The video begins and we find ourselves once again inside the tour bus belonging to Dark Fantasy. The video is being filmed the bedroom area where we find Syren standing in the foreground wearing a Ravyn Taylor ‘Quoth the Champion’ t-shirt, and in the background lying casually on the bed with the SCW United States Championship by her side, lies Ravyn Taylor, dressed in a Syren heart logo t-shirt. “Hey guys. So, I’ve got a guest with me this time and it’s Saturday, we’re about twenty seven hours away from bell-time tomorrow night, and Ravyn and me were just talking about tomorrow night, because like I said the last time out, Wednesday night in Philadelphia changed so much, you know? It was supposed to be a certain way, and while maybe there was nothing officially announced we both thought we knew what we were walking into on Sunday, and then Wednesday happened and everything changed. Our matches changed. Our situations changed. And yah, our attitudes had to change to match that,” she says, nodding her head before briefly looking over her shoulder at Ravyn and then looking back to the camera again. “As a result of those changes though we’ve gone from what was going to be an amazing pay per view regardless to quite possibly one of the biggest nights in the history of SCW, because somebody tomorrow is going to make history!”

“Ok, so it’s not one of those ‘oh my god, it’s unprecedented’ moments because this actually has happened before, but never quite in these circumstances, and not for seven years. But on Wednesday night we found out live on Breakdown that tomorrow night the SCW World title is going to be taken, it’s going to be hung over the ring, and that every single person who wins their match is going to be entered into a ladder match – a thirteen person ladder match – to determine and new and undisputed SCW World Heavyweight Champion, and quite obviously it’s a thought that’s now playing on everyone’s minds. They know that if they win their match tomorrow they get entered into the main event for the biggest prize in this industry, and that puts me in a very weird position, because it wasn’t even two weeks ago that I stood in front of this very same camera and I told you all that the line starts with me, but that I’m not taking it from her,” she says before nodding behind her at Ravyn who rolls over on the bed and looks toward the camera with a smirk on her face. “So, here we are, I invited Ravyn to be here while I talked about this because I know she already knows how I feel but I want you guys to know that she knows how I feel because tomorrow night is an opportunity for everyone on the roster, including me, and you guys all know it.”

“The moment we found out about this people started tweeting me on Twitter. Today we headed over to the Consol Energy Center for a pre-show press conference and people stopped us both and asked us the same question again. They wanted to know how we felt. They wanted to know if this Sunday we were in competition. They wanted to know how I felt about the fact that this Sunday I could do the exact opposite of what I said I wanted to do, that rather than support Ravyn like she’s supported me, I could climb that ladder, I could pull that title down, and I could walk out of Apocalypse with the belt that, quite honestly here, I feel like I deserve as much as anyone else on the roster. I’m not going to repeat my credentials, I’m not going to tell you guys what I’ve done recently because you guys know, you’ve watched it, you watched Rise to Greatness, you watched everything else, you guys know that I have had one goal since Kennedy Street robbed me of that title, and that’s to raise that title over my head again,” she says with pride and conviction. “And I still want that guys. I’m not going to lie about it. But this Sunday night I wanted to see something else. I wanted to see Ravyn Taylor raise that title over her head, to have the moment she was robbed of at Rise to Greatness, to finally have her moment in front of the world… so where does that leave us right now?”

“Now of the two of us in this room right now only one of us is guaranteed a main event spot,” she says before shrugging her shoulders. “That means this whole thing could be a complete non-issue. But I don’t plan to let it be. I’m not arrogant enough right now to pull a Jake Starr on you and stand here and guarantee that I’m going to do something that I know damn well I might not, especially when you look at the challenge I have ahead of me. I’ve already called this match arguably one of the biggest in my career, arguably one of the biggest in SCW history, it is four of the BEST in the twelve years of SCW going up against each other in Double-Elimination Rules. This match is so huge, with four former World Champions walking into that ring with only one of us walking back out again as the winner. For four people who are used to getting the job done, four people who are used to stepping up for the biggest shows, four people who have built their careers on performing when it matters the most, that means three of us are walking out of there disappointed, three of us are walking out of their hanging out heads, three of us are walking out of there kicking out at furniture and running over the match again and again in our heads, thinking about what would have happened if we’d only moved a little quicker, or we’d only ducked a little sooner…”

