Post by Angel on Jul 28, 2011 11:22:30 GMT -6
*Two weeks ago*
Alex's fist slammed against my desk, his eyes blazed with an intense anger I hadn't seen... since last year...
Alex Jones: Goddammit man. What in the hell is wrong with you? Where's the Angel I remember?
The Angel he remembers... The one who so nearly lost everything he ever loved...
Alex Jones: Where's the Angel who hit me with chairