The typical disclaimer is shown, warning folks about piracy. As it fades out, the drum intro to “World on Sticks” by Sam Phillips begins to play. As it continues, video clips of all the participants for the Triad Challenge are shown in the ring. Then clips of all the confrontations between Sierra Silver and Angel Kusanagi are shown as well and finally it fades to the Triad Challenge logo. We see Elaine Bryant and Shelly Marks standing in front of the logo on stage.
Elaine Bryant: Welcome to the Triad Challenge. I’m Elaine Bryant and with me, Shelly Marks. We stepped you through the Triad Challenge and introduced you to all the competitors and now it’s time for the challenge to begin.
Shelly Marks: That’s right, Elaine. Tonight, 16 of wrestlings stars of the past, present, and future will converge to see who will win tonight’s tournament and win a shot at the Multiuniversal Championship, whoever that may be at the end of the night.
Elaine Bryant: That’s correct. Because besides all of our tournament matches, we have much anticipated Multiuniversal Championship rematch, pitting our current champion, Sierra Silver as she takes on the dangerous, unpredictable Angel Kusanagi in a rematch from the finals of the Tournament of Mystery.
Shelly Marks: We met all 16 competitors in the Triad Challenge during the pre-show, so there’s no need to delay any further. Let’s head down to ringside and the commentators for tonight’s show, the lovely Christine Donahue and Biff Franklin and we’d like to introduce our Ring Announcer for the evening, direct from Dream Wrestle in Japan, this is Madoka Kawada!
The bell rings.
Madoka Kawada: Thank you so much! A pleasure to be here! It’s time for the Triad Challenge! The following tag team match is a first-round contest for the Triad Challenge. Introducing first…
The lights go out, shrouding the arena in darkness as those opening beat to "Heart Of A Champion" bumps through the speakers. As soon as the guitar riff starts, the video wall comes to life with the BEHOLD THE KINGDOM banner while the back wall screen comes to life with a combined static and barbwire design.
Mic check, yo, man, fuck you
I got some coke in my sock and a couple rocks too
I got a bottle full of Ketel, drunk, pedal to the metal
Got some beef I gotta settle, but you gotta check the dentals
They don't like me? I make the music I want to
These divas fucking need us, man, worse than their heartbeat
They’re digging up my grave, but these bitches gotta pay
And the price of admission, it ain't never gonna change
It'll end when I say it ’cause you're wet when I spray it
And the more you fucking hate us, well, the more you'll fucking play it, bitch
As the lyrics to the song start, the video wall switches to images of a woman in a hooded sweatshirt, sitting in a chair with a barbwire baseball bat being held vertical under one hand, in between her knees. Her hand spins the bat like a top as the camera cuts around to different angles of her in the black and white video. The final clip shows a closeup of her lifting her cold, merciless eyes to the camera before the Kingdom banner fills the screen again.
I'm crossing out names
And no one is safe
I'll leave a rose on your grave
It's the dove and grenade
As “I'm crossing out names” is heard, a black silhouette walks out into view in front of the static barbwire image on the back wall. The silhouette turns towards the camera from the distance and steps out onto the stage, wielding the same bat seen in the video. The figure twirls the bat lazily once at their side before resting it over their shoulder. The lighting changes just enough to illuminate the figure, revealing none other than Morgan Payne! She stares down the ramp with coldness in her heterochromatic eyes, briefly glancing around at the audience.
I'm absent-minded mentally, slaughtering all my enemies
I'm murdering recklessly, bitch, these streets ain’t no Sesame
Another notch in my felony list, I’m not wasting energy on this
I'm gonna win, I’ll be honest, that's something I fucking promise
Godless so I'll take the charges, spotless is my fucking conscience
God, this is so fucking pompous like Congress if I was in office
God, I'm just so damn exhausted, novices making me nauseous
I’m gonna win, that's regardless, this ain't no place for the heartless
'Cause I live for the pain
The fight, the glory, the game
Morgan walks down to the ring intently but in no rush at all. The look on her face, cold and hard, never changes as she reaches ringside and ascends the steps before entering the ring over the middle rope. As soon as she’s in the ring, she brings the bat back up onto her shoulder and moves to a corner, climbing the turnbuckle and raises her bat overhead to the jeering audience.
I'm crossing out names
And no one is safe
I'll leave a rose on your grave
It's the dove and grenade
Compare me to none
Compare me to none
Compare me to none
I got the heart of a champion
Once she steps down, she sets her bat in the corner, throwing back her hood and removing her jacket, tossing it over the ropes to the timekeeper as she turns around, facing inside the ring and loosening up some.
Madoka Kawada: This is Morgan Payne! And her partner for this round…
Christine Donahue: Welcome everyone to the Triad Challenge. I’m Christine Donahue and with me, everyone's favorite grouch, “The Voice” Biff Franklin.
Biff Franklin: Look, I love me some Morgan Payne, but god damn does she take forever to get to the ring.
Lights Dim throughout the arena. A single orange spotlight fades in on the entrance. Jan van der Roost slowly walks out, a pair of orange gloves in one hand, a towel around his neck. He looks towards the ring, then walks ahead, with his head down. He stops, looks at his opponent or the referee, then heads to the steps. He slowly climbs the steps then stops at the corner. van der Roost places the towel on the turnbuckle, wipes his feet on the apron, and climbs through the ropes. He looks up towards the orange spotlight then puts the left glove on. The arena lights come up and he tosses the right glove into the crowd or places it below his towel.
Madoka Kawada: Welcome Jan Van Der Roost! And their opponents!
The lights turn off for a moment. The dueling guitar riffs from Simple Plan guitarists Sébastien Lefebvre and Jeff Stinco from their song “Last One Standing” as the screen reads “#Believe” in a light blue font. With a solitary spotlight on the top of the ramp, Adrien Cochrane appears the moment Pierre Bouvier’s vocals begin to echo throughout the venue. He has the HYBRID Evolution Championship belt resting on his shoulder, proudly displaying it.
“How many times are you gonna try to shut me out?
I told you once, told you twice, I ain't going to turn back around
You can say whatever, try to mess with me
I don't care, I'm not scared
You don't have to say you're sorry, save your sympathy
With a friend like you, I don't need an enemy
I would give you time if you were worth it
But guess what, you're not worth it”
Madoka Kawada: From New Orleans, Louisiana, weighing in at one hundred ninety pounds, he is "The Dropkick King" ...ADRIEN COCHRANE!!
Cochrane looks at the fans from the ramp for a moment, giving a smile as he makes his way down the ramp and to the ring, hitting as many high fives and fist bumps as he can on his way to his destination.
As Adrien leaps over the ropes to enter the squared circle and removes his black leather jacket to expose his #Believe shirt, he leans on the ropes with his fist in the air to the sound of the chorus. He then hands the belt to the referee for safekeeping during the match.
“Whoa-oh, whoa-oh, I'm always going to be the last one