San Diego, California
Jet City South
Present Day
My journey had taken me back to Jet City South and to the place where it had all begun for me. The past year I had been spending most of my time training in Long Beach at Long Shots. I had always enjoyed the time spent with Anthony Dawkins and being at the place that had made my wife Courtney Pierce. I know that Krystal Wolfe breaking my arm had really did me in. I had so much time in trying to comeback from what Wolfe did that the priority was mostly on that of revenge. I had started to lose sight of what truly made me. It had shown in my wrestling as I was dropping matches left and right without any signs of getting back to form. I didn’t want to believe what Julianna and Andrea had said. Maybe I am worthless. Perhaps I am not worth the roster spot or what I did in that Blast from the Past tournament all of those years ago was nothing more than a fluke. How else could one explain my downfall and my regression to not even being a top tier athlete anymore, in my mind I know that shouldn’t be the case? However I can’t deny that there is some truth in what those women have been saying. Andrea thinks it was my lost to her that broke me, others might think it was when Krystal Wolfe broke my arm.
There are others who have other ideas when it comes to me. There is one truth to all of this though, and it’s the fact that there is something wrong with me. So with all of those thoughts racing through my mind every day I had no choice but to go back to where it all started for me. I knew I had to return to Jet City South. I walked through the doors of the gym and it is there where I could see so many different wrestling hopefuls giving everything they had to become something. My eyes instantly lit up. I couldn’t help but reminiscence when I was merely twenty three years ago and doing everything I could to train under Mikah to prove that I belonged. She never made it easy for me and nor did I ever want to get to where I am because of my last name. I wanted to be the best one in the room simply for my talents. I continued to walk through the gym and that is when I caught my cousin Diamond Steele working as hard as she could. I took a long deep breath before I walked up to her with a smile on my face.Prudence: Kate, I see you are working hard. Didn’t take you as the type to work as hard as you do, to be honest I thought you might have been somewhere else considering that your wrestling career isn’t going as good as it could be.
Diamond: That’s ironic considering you are the one that’s in trouble. I am shocked to even see you here. I thought that you would have been in Long Beach training with your wife at her old gym. You seemed to be more a Long Shots girl…
I just looked back at my cousin as she never broke her stride in her training. It didn’t matter that I was standing in front of her. She was too deep into her workout regimen that she wouldn’t let me slow me down.Prudence: I thought that was what was best for me too but I realized that the more I stayed in Long Beach the more I was ripped away from what made me simply me. I am going to be honest. When Krystal Wolfe broke my arm I thought that was the absolute end of my career. I know the whole situation became a big issue with my firing from SCW. I didn’t know if I would even be allowed back. Management agreeing for me to come back through the doors as a manager was fun but I always had more of an itch then that…
Diamond: That surprises me considering you had so much fun helping Courtney do whatever it took to keep her championship.
Prudence: Well I do love my wife but the more I think about everything is the more I realize that perhaps I was ruining her legacy. Let’s be honest, as fun as all of that was. Courtney never needed me to win any of those matches. She had more than enough ability to do so by herself. I may have helped put the Internet Championship around her waist, but she beat Roxi by herself, she won her Blast from the Past by herself, and I merely just got in the way and caused people to be more upset with her. She would have been better off without me there.
It had pained me to say that but after examining everything over the last few weeks or maybe months it felt great to get that off of my chest. Kate however just glanced deeply into my eyes. Somehow none of this really surprised her. She could only offer a grin in return as she didn’t even break the stride of her workout for my sincerity.Diamond: It looks like somebody is actually thinking logically for a change. I was wondering when you were going to snap to your senses. I know you love your wife and I will be among the first to say that I respect Courtney. She is an amazing athlete and I am sure she is an even better wife to you. Just because you are married to her that doesn’t necessarily mean you have to automatically have to force the fact that you are married to get people to understand that you love your life. I can tell from that look on your face that all of this is starting to get to you. I know it must be frustrating that you are losing so much.
