Rough Diamonds

by **Solaris Arc** Tue May 29, 2018 10:04 pm

Andrew Briggs slowly rolled out of the ring after taking the pin from multiple Break-Your-Neck Foundations. Zeigler retreated from the ring, Quantum and Pierre running over to collect Briggs before Global Offensive decided to do to him what they did to Divine. After a few seconds, Diamond rolled out from the ring, grabbing a microphone and rolling back in. He gave a cocky little smile and held out his hand.

Diamond

Well, Harvey, I said that THIS was the moment to take out Divine for good, but you truly surprised me. What you did to Divine is something the CMV will be talking about for decades! And I want to be the first to congratulate you for it.

Hastings looked down at Diamond's hand and smirked. He quickly gripped onto Diamond's hand and shook it firmly.

Diamond

Say, Hastings... One thing I was curious about... You're married, right?

Hastings nodded.

Diamond

And you've got a son too?

Hastings shook his head.

Hastings

Two sons. Twins.

Diamond smirked, and before anyone could react, Diamond knelt down and uppercut Hastings right between the legs. The vicious low blow caused Hastings to collapse to his knees, holding onto his tender regions with a grimace of pure pain.

Diamond

Well, now I'll make sure you can't have anymore, you damn Kraut.

Diamond smirked and slowly stood, looking victorious above Hastings. Until he turned around. Yume and Nikola stood right behind him, angered expressions on their faces.

The two men looked at each other, then at Diamond. They charged, spearing Diamond to the ground. He lied down, staring at the lights with the wind completely knocked out of him.

Yume and Ivanovic quickly got Hasting's to his feet, helping him recover from the ball-busting low blow he received. Harvey quickly grabbed the microphone that had flown out of Diamond's hand.

Hastings

Diamond... If you want to end up like Divine. Then, by god, I will see it through. This Sunday.

Home Coming.

You will crumple by my hands...

And no one will see me as a joke anymore.

Hastings threw the mic away and limped off, with Yume and Nikola assisting him.

by **Mr. Dashing** Wed May 30, 2018 6:29 am

As Hastings makes his way up the ramp with Global Offensive at his back, he passes by Reece Ortiz, who had purchased a ticket and was watching the show as a spectator as he had tweeted earlier in the night. Harvey smirked, walking over to the barricade where he spits at Reece, Yume and Ivanovic laughing while Hastings' looked very proud of himself. Ortiz of course wasn't happy, wiping the saliva from his cheek and quickly springing up onto his feet, grabbing The Assassin by the back of his head and slamming him face first down onto the security wall. Masato reacted in an instant, hauling Reece over the barricade where he and Nikola then began to stomp and punch away at him ... Harvey shook off the cobwebs and joined in on the attack, but little did he know that Diamond has recovered and is caught off-guard when the World champion jumps on his back, taking him down onto the ramp. Ziegler is at the top of the ramp as this is all going down, smiling and enjoying the events unfolding before him, while Briggs, Thompson and Quantum watch from ringside ...

But they too are caught with their pants down as the old saying goes, when from behind the announce table comes Jon Reed and Sam Valentine of Team Genesis, each take a foe in Andrew and Pierre but leave The Future Man out of it, Quantum backing away as if not knowing what to do here, in foreign territory ... Meanwhile we see that from Jacob's blindside on the stage, is the Genesis team captain, Josh Wolf, with a fire in his eyes, having twice now been beaten by Jacob, he takes out The Scotsman's leg with a chop-block, then mounting him and firing off with lefts and rights. Ortiz has now regained his composure while Global Offensive was busy assisting Harvey with Diamond, the fourth annual Cyborg Invitational winner decides to get a bit dirty, grabbing a steel chair from underneath the ring and with a sadistic smile on his face wails away at Yume and Ivanovic ...

As if there wasn't already enough going on, a wave of Fusion superstars arrives from the back, including The BRC, Perry Heenan, Zak Painn, Ryan Kent and his brother Sean, and at the same time down the aisle from the crowd is a squad of Genesis boys, lead by Alpha World champion, Chris Andrews, to his left is El Jefe, to his right Guri Sukanov, Dallas Steele, Brule and ... Is that? ... REX CARTER??? The two squads clash on the center of the ramp, some spilling over towards the ring and by the production area ... THIS IS WAR ... Brett Angel meets up with Zaire and they nod to each other, deciding to try and take down the CMV Trios champions, to the side of them the Kent brothers are dealing with The Russian Ogre who with ease and joy, tosses them every which way, their efforts futile to say the least. But when it's looking like Guri has had his fun with them and wants to move on to his next victim, Daemion, his opponent this Sunday at Home Coming 3 and the partner of the Kents, charges with a head full of steam and sends the two of them crashing through the security wall ...

