamed of what happened to me last Sunday then that just proves you don’t know me at all because I’m not ashamed of what happened, I’m not ashamed to show my face and I’m definitely not about to be accused by anyone of hiding after what happened. You’re all right about what happened. At Perfect Destruction I got choked out and bloodied in a First Blood match that I didn’t walk away from, but you for all her bragging about ‘beating my ass’ last week and all her bravado Rachel didn’t walk away unscathed either.”

Zoe runs her finger across her forehead, looking in to the camera with an angry scowl on her face. “She didn’t walk away unscathed, but she did walk away without bleeding and for that I want to give her my congratulations. Bravo Rachel. You made me bleed. You got the victory. But you didn’t get what you wanted because not only am I not ashamed of what happened to me, but I’m still right here!” She holds out her arms before shrugging her shoulders. “Last week I heard a lot of big words from Rachel. She was going to ‘steal my life’, right? Only she didn’t. She beat me, she bloodied me, she choked me out but she didn’t stop me. I’m still RIGHT here, I’m not going anywhere, and Saturday night I’ll be standing right in the middle of the ring on Breakdown, where I’m ALWAYS standing. You started something with me a few weeks back Rachel. You started something when you brought the plexiglass out to the ring, when you jumped me from behind over and over and last Sunday I stepped in to YOUR world – and I know how proud you are of YOUR world – and you may have beaten me but you didn’t destroy me. You didn’t end me like I know you wanted to. You knocked me down, and it may have taken me a while but I’ve gotten back up, so what are you going to do now? Last month you got so angry over the fact that I BEAT YOU in the Elimination Chamber that you dedicated weeks of your life to trying to put me in my place, to trying to redeem that feeling, to trying to prove that you’re big and evil but all you proved is how SMALL you are Rachel. I took it to you in YOUR world last Sunday. For all your bragging and your confidence the fact is that I willingly stepped in to YOUR world and I beat the hell out of you in YOUR world and it took EVERYTHING you had last Sunday to beat me. And look at me. I’m beaten up, I’m hurting, but I’M STILL HERE!”

After almost screaming the last three words at the camera she pauses for a moment, taking a few deep breaths and recomposes herself before beginning to smile again. “I was supposed to be destroyed. I was supposed to be ashamed. The world is supposed to see Rachel Frost as the dominant force in the Underground, but last week you got your ass kicked by ‘Barbie’ and no matter what you tried, ‘Barbie’ hasn’t gone anywhere! Now this week you and me step back in to the ring again in a tag team match I never thought I’d be a part of. I have no problem taking on you and Rachel Foxx – but Requiem? Really? Because you’re both celebrating the death that you both claim to love and yet have failed to deliver on to me every single time that we’ve met? – and I would say that I have no problem doing it with any tag team partner that SCW want to find for me, but Jake Starr? Jake fucking Starr?” She shakes her head slowly and angrily. “I’ll get to Jake in a minute, right now I’m not done with you. And that is kind of the whole point I’m wanting to make right here. That’s why I got the camera out. That’s why I started filming this. Because Rachel, while you came after me like the bitch you are by jumping me after a match I’m not that kind of person. I’m not small and pathetic like you are. So I’m not going to jump you from behind to tell you that I’m not done yet, I’m going to announce it right here on camera for the world to see. I’m not done with you! And after Breakdown, I’m going to remind you just what ‘Barbie’ can do in that ring, and when Breakdown is over I’m not going to be pining for the first shot at Kelcey Wallace, I’m not going to be begging the world to give me a World Championship opportunity, instead the only thing I want right now is a chance to FINISH what we have right here!”