“Three of us are walking out of that ring tomorrow angry at ourselves and the fourth one is going on to the main event to compete in a second match, with twelve others, in the hopes that after fighting our way through a gruelling Double-Elimination match we’ve still got what it takes to take down everyone else, to set up a ladder in the middle of the ring, to climb up the ladder to the very top, to reach up for the title the entire wrestling world wants to get their hands on, to pull it down and to hear our music playing,” she says before laughing a little. “Just think about that for a moment. Winning a ladder match is damn near impossible. Believe me, I know, I’ve been in them. Winning a ladder match against two people was almost impossible, it took everything I had to keep them down long enough to get to the top of the ladder, but fighting twelve of them? Fighting twelve people in any match is crazy, but in a ladder match it might just be the single craziest thing anyone has ever done, and to even GET there one of the four of us has to beat three of the best EVER, so I know my chances of even being in the match are crazy small, I know my chances of climbing that ladder are even smaller, and the fact that people keep asking me how I feel about the possibility… well, guys, the fact you think it’ll even be an issue is amazing, and I cannot tell you how much I love you for it.”

“But you guys want to know how I feel, right? You want to know what’ll happen if it happens. You want to know what’ll happen if it comes down to Ravyn and me, if someone some craziness happens and it’s Ravyn and me standing next to a ladder, eleven half-dead, broken bodies scattered around ringside, and somehow the two of us are standing in that ring looking up at the title knowing that the only thing that stands in our way is each other. You want to know, if that insanely unlikely but crazy moment DOES occur, what will happen. I’m going to tell you guys right now, gods honest truth, hand on heart, if that moment occurs I’m going to walk up to that ladder… and I’m going to hold it in place so she can climb it,” she says with an honest smile on her face before looking over her shoulder at Ravyn who smiles back at her. “Now realistically we know that’s not going to happen, but if it does then I’m not going to go back on anything I said. I’m not a liar. You guys can think whatever you want about me because I know the way that other teams work, I know that they’d both scramble up that ladder as quickly as they could to try to pull the belt down before the other one could get there, but we’re not like other teams. After everything I’ve been through you’re damn right I want that title, but after what happened at Rise to Greatness I would never stand in her way.”

Ravyn laughs from the bed. “But realistically we know that’s not going to happen,” she reminds her partner. “Realistically we know that there are a series of other scenarios that are more likely. Take, for example, what happens if I’m at the top of the ladder and you’re the only one who can stop me from pulling down the belt…”

“Clearly I’m not stopping you,” the blonde says confidently. “I mean duh, obviously…”

“But there are scenarios where you wouldn’t just stand aside,” Ravyn tells her knowingly. “If all twelve of us are down, and you’re the only one left on the ladder, for example. We were asked that scenario earlier today…”

“Yah, we were, and we were both agreed, right?” Syren asks before looking to Ravyn who nods her head. “Good. Because while I’ll stand aside, while I’ll hold that ladder for you if you can win the match, while I’ll do everything I can to help you, in every way I can, climb that ladder and get back that moment that they stole from you, that isn’t to say that I’m fighting for you, and it isn’t to say it’s the two of us against the eleven of them. Just like at Taking Hold of the Flame, and the promise we made each other before that, if I can win that match and you can’t – however crazily unlikely it might be – I’m going to win it. If I can reach up and I can pull down that belt then I’m going to do that, I’m going to raise to it over my head and I’m going to become a four-time SCW World Heavyweight Champion, because as much as I love you – as much as I love her – I’ve been fighting for that belt for months, I’ve come so close to regaining it or to getting a chance at it again, and there is nothing in this world that I’d want more than to walk out of Apocalypse as the new, undisputed, SCW World Champion. And if I did, and you know this to be true, I would take on any challenge that was put before me just like I did before, I would fight with pride and honour just like I did before, and I would represent this company not by looking down on everyone else and proclaiming myself better than them but by fighting for them and being the kind of champion that this company can be proud of.”

