**Backstage, NIKKI WYLD is searching the halls for DERRIK ARZON.**

NIKKI: “Derrik? DERRIK?! Where the hell are you?”

**Nikki turns a corner to find DERRIK sitting on the floor, leaning against the hallway wall, attended by a PWA physician. He is glassy-eyed and has a black eye and a huge knot on his head.**

NIKKI: “Holy hell, Derrik, what happened?!”

**DERRIK looks up at her and winces.**

DERRIK: “Ugh… I… I don’t know. Somebody hit me from behind. Laid me out… oh shoot. Our match! I’ve got to… got to get up…”

NIKKI: “No… no, Derrik, it’s fine. The match happened already.”

DERRIK: “What? But… but I wasn’t there. How did you…”

NIKKI: “It was… fine. We just…”

**Just then, THE SPOILER walks up behind NIKKI and smiles down at DERRIK over her shoulder.**

SPOILER: “Hey there ‘little buddy’. Missed you out there tonight. Don’t worry, Nikki and I took care of everything.”

**SPOILER winks and puts a hand on NIKKI’s shoulder. NIKKI shudders and throws his hand off. SPOILER chuckles and takes a step back. He turns to walk away, but looks over his shoulder.**

SPOILER: “We made a pretty good team out there, wouldn’t you agree Arzon?”

**DERRIK stares angrily at SPOILER and tries to get to his feet, but winces and slides back down the wall. NIKKI kneels by him and takes his hand as the two of them glare down the hall at the departing SPOILER.**

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**Following the match, NEMESIS REX viciously clips ZHANE in the back of the knee from behind, dropping the Frenchman hard to his knees. REX follows up by driving ZHANE shoulder first into the ringpost, sending him careening to the floor. MICHELLE turns to see his uncle tumble out of the ring. He runs at NEMESIS and hammers him with a hard forearm. Before he can follow up, CRAY and MANAJ dive on MICHELLE and assault him with hard punches and kicks. MICHELLE fights bravely, but is overwhelmed by the tag-team champions. MANAJ and CRAY hold MICHELLE as NEMESIS REX slides a steel chair into the ring. Mustang Peter calls for the bell a second time and goes over to the ring announcer.**

RING ANNOUNCER: “Ladies and gentlemen, the referee has reversed his decision due to unsportsmanlike conduct. Your winners of this match as the result of a disqualification, Michele and Zhane Lautrec!”

** Nemesis Rex positions the folded chair on the mat and beckons for the champions to feed him the helpless LAUTREC. ALPHA OMEGA shove MICHELLE toward REX, who positions him in a familiar headlock over the menacing steel chair.**

BLOOMFIELD: “Oh my! Nemesis Rex wouldn’t dare! He’s poised to deliver the Unkindest Cut directly on that steel chair! He’s going to end that young man’s career!”

**Suddenly, YACOB LAUTREC slides into the ring, brandishing a shinai. The fierce young man runs toward NEMESIS REX and blasts him with the shinai in the head! REX falls to the mat and rolls out of the ring, holding his face in agony.**

BLOOMFIELD: “Ladies and gentlemen! Yacob Lautrec is in the house and he is furious! Folks, this young man is NOT medically cleared to be in this ring but he is here nonetheless! He is clearly finished watching these dastardly men wreck havoc on his family!”

**YACOB wheels around and swings wildly at MANAJ, who ducks the first swing, but is caught hard on the thigh with the second. Just then, ZHANE LAUTREC slides in the ring, holding his shoulder. He rushes CRAY and spears him hard to the mat. As CRAY rolls out of the ring, MICHELLE LAUTREC rises to his feet in fury and nails BOKRUG MANAJ with a stiff knee that sends him spilling between the ropes to the floor. NEMESIS REX helps the tag team champions to their feet and the villains back up toward the entrance ramp. In the ring, THE LAUTRECS raise their arms in defiant victory, as YACOB and MICHELLE make a ‘belt’ gesture around their waists.**

BLOOMFIELD: “The Lautrecs have CERTAINLY made a statement tonight! It may be too early to tell folks, but Yacob Lautrec appears to be back! And that means that the Lautrecs and Alpha Omega may indeed meet at King of Deathmatch!”