Starting Over Part i (Victoria 'Purge' roleplay)

The Whitehouse Strader Estate/Compound
Houston, Texas
November 23rd, 2020


Oh my god, am I crazy?


[ Things had been so crazy as of late in the life of Victoria Strader. She found out her girlfriend had been sleeping with her grandfather, the legendary Scott Nash Strader. Her stomach was so tied up in knots as she paced the her Aunt Tamika’s garage. Tamika has a beautiful Harley Davidson Sportser that was gifted to her by Victoria’s biological mother, Meghan Kelser. She saw the spare set of keys hanging in the key lock box earlier and knew the code. ]


What was that code... ahh right, 2010. Lil Scotties birthday.


[ Beep beep beep beep. Click. ]


Yes!


[ She grabs the keys and a full shield helmet hanging nearby. She straddles the jet black Harley with chrome mini ape hangers, slides the key into a modified hidden ignition under the seat, turns it over, and kickstarts the Harley to life. The Screaming Eagle tailpipes rumble loudly as she stands the bike up straight, pulling up the kickstand with her left feel. She snaps it into gear with her right foot and the Harley takes off out of the garage. ]


What did I do to deserve this?


[ The thunderheads and screaming eagle pipes start to drown the thoughts out of her head. She finds herself on I-10 West as she heads to Katy, Texas to a bar she knows she will get served at. It’s the Scorpions Tail, a hangout of her grandfather and uncle. She knows Scott is down in Mexico currently and won’t be there. After riding for an hour she backs the bike to the front of the bar and kills the engine and kicks down its stand leaning it to the left turning the handlebars with it. ]


I need a drink.


[ She wasn’t worried about anyone being inappropriate. She didn’t know it at the time but the bartender on staff called John to let him know where she was. ]


Just a few drinks.


Strader Estate/Compound (Meghan’s Ranch)
Houston, Texas
November 25th


Thank you, Uncle John


[ Victoria was feeling a bit better after her uncle told her she could come with him to California. She had a meeting with Rock Johnson in Project: Honor on December 4th at Proving Grounds #9. She was nervous as fuck as she sat on her bed, the door closed and locked. The pink room shows she is still very much a youngling but she was also a Strader and grew up quickly. She sits on her double bed with a dark blue comforter on it. She holds her old Teddy Rupskin her adoptive parents got her when she was young. She missed them. That family wasn’t as crazy as this. ]


No wonder she gave me up for adoption...


[ She was still devastated and would be for an extended period of time. There isn’t a scale of how long it takes to heal from a betrayal like that, but even then you don’t heal, you just learn to deal with the pain and that just takes time. She reaches for her diary on the side table but just lays back onto her big feather pillows in blue silk pillowcases. She held it to her chest as the tears rolled down her face. ]



Why would she do that to me?



[ After a few moments she decides not to write in it and places it back inside the top drawer of the aforementioned side table. Her mom wasn’t home, as she and her husband were in West Virginia seeing his family and took the kids. She hated being alone in a room where she and Maxine had made love, laughed, and cried together. ]


Maybe I will watch some television...


[ She got up, decked out in her purple two-piece silk sleepwear, and headed downstairs to the kitchen. When she gets to the stainless steel inspired kitchen she heads straight for the fridge and grabs a can of Slice. She really enjoyed it but they don’t have it in Canada so she took advantage of having it while she was in the states. ]


Is someone here?


[ A sound from the living room makes her quietly approach to see who’s in the house with her. She breathes a sigh of relief when she realizes her uncle John was there watching an ESPN story on Gordie Howe the Detroit Red Wing legend. She puts her hand on his shoulder but he isn’t surprised to see her. ]


JNS: “Hey kid, can’t sleep?”


VNS: “No, I am restless tonight.”


JNS: “Join me, you can learn about a hockey legend.”


[ She smiled and nodded. She sat down beside him and he put his arm around her and kisses the top of her head. ]


JNS: “Everything is going to get better. I promise.”


VNS: “Thank you.”


I really hope so...



Strader Estate/Compound
Houston, Texas
December 10th, 2020


[ Victoria was in her room packing her suitcases with her things. She is almost done but when she’s a koala stuffed toy she got from Maxine Riggs, Uprising’s newest signed wrestler. She picks up the bear, gives it one last hug before placing it on the bed. ]


Sorry, Snoddy, I can’t take you. To much pain...


[ It had been a crazy day. Her grandfather and uncle got into it over family and motorcycle club business. She never asked John what that was about but she saw how he defended her and his sisters. He was a hundred times the man Scott Nash Strader could ever hope to be. She knew she wouldn’t be watching any of the Uprising shows because seeing her grandpa manage her ex-girlfriend was just too much. ]


Mom warned me about him, I should’ve listened.


[ The young Strader was still learning about the business and the family. While the family has a lot of in-house fighting they do love each other. Most of them. She wasn’t so sure about her grandfather anymore. ]


Knock knock


Who is that?


[ She opens her door to see her mom standing there holding little Elizabeth, and she immediately embraces her daughter. Victoria motions to take the soon to a 12-month-old little baby girl. ]


MNS: “I am so sorry sweetheart.”


