~𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑛~ (a rhea Ripley X fem reader story)

Summer slam!!!

SAT 30TH JULY 2022

Summer slam. Our championships were on the line and Rhea was severely under prepared, I was pissed. If we lost because she wasn't ready I was going to be livid, and I can't guarantee I won't do something stupid. We had worked too hard to get this far and I wasn't ready to give that up, not quite yet. I was sat on a storage box, backstage, waiting for Demi to join me, I was in my gear, my hair had been styled, my makeup had been done and I was ready to face the challengers, but I wasn't 100% that she was ready. 

(darker purple though)

After waiting, staring, cherishing every last moment with that championship my wife came over to me and took me by the hand, tensions had risen between us again, and it began to show, but I avoided arguments between us, for Ben's sake. "are you ready?" she asked, shooting me a soft smile. "Are you?" I replied, jumping down from the crate and heading to the gorilla. I stood in the gorilla, unable to sit still due to me nerves, and then I was cued in. The intro to my song began to play but stopped after a moment, so rhea could join me.

We walked down to the ring as a team, the results of the match would determine whether we left as a team or not. "I'll take the ring" I said, shaking myself down. "but what if-" "I'll. take. the ring." I knew what I wanted to do, I didn't care who my opponent was, I would take them out. I watched as the challengers made their way to the ring, Raquel stepping in, and Aliyah taking the apron. Game on. 

For the most part I lead the match, taking out all my frustration on Rodriguez. But eventually, she caught up, and my train of offence was stopped, Her foot clocked my jaw and I fell to the canvas. I was pretty stunned by it, it came out of nowhere, she pinned me, but I pulled my shoulder into the air at the last second, I reversed her pin into an armbar, and she already had an injury on her arm so this was really just making it worse. Just as she was about to tap, just when I thought I had won this match, Aliyah's entire bodyweight crashed onto me, breaking the submission I had made. We simultaneously tagged out partners in and rolled out of the ring, I couldn't stand, and dropped into the barricade. The more I waited, the longer I took to recover, the more anxious I became. And I had reason to be, when I managed to stand up rhea was in a pin, she managed to kick out but was a millisecond away from losing. I tagged myself back in, and sprang into a hurricanrana, I knew that wasn't enough to put her away, so I pulled her up in attempt at a suplex. She countered into her own, but as I neared the canvas I reversed into a neck breaker. I picked her back up and surprisingly, pulled off the suplex that I attempted earlier before rolling her up. I thought I won, but the ref wasn't counting, her foot was on the ropes, I yelled out in frustration, and resolved my issues with an uncontrollable ground and pound. 

I was done, I couldn't stay in this ring, so even though she was recovering, I tagged rhea in. She unwillingly stepped into the ring and immediately ran into Raquel's spear, after kicking out of the pin she drop kicked Raquel and pulled her into the prism submission. After an eternity of struggle, Raquel rolled through and launched rhea into the turnbuckle. Somehow, and I have no idea how, Rodriguez powered Rhea into a Tejana Bomb, before I could interfere, Aliyah pulled me off the apron and Kicked my jaw, I fell back against the steps and to seal the deal, she performed a hip attack on me against the steps, forcing my back deep into the steel. I hear a count of three and hoped, prayed that Rheas theme would play, but I knew that there was no point in doing that, Raquel's theme rang through the arena and our titles, my title, that I had worked so hard to get was ripped from me. Before I could process my loss, the new champions left the ring, leaving only me and Rhea. I climbed back into the squared circle "what was that?!" I exclaimed, pissed off about the loss. I bit my lip and waited for an answer, only to receive a sigh from her, she reached out to me, in attempt to console me, but I swatted her hand away. I shook my head and left without allowing her to explain, if I stayed in the ring with her any longer it would end badly, for both of us. I headed backstage, and broke down, I was trying to force the tears back but I was failing, that wasn't teamwork, it could've been, but it wasn't, and that's what hurt the most. Some of the others, like Bianca and liv tried to ask me if I was okay but I just pushed past them, I headed to the locker room, I got changed and left without a word. Any interviewers that attempted to ask me questions were ignored and I went home. On my drive home I watched my phone ring multiple times, all by the same person, Demi, but I didn't want to talk. I had no reason to. I wanted to blame her for everything but I couldn't, because it wasn't her fault that we lost, in reality she was just doing her job, following orders and demands and I let my envy get the better of me, I knew she was nearing her decision but that didn't matter anymore. I knew what I had to do...