The video begins and we see the inside of the home shared by Dark Fantasy members Ravyn Taylor and Syren in Malibu, California. The scene is a not unfamiliar one where we find Syren sitting in her bedroom. She looks somewhat relaxed as she sits leaning forward on her bed with her hands cupped together in front of her. “Hey guys. So, I’ve been trying to think for the past couple of days what I wanted to say to you guys when I hit the record button on this and it’s Monday night now and despite thinking about it for days I still haven’t figured it out,” she admits before letting out a little sigh. “I mean I know what I want to start by talking about. I want to start by talking about Under Attack. I want to start by talking about the Elimination Chamber. I want to start by talking about one of the most hellacious Chamber matches in SCW history, and what I want to tell you about that is something positive and uplifting. I want to tell you about that is that Ravyn Taylor, Selena Frost and Syren stepped inside the Chamber against a well oiled team of three individuals who wanted to do nothing more than maim and injure all three of us and that we overcame the odds against us, that we worked together and that we proved in our victory inside the Chamber that there is still a fighting spirit amongst those who people like them think they can tread on.”

As she speaks she’s looking almost down toward the floor. She lets out another sigh and shakes her head before looking up at the camera. “I want to tell you those things just like I want to tell you that the victory inside the Elimination Chamber meant something significant, but that’s hard to do given what we all saw Breakdown, isn’t it?” she asks with a hint of anger to her voice. “I mean I could focus on the positives right now. I could tell you that I took on another enormous challenge at Under Attack, another unwinnable scenario which was made all the more unwinnable by the way the pods opened, leaving my team twice in three on one situations, and that we overcame the odds anyway, and that would be a hell of a story to lead with if not for the fact that throughout that entire match I was forced to stand inside that pod and witness one of the worst things I’ve ever seen in my life. Under other circumstances I’d try to make a joke right now, but the fact is that what happened at Under Attack was nothing to laugh about. At Under Attack I stood inside a pod made of Plexiglas and metal just a few feet from the woman I care about most in the world and yet completely unable to do anything to help her as she was lacerated and victimised for no other reason than because she dared to step up her game and she dared to win a match that she was supposed to lose.”

She clenches her fist as she speaks, obviously working through some serious anger issues before she looks away from the camera again for a moment. She seems to take a moment to recompose herself before looking back into it again. “You know, I’ve seen a lot of terrible things in six years in SCW. I’ve seen men and women the world believed were heroes stoop to depths that very few would be willing to stoop to in order to win matches or fulfil their own selfish desires. I’ve seen politics dictate situations that should be about outright competition. I’ve seen legends of this sport tarnish the way the world sees them forever with the decisions they made. I’ve seen monsters that nobody seemed willing to stand up to hurt people mercilessly. I genuinely thought after six years in this business I’d seen the worst things that I was ever going to see, but the last few months I’ve witnessed a level of bullshit I never could have imagined before now.  And in the last month I’ve watched my boyfriend get decimated, I’ve watched my wife get sent to the hospital, and I’ll be honest with you guys it’s starting to have a serious effect on me,” she confesses with an angry look in her eyes. “It’s starting to make me wonder if I’m doing this wrong. Because you guys know about me, don’t you? You know what I’m about. But I’ll tell you this, after the last few weeks I’m starting to wonder if I need to change that.”

She pauses before letting out a long sigh. “At this point I want to stop for a second, before I say anything else I might regret, and say two things about Selena Frost. First of all I want to publicly congratulate her on becoming the new SCW Adrenaline Champion. It was a long time coming and it was definitely hard earned. She’s proven herself in the Adrenaline division time and again and now she’s given that division a new leader that it didn’t have before. Secondly I want to publicly thank her for what she did at Under Attack. I know she went into that match with personal issues with our opponents just like I did. I know she wanted to get retribution on them. That’s kind of what happens when they attack someone you love. You get a fire in your gut that burns hot and makes you want to do crazy things. And I know she’s a good person, she’s proven that often enough, but I wasn’t completely sure about whether I could trust her going into the match… and right now I might not be sitting here talking to you guys if she didn’t do what she did inside the Chamber,” she says with a grateful nod and smile. “She took the proverbial bullet for me at Under Attack and I genuinely can’t thank her enough for that. I know it might not mean a whole lot right now but I promise that whatever she does from this point forward she’ll always have my support and my gratitude.”

