Chapter 51: No Disqualification Tag Team Match: A Restart!
"Shit! Shit!! Shit!!!"
"Holy Shit!!!"
For the first time in his life, Arnold went crazy. In his eyes were sparking dark flames burning crazily as if like a furnace. While most of the fans objected and protested about the great mistake of the referee, it was already too late.
Perhaps...
"Here are your winners, Thane Ryder and Justin Reed!" The announcer, somehow, seemed to have been clueless about the event. If not for the commentators, the flow of cluelessness would have spread through the ringside as well, and even forty percent of the fans didn't realize what had happened...
With a frustrated yet raged look on his face, Arnold swung himself into the ring, walking up to the referee right after.
"What have you done?! What did you just do, huh???!" Arnold placed his right hand on his forehead.
"What... What do you mean? He pinned him to the count of three! The match is over!" The referee made an "over" signal as he spoke with a bellow, moving to the side.
Truth be told, upon hearing him spill out those words, Arnold had the urge to punch the referee in the face.
Not just a simple punch... He wished he could make him suffer from a knockout punch.
However, he was a wrestler who wasn't playing against the fans. Although the referee might have been clueless and inattentive, he wouldn't need to be punched in the face. Arnold knew that he could get attacked by the fans if he executed such an act. He didn't want to mess his reputation up... At least not now.
"You fucking made an illegal count. Justin Reed should be the one in the ring to pin my partner in that case!" Arnold tried to explain to the short skinny-head man clad in the black up-and-down attire of a Grindhouse Wrestling referee.
However, no matter how he tried to convince him, the referee was never going to drop his point of view. This added to Arnold's frustration, but it was clear that he had no choice.
Staring down at his friend lying on the mat, Arnold couldn't help but grimace.
'Too weak...'
It was certain that even if it was Justin Reed who had been in the ring, it would have been the same case. In fact, it would have been a clear, legal win.
Bobby Crimson disappointedly appeared to be someone who couldn't confront Thane Ryder one-on-one. It started when they fought around the display screen at the entrance area last week. Thane Ryder almost sent Mark (Bobby Crimson) through a table... Thanks to Arnold who fortunately turned the opportunity against Thane.
Now, Bobby had been defeated again.
'I thought you wanted to avenge me, why make me fail...'
Arnold felt a small flow of heaviness in his heart, as it was already turning out that he would be getting his first loss. Although he wasn't the one who was pinned, as it was a tag team match and his opponent was pinned to the third count, it was still considered a loss for him.
Basically, judging by the rules.
...
It only took a minute before the sudden appearance of another referee from the locker room ignited the arena once more.
This referee, clad in the same attire as the skinny-head one in the ring, dashed into the ring after a run from the entrance.
Upon entry, he approached the other referee with an alarming look on his face, gasp after gasp, his countenance was giving a hint of his message before he could even say it.
"It's an illegal count... Justin Reed is legally to be in the ring with Bobby Crimson. You are ordered to restart the match immediately!" The referee notified his comrade and left the ring after several repeats.
At that instant, a smile of hope emerged from Max Fury's face. He heard it loud and clear...
The match must be restarted immediately!
Ding Ding Ding!
Just upon the third sounding of the bell, Arnold rushed out of the ring, dragged Justin Reed, and threw him into the ring. It had been a while since he had sent him against the stairs, but one could still sense the flow of pain in Justin Reed's reactions to Max Fury's moves.
He never wanted to lose the match after all, so he tried standing up to face Bobby who was totally on his feet at that moment.
With Justin in the ring but yet visibly too weak to confront Bobby at this moment, Thane only had one choice in mind. Since this was a no-disqualification match, he could actually attack Bobby in the ring to turn the favor to their side.
However, it was so bad that Bobby didn't repeat the same mistake he made that caused them the match lately. While he switched his direction to Max Fury's only male friend, a jaw-shifting superkick welcomed his face.
Falling like a tree taken down by intense wind, Thane Ryder was out. Now, It was only Justin Reed who was standing staggeringly in front of Bobby with a faint look on his pale face.
"Hey, bro. Common, tag me now," Max Fury whispered from behind, asking Bobby to tag him.
Looking back, Bobby didn't take a second to hesitate before tagging Max Fury in. This time, he was in a real wrestling ring with his old friend, his cruel and pathetic roommate at Rising Impact University.
Cheers kept the arena in an uproar, but it wasn't getting any boring anymore. This was the moment everyone wanted to see to the end.
The sweet, satisfying end...
"You have shown me the quantity of your cruelty and jealousy, Ben. And I'm grateful for that. Without you showing it to my face, I wouldn't have known how much a damned demon that you are. Thank you," Arnold spoke while he stood about four meters away from Justin.
"I hate you, Max. With all my life, soul, and body... I hate you so much... I can't let you surpass me! Never!" Yet faintly, Justin kept pouring out his feelings.
Arnold chuckled as a reaction to his great confession, nodding his head positively.
"I know you hate me, old friend," he paused for a while and sighed. "And that is why is despise you, Ben!!!"
With the last word coming out of his mouth, Arnold charged at Justin Reed, delivering a superkick on his belly. Justin who couldn't realize it until he saw himself kneeling on the mat, shrugged in pain, glints of shock and amazement lurking in the corner of his eyes.
Just again, Arnold had proved that he was no longer the Max Fury he knew in Rising Impact University.
Justin Reed was actually looking at a monster!
With Reed on his knees, what could have been next if not for the incredible and unnatural knee strike?
Without a second wasted, Max Fury went ahead and launched Sorrowful Kiss against his former roommate, causing him to succumb to the temporal feeling of unconsciousness.
With a satisfied smile on his face, seeing that Ben had received good revenge for what he did to him, Arnold covered and requested a count.
"ONE. TWO. THREE!"
Ding Ding Ding.
Standing up on his feet with a victorious smile, the announcement of his victory was whispered loudly in the vibrating arena...
Max Fury... Max Fury...
Another victory yet again...
Max freaking Fury.