She runs her fingers over her forehead again before beginning to giggle a little. “Did you like driving that plexiglass in to my face? Did you get happy, warm feelings inside when you spilled my blood? I bet you did. Do you want a chance to do it again?” She stares in to the camera, a look of complete seriousness in her eyes. “I let you pick the stipulation before; I’ll even let you do it again. You see I don’t care what kind of match we have. I don’t care what sick fantasies you’ve got to fulfil. For all your talk about DEATH last week and all the toe-tags and bodies in the morgue you didn’t KILL me last Sunday Rachel and I’m more than happy to give you a second chance to finish the job. I’m not backing down. I’m not running away. And I won’t back down until I send you back to Texas to run your mouth against my friends on Twitter like the big, scary bitch you WANT to be but you just can’t pull off. You’ve definitely aligned yourself with the right people to give yourself the image, I mean we’ve all seen the demented shit that Rachel Foxx has done in matches in the past and even today she’s having her fun manipulating half the roster in to wanting to murder her. And we’ve all seen the damage that Blitzkrieg has unleashed as well. But you? You talk about death, well here’s your chance to do more than talk! I’m not scared of you Rachel, but if you’ve got any sense then you should be scared of me because I’m not like all the others. I’m not going to give up and move on because you beat me, I’m just going to keep coming back over and over until you either fulfil your threats and you finally DO kill me or I finish what you started in the middle of the ring once and for all. So there’s your challenge. I don’t need to cut you to make a statement. You name the time, you name the place, and you’ll find me there waiting for you. You took my blood, but I’m still here and by the time this is over, I promise I’ll make you squeal like the bitch you are.”

She just laughs holds out her hands toward the camera, waving Rachel to ‘bring it on’ before the laugh turns in to another grin. “And actually speaking of bitches, before I say one last thing I want to say to ‘Requiem’ that reminds me that I promised to address another issue, the one of Jake Starr putting his nose where it doesn’t belong last Sunday. Now Jake, I know you’ve got your problems with the Coalition. I know that for weeks on end you’ve been whining about how you want to get them back for... what, exactly? For attacking you after you attacked them? It seems to me that, like SO many other situations you’ve gotten yourself in, you kind of started this whole thing. You started it because you wanted to play your game of one-upmanship with Shilo and now you’re foaming at the mouth wanting to get your revenge on Rachel for getting back at you? Now as much as I think that makes you a hypocritical asshat I’ve actually not got a problem with that by itself. I can totally see why you’d want to take her face and crush it underneath your boot. But last Sunday, in your quest to get all the attention in the world on Jake Starr, you put your nose where it didn’t belong. I went out there last Sunday to prove something to the world, to stand ON MY OWN against Rachel, Aiken and anyone else she wanted to bring and I did that. I fought her on my own and yet all I’ve heard is how Jake Starr ‘saved’ me. Let’s clear one thing up. Jake Starr didn’t SAVE me. Jake Starr doesn’t think about ‘saving’ anything but his own damaged reputation. He’s so wrapped up in his own world, with his head so far up his own ass, that most days I don’t think he even knows whether it’s light outside or not. And a part of Jake being Jake was to come out to the ring to try to get his hands on Rachel. Well I didn’t need your help Jake. If you’re hoping for a ‘thank you’ for what you did then there won’t be one coming. I didn’t need you last week, and I don’t need you this week either.”

“But whether I like it or not you and me are tag team partners this week. Can you even believe that? Syren and Jake Starr on the same side?! It’s like Hermione Granger teaming up with Lord Voldemort – except Jake is even uglier – or Buffy Summers teaming up with... um... ok, maybe that’s a bad example because she really did make some weird alliances. The point is that if I had to pick ANYONE in SCW to team with this week, other than the two across the ring from me and all their friends, then Jake Starr is the absolute LAST person I would EVER want to have ANYTHING to do with. If this was any other match and Jake was teaming with any other person I’d probably be watching from the back hoping to see him get what’s coming to him, but it’s not any other match. This week, whether I like it or not, Jake and me are actually partners. Now we’re not going to get along, that much is obvious. There’s not going to be a unity between us. Quite honestly I’m kind of hoping that SCW can implement some kind of new rule so that I don’t actually have to TOUCH him to tag him, because if I do then I’m not sure I can be fully responsible for how those ‘tags’ go. But Jake and me are partners this week, and do you want to know the one thing crazier than that? Do you want to know the one thing even more insane than the thought of Zoe Sperling and Jake Starr on the same side? We’re going to hurt them,” she says before beginning to laugh, nodding her head slowly. “Yep, you heard it here first. Because I don’t like you Jake, I’m NEVER going to like you after all the shit you’ve put me through over the last four years, but I know you well enough to know that this week, for one night only, we can take them down! It’s not about unity. It’s not about teamwork. It’s about the fact that you and I have the same goal, and that’s getting revenge.”