“You see I just said something that I can’t stress the importance of enough in this whole situation. That something is the fact that I know that Selena Frost is a good person! She might not be the most beloved person. She might not have the most friends. She might say things occasionally that upset people. But where it matters, where it really matters, she’s a good person and someone I’m proud to have teamed with inside that Chamber. And I like to think that I’m a good person too. I’ve built my career in this company by proving that, even during the darker times. I like to think that I’m not the kind of person who does anything she can simply because she can. I’m not the kind of person who attacks people with weapons. I’m not the kind of person who jumps people from behind. I’ve always believed that you don’t gain anything by lowering yourself to their level and that the only way you can truly beat people that do stoop to those levels is to rise above them, to fight them in the middle of the ring, beat them and STAND TALL! I’ve built my career off of that concept, and I had the most successful reign as SCW World Champion in history based on that concept,” she says before clenching her fist again with anger growing in her eyes. “But right now, after everything I’ve seen, I’m starting to wonder what taking a steel chair and just hurting people feels like.”

She looks almost ashamed to have said that out loud. She pauses for a moment again before shaking her head. “I know I shouldn’t think that. I know that ultimately it wouldn’t give me what I want. But if you put yourself in my position, if you were forced to watch all the things that I’ve been forced to watch over the past few months, if you were forced to watch the woman you love get hurt and attacked over and over again, cost everything she’s ever worked for, and then saw the people who did that to her praised, rewarded and given opportunities that not one of them deserves, then maybe you’d understand it. I hope you can understand it. I hope you can understand the way I felt inside that Chamber, or the way I felt in the match at Apocalypse, or the way I felt watching at Rise to Greatness, or on Breakdown a few weeks ago, or during ANY of this! Because there’s nothing worse! There’s nothing worse than being forced to watch the people you care about suffering and being unable to do a damn thing about it,” she says before shaking her head again. “So maybe that’s why I want to do something about it. Maybe that’s why I have this unbelievable desire to do to them what they’ve done to us. Maybe that’s why I’m almost at the point where I don’t care about rising above anymore, I just want revenge. I want to do things I know I shouldn’t. I want to hurt them.”

She nods her head. “Yah, that’s the problem I have right now. I don’t want to fight them. I don’t want to prove myself against them. I don’t want to prove in spite of everything I’m better than them. I did that at Under Attack. Selena and me eliminated all three of them. What did it get us? It got us a victory, but it didn’t stop Ravyn being sent to the hospital, it didn’t stop any of the bullshit that we’ve been subjected to, and it didn’t stop last week on Breakdown. It didn’t stop ANYBODY standing up to all that bullshit when someone with NO power over ANYTHING decided to change matches, to bring in outsiders, and to put on the ‘yay Monarchy’ show. And then Bob Tomlinson finally shows up and the best punishment he can dish out for all of this is a week’s suspension? Sure, because that seems fair, right?” she asks sarcastically before shaking her head angrily. “And the problem I have right now is that I don’t want to fight them anymore and prove something, I want to hurt them because that seems like the only goddamn way this whole thing is going to stop. I get these thoughts in my head about doing to them everything they’ve done to Alexander, to Deanna, to Ravyn, to Selena, to me, and to everyone else they’ve stepped on. I get these dark impulses… and then I remind myself that I’m not them, that I’m BETTER than them, and that I stand for something real.”

“So, to anyone who’s thinking that this is me losing my mind and getting ready to end careers if the Monarchy show up on Breakdown, which I have absolutely no doubt that they will – sure, I know they’re suspended but since when has a rule actually meant a goddamn thing to ANY of them? – I hate to be the one who disappoints you but it’s not happening. As angry as I am, as emotionally charged as I am, I’m NOT them. So instead I’m going to hurt them in a whole different way. You see as much as they’ll talk shit otherwise the fact that Selena and me eliminated all three of them at Under Attack, the fact that they had three on one against Ravyn and then three on one against Selena and couldn’t finish the job, hurts them where it means the most to them. It hurts their egos. And there’s one guaranteed way to make sure that those egos are hurting forever and that’s to take from them everything they want. So guys, as tempting as it might be, I’m not going to be swinging a steel chair and trying to hurt any of them in the coming weeks but I am going to make damn sure that come Supreme Saturday there won’t be any bullshit that costs Selena the Adrenaline Championship, and after that my focus returns to where it should be. My focus returns to the SCW World Heavyweight Championship,” she says passionately. “Yah, you heard that right.”