“But, like we’ve already discussed, the chances of getting there are pretty much astronomical because in order to get there I need to step up to the biggest match on Sunday night – and that’s not a shot at any other match, simply an acknowledgement of just how important this match really is – and I need to give it everything I’ve got with no distractions, no thinking about that ladder match, no thinking about the World title, I need to walk out to that ring one hundred percent focused on doing what I need to do, and tomorrow night that’s exactly what I’m going to do,” she promises before nodding her head proudly. “Because like I said before, even before Wednesday night and the announcement made about every match on the card I saw this match, I saw it was Lucas, Shilo, CHBK and me, and I only had one thought in mind. That thought wasn’t ‘whine about the World title and tell everyone it should be me’. That thought was step into the ring, beat the odds, win the most unique match in SCW history, and walk out that ring having proven myself the best. Because that’s what this match is about, guys. Sure it’s got elements of history. Of course it has. Sure there’s the past between Lucas and me, and CHBK and me, and Shilo and me, but its more than just personal rivalries. It’s about waking up on Monday morning and saying you took on the best, and you won.”

She smiles at the camera. “That’s not a new feeling for me. Whether I’ve had a title over my shoulder or whether I’ve been struggling for wins, whether I was fighting in the Women’s division, the Tag Team division or competing for the World Championship, there’s one thing that I can say has been true about me for the six years and seventeen days that I’ve been a part of SCW and that’s that I ALWAYS want to take on the best,” she says with pride. “You don’t believe me? For six years I’ve been a part of every pay per view. In six years I’ve been in the ring over one hundred and seventy times at televised events, live specials and pay per views. When it comes to the live events every week I don’t go home on a Wednesday night and consider my work done for the week, I tour every show I’m able to, I interact with those people every time I get a chance, and I take on ANY challenge that I can. Now if you’re going to be petty and tell me ‘well, I challenged you on Twitter one time and you didn’t immediately defend your title against me’ then… really? I mean, just, really? But every time someone’s walked out to challenge me, every time someone’s got in my face and told me to bring it I’ve brought it and I’ve brought it hard. Last year, after Rise to Greatness, William Mason stepped up to me and I put the belt on the line and I took him on, because that’s what I do.”

“I didn’t need an army of people watching my back. I didn’t need a mouthpiece grabbing the microphone and saying whom I should or shouldn’t fight. I didn’t need a steel chair to swing around to make me feel tough. I didn’t throw a fit and walk out of the company when I didn’t get what I wanted. I didn’t decide I had nothing to prove and rush for the door. I didn’t hide behind the right to decide where or when I fought, and I certainly didn’t walk out on the company with the title on my shoulder. There have been a lot of big names in this company, there have been a lot of great performers in this company, there have been a lot of incredible athletes in this company, but for six years non-stop I have been the one in that ring taking on the best and yes, so, so many times I have been the one walking back out of the ring again victorious,” she says with pride in her voice. “This Sunday I’m going to give everything I can to do the same thing again. You know how I feel about Lucas Knight. You know how I feel about CHBK. But guys, there’s one element about this match that I didn’t talk nearly enough about last time, and that’s Shilo Valiant. Sure, I talked a little about our history, but last time around I was mostly focusing on my history with Lucas, and the truth is as much as I have history with Lucas Knight inside and outside of the ring tomorrow night is the next chapter in one of the biggest rivalries I have ever had, and I like to think one of the biggest rivalries in SCW history.”