“How many times have we been on opposing teams in matches like this? You’re teaming with one guy or another, I’m teaming with someone else, and you and me go out there to beat the hell out of each other. I’ve lost track of how many times it’s happened. But this one time we’re on the same side, and I know you better than anyone else. So you want to get even with Rachel, you want your payback against her for whatever imagined injustices she and the rest of the Coalition have committed against you? Then this week is your chance. And when it’s over this week then here’s what you do Jake. You turn around, you walk away and you go back to crying about how you should get a chance at the World Championship, or how you should be competing for the United States Championship, or whatever your latest obsession is, and I’m going to walk in the opposite direction, I’m going to walk down to the front door of ‘Rachel Frost’s World’ and I’m going to kick it in and I’m going to prove to her and everyone else who has EVER doubted me that I am the BEST FEMALE WRESTLER IN ANY WORLD,” she all but screams at the camera with a fire burning inside her. “This week we’re partners but make no mistake about it I don’t need you Jake, and if I have to I’ll fight them both on my own. I may not win if I do that, but at this point I’m not even sure I care about winning. At this point I’m just so very tired. I’m tired of people like you Jake, telling me what I am, telling me you’re better than me, telling me that I don’t deserve this or I don’t deserve that, and I’m tired of people like Rachel thinking that they can run their mouths and jump people from behind and that that makes them BETTER. It doesn’t. It doesn’t make either one of you better. So this week is one night only. And when it’s over, I hope to god I never have to be in the same ring with you again.”

“Like I said, I’m tired. I’m tired of people like Rachel Frost, I’m tired of people like Jake Starr and most of all I’m tired of Rachel Foxx. Not people LIKE Rachel Foxx, because there is nobody else like Rachel Foxx. She’s unique in this world. She’s a special kind of sick, demented bitch the likes of which there just isn’t anywhere else. Rachel likes to play her little games, and just like her tag team partner she loves nothing more than jumping somebody from behind, or getting somebody else to do it for her. Well, just like her tag team partner, this week she can find me standing in the ring. That’s where I’ll be Rachel. I’ll be standing right there in the middle of that ring, and this week it isn’t going to be like a few weeks ago. This week it isn’t going to be like Fatal Fortunes. Back then you had a partner you couldn’t get along with, and you knocked him out with a sledgehammer. I haven’t forgotten that because I wanted to prove something that night, and all I got was an empty victory that meant nothing to me. Then you walked out and Rachel Frost walked in and the two of you have been everywhere I’ve looked ever since. The two most sadistic bitches in SCW! I’ve got to commend you as well; I mean you really take the ‘if you can’t beat them, join them’ thing to heart. And now you’re part of their little family, a family of vindictive ‘monsters’, but this Saturday night it won’t be a story of monsters, it won’t be the glory of the Underground division, this Saturday night will be the story of the little blonde girl you both wanted rid of rising back up and putting BOTH of you down! The last few months have been hard for me. I feel like I get beaten down from a new direction every time I turn around. You’ve BOTH been responsible for that. But every time I’ve been knocked down I’ve gotten back up. I’M STILL HERE! And on Saturday night I’m going to remind the world of that, and then I’m going to finish this thing with Rachel Frost once and for all. Let me guess, you’re not scared, right Rachel? You’re laughing? You think it’s funny? Well you don’t need to be scared of me, but I promise you one thing. By the time this is over, you will BE JEALOUS!”

She laughs before sitting there for a long moment staring at the camera with an odd smirk on her face before finally reaching forward and shutting off the camera. With that, the video ends.