Exclusive Footage
The AWS logo briefly flashes across the screen before static distorts the picture.
"The following footage was captured after AWS Ignite went off the air."
The camera feed is shaky.
Clearly handheld.
Somewhere deep beneath The Crow's Nest.
Emergency lights cast an eerie crimson glow through the concrete corridors.
There isn't a word spoken.
Only the echo of slow footsteps.
The camera rounds a corner.
A procession of nearly a dozen hooded druids, their faces concealed beneath black cloaks, carry the limp bodies of AWS Women's World Champion Astra Mortis and Necra Octavian Kane.
Neither woman appears conscious.
Their arms hang motionless.
Their boots scrape the concrete floor.
The druids move with silent purpose toward an open loading dock leading into the arena's parking area.
Outside...
Two immaculate black Rolls-Royce hearses idle side by side.
Their polished bodies reflect the flickering neon lights of the Las Vegas graveyard.
The rear doors on both hearses slowly swing open.
The druids approach.
Just as they reach the vehicles...
Necra's eyes snap open.
A heartbeat later...
Astra's eyes open as well.
The druids freeze.
The silence becomes suffocating.
One hooded figure cautiously reaches toward Necra—
CRACK!
Necra explodes upward with a brutal elbow strike that drops the druid instantly.
At the exact same moment...
Astra surges to her feet and drives another druid headfirst into the side of one of the hearses with a thunderous impact.
Chaos erupts.
The druids swarm.
Necra catches one by the throat and launches them over her shoulder onto the concrete.
Another charges from behind.
She spins and levels them with a crushing clothesline.
Across the lot, Astra dismantles three attackers in rapid succession.
A thunderous boot to the chest.
A spine-jarring suplex onto the asphalt.
A devastating forearm that sends another hooded figure crashing into a stack of production crates.
The remaining druids hesitate.
For only a moment.
Then they rush both women again.
It proves to be a mistake.
Necra and Astra, moments ago locked in a war inside the ring, now fight with an almost uncanny synchronicity.
Without exchanging so much as a glance, they cover each other's blind spots.
One druid lunges at Astra.
Necra intercepts with a violent strike.
Another attempts to grab Necra from behind.
Astra cuts them down with a running knee.
Within moments...
The parking area falls silent once again.
The druids lie scattered across the pavement.
Breathing.
But thoroughly defeated.
Necra grabs one unconscious druid by the ankle and drags them toward the first hearse.
Without ceremony, she tosses the body inside.
Astra follows suit, lifting another druid and depositing them into the second hearse.
One after another...
The cloaked figures are loaded into the backs of the luxury hearses until both vehicles are completely full.
Necra slams one set of rear doors shut.
THUD!
Astra closes the other.
BANG!
Without a driver ever being shown...
Both hearses pull away from the loading dock.
Their taillights disappear into the Nevada night, swallowed by the glow of the surrounding neon graveyard.
For a brief moment...
Everything is still.
Necra and Astra stand several feet apart.
The only sounds are the distant hum of neon signs and the cooling engines of production trucks.
Their eyes lock.
No smiles.
No words.
No acknowledgment of the alliance that existed only moments earlier.
It is over.
In an instant, Astra charges.
Necra meets her halfway.
They collide with a deafening forearm exchange that echoes through the parking lot.
The fight spills into the backstage corridors.
Security personnel wisely scatter.
Equipment cases are shoved aside.
Road crates overturn.
Necra sends Astra crashing into a production table.
Astra retaliates by driving Necra through a stack of empty folding chairs.
The brawl surges through the loading dock, around lighting rigs, past camera operators, and back toward the arena floor.
Neither woman can gain a lasting advantage.
Neither seems willing to stop.
The final shot is captured from high above the entrance stage as Astra and Necra disappear into the maze of the venue, still exchanging heavy strikes beneath the flickering neon glow.
Their battle continues even as the cameras can no longer keep up.
The screen slowly fades to black.
AWS IGNITE appears one final time.
Then...
It's time for WARD!!!