VNS: “Are you?”


[ Meghan motions if she can come in and Victoria just nods as she bounces her baby sister gently. Meghan takes a seat beside her suitcases on the bed. She rubs her hand on the closed suitcase for a second before looking up at her firstborn holding her sister. ]


MNS: “I just didn’t know how to tell you. There isn’t a book on how to tell your kid her grandfather is a piece of shit who can’t keep his dick in pants.”


Lesson learned.


VNS: “Uncle John helped me see your point of view...”


MNS: “He’s a good man, Victoria.”


Yes he is, he treats me like an equal.


[ Victoria just nodded to her mom. She sits down beside her, jealous of her thick raven hair and icy blue eyes that her Uncle John and grandfather have. Elizabeth coos and plays with the silver chain around her neck. Meghan strokes the side of her face with the back of her hand and smiles at her. ]


MNS; “You look so much like your aunt. You have her eyes.”


VNS: “Thank you, Aunt Tamika is awesome.”


MNS: “You are just lucky you filled up and polished Ciara for her.”


[ The two share a laugh. Victoria leans into her and her mom puts her arm around her pulling her in tight for a hug the baby cooing away. ]


MNS: “I am glad we found each other.”


VNS: “Me too, mom.”


But not a fan of grandpa anymore.


MNS: “I am going to miss you but I understand why you are going. I know you will be looked after but I will miss you.”


Miss you too, mom.


[ Victoria hugs her mom tightly before giving the baby back to her mom. ]


Knock knock


[ Mother and daughter look up to see John standing there in his black boots, jeans, a long-sleeved Support Your Local Bombsquad underneath his leather kutte, and his hair pushed back. ]


JNS: “Don’t worry mom, I’ll take care of her.”


[ John gives them a wink and the two end their embrace. Meghan gets up and hugs her brother with the baby grabbing onto the collar of his kutte. He gives the baby a playful look. ]


MNS: “You better.”


[ John winks at Victoria and she smiles back. Things were going to change. ]


Anywhere but here and I am there.




Old two Firehouse
Redwood City, California
December 11th, 2020


This place is so cool!


[ Victoria was getting acquainted with her new home in an old firehouse that John had bought with the purpose of living in and made sure his lawyers were on top of that. She was in pink high Converse shoes, hip-hugging stonewashed jeans, Brothers of Mayhem support shirt on but has it tied at the side and she pulled her hair back up in a ponytail with a pink hairband. Her room was at the front of the building and just outside it was a fire pole. She walks out of her room and eyes the pole. ]


This place is soooo cool!


[ She wraps her arms and legs around the golden pole and slides down into the main area. It’s sealed by a large door and four of John’s motorcycles sat where fire engines would be. She goes to look at the bikes but see’s one is a Sportster. As she is looking at the bike John has come out of the office he turned a room into on the main floor. He’s dressed as he normally is but with a white t-shirt under his kutte. ]


Does he sleep in that thing?


VNS: “Hey Uncle John! This Sportster is beautiful."


[ It really was a gorgeous bike. The frame was coated in chrome, had mini-ape hangers like her aunts. ]


JNS: “You like it?”


VNS: “I love it!”


JNS: “Take a look at the right side of the tank”


[ She looks at him with a quizzical look. She moves to the side to see the Original Strawberry Shortcake airbrushed on it and notices her name along the curve of the top of the fuel tank. ]


HE BOUGHT ME A BIKE?!


[ She almost knocks the 6'5 Project Honor superstar to the ground with the ferocity of her hug. ]


VNS: “Thank you so much!!!”


JNS: “ha ha no problem kiddo.”


[ He reaches inside his cut and hands her the keys. She hugs him again, walks over to straddles her bike sliding the key into the ignition, and kicks it over. John smiles as she cranks the throttle as the Screaming Eagles fill the old Firehouse. She turns it off and the look of happiness on her face hadn’t been seen since before she found out about Max. ]


JNS: “Good to see you smile, kiddo.”


VNS: “You are the best uncle ever! Can we go for a ride later?”


JNS: “You got it. I got some paperwork I have to go over, so we will after ok?”


VNS: “Sounds good to me!”


[ She gets off her bike and has a huge smile on her face. The Outlaw Strader winks at her and heads back towards his office. She pulls out her iPhone 11Pro and takes all those fancy pictures and uploads them to her private Instagram page. ]


I should do a promo but Harold isn't here yet... did Uncle John say he only made it as far as Arizona and found a whore house? Such a weird company we have but yet it feels so normal...


[ She ponders for a moment and looks at her phone. ]


Oh, right I can use my phone and Livestream it!


[ She walks up to the normal door beside the big lift one and sees no one is outside and heads outside. There’s a wooden bench beside her and a rather large white stone planter with a palm tree in it. She leans her phone against the tree making sure she is straight in the shot. She puts her left arm up on the back of the bench and crosses her legs as she leans forward and hits record. ]


START BROADCAST


[ Victoria smiles the sweet innocent way she does as she gives a small wave with her right hand. ]


“Ok so I know what you are thinking: is this nonintimidating young girl going to really survive this purge match? Honestly, I don’t know if I can answer that.”


