"And of course, I intend to show you my skill and technique," Tiki said in response to Annie's declaration. Shortly thereafter, the bell was rung. Playing to her strength, the redhead was quickly trying to engage the veteran into a lockup. Tiki's face remained neutral, but she was internally raising an eyebrow at Annie's attempt.
Not a chance I'm going for that, Tiki thought at the sight of Annie's attempt to engage. Entering into a test of strength against somebody with the word 'Powerhouse' in their moniker was simply an act of thoughtlessness. The only possible justification for doing so would be if Tiki was expecting Annie to expect the veteran to go for something tricky, and then decided to try going the extra layer deeper and playing the position straight to outthink Annie in turn. But the opening moments of a match was far too early to be trying to go that deep with mind games.
So instead Tiki would go for some good ol' fashioned misdirection. She'd act as if she was going to accept the test of strength, but once the veteran was only a few inches away from locking up, she'd quickly shoot her right arm out and around Annie's hand, instead trying to grab the redhead's wrist. Then Tiki would push Annie's left arm down and in towards her body and try to come around onto the Lightweight's left side, which would be left near defenseless if the veteran could successfully bypass Annie's arm.
Tiki had been truthful when she said she wanted to experience Annie's strength for herself, but the veteran also knew that not letting the redhead show off her power was her safest option to win. So the veteran would go big right out of the gate to try to win before Annie even had the chance to get going, and it would not be gentle. As Tiki came around Annie's body, she'd make use of her height advantage to bring an elbow strike straight down onto the top of her opponent's red head to keep her too stunned to stop Tiki from going all the way behind her and continuing her attack.
Tiki would bust out a combination that she'd gone for before, and had found it effective enough to elevate to Signature Move status for the first time. She'd wrap her arms around Annie's waist, lift her up, and then slam her right back down crotch first onto her knee for an Atomic Drop. But where many stopped here, Tiki went a step further. Lifting the Lightweight back up again, the veteran would slam her backwards with a German Suplex. A combination that she had dubbed the Draconic Atom Bomb.
Yet again, where most wrestlers stopped, Tiki pushed further in the name of fighting as best as she could. The veteran didn't like the pin that you defaulted into after landing a German Suplex. She felt it didn't put enough weight on the victim and gave them too much bodily agency. Tiki had a few things that she liked to do from this position, but for this instance, the greenette would turn herself over and shifted her hands from Annie's waist to her thighs. Then Tiki would throw her body forward, her breasts sliding over Annie's butt and coming down on top of her thighs as the veteran's hands slid further up the Lightweight's legs, putting her into a Matchbook Pin. Annie's legs were dangling up over her body from the Suplex, but now Tiki had them pressed and folded down over the redhead's body properly with the Matchbook Pin. It was very early, but Tiki was hoping that the blows she had dealt to Annie's head and crotch would leave her too stunned and in pain to gather herself and fight out before the ref's count hit three.
"My apologies," she'd say.
"But I wouldn't be where I am today if I freely accepted tests of strength against women of your reputation and caliber."