“For months I’ve been stating one simple fact: as far as I’m concerned the line starts RIGHT HERE! And I may have been supporting Ravyn recently, and I still am, I still want to see her regain that title, I still want to see her get the moment that she was denied at Rise to Greatness by their bullshit, I still want to see her get the revenge she should have had at Apocalypse, revenge that she’s now being forced to jump through hoops to get while Kelcey Wallace just walks into a one on one match with nobody even batting an eyelash, because that’s fair, right?” she asks rhetorically before scoffing by way of an answer. “So I’m still supporting my wife, make no mistake about that, but I want to tell you guys something. I want to let you guys in on a little secret. Just recently I’ve been distracted by… a couple of things. The truth is that I wanted something for myself that apparently I can’t ever have. I wanted to be something that apparently I can’t ever be. I’ll tell you guys all about it at another time, but it’s made me think a lot about what I can be, it’s made me think a lot about what I truly want, and what I want is to raise that championship over my head once again, to stand in the middle of that ring and give this company back a champion, for the first time since March – excluding, you know, like the minute that Ravyn held the belt in the time in between – that they can be PROUD of!”

“That’s what my reign was about before, and it’s what it will be about again. Not selfish insecurity, not whining and crying on Twitter about how unfair everything is, and attacking everyone with the numbers game when I can’t get my way, not lowering myself to the level of those I despise but RISING ABOVE them like I have always done. Like I said, I’ve been distracted lately, but now my focus is back where it belongs and that’s on being the BEST FEMALE WRESTLER IN THE WORLD and on proving that week after week in the middle of that ring. And I’m gong to start that this week, because in theory this is going to be the first week that I don’t need to worry about being ambushed, right? Like I said, they’ve never met a rule they actually obeyed, so I have my doubts, but the theory is strong. The theory is that this week my match against Amy Chastaine will be what this match SHOULD be about, what ALL matches in this company SHOULD be about, and that’s competition,” she says proudly. “And I go into this match this week against a woman who’s proving that she’s more than able to compete at every level in this company. I go into this match this week against a woman who’s been showing the world that she can go toe to toe with anyone, including someone like Matt Auclair, and that in spite of everything used against her she can overcome.”

“Seriously Amy, I know that I didn’t start this video off by talking about you and I apologise for that because the truth is that I feel like I might have disrespected you by talking about everything else going on and that’s definitely not something I want to do. The fact is that you deserve the most respect I can give. You’ve been showing in your time in SCW that you deserve as much respect as anyone. You’ve gone toe to toe with arguably one of the greatest Adrenaline Champions in the history of the company and come so frustratingly close to picking up the win, you’ve gone toe to toe with arguably one of the toughest men this company has to offer and come so close to beating him in the middle of the ring – seriously, I have no idea how he kicked out, and I’m sorry about what happened afterward, you didn’t deserve that, but that’s the kind of bullshit you’ve got to get used to around here, unfortunately – and this week it’s my honour to go one on one with you in the middle of the ring. This week you get to go toe to toe with arguably one of the greatest champions SCW has ever had and that’s not me flexing my ego, that’s just me acknowledging a fact,” she says before smiling at the camera. “And you don’t need to worry that I’m going into this match thinking of you as less than nothing, as not on my level, or as something I should be scraping off the bottom of my boot, because unlike some that’s not the way I look at things.”

