Damage.

[Tara Fenix]

The scene opens up inside of a home where all we see are a lot of boxes packed up... The sound of tape being stretched out can be heard before the camera does turn to see Tara taping another box shut; Alex Jones and Kyle, better known as Falcon, are seen carrying a couple of the boxes out while Tara's oldest son is seen sitting on the couch with his younger brother held securely in his arms. In one of the corners of the room, we see Jennie as she appears to be completely torn apart, knowing the pain that she put on her own sister by agreeing to do what Doc had asked of her. As soon as Tara finished taping the box in front of her shut, she reached into her pocket and pulled out her Galaxy S4 --- with her eyes locked on the screen for a few moments, she brings the phone to her ear as it starts ringing. One ring... Her breathing becomes heavier, almost as if anticipating the person on the other end to pick up. Second ring... She lowers her head and her hair surrounds her before she swipes it back. Third ring, this one lasts a full second longer than the first two but there's still no one. The fourth ring comes and goes as she's transferred to the voicemail. You could see the anger building up inside of her, but she managed to keep her tone under control... however, she did stutter some before finally finding the words.

Tara:
"I... Angel. I'm sorry. I should've given you a chance to explain everything... Please call me back whenever you get this. I love you."

She hangs up the phone and her head lowers in despair. Her eyes start tearing up before she places the phone on the box and lifts her head up --- her eyes land on her younger sister, and she immediately scowls her. Jennie looks away in shame for a moment but finally musters the strength to step forward and attempt to comfort her sister.

Jennie:
"Tara, I know---"

Tara:
"Stop."

Jennie:
"Please..."

Jennie falls to her knees across from Tara, who refuses to make eye contact with her. Her arms are folded on the box and her hands are clenched into fists.

Jennie:
"Tara... What we did was wrong---"

Snapping at her sister for speaking, Tara lunges forward and grabs her around the neck and pushes her back against the nearest wall. Her grip tightens a little bit as she is beginning to choke Jennie and Jennie has a look of fright in her eyes --- she has the ability to at least defend herself from her sister, but knowing what her and Doc had done was wrong, she can't bring herself to fight back.

Tara:
"Why? Why did you do it, Jennie? Why did you let Doc talk you into it?!"

Tears are filling Tara's eyes and she pushes Jennie harder against the wall and can see her facing starting to turn blue... Coming in at the right time, Alex Jones escorts both Aaron and Edward outside, away from the violence, as Kyle hurries over and pulls Tara away from Jennie.

Tara:
"You have no idea what you put me through! And for what?!"

Kyle pulls Tara back and holds her so she can't lash at Jennie, again.

Kyle:
"Tara... She knows what she did was wrong. I know that it's hard to forgive for something like this, but try..."

Tara:
"I can't. Not now."

Jennie bites her bottom lip and looks away. She mutters the two words that don't get across to Tara.

Jennie:
"I'm sorry."

Immediately after saying those words, Jennie rushes upstairs where her bedroom is... all we hear is the door slamming shut before Kyle allows Tara to walk free. She takes a couple of steps forward and looks down at her phone that is on top of the box. Kyle walks over to another one of the boxes on the ground and bends down to lift it up. After getting a firm grip on it, he looks over at Tara.

Kyle:
"Did you reach Angel?"

All Tara can do is shake her head, but Kyle still manages to smile.

Kyle:
"Don't worry... He's going to have to be at Sacrifice, right?"

There's no reaction from Tara from that comment, but Kyle walks the box out to the moving van where we see Alex Jones peering back in to make sure that everything is okay for the children. Aaron and Edward are both laying in the grass. Tara looks back at the phone and lifts it up, again; she brings it up to speak this time and allows the phone to ring --- it goes through the whole phase before finally going to the voicemail. Her voice is stern, clearly letting the anger out that she had kept bottled up while leaving the voicemail for Angel.

Tara:
"Doc... Chris... I don't know why you made the decision to ruin my life just to get to Angel... but it was the biggest mistake you've made. I'm going to make you pay for this. If it means that you never get to see your nephew again then I guess that will be it --- I don't care. You ruined your own sister's life... for what?"