[ Another smile as she lifts her brow tilting her slightly with a small shrug. ]


“See I try not to look at stuff that way, ya know? You never truly know until you are in the situation, and believe me I found myself in a match where I think they are trying to kill us. Apparently, that is just Mr. Johnson’s way, according to that absolutely gorgeous man, MYOJIN.”


“Where do you even begin on a match like this? An abandoned town 3 hours away from the arena in St. Elmo Colorado. I mean this sounds match sounds more like a movie, doesn’t it? I mean we get dropped off in some abandoned town, we have to find each other, pretty much try to beat the snot out of people where the last two get put in a ring? Dark Side of Wrestling is gonna do a story on this match one day.”


“I mean we have all this new talent in this craziness. Matt Knox, who has been very cordial. You can see this guy is dangerous if you cross him, and I hope not to piss him off too much.”


[ She looks to her right at a couple walking their dog off camera. She looks back at us with her sweet smile. ]


“Seth Blackheart? I have no idea who that is. I couldn’t even find info on him on the official website. He’s like some sort of Enigma. A wild card that none of us can prepare for. That’s quite the advantage ya know? No one will know that to expect!”


“Then you got Mark Hunter! It was fun to watch my Uncle piss off Indy long enough so he could get a pinfall on him. From where I was sitting which was the 3rd row that Mr. Johnson gave us tickets for, it was pretty sweet. I applaud, Mark. Although... Indy doesn’t have a winning record. He upset the X-Factor champion and hasn’t won since. That’s not a shot on him, it’s just most people do beat him and I don’t believe he’ll win at the craziest and biggest pay per view of the year for our awesome sauce company!”


“But like Knox said to me on Twitter, I am not going to hold back. I know a lot of you look at me like a little girl that has bitten off more than she can chew...”


“... but I am hungry enough to do it.”


[ Her smile is still there but the corners of her mouth are fighting the infamous Strader sneer. ]


“Dagvald and Arik are concerning. Not in the sense where I can’t match their kill but in the way that they require medication. I mean have you heard Dagvald talk? He’s got voices in his head. I recommend BetterHelp dot com.”


“Then you have Arik, LuLu’s Only Fans lover, who hides in dirty laundry hampers and just being overall creepy. Like why can’t you talk? Why are you always so creepy about everything with a sudden appearance in another location?”


“It’s like he’s from Hogwarts but was expelled for using magic inappropriately so they got Harry to take away his voice with a spell. Is that it? You need it reversed? I know some girls from high school who did some black magic stuff and made some boy eat his underwear apparently so maybe they could help you talk again and stop being so damn creepy!”


[ She gives her head a shake as a shudder runs down her spine thinking about all the creepiness. ]


“I can’t forget about Josiah and Eli though. I mean Josiah is my age and has about as much experience in the ring as I do but I trained with Scott Nash Strader my asshat grandfather and he’s a 7'0 320 pound monster of a man. We are the greenest of everyone probably but not Eli though. I mean this guy worked in the manufacturing plants in Detroit just two hours from my birthplace in Canada. He’s from Flint too, and oh my god it’s crazy there, it’s worthy of another Michael Moore movie.”


“Speaking of green we also got Kallie and Dex. Now Kallie has worked in the promotion and has a win over Dagvald so that doesn’t bode well for him. Like her, though there’s not much information on her I can study, although I can watch her match and see where her weaknesses are exposed, that’s all I can do really.”


“But Dex, if I liked men, it is him. I mean that’s a man. Raised in the wilderness with his best friend Alistair a freaking Polar Bear! Like was he raised in Northern Manitoba where polar bears are starting to migrate too because of climate change? Like this match just kept getting more ridiculous. Mentally ill men that should get help, a lady with a gas mask, a weathered traveler in Knox, and the only normal one is Mark Hunter as far as I can tell. I doubt Dex even cares if he kills someone judging by his profile. he just wants a fight. I hope Alistar isn't there.”


“I don’t expect to win this craziness but I do plan to give it my absolute all. That’s all I can do, ya know? It’s all anyone can do these days. Do whatever you need to survive. Maybe that’s hitting someone, maybe it’s distancing yourself from others, and maybe it means leaving your home country to go to Texas to end up California.”


[ She stops to think for a second. ]


“It’s no secret that my ex-girlfriend slept with my grandfather, still is, and is debuting in the new year in Uprising plus he’s managing her. I didn’t think I could get through that until Uncle John got me the hell out of Texas to California with him and so far it’s been amazing.”


“So maybe I am lucky enough to win this thing. I mean the karma gods brought Uncle John to our new home where I can start over. I have even been cast as Cameron in Ghost Fighter Boone only We Are SPLAT! streaming service. Things are turning around for me... so I don’t know if that bodes well for the other competitors in this mess...”


[ A shrug and smile. ]


“One thing I can tell you... I am a Strader and we all have seen what my uncle has done since arriving in Project: Honor.”


[ The sneer finally comes in full force. ]


“As my family says... Shhhhhhh do you hear that?”


[ She winks at the camera as she stands up picking up the phone ending the broadcast. ]