Kamikaze (Akashi+Taylor) vs Shiro Shinde (Naoko+Stephanie)

Taylor's attention was entirely focused on what was happening in the ring. She was busy bouncing and cheering Akashi, and she didn't see Naoko sneaking around the ring.

She gasped and fell, her hands clawing for the ropes before her upper body folded awkwardly over the ring apron and the side of her face bounced off the mat. She ended up in a heap on the floor, holding her head, dazed. She needed a minute to clear her head and figure out what had just happened.

Stephanie could do little more than groan in pain and kick her legs at Akashi. The blinding burning sensation on her nose spread through all her body making her spasm. When Akashi grabbed her legs and started to drag her, Stephanie weakly tried to kick her ankles free, but it was useless. After much thrashing her vision partially cleared from the blurr and she oppened her eyes only to see the sumo cutie's ass coming down on her. Stephanie just closed her eyes and braced for the impact, keeping her hands on her nose as a form of protection. The crowd gasped as the champion landed with her full weight on the redhead's face rendering her uncouncious instantly, and then begun to cheer wildly.

The refere immediately dropped to the mats and started the count. "ONE!

Hearing the ref count brought Naoko's attention back to the ring. The Japanese ganster girl had to interrupt her plans to stomp on Taylor over and over. The loud sound of Akashi falling on her partner and the way the whole ring, and the whole arena, seemed to be trembling after the impact convinced Naoko that her intervention was necesary, and so she tried to slid under the bottom rope to get back in the ring, planning to rush towards Akashi and hit the champ in the back of the head with a vicious round-house kick.

Akashi grinned as she pinned Stephanie down ad the ref began to count. She turned back to see how Taylor was doing. Stephanie should be worn down enough to be able to set up a super cool tag move. Maybe Taylor didn't want to have Akashi hog the win and Akashi was cool with that. Besides, Akashi would rather fight Naoko. Stephanie had picked the fight with Taylor, it was only fair that Taylor got to put the final nail in Stephanie's coffin.

But when she turned, she did not see a cheering Taylor but an angry Naoko, swinging her foot forward. There was nothing Akashi could do and when she ate the kick she was forced off Stephanie and hit the canvas, groaning in pain as she clutched her head.

Taylor saw Naoko jumping back in the ring instead of abusing her some more, and was confused. She pulled herself up and slumped over the ring apron, her head still spinning, in time to see Naoko stalking Akashi. She cried out, and words didn't come fast enough.

"Kashi! Look out!" And then Akashi was down, with two bad guys in the ring with her, even though one was pretty well out of commission. Taylor rolled under the bottom rope and started to scramble to her feet to go after Naoko and at least get her away from Akashi if not make her pay for another cheap shot.

Naoko smiled after hitting Akashi in the back of the head and closed her right fist tightly to prepare her next punch, which was aimed at the refere stomach. The poor refgirl had quickly stood up after breaking the count and moved towards Naoko apparently with the intention of removing the Japanese yankigirl of the ring, only to have her air knocked out by a furious punch.

Watching the ref twitch in the canvas like a worm, Naoko moved to Akashi with an even wider smile. She just needed to look at Stephanie for a split second to realize that her friend was still out of it; she had to buy a lot more time for the redhead to recover. So Naoko's hands went for Akashi's wrist as the champ clutched her head and then, standing behind the sumo cutie, Naoko began aiming vicious knees trying to hit Akashi's ribs and kidney area.

For a second, Taylor wasn't sure if she should help Akashi or the ref. It was an easy decision, though, she had to get Naoko off of Akashi before anything else. One hand touched down on the mat for balance while she threw herself into a reckless charge at Naoko, who was facing away from her and busy deciding what sort of violence to inflict next on Akashi. Taylor lowered her shoulder to plow all of her momentum into the small of Naoko's back. She wanted to see her fold up like a pocket knife, but backwards.

Akashi was trying to shake off the cobwebs from the kick to the head when she felt her hand tugged and a knee slamming into her ribs.

"Gyaah!" She cried out and winced. She coughed a little saliva out from her mouth as she was nailed again. Her eyes shut and she tried to swing her free hand backwards with a flailing elbow. She didn't know if that would do anything or that Taylor was coming to her rescue but she was certainly in a bad way right now.

Naoko stayed on Akashi's back, out of the champion's sight so she could continue striking where Akashi couldn't defend. From this position it was very easy for her to avoid Akashi's blind elbow attack...but not Taylor's charge that was, in turn, coming from behind.

The gangster girl was confident that Taylor wouldn't be getting up for some time and it was right when she decided to turn around to see how the annoying blue haired girl was doing, Taylor's shoulder connected with the small of her back.

"Gagggghhhh!!!" Naoko yelped as her body bent horribly in the wrong direction, and then she felt forward, face first into the canvas stunned and shivering in pain, right besides the still limp Stephanie, who was just barely beginning to drag herself out from uncounciousness.

Akashi slumped over as Taylor removed Naoko from her back. She panted and turned to look at the situation with Taylor and Naoko before wincing and grabbing her side. That wasn't good at all." Akashi then glanced back at the ref who was still unconscious and then looked to Stephanie.

She pushed herself forward. "Taylor-san... " She said more than yelled. "Can you handle yourself for a little bit?" Akashi pushed forward and tried to push herself on top of Stephanie to try and make sure she stayed unconscious a little longer by trying to smother her with her ample chest. It would help the team and allow her to rest a bit as she tried to run away the dull ache in her side. Then she could help Taylor deal with Naoko.

Taylor dropped to her elbows and knees after flooring Naoko. Her back heaved as she took big, deep breaths and tried to summon the will to keep pressing the attack on Naoko, despite how her body felt.

The ref was still down. She heard Akashi, and that was enough. She swallowed hard. "Yeah." She panted. "I got this."

She raised both arms up over her head, elbows close together, and fell onto Naoko, chopping down with both elbows like an axe at the girl's back.