Hesitating on hanging the phone up, she finally does and looks at the picture of her brother on her phone. Pops up every single time she makes a call to him or when he makes a call to her. It's there... gritting her teeth, she tosses the phone away and pounds her fist down onto the box before the scene goes out.

---

This week, I'm finally going to have a chance...

Amber, I don't want you to believe that I've forgotten about you. I heard about the challenge you've laid out to me and I'm going to address that really quick, just to make it clear to the world; I accept! You're going to see me at Legacy with my Ruby Championship on the line and all I'm going to say is... my belt... is coming home.

Ever since you won that belt, you haven't stopped running your mouth... You keep telling everybody about how much better you are than I am, how you defeated me to capture the belt, and even about how unstoppable you may be --- the books tell everything one way, but reality will tell everything the correct way. Do you know who I am? Do you know what I do to people like you? This event is called Legacy and I'm proud to say that I'm one of the few that's signed under a contract with IWF that has truly left a legacy behind on this industry! And the best part about it; my legacy continues... I'm willing to continue marching down to that ring, week in and week out, when I've done more than enough for this industry. When I've left everything I had inside that ring more times than I care to remember.

For what?

For my honor... for honor. For respect. For the right to stand in the middle of that ring with every fan in the arena chanting my name, and knowing that they are in the true presence of a legend! They are in the true presence of greatness...

I do have a question because I know I'm not the only one who goes down to that ring and fights for the same reason. Cable Arcane --- a man that you seem to fancy. Here's my question: What makes you think you have a chance? He steps inside the ring, week in and week out, for honor... to earn respect, to honor those that came before him and earn honor upon his own name. You, on the other hand, seem to disrespect everybody that you step into the ring with.

You're polar opposites. What makes you think he's going to see anything worthy in you?

I give credit where credit is due, Amber; I'm not taking anything away from you... When you won the Ruby Championship, I haven't made a big deal over the fact that it was Ashley that you pinned! You never pinned the champion! You never forced the champion to tap out! If my memory serves me right, it was actually me who planted Ashley with the Fenix Wings and you were the one who tossed me aside and stole my victory.

I give credit where credit is due.

You earned that belt, which is why you're the one walking around with it around your waist. It's just... when you run your mouth as much as you have, I can't wait to get my hands on you at Legacy. Great news for me: I don't have to. You see, it was announced that there was going to be match to take place at Sacrifice this Monday... the teams would consist of Ashley, Ayla, and I to take on you, Eternity, and Isabella Maldini... I don't care who it is that you have as your partners. You could have Jessica Reed, you could have Zelda Knite; you could even take Hillary Clinton... I'm marching down to the ring for one purpose. For one person.

That...

Is...

You.

You've already issued the challenge, and I've already accepted. I don't see why we should wait until Legacy... When that bell sounds, I want you to be standing on the opposite end of the ring as me to kick things off. If you truly believe you're better than me, then that's what we're going to see at Sacrifice. If you decide to hide behind your partners; I'm going to drag you into that ring and proceed to give you every reason in the book for why the Ruby Championship is going to come back to me.

While you're the reason that I'm marching down to the ring, you're not going to be my only opponent this Monday. You're going to have Eternity standing behind you as well as Isabella...

Eternity is someone who clearly has some issues. A very troubled past? I don't know... I don't take the time out of my day to really look into what happens, but I do find you to be an interesting individual. The troubled past is clear and I want to make it clear to you; I'm no stranger to troubled pasts... that's why I'm looking at you as if I were looking in a mirror. I see what I could have very well become --- a pathetic soul that focuses solely on the hard times in life rather than looking at the good things.

Pathetic.

I could have become that person who hides behind all kinds of dark make-up, looking for all the attention in the world to make people question... What have I been through? What drove me to the breaking point? But I didn't because I knew --- it just wasn't worth it. I became one of the greatest to ever step foot inside of the ring, I became a mother, I became a wife, I became a giver... I've done a number of things with my life, and I don't believe I would have done any of those things if I didn't go through the things that I've experienced.

I don't want you to get me wrong.

