The video begins in the home of Ravyn Taylor and Syren in Malibu, California. We see a shot of the two of them standing on the balcony. Ravyn is dressed, as normal, in very casual clothing. She’s wearing a blue and white top with blue jeans and a jacket over the top. Syren, meanwhile, is dressed in a shirt with a logo on the front that reads ‘Unbreakable’. Both have possession of the FFW Unity Championships. Ravyn holds hers in her hand. Syren has hers over her shoulder. She pats the belt as she begins to talk. “You know what you guys? I’ve been looking forward to this weekend for a long time,” she says with a smile on her face. “This isn’t my first FFW pay per view experience, you guys have kind of figured that out by now, but so far every one of them has been incredible. This is, however, kind of an anniversary of sorts, because I’ve been here a little more than a year now and that’s pretty wild. There’s been some ups and some downs in that time, but there’s no doubt about what the major up has been.”

She looks at the Unity title with pride. Ravyn lifts hers up and grins as well. “I’d say that these were more than just a highlight of a year well spent,” the brunette says confidently. “In fact I’d go so far as to say that these were the fulfilment of a dream that both of us had long before we could explain it. We’ve competed in tag divisions before, we’ve set records in tag divisions before, but there has never been another tag division quite like FFW. Here we’re not the weird girls who try to compete with the guys. Here we’re not in the division that people team up to join when they can’t get anything else. Here we’re in the division that is amongst the most talked about in all of wrestling, and right now we’re representing that division as its champions. But we know how easily that could be taken away.”

“Damn right we do,” Syren says, clearly looking a little upset as she frowns. “The last time we stood in an FFW ring we got beat, and if there’s one thing you guys know about me – one thing that EVERYONE on the roster knows about me because it’s been brought up more than just once – it’s that I don’t take loss very well. Now I’ve been accused of obsessing over it in the past, but the truth is that I don’t get hung up on it, I use it to drive me forward, and losing to Rudo Galactico a few weeks ago has driven me forward. And if there’s one thing I can promise right now it’s that I’m at the most motivated I’ve been this year to make a statement come Saturday night in New Orleans, and that statement is that Dark Fantasy aren’t here today and gone tomorrow, Dark Fantasy is here to stay at the top of this division!”

“But if fighting Stardust and Meteora showed us anything it’s that staying at the top of the Unity division is going to be less than easy,” Ravyn continues with a smirk on her face. “Fortunately however Zoe and I have always enjoyed a challenge.”

“You called me Zoe again,” Syren tells her with a laugh.

“Everyone calls you Zoe,” Ravyn informs her casually. “I’ve given up on even trying to call you Syren anymore.”

“I know, it’s weird, I guess that’s what I get for having my Twitter account as my real name or whatever, right?” she asks before rolling her eyes before looking into the camera. “Don’t get me wrong guys, I don’t mind you guys calling me Zoe. It’s just kind of like professionally I’ve always been Syren, and when I get called Zoe by people I’ve always kind of seen it as disrespectful, you know? And if there’s one thing that I’ve been striving for since that fateful Chase for the Crown match last year at Relentless, my FFW pay per view debut proper, it’s respect. I haven’t always gotten it, that much is true, but I’ve been striving for it. And that’s what we’ve tried to bring to these titles.”

Ravyn nods her head in agreement. “We’re confident,” she says, holding up the title with pride again, “but we’re not egotistical. We make want to make a statement about being at the top of the tag division, about being arguably amongst the best tag teams in the world, but we’re not arrogant enough to dismiss all competition and assume that these belts are staying with us. A few weeks ago we had a hell of a challenge that we fell short in, and this Saturday night we have another challenge, and one we can’t afford to lose. But we’ve never spent even a moment dismissing the challenge of the so-called One Woman Show. Instead we’ve spent a lot of time getting to know our opponents and finding out what makes them tick, and that includes hours spent watching Future Shock for the first time.”

Syren laughs. “Ravyn’s not a fan of Future Shock. She didn’t like the format or the idea from the very beginning,” she explains. “I like to think of myself as a little more open-minded than her, but I’ll admit I don’t get a chance to watch every show.”

“It’s not about being close-minded,” Ravyn informs her tag partner and the camera. “It’s about belief in working your way through the system in the right way. As a result I’ve never understood the need for such a way into this business. If one cannot connect with one’s audience what difference does it make if she can still drop an opponent on their face and beat them in the ring? Perhaps that’s simply my way of viewing things though, yet it’s one that I can’t help but wonder if I share with Ms O’Neill, despite her status as a previous season winner. You see when I look at someone like Shaughnessy O’Neill, when I look at someone considerably larger than I am and considerably more dangerous than most give me credit as being, I wonder if she truly gives a damn what anyone thinks of her. I’m not sure she does.”

