A little girl and her lollypop was standing there as she viewed the world in her tiny twelve year old eyes, sucking on the candy in a way that would be sensual if she had been ten years older, but looked very innocent on her at present.
She wasn’t the odd sight; he was standing next to her.
Standing 6’5 and nearly three hundred and fifty pounds with a thick beard and leather biker clothes and binoculars held to his eyes, one big man spied on his offspring and tried not to stand out while doing so. It took all his effort not to crush his binoculars in his hands.
There was his daughter Tina and that... BOY! He couldn’t come up with a word strong enough to describe the BOY with his daughter. But Bass Armstrong planned to set his daughter straight.
If one to ask why Bass wanted his daughter to become a wrestler he would answer with a tale of woe that one Genma Saotome would feel envy over.
When he married his wife he was the reigning champion of the world. As a wrestler he was the best, and took down opponent after opponent. And not in those ‘fake’ WWE promotions but ones were everyone left with bruises from beating each other silly. At that point he needed one thing.
A son to train and mold into an heir.
He got a daughter instead. Still he was happy, but still wanted the son he needed for an heir. But by the time Tina was three his wife had passed on and before she could bear another child.
After mourning he looked at his daughter. He had a daughter and no sons. He could not gain a male heir to the Armstrong legacy. No matter, he thought back then. He would make Tina his heir!
Hence on Tina’s fifth birthday Bass began training her into a wrestler!
They had arguments, like any family, and she always tested his authority, but in the end his dream was unfolding. A month after Tina became eighteen she started in woman’s wrestling and captured the spotlight and his pride. As she began to shine he finally ended his undefeated career as a wrestler by retiring. Nothing could be better.
Then the dream crashed down. Tina loved the spotlight wrestling provided her. However she didn’t want to settle for it and used the fame she gained by fighting in the second Dead or Alive tournament to bolster her name. She then quickly changed profession, from wrestler to model.
Bass was not a happy man. He tried to talk his daughter out of it but she refused to listen. Soon her face was in magazines on TVs, banners, and posters, EVERYWHERE! She even had her own Swimming Suit Calendar!
She was twenty-two when she entered the third Dead or Alive tournament and he had hoped she had seen reason and would go back to her true career, wrestling! Only to overhear her and her friend, Hiromi... Hifomi... something like that, talking and learned Tina’s TRUE plan.
She would catapult her fame like she did with the second tournament, this time to go to Hollywood and become an actress! Enraged he entered the tournament as well, to defeat her and force her out of the tournament!
They met during the tournament, tempers flaring as they battled. In the end, something happened that made him proud, angry and ashamed.
His daughter defeated him. She wasn’t unharmed, but in the end he had lost. He was proud that she surpassed him, angry she defied him, and ashamed for his undefeated record being broken, even outside a ring.
She didn’t win the tournament, that annoying Zack won and took off for Vegas. It annoyed him to no END that the most annoying, cocky, arrogant son of a bitch to walk the earth won the damn thing and bought himself an ISLAND! Apparently he built a resort and tricked all of the women in the DOA tournament to go there. Even if they were tricked there, they didn’t mind too much it WAS a tropical resort and Zack WAS paying for the whole thing.
The girls left, thankfully, before the volcano on the island erupted. No words yet on the status of Zack’s resort. Not that he cared.
Upon return from Zack Island Tina went across the world, ending up in Japan. He didn’t know how much time she spent there before he could follow, but it was too long for him. And when he caught up, she was kissing HIM! The BOY!
He waited until the boy left and followed him. Although he tried to go unnoticed it was power not stealth was his area. The boy confronted him, and he told him to stay away from his daughter.
The boy ignored him. He charged, ready to hospitalize him. It was a fight that he was sure he would win.
In the end the boy proved too much. He had left not with his daughter but with another defeat. It only boiled his anger further. Time and time and again he would confront the boy or his daughter or both and time and time and again it would end in failure!
But this time, THIS TIME! He was sure to win! He would make his daughter see the light.
He could see it now! His daughter standing tall in the ring, a belt of gold held over her head. Himself outside the ring beaming in pride! And best of all, no annoying, pigtailed, wretched, blasted, god-forsaken...
“Pardon Mister!”
“Hmm?” He looked down, way down, to the girl standing next to him. “Yes?”
The cute little girl smiled up to him. “Do you have another Lolly?”
Wrestling big tough guy sighed and kneel down, a hand fishing into his pocket and pulling out a red candy on a stick. “Here you go.”
“Thank you Mister!” She said beaming at him.
Bass sighed and saw his daughter and the boy walk away, and he quickly followed them while coming up with a plan.
Real bright plan Bass.
For that matter why does he have a pocket full of candy?
"BODY SLAM!"
"Bass, don't body slam the something else."
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