“You see I know how it feels to be in the position you’re in right now, because right now you’re in the midst of proving yourself and you’re not quite there yet. Now I know that that might not seem like something I would know about given the things I’ve accomplished but you’re wrong, it’s something I know all too well. I know how it feels to be fighting against the odds only to be dismissed as unimportant. I know how it feels to work your ass off for something, to dream about the possibilities, only to be denied at the final hurdle, and I want to tell you that things will change. I want to tell you that when you conquer that final hurdle – and I have no doubt you will, you’ve certainly shown you’ve got the talent and ability to do exactly that – doors will open, respect will come, and you’ll never feel that frustration you feel right now. I’d like to tell you that, but I’d be lying to you,” she says before laughing a little. “I mean look at me, right? I’m a three-time World Champion, two-time World Tag Team Champion, two-time Women’s Champion, three-time Trios Tournament winner, Elimination Chamber winner, two-time Tactical Warfare winner, Rise to Greatness main eventer, four-time Female of the Year winner, I’ve done everything there is to do in this business and yet I still get told I’m a worthless whore. But that’s just the way this business works.”

“I’d like to tell you that you can earn their respect and everything will change but I’d be lying to you. I will tell you, however, that you’ve more than earned my respect, for whatever that’s worth, and that going into Breakdown this week I couldn’t imagine an opponent I’d like to face more,” she says honestly. “I’d like to approach this match like it should be approached, thinking that this is all about the competition, but I’ve learned the hard way that you need eyes in the back of your head – and in both sides – just recently. But I will you tell you that I’m approaching this match with a smile on my face, because honestly Amy there is nothing that I want more in this world than to go out there with you, than to put on the greatest match of the night, than to STEAL THE SHOW live in Indianapolis and to give every single person who’s packed into the Bankers Life Fieldhouse not only the best match of the night but a showing of what real, honest competition is about, because that’s what this company SHOULD be about. There is nothing I want more in the world than go to out into that arena with you and remind everyone that you don’t need bullies, propaganda and attacks from behind to entertain, you just need two of the best in the middle of that ring doing what they were born to do. And sweetie, I can’t say for certain when it comes to you, but recent events in my own life have left me in absolutely no doubt that THIS is what I was BORN to do!”

‘This week I know how much you’ve got to prove Amy, but you’re not the only one with something to prove. The fact is that I have something to prove as well. I have to prove something to the SCW locker room, something to SCW management and something to every single one of those fans, and that’s that even with the distractions inside the ring, distractions outside of the ring, and distractions with Ravyn taking the spot that I want to be in that the line STILL starts right here, that I am STILL the one to beat, and in front of all those people in Indiana that’s exactly what I aim to prove,” she says passionately.  “You’re a hell of a competitor Amy, you’re a future a champion in any division that you set your heart on, I know that just by watching you in the ring, and I want to see you rise to the top, I want to see you prove yourself to those fans, I want to see you raising championship gold over your head, and I have no doubt I will… but unfortunately this week there can only be one of us who stands in that ring with their hand held high by the referee, and when that bell rings on Breakdown I’m going to show the world that as good as you are sweetie, I’m better. When that bell rings on Breakdown I’m going to prove to the world that Dawn Lohan and Ravyn Taylor might be fighting for the next title shot but the true top contender for that title is right here!”

She pauses for a moment before the smile on her face fades more than a little. “I’ve seen some truly horrible things just recently. I’ve been forced to watch some of the most difficult things in my life. And this company, the company that I love, the company that I have fought for time and again, has become a shadow of what it should be because of everything that’s been allowed to happen, but this week won’t be another edition of the Monarchy Show, this week won’t be another edition of New Eden TV, this week won’t be about Kennedy Street, or Kelcey Wallace, or Aiken Frost, or any of the underhanded backstabbers who’ll break every rule in front of them and claim themselves superior for doing so. This week, and every goddamn week going forward, won’t be about who can be the smallest, most petty, most pathetic person on the roster but who can rise up, who can stand proudest, and who can overcome,” she says with another proud smile. “I won’t deny that I’ve almost reached the point of snapping and becoming no better than all of them, but I am better and I’m going to prove it in the middle of the ring because there’s no doubt in my mind that this is where I belong. I belong in that ring. I belong in that spotlight. I belong proving myself in front of the SCW fans, putting on a show, and giving them a champion to be PROUD of. This week I show that this is what I was BORN TO DO, and anyone who doubts that? BE TOTALLY JEALOUS!”

She stands up and steps forward, picking the camera up and planting a kiss on the lens before smiling again. With that the video ends as the scene fades out to black, and once the video ends the replay button flashes up onto the screen.