“She certainly doesn’t seem to care what her partner thinks of her, but whatever,” Syren says, rolling her eyes. “But if you’re thinking this is going to be one of those promotional videos where we do the cliché thing and we ask how a team that is so clearly uneven can get along, where we ask if they can match a team who do, where we say that we’re more unified and therefore we’ll succeed and blah, blah, blah, then you’re totally wrong. That’s not what this is about. In fact if anything I’m actually impressed by the success they’ve had so far because it’s proof that you don’t need to be a cookie-cutter cliché tag team to have success. They’re definitely NOT that, are they? They’re anything but that. And you know what? That impresses me. It even intimidates me a little. And someone like Shaughnessy – I feel it’s kind of weird calling her anything else – definitely intimidates the hell out of me. She hurts people. She can be a powerhouse when she wants to be, which admittedly isn’t too often. And ok, I’m not exactly small on the weight side because I train super hard, but yet you put me next to her and I’m so much smaller than her.”

“You’re shorter than most,” Ravyn says, looking at her partner with a smile. “I always thought it was cute.”

Syren laughs and gives her partner a somewhat dirty yet amused look. “Thanks, I think,” she says before rolling her eyes again. “But the point is that I am smaller than her. And you’re not much shorter than her but she’s way bigger than you. And that’s her thing. She’s an athlete. She’s a competitor. She’s a freaking warrior. I mean seriously, how many girls do you see who can lift someone as effortlessly as Shaughnessy can for that powerbomb move they do as a team? That’s impressive! And if I had that power but yet technical ability that she does maybe – MAYBE – I’d have a similar attitude to her as well. Maybe I’d think that I don’t need anyone else. Maybe I’d think that I was the star. Maybe I’d think that I was the dominant one, and there’s certainly people in her ear making sure that she thinks that way, isn’t there?”

“She’s powerful. She’s technically gifted without question. But like many in that situation – and yes, there are many like her in this business – she possesses a weakness created by that: she’s arrogant. She looks down on ‘little people’ thinking that she can use that natural ability to overwhelm them, a trait you see so often when you compete against men,” the brunette member of the team explains. “But with that bad attitude comes a notable issue. She’s gotten to where she is by exploiting others, but while many consider her ‘cunning’ she’s never truly been tested by someone like me before, and by a tag team like us before. The ‘One Woman Show’ has been dominating the headlines, but when it comes to the tag team by that name I’ve been wondering what happens when you expose the truth behind the talents? What happens when you test her?”

“What happens is that you get thrown to Charlotte,” Syren says before looking a little worried. “She’s even bigger, even stronger, with even more experience. She’s like a former bodyguard or something, right? Basically her entire job description is to be tough. And yet she’s the one standing in the shadow. I know how that feels. I’ve been in the shadow of plenty of people. Mostly though it’s been boyfriends. They were the stars and I was the little arm-candy. I mean I wasn’t, I kicked just as much ass if not more than they did, but they were seen as the star and I never was. And that drove me. That motivated me. That gave me a reason every time I got in the ring to do better, to rise higher, to stand tall and prove everyone wrong about me… but that isn’t Charlotte’s deal, I don’t think. I’m not saying she doesn’t have the motivation, she probably totally does, and to be one half of the Unity Champions would be a fantastic achievement for her… if she even gets to hold the belt. What do you think? Do you think her partner will do the cliché thing of holding both the titles herself?”

Ravyn laughs. “It wouldn’t shock me in the slightest if that was the dream she’s had every night since this match was announced. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if the plan was for Shaughnessy O’Neill to walk out with both belts and her partner following behind in the shadows,” Ravyn states before looking at her title and grinning again. “Such a pity we’ll never find out, isn’t it? And no, that wasn’t ego. That was the confidence that comes with knowing that this weekend we’re going to do anything and everything within our power to win. The question is, how do you beat two women that much larger than you?”

“How do you beat a woman who’s bigger than most guys?” Syren adds with a worried look on her face. “Ok, weight-wise maybe not, but seriously she’s like six foot something, right? That’s like almost a foot taller than me.”

Ravyn grins again. “It’s true at six foot two Charlotte Harker is unlike most others. We spoke before about being impressed by O’Neill physically, but if I was going to recruit someone to do the heavy lifting for me I would almost certainly look for someone like Charlotte Harker. Oh wait, I did. Her name was Brittany Lohan…”

Syren shudders at what can only be assumed are the memories. “Yah, she was bigger, and scarier, and nastier, and not as pretty,” she says before letting out a sigh. “She also liked to think she was dominant. She liked to think she could overcome anyone. She liked to think that throwing us around was the way she’d achieve success. And when she threw me around I’ll tell you it hurt. It really hurt. Like seriously, I’ve fought her in enough matches over the years that you’d think I’d be used to that by now, but you really can’t prepare yourself for how it feels when someone with the size and strength of her lifts you off the mat and drop you anywhere they want to. You definitely can’t prepare for how it feels… but you can prepare for how to take them down.”