Everything that I've been through has caused great harm to me... it has caused me to feel a lot of anger. I found my way to relinquish that anger and move on with my life by stepping into that ring and laying it all out there! Maybe, just maybe, you can start doing the same... I still have that dark side that's a part of me. It's a side of me that not many people want to see, and the only ones who do, are the ones who have never seen it before. There are occasions where I am known to cross over --- that's when winning and losing gets completely thrown out the window. All that matters to me is... hurting... people...

It may be something that you enjoy. At first. After your first three minutes in the ring with me when I have that mentality, you're going to come to regret it. You're going to realize why everybody else who has seen that dark side of me never wants to see it, again.

Neither one of you are alone, though. You have one more person who is going to have your back --- and that person is Isabella Maldini. This is a person that I can really find myself to have a little bit more respect for because I do look at her and I see a lot of my own traits in her.

The siren.

A monster of Greek mythology that was known to lead sailors to their death... It's a symbol that we've both come to allow to represent ourselves. You know how to use your body to get what you want, just as I have. You know how to use it to keep people off their guard just long enough for you to capitalize, just as I have. Here's where the difference comes in, though; that's a skill that I mastered while I was stepping into the ring with men... it's a skill that helped me survive, and not only survive, but flourish.

It's a talent that is no longer of any use for me because there's a simple rule that prevents us from stepping into the ring with men. You can try it on women --- but it's not quite as successful... it may throw a curve ball to them, but you can throw all the curves you'd like at me and I'm just going to tell you right now that it's not something that I'm going to fall for.

You're not going to beat me with one of my own tactics.

Just as none of you are alone, I am also not alone --- I have Ashley and Ayla St. James stepping into the ring to be my partners.

Ashley, it was just a couple of weeks ago that you and I were stepping into the ring for a triple threat contest. The entire world saw exactly what happened on that night and it's something that you can't even deny; it was you that caused me to lose my Ruby Championship. Had it been just Amber and I stepping into the ring to face each other, I would have likely walked out with the belt around my waist. But we just had to throw in the wild card. Amber was able to capitalize on you, the wild card, and take my belt away from me...

You may think that I'm really angry over this. That's far from the truth... Ashley... these things happen. I'm not going to hold a grudge on you for losing my belt for me. After all, you were trained by Mike Laszlo. What should I expect? I should expect that you find yourself a better trainer --- I made this offer to you before, and I'll go ahead and make it again: If you ask me for help, Ashley, I will be more than willing to train you. I will be more than willing to help you step up and become a force to truly be reckoned with. All you have to do is say the word.

Regardless of what your decision is, I'm going to have to trust you... Unless we can both trust each other this Monday, there's no chance that we're going to walk out with our arms raised.

My other partner is Ayla St. James. Both of us go back a little ways --- we have some of the same friends... we hang out in the same crowds. It did eventually lead to us almost forming a trio out of what was you and Rayne as B-W-A. Things happened, though, and you decided that I wasn't going to be the best fit... I understand why; it was because you were on the pedestal that made winning and losing absolutely everything! It's a big portion, but it isn't everything.

Let's take a look at Xander Famularo; he signed his contract with IWF, and he didn't have a match to his name... he became the number one contender for the Heavyweight Championship and fought Xavier Cross. Didn't succeed... but he's now pushing all of Joe Everyman's buttons to battle for the Imperial Championship.

Winning and losing is not everything. There's something more important, but you have to choose your opportunity carefully... wisely... I told you about it before and I still stand behind these words. It's about sending a message. It's about making sure that the world knows your message and the people who are meant to receive it, do! That's where we disagreed. Luckily for you, there is a message that I would like to send this Monday... and that message involves us walking out with our arms raised as the winners.

It's a message meant for Amber Richards.

The message is simple:

I'm still standing.

I'm still breathing.

I'm still here.

I'm going to make you choke on your words, Amber. I'm going to make you pay for the words that you said to me, and more importantly; I'm going to make you regret challenging me... The price... is defeat. I'm not letting you walk out of the ring with your arm raised, Amber.

Ashley, Ayla and I --- we're going down to that ring for our own reasons. Whether it's to go after Eternity, or Isabella, or exactly what I want: Go after you. We all have a message that we would like to send... and the message will be delivered with our victory.