You Only Live Twice featured eight
professional wrestling matches involving different wrestlers from pre-existing
scripted feuds,
plots, and
storylines that will be played out on
Chikara's monthly
house shows and on blog entries written on the promotion's official website. Wrestlers will portray
villains (
rudos in Chikara) or
heroes (
tecnicos in Chikara) as they follow a series of events that build tension, and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches. Chikara follows
lucha libre traditions and is known for its colorful characters and
gimmicks and family-friendly content. Following June 2, 2013, and the
Aniversario: Never Compromise internet pay-per-view (iPPV), Chikara went inactive for a full year, following a storyline development, where the Titor Conglomerate, the storyline owners of the promotion, shut it down in order to cover their tracks regarding their dark past involving a paramilitary group named Condor Security. The Titor Conglomerate then supposedly put the Chikara brand, its related intellectual properties and remaining physical assets on sale, reducing the promotion to ashes. During the rest of the year, a group of Chikara wrestlers, led by
Icarus, began holding fan gatherings and "guerrilla events", trying to revive the promotion. This led to the Flood, a group of
rudos from Chikara's past, coming together and starting to shut down Chikara's several smaller sister promotions in order to destroy its final remnants. The storyline culminated on February 1, 2014, during the National Pro Wrestling Day, when the two groups collided. After the Chikara wrestlers had prevailed, Icarus announced that Chikara was coming back on May 25, ending the promotion's one-year-long hiatus. In storyline, the return was made possible by former Chikara wrestler
Robbie Ellis winning an auction and becoming the promotion's new owner. making it one of several Chikara shows to be held in 2014 named after
James Bond films. Tickets for the event were sold out within days with no roster or matches announced. On April 1, Chikara announced that You Only Live Twice would be broadcast live on iPPV through Smart Mark Video. As part of Chikara's return weekend, the promotion presented "LuchaBowl", a fundraiser for a local chapter of the
Make-A-Wish Foundation, on May 24 and "Expansion Pack", an interactive fan fest, before the iPPV on May 25. Also on May 24, Chikara's sister promotion Wrestling is Fun! (WiF!) presented the finals of the
2014 Tag World Grand Prix, a tournament held by Chikara from 2003 to 2013. On May 5, Chikara announced the first match for the iPPV, which would see
The Batiri of Kobald, Kodama and Obariyon take on
Sinn Bodhi and the Odditorium of Oliver Grimsly and Qefka the Quiet in a
six-man tag team match. The match is part of the big return storyline with The Batiri, longtime
rudos turning
tecnicos to represent Chikara, Bodhi and The Batiri remained together as the Dark Army until Bodhi left Chikara at the end of 2011, after finally getting his payment. You Only Live Twice marks the Odditorium's debut in Chikara. On May 8, Chikara announced the first title match for the iPPV, where
Eddie Kingston would defend the
Chikara Grand Championship against Icarus in a match "one year in the making". On June 2, 2013, Kingston and Icarus faced off in the main event of Aniversario: Never Compromise. In the weeks leading to the event, Icarus, once known as one of the most hated wrestlers in Chikara, turned
tecnico and, following the implosion of his F.I.S.T.
stable, began chasing the promotion's top title, held by Kingston, who in turn had begun showing signs of a
rudo turn. At the iPPV, Icarus had the match won, when Condor Security interrupted the match and shut down the event, leading to the one-year long hiatus. During the hiatus, Icarus was the leader of the group of wrestlers trying to bring Chikara back, Kingston and Icarus are both Chikara originals, with Icarus graduating from the promotion's first group of trainees and Kingston from the second in 2002. During Chikara's one-year hiatus, the promotion chronicled various storylines in a
YouTube series titled
Ashes. One of these storylines involved the tag team
3.0 (Scott Parker and Shane Matthews) going on a road trip to find
Archibald Peck, who, after taking a
Backfist to the Future from Eddie Kingston in May 2013, had supposedly been sent back in time to June 2012 to close a time paradox his earlier time traveling had caused. During the National Pro Wrestling Day,
Jimmy Jacobs, who had made some appearances for Chikara in the past, but was not a regular member of the promotion's roster, revealed himself as the leader of the Flood. One stable from Chikara's past included in the Flood was
Bruderschaft des Kreuzes (BDK), who had dominated Chikara after forming in November 2009, winning all of its major accomplishments. In storyline, BDK's formation was a direct result of
rudo UltraMantis Black trying to use "black arts" to elevate his Order of the Neo-Solar Temple to new heights. After originally trying to avoid BDK, UltraMantis was finally pulled into a feud with the stable in early 2010, after BDK dissolved the Order of the Neo-Solar Temple. which included both the Dark Army and BDK. The Spectral Envoy's feud with BDK lasted until Chikara's first iPPV,
High Noon in November 2011, where BDK was defeated and effectively dissolved. Two years later, BDK returned to destroy Chikara's sister promotions and successfully shut down Wrestling is Cool in December 2013, when the promotion's owner Milo Schnitzler revealed himself a BDK sleeper agent and showed his allegiance to the stable's leader
Ares by ending the company. and a
four-way elimination tag team match between
3.0 (Scott Parker and Shane Matthews), Gekido (17 and deviAnt), Pieces of Hate (
Jigsaw and The Shard) and the Throwbacks (
Dasher Hatfield and
Mark Angelosetti). A team could earn all three points in this match by scoring all three eliminations. Pieces of Hate were the reigning Campeones de Parejas, while the other three teams in the match stood at zero points. 3.0 lost the title to Pieces of Hate at Chikara's previous event, Aniversario: Never Compromise, The Throwbacks, who earned a spot in the match by winning WiF!'s 2014 Tag World Grand Prix the day before You Only Live Twice, had previously challenged for the Campeonatos de Parejas on July 29, 2012, but heading into the iPPV stood at zero points after losing another four-way elimination match on April 6, 2013. At the end of the year, assailAnt changed his
rudo ways and was accepted as a member of The Colony, while Soldier Ant refused to change his ways and was left outside of Gekido and The Swarm, now without any partners. Vavasseur promised Soldier Ant a new team to lead and in March 2013 introduced The Colony: Xtreme Force of Arctic Rescue Ant, Missile Assault Ant and Orbit Adventure Ant. who even stripped the original Colony of their
2011 King of Trios win and awarded it to his new trio. After only a month of teaming with his new
rudo partners, Soldier Ant handed in his resignation to Vavasseur and left Chikara. Afterwards, Gekido and Swarm member deviAnt took over as Xtreme Force's new leader. During the one-year hiatus, The Colony and Xtreme Force were on opposing sides, with The Colony fighting for Chikara and Xtreme Force for the Flood. ==Results==