Prudence: Of course it’s frustrating. It’s annoying, it’s ridiculous, it’s just so totally O….Obnoxious….
Kate could read me like a book. I guess that’s part of us being as close as we were and having the same Steele blood running through our bodies. I couldn’t even bring my eyes to look at her face to face but that’s when I found her hand grabbing my arm. The same arm that had been broken by Krystal Wolfe, her grabbing me caused me to gently lift my eyes up until I was looking at her. For the first time she I had arrived in the gym she had finally stopped her workout routine as she glanced back at me.Diamond: I could call you by Prudence but we both know that even though that’s your name, that isn’t the woman that you identify as. Ruby Steele you want to know what the real problem is?! You are still trying to hold onto that injury to Krystal Wolfe like it is the end of the entire world but it’s not. It honestly is just the mere beginning. Just from the two of us having this conversation I could tell that you are trying to hold yourself back and THAT’S why you haven’t been winning. You are trying to hold it in but dammit you can say it. I know you want to SAY IT!!!
Prudence: No! I am not going to say that WORD Kate. That’s not who I am anymore….
Kate however shook her head at me as she continued to grill me. She took a long deep breath as she spoke some more.Diamond: Ruby who are you fooling because it certainly isn’t me?! THIS Prudence Pierce shit isn’t you. In the same way that I might be Kath-Lyn Steele but when in the bloody have I ever went by that name?! People have always called me Kate or even Diamond. You are so attached to Courtney that you are trying so too damn hard to be her and that’s not you. You don’t need to change who you are just to force something that you aren’t… That in itself would be TOTES OUTRAGEOUS!!!!
My eyes become watery as Kate says that word. Outrageous it felt so weird to hear somebody else say it but deep down it had been so long since I said it. it’s a word that felt naturally made to be mine, and lately I have been trying so hard to run away from Ruby that I forgot what made me who I am beneath the surface.Prudence: It is OUTRAGEOUS!!! It is OUTRAGEOUS! You want to know what else is OUTRAGEOUS?! It’s crazy to hear people think that I don’t have what it takes to actually win a match anymore, it’s also crazy to have people tell me that me becoming the Blast from the Past winner all of those years ago is a fluke. What’s even more outrageous is the fact that I actually verbally got submitted and tapped out to Bea Barnhart. I have nothing against her but I know I am so much better than that. I have always been better than that and I just need to find a way to bring it back out.
Diamond: You always knew of the way but I feel you were too stubborn to come back. The truth is you were never meant to be a Long Shot Ruby. I know Anthony Dawkins might be an amazing man, and he might have had a huge impact on the early makings of Courtney Pierce but that doesn’t mean that you need to walk in her steps to become Prudence Pierce when Ruby Steele was fine as is. Sure she might have been a little over the top and excited but when you were yourself you were winning matches. On top of that Courtney started to really take off when she became a member of Jet City Sports Labs, anyone can see that as clear as day that this is the place that she truly calls home.
Kate looks right into my eyes as she can’t help but nod her head in appreciation as she continues to share her heart.Diamond: All of this traveling between Long Beach and San Diego isn’t doing you any good. You belong to be in Gem Stone manor and you need to bring your wife with you. There’s no place like home, and home should be where the heart is, and I know your heart is here with us. It’s in San Diego; it’s with the band and the rest of the girls. Most importantly it’s right here in this gym and being a full fledge participant at this gym.
Prudence: Well what about Courtney and how she feels?! She is loving Long Shots and…
Diamond: I know you want to really hold onto everything your wife says and does, but if she truly loves you and wants the best for you. She wouldn’t hesitate to come back to San Diego. After all last time I checked you were the one that was fully active and she is the one managing you. Right now you she needs to support you and your goals. She has experienced her time in the sun but now it’s time for you to shine bright and to really sparkle like the Gem Stone that you were always meant to be.