“I spoke before about knowing Shilo Valiant. Do you want to know how well I know him? In the history of SCW I have fought Shilo Valiant thirteen separate times. I’d like to say that I’ve won them all, but we all know that that isn’t true. Now that’s not thirteen times one on one, obviously, but you can count them up if you like. Thirteen separate matches against him, not including any time we’ve met at Taking Hold of the Flame, and that’s in every situation imaginable. That’s Ravyn and me taking on Karnivale. That’s Dark Fantasy fighting Midnight Boulevard, or Eternal, as they later became known. That’s me fighting him in three team elimination matches, in six person tag matches, in eight person tag matches, in ten person tag matches, inside the Elimination Chamber and yes, that’s even fighting him on the grandest stage in SCW history at Rise to Greatness 2012 in a match I have played in my head over and over again,” she says, not in the depressed tone she’s mentioned it in previously, but actually with something of a smile. “I’ve fought you thirteen times in that ring but I’ve fought you over three thousand times in my head, most of which were just in that one match over and over and over again. When I tell you that I know you, Shilo, it’s not just something that people say to guys they’ve fought a couple of times, I remember every shot you had, I remember every move you used to do, and I remember every single time you looked down on me.”

“More than that, however, I remember the bullshit you put me through. Oh how I remember that. I remember that pyro going off in your face, and I remember feeling so sorry for you. Nobody deserved to have that happen to them. But then I remember how difficult you made it for me after that. When Mr D handed me the interim World Championship it was the proudest moment of my entire life up to that point. I genuinely didn’t think there was anything that could come close to comparing to that moment. And when I fought to defend it I did so with the desire to prove to the world that I wasn’t just a stand-in champion, that I wasn’t an understudy in a role you’d mastered, I wanted to show the world that I had everything it took to be at the top of the company, and I fought my heart out to attempt to prove that. But every time I got a moment, every time I came close to really proving that, there you were to attack me from the shadows, to jump me from behind, to lay me out in the ring and ultimately to steal my title so that I walked into Gang Rulz 2012 without the tag team title, which I’d lost without even being able to defend it, and without my World title,” she says, shaking her head slowly. “But I didn’t just walk into one on one. It wasn’t just you and me. I used my Trios Contract to make it Fatal Four-Way rules because I wanted to beat you, and Thirteen, and Christian Savior, and prove to the world that I belonged in the main event.”

“You’re the reason I had to do that, because you couldn’t let me have my moment against Thirteen, you couldn’t let me have my moment against any opponent, no matter how hard I fought you had to make it about you every single time,” she says, taking in a deep breath and letting it out as a long sigh. “And that’s you all over, Shilo. You call it ‘entertainment’ but with you it’s never been about entertaining anyone. With you it’s always been about ego. You can’t share the spotlight. You can’t give credit to anyone else. You’re the star of the show, right? You’re the ‘Showman of the Spotlight’, you’re the ‘Clown-Prince of Entertainment’, you give yourself all these ridiculous nicknames and you don’t share the stage with anyone else because you’ve always thought you were that much better than everyone else around you, and nobody else can live up to the ‘entertainment’ that you think only you can deliver. But here’s the truth, Shilo. You are one of the best who’s EVER stepped foot in that ring, and god knows there isn’t a single person around who’d deny that. You’ve main evented Rise to Greatness three times, you’ve won Taking Hold of the Flame, you’ve been United States Champion, Tag Team Champion, World Heavyweight Champion, and you’ve done them all more than once. You are one of the best who has EVER been in this business but you couldn’t accept that anyone else could challenge that, could you?”

“With you it was never about proving you were the best, it was about humiliating opponents, it was about embarrassing opponents, it was about taking every shortcut you could and calling it ‘entertainment’. You, Masquerade and Marina Trent attacking Ravyn and me in the back, from behind, do you remember that? You called that ‘entertainment’. I called it the actions of three cowards. You attacking me from the crowd, attacking me from behind, costing me matches, jumping me with Marina’s help, week, after week, after week before Rise to Greatness, do you remember that? You claimed you were putting on a show.  The truth is you were afraid you could lose to me, again,” she says before shaking her head slowly. “You made my life miserable. You made coming to work a nightmare for me. You hounded me and tormented me and you claimed it was all because you were the ‘Clown Prince of SCW’, but it was because you couldn’t stand the idea that anyone could rise up to compete with you, and I did. And after all of that, after everything you put me through, you lost the title, you took your ball and you went home, and the girl you looked down on every single time, the rising star you tried to step on, kept on rising all the way. And look where we are now, Shilo. Match number fourteen, and you’re still one of the all-time greats… but you’re not ‘the man’ anymore and I’m still the Best Female Wrestler in the World!”