Things looking like the scene of a car wreck. International champion Dallas Steel has Perry Heenan by the throat, smiling at him surely with wicked intentions, however before he can act on them, United States champion, Aleister Knox, cuts him off, a swift forearm to the jaw staggers him and then allows The Ominous One to lock in his all-too dangerous Censorship submission hold to which Steele is unable to escape ... Zak Painn comes flying into frame following a right hook from The Bloody Brit, who with El Jefe on his six takes the fight to Briggs and Thompson, having gotten the edge over Reed and Valentine they trade blows with The Brit and The Fish. Quantum still hasn't joined the fight, because it isn't his battle and it isn't his war ... But through the chaos he manages to see that Harvey Hastings has found an escape route through the crowd, hastily running up the steps through the audience. The Future Man finds his own path, cutting around him and even slapping a few lucky fans' hands on his way to avenge his brother, Paul Divine. Hastings is oblivious to the fact that Quantum is about to t-bone him, picking up some steam Quantum leaps into the air and jaw-jacks Harvey with perhaps the greatest 24th Punch of all time, sending The Assassin tumbling down the concrete steps like a bowling ball set to crash into the pins.

Back at the top of the ramp Zeigler has secured control over Wolf, ramming him back first into the L.E.D wall, Josh screaming out in agony to which Chris Andrews hears, pushing his way through the bodies and whipping Jacob around, REVENGAAAAAAHHHHHH ... Brit helps Josh up and the two share a nod, but are suddenly taken over by The BRC, Sullivan and Fury working to dispose of Wolf while Flashyy and Andrews struggle for the upper hand. Jefe has come to blows now with Andrew Briggs, but he can't contend with the King of the Ring in this exchange, with some help from Pierre the two catapult The Human Fish up and down onto the steel steps ... Sam Valentine though, from the top turnbuckle in the ring, takes a leap of faith, THE DREAM, up high soars and like a damn meteor lands splat across Briggs and The Big Dog, effectively taking himself out as well. Jon Reed gets some help from interestingly enough Brule, after having met Yume's lethal strikes, Angel grabs The Japanese warrior by his trucks and holds him in place while Dule gets up onto the apron and throws himself at Masato for WHITE CHOCOLATE RAIN ...

Diamond is looking around as if he's a lost boy looking for his mother in a crowded mall, when from the crowd comes Rob Cross to extract him, The Kings retreating from the battlefield so as to save The Baller from further harm. With some aid from Reece Ortiz, Josh Wolf and Brit are able to take control from the Trios champions, Sully taking a trip off the stage and down onto an equipment box off a toss from Ortiz while JT gets a first-hand ride off the shoulders of Andrews down onto his BRC buddy. Flashyy then gets reeled into the Jaw of Fenrir, face first onto the steel of the stage ... In cherishing their handy work though, The Pride of Scotland worms his way up behind Ortiz and pushes him forward with both hands, out of instinct Reece whips around with a left hook but instead the punch connects to Josh's nose, knocking his team captain out cold ... Ortiz doesn't seem all too fazed by this mistake, or was it even one? But doesn't have much time to react anyhow as Ziegler superkicks him into tomorrow. Jacob then winks at Brit and makes off backstage before the Alpha World champion can give him another dose of revenge ...

The fighting continues among those left standing, bodies laid out all over the place. Quantum, still in the crowd smiles under his mask before also making his exit and allowing for the medical crew to come and collect Harvey who is in La La Land, eyes glazed over, and drooling a bit. Security finally amasses and disperses to stop this battle before it somehow gets even worse, the camera pulling out and showing the entire arena when the end show logo appears in the bottom right hand corner of the screen, nobody won this encounter, but everyone will be feeling it's effects in the coming week ahead of Home Coming 3 this Sunday ... By the way, where the hell did Rex Carter go ...?