Unfinished Business | Matilda vs. Mitzi — Backstage Brawl

[Weonna]

Matilda Schröder

The show carried on elsewhere in the arena, the distant roar of the LAW crowd bleeding through the concrete walls as Matilda Schröder made her way through the backstage corridors alone.

For once, the German powerhouse wasn't looking for trouble.

Her gear bag hung from one shoulder as she walked past production crates and equipment cases, still dressed in her wrestling attire after finishing up for the evening. Yet despite the relatively quiet hallway, Matilda couldn't quite relax.

Especially after everything that had happened lately.

Mitzi Roth.

Their match. The humiliating aftermath. And then Matilda's retaliation during Rianne's match with Kirie—the moment she'd finally gotten some measure of revenge by launching Rianne with a German Suplex and physically keeping Mitzi from saving her new employer.

Matilda knew perfectly well Mitzi wouldn't simply forget that.

Still, she wasn't going to spend her nights looking over her shoulder.

“Verdammt… I need shower und then I go home,”

Matilda muttered, adjusting the bag against her shoulder.

“Enough drama for one night, ja?”

She rounded another corner—

—and stopped for half a second.

Something felt wrong.

The corridor ahead was unusually empty.

Matilda narrowed her eyes, slowly lowering the bag from her shoulder and gripping its strap in one hand. Her instincts were beginning to scream at her, but she continued forward anyway.

“...If someone is hiding back here,”

she called out, her German accent thickening with irritation,

“you might as vell come out now.”

Matilda rolled her shoulders and kept walking.

“Because I am not in mood for games.”

[Fairy Dragon]

It wasn't like Mitzi liked doing this...in fact it was fair to say she was angry as hell having too. But a partnership usually meant compromise and this was one of those compromises she'd have to make. Still this was one of the worst compromised she'd ever made....a free fight. One without a guaranteed paycheck or reward on the table before hand, having to earn her money in every possible way. So was the will of Rianne who silently ordered her to handle this matter herself or suffer the consequences after failing to stop Matilda from interfering and costing Rianne in her match with Kirie. Matilda had to pay for that, and since Mitzi's partnership started from her work on her that meant she was the only one for the job....fuck.

Spoiler

Mitzi had made the effort to plan this, if she was going to give out a free fight she was going to make sure that she had it all figured out in her head. Mitzi was around the corner on the way Matilda usually would go, meaning she'd walk right up to her and eventually fall into her trap, a painful starting attack. She figured that if she caught Matilda off guard she could end this quickly seeing as Matilda struggled against her when she was prepared to fight her. Her plans felt like they reached a hitch when Matilda seemed to sense she was being watched, warning her it was best to come out before she got angry. Mitzi clicked her tongue, annoyed that she was already found out. But if Matilda was still walking she could still pull it off, and stayed put waiting for Matilda to round the corner before coming out with a medicine ball in hand, without thinking she tossed the ball at Matilda to try and throw her off before rushing in and trying to tackle the redhead to the floor.