“I talked before about Lucas Knight, about our history, about everything we’ve been through, all he’s put me through, and what it would mean to beat him, and it would mean the world to me to beat him tomorrow night, to pin him, to eliminate him, but Shilo? It’ll mean just as much, if not more, if in match number fourteen between the two of us I send you to the back as well not because you’re nothing, not because you’re pathetic, not because you’ll ‘never beat me’ as you used to tell me about you, but because you’re one of the all-time greats in this company, and tomorrow night I get the chance to show you that in spite of everything you put me through you never broke me, and all I did was keep getting better to the point I could be given a chance like this to show that I belong in that group of wrestlers you told me I’d never be good enough for,” she says with passion and drive before nodding her head and taking in a few deep breaths. “Yah, this match meant so much to me long before it had anything to do with the World title, and I’d be fighting just as hard if the opportunity wasn’t on the line because that’s what I do. But it’s not what Lucas does. We know that. How are you looking at this one, Lucas? Is it another chance to break my neck? Is it another chance to finish what you started on Breakdown? And where’s your focus at, Lucas? Is it on this match, or somewhere else?”

“What was it Shilo Valiant said on Breakdown? He asked if you were the one wearing the pants. As stupid as this might sound, I hope that you’re not. Because you meant a lot to me once, I loved you once upon a time, and this guy I see today? I don’t even recognise him. You always had an ego, I know that, but after everything you went through, after what happened to you at the hands of Blitzkrieg, after being broken on the concrete and left for dead, only to come back just long enough to get broken all over again, I used to think you’d grown, that you’d changed, that you knew how it felt to have your career almost ended and that you’d never purposefully put someone in the same position you were put in, and then I saw you laughing about Knots, telling everyone he deserved what he got, and… well, I like to think I’ve come a long way since those days, that I’ve learned a lot, that I’ve grown as a person, and every time I look in your eyes Lucas I only get more convinced that you haven’t! I guess that’s just the person you are now, huh? You’re no better than those who hurt you, who put you on the shelf, and quite honestly that’s just sad. There’s one thing we do still have in common though Lucas, and that’s family. You’re representing yours tomorrow night, I’m representing mine,” she says, looking over at Ravyn again, “and that thought, representing my family, just gives me even more reason to want to kick your ass all over Pittsburgh.”

“So that’s the match tomorrow night, ladies and gentlemen. That’s your featured attraction. Double-Elimination Rules, winner takes a spot in the main event, but it’s about so much more than a World title match. I’m up against three of the best ever, two Canadians and a Brit, in the city of my birth – American Made, baby – with one goal in mind. Win. If I do that, if I conquer this challenge, then it comes down to one more thing, the main event, thirteen people in a ladder match, and one of them walking out,” she says before looking over at Ravyn. “Do you know what I want most in the world right now? For one of us to walk out of the Consol Energy Center as the World Heavyweight Champion! Will it happen? I don’t know. But I know you’re not going to stop fighting for it, and you know as long as there is any strength left in my body, if I make it to the main event, neither will I. Tomorrow night, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, it could be the biggest night of one of our lives. And tomorrow night, if nothing else, I’m determined that we won’t begin another ten days of hashtag Monarchy, hashtag Perfect Champion, hashtag British, Infamous, Legendary, or any more of that bullshit. In fact tomorrow night I know we’re BOTH going to fight and give it everything we’ve got with the hope that one of us walks out with that title, and the only hashtag anyone will need is hashtag Dark Fantasy! Or better yet, hashtag BE TOTALLY JEALOUS!”

Ravyn laughs and nods to the camera. “What she said.”

Syren blows a kiss to the camera before we fade out to black. The video continues for a second more before it ends, with the replay button flashing up on the screen.