I look back at Kate before I nod her head in agreement. No matter how much I wanted to look past what she said or put it behind me. I couldn’t help but agree that there was truth to her words. This was my home. Jet City had always been home. It was within these walls where I learned how to wrestle. It was in this building where I worked as hard as I could with Mikah and she taught me to be the best woman I could be. Most importantly if it wasn’t for Jet City South I may have never met my wife Courtney Pierce. It felt good to be home. There was no denying that any longer.Prudence: I am a Gem Stone… Thank you Kate for helping me realize what is the most important thing. I will get back to what’s important, and who knows… Maybe just maybe Ruby might have to reappear and it would be totally OUTRAGEOUS if she didn’t…
Diamond: In due time. For now just focus on what’s important and focus on being yourself.
I smirk as I grab my cousin and embrace into a long passionate hug. Maybe visiting my old stomping grounds is what I needed. Maybe just maybe this visit could whip me back into shape. One thing was for sure. It definitely felt good to be back.
Hello SCW Faithful…
I feel like I have so much to get off of my chest and I will be the first to admit that this return to SCW hasn’t gone exactly the way that I wanted it to go. There’s been a piece of me that is still holding onto what Krystal Wolfe did to me. I see this image of her breaking my arm over and over again. I know it happened so long ago and I don’t know if I am to believe that Krystal was taken over by Sin when she went crazy and broke my arm.
The reality is that is the ONLY reason that ran through my mind. I did go on to get even when I got that big win over Krystal Wolfe and that was really the last time that we have heard from her but it really didn’t fill in the void that had been missing in my life. Retribution felt good for a moment but nothing else about my career had returned to where I wanted it to be.
In 2021 I was on top of the world. I came into SCW and I immediately climbed to the top of the rankings. I had beaten everybody that was placed in front of me. I went undefeated and even pulled out a massive upset that beating Roxi Johnson in the middle of the ring. I went on to win the Blast from the Past and I was primed to be the next biggest thing in all of SCW.
The spotlight was all me and I was staring down Amber Ryan with the chance to become the World Bombshell Championship just a few months into my career. It was supposed to be MY moment and with the entire world watching and every eye on me I folded. I didn’t get the job done against Amber and I was embarrassed.
In the same way I had a one on one match with Andrea Hernandez and she should me that my entire rise had equated to me being nothing more than a fraud. I lost some key matches and it’s annoying that I can’t even get on social media without having to hear Julianna DiMaria telling the world that nobody expected me to be in the finale of a little tournament. Nobody expects anything of me and I am the walking epitome of a joke.
I didn’t want to believe it but I knew I hit rock bottom when Bea Barnhart had submitted me in front of the whole world. It doesn’t any lower than that and I know that I am a better wrestler than that. All of this has made me question if I was even good to begin with. Maybe my rise to the top in 2021 was all bullshit to begin with considering that year I started off teaming with Daniel J. Morgan and due to certain reasons he got replaced with Mark Cross which guaranteed me my spot in the finals and as a winner.
I thought that being married to one of the greatest women to have come from Jet City in the form of Courtney Pierce would have rubbed off on me and that would equate to me having talent. That wasn’t even the case either as if anything I dropped more matches than I could even count.
It’s a lot to take in and after doing some soul searching and glancing at things from afar Prudence Pierce has been a joke. She isn’t good, and was never good to begin with. I can’t expect my wife’s successes to become my own because we are separate people.
That’s when it all had dawned on me. The biggest problem is in all of this is that I haven’t been myself and it’s very important that I go back to the very core of the basics. I know you all might not want to hear it after subjecting you all to months upon months of the bullshit.
At the end of the day this entire run has been nothing short than…. OUTRAGEOUS…
Shakespeare said it best when he said that a Rose by any other name would still just as sweet. In order words it doesn’t matter how much I try to escape it but at the end of the day. Prudence Pierce might be the legal married name but at the very core my name is RUBY STEELE and it would be OUTRAGEOUS if I ever tried to deny that fact. I am not a fluke nor have I ever been one.