Ravyn has a smile on her face this time, rather than a grin. “Yes, you can,” she says happily. “There’s a cliché at use in situations like this – we all know that I’m not a fan of clichés for moments like this but sometimes they do ring true – that the bigger they are the harder they fall, and with individuals like Charlotte Harker they’re big, they’re scary, they’re intimidating, but as big as they are when you bring them down they tend to stay down. The problem is once you’ve gotten rid of the muscle you’ve still got the One Woman Show herself to deal with. That’s the danger that this team possess. It’s what makes them unique in the tag division. So what do you do when you’ve exerted everything to bring the big one down, only to be faced with another one of impressive size, strength and stamina? What do you do when you give everything to overcome one obstacle and find another behind it?”

“You bring that obstacle down too,” Syren states confidently, “and that’s the plan for New Orleans. You see unlike other tag teams we know how this one works. The dynamic never changes. Charlotte does the heavy lifting then Shaughnessy picks up the pieces and takes all the glory. Is Charlotte even allowed to take the glory for herself? I mean she’s disposable, right? If Charlotte is the one who beats us what happens to her? If Charlotte is the one who beats us what happens to the image of the One Woman Show when the second woman steps in to the spotlight? That probably wouldn’t look so good. But that won’t happen, right? Because you’ve got this formula, you’ve got this plan, you’re going to knock us around and dominate and win and there’s nothing we can do. But trust me sweetie you’re not the first ones to try the tactic, you won’t be the last, and so many have learned over the years that it’s not so easy to put me down, and all it takes it one really big moment and you’re the one who goes down.”

Ravyn nods in agreement. The two pause for a moment before Ravyn looks back to the camera confidently. “Experts say that for Dark Fantasy this weekend it’ll be like coming up against a brick wall. Experts say that it’ll be two little girls smashing up against an unstoppable force and we’ll be overwhelmed and knocked aside. I questioned the qualifications of such experts however, wondering if they’re the same ones who proclaimed that all walls were unfellable like the Titanic was unsinkable… until it sank,” she says before smiling proudly. “On paper it’s true the One Woman Show has the numbers in terms of size, but if size truly mattered in this business we wouldn’t have mere five foot eight Wendy Briese at the top of the company, and the ‘One Woman Show’ wouldn’t be a tag team but would be at the very top. Fortunately for all of us in wrestling size doesn’t matter, and much like I used to tell my ex it’s not about size, it’s about how you use it. Unfortunately he had problems in both departments, and Dark Fantasy only has an issue with size.”

Syren looks at her with surprise. “You see it as an issue? I don’t see it as one,” she says, shaking her head. “Sure they’re big, they’re scary, they’re arrogant – well, one of them definitely is – and they’re tough, and on Sunday morning they’ll still be bigger than us, they’ll still be scarier than us, they’ll still be tougher than us, and they’ll probably even remain more arrogant than us, but they won’t have proven they’re better than us, because they’re not.”

Ravyn laughs. “This Saturday night New Orleans, the Big Easy, gets a big treat in the form of Dark Fantasy taking on the One Woman Show, and emerging on the other side still your current, reigning and defending FFW Unity Champions,” she says with confidence. “We’re far from the biggest dogs in the fight, that much is true, but this Saturday night you get to find out how much bite there is hidden inside this Bad, Bad Bitch!”

Syren laughs. “She said it, not me,” she says before shaking her head and taking the Unity title off her shoulder, holding it up alongside Ravyn’s to the camera. “She’s right though. This Saturday night Dark Fantasy storms in to New Orleans and we do what we were born to do. One year ago I made my pay per view debut as a part of the Chase for the Crown and at that point I never imagined I’d be back here a year later with this title, but I am, and I intend to stay here for a long, long time to come. It’s not exactly been an easy ride for me so far, for either of us, in the year that I’ve been here, but I aim to keep moving up. This time, for the first time, it wasn’t a last minute inclusion that got us on the pay per view, it was one of the first matches announced, and that felt good. I want that feeling again and again and again. And we know this Saturday night we’ve got a hell of a challenge ahead of us, we’ve got a brick wall in front of us, but we’re going to knock that wall down and stand on the ruins raising these titles over our heads, and when we do it won’t be hash-tag OWS, it’ll be hash-tag BE TOTALLY JEALOUS!”

Both women continue holding up the FFW Unity Championships before Syren blows a kiss to the camera with her free hand. “We’ll see you guys on Saturday night, ok? Don’t miss it. And if you’re not in New Orleans then what are you waiting for, order the damn event because you don’t want to miss it,” she says encouragingly. “Trust me, Saturday night we won’t be the only ones who’ll be Relentless.”

The video fades out and comes to an end as the replay button flashes up on the screen.