I realize that I might have been in a slump and all of the people in SCW might have seen me at my lost within this year but it’s now to claw through the rankings and showcase what I am like when I am at my best. It’s time to get back to the woman that I was back in 2021 and showcase to the world that I am the brightest thing to have come from Jet City South. There’s still so much more to this story and I refuse to fade away and become nothing.
I refuse to listen to the constant bullshit that DiMaria tries to preach about me being a joke and it’s officially time to change the narrative and prove to everybody that I am indeed as good and as great as I say I am. This special Christmas holiday edition of Climax Control is the perfect time to turn it around. After I win this triple threat match I will have cement myself in a match at Inception 7 for the right to be the Roulette Champion and I won’t let anybody or anything get in the way of me holding my first ever championship in SCW.
I know I can pull it off. I just need to showcase my confidence and let my wrestling ability do the rest. However to get to Inception I need to get past two individuals to showcase that I deserve to be in that match. The first one standing in my way is Bea Barnhart.
I am going to be honest. Bea Barnhart got the better of me in our last match. I didn’t take things seriously and she picked me a part. I had no business in losing that match and I feel ashamed that I even have a lost against her. I don’t know what it is but Bea has always managed to have dominated a Steele. It was against my cousin Diamond that she had beaten to become a Mixed Tag Team Champion, and she just pulled off a win against me not too long ago to showcase that she could a win off every now and then.
Good fucking job Bea… You got the best of me but I have a feeling that things are going to be so much different in this outing. For starters I am actually giving a bloody hell so that makes things different on that principle alone.
It’s easy to tear apart a woman who isn’t passion about something but I have had a change of heart since our last encounter. I am in this for the long haul and I am not going to rest until I am staring down a chance for the Roulette Championship. It’s all I ever wanted when I first came to SCW and I am going to do everything in my power to get what I want. I know you have the ability to win if the luck catches up with you but the difference between last time and this time is the simple fact that I am actually showing up.
I am here and am ready for a fight. I am not overlooking you and that’s what will make me dangerous. I sense a Ruby Tuesday in your future and perhaps based on whatever might be in store for this match I will make sure that you are the one tapping out for the entire world to see.
However as much as I would love to just focus on Bea the truth is there is a more dangerous foe to worry about in this match in the form of Bobbie Dahl. Bobbie is always a threat and she is one of the biggest women in all of SCW.
Bobbie has been known for some controversial things whether the type of bikinis she wore on those cruises during Summer XXXtreme among other things. Looking at things from afar I know that people are obviously going to look at her as the odds on favorite to win this match.
She was a Roulette Champion at one point and held that title for about five months until Alexandra Calaway took the title back from her. I know Bobbie would love to do everything in her power to get back to a position to where she could be a champion again. She would love to be the Roulette Champion especially after getting embarrassed at High Stakes.
Hell I bet Bea would actually like to be in a position to showcase that she isn’t a complete waste of space. As great as all of that sounds there is one woman in this match that wants this more than anybody else.
I feel like I deserve to get this win, hell I need this win. I have been not living up to my potential for so long. People are starting to lose faith in what I could do as a wrestler or even as a person and it’s time to quickly change all of that narrative.
I know winning one match won’t make all of my failures go away but it damn sure would be a step in the right direction of proving that I can be taken seriously. I know I am walking into a situation where I am among the smallest woman in the match but none of that fazes me.
The ONLY thing that should matter is that wrestling is in my blood. It’s part of my family’s legacy and I have to do everything I can to live up to the name Steele.
If you didn’t know by now it’s time to make things seem completely OUTRAGEOUS. It’s time to bring that woman back from 2021. It’s time to be myself and let Ruby Steele do what she does best, and that’s win.
This is the road to redemption, and I will forge my way into being a major part of Inception. The story changes on Sunday, and nobody will ever be laughing at Prudence “Ruby” Steele-Pierce ever again.
Overlooking me and assuming that I won’t be in that Roulette match at Inception is a notion that is completely OUTRAGEOUS…
DiMaria… I hope you are watching because after I win, I won’t be a fucking joke anymore… I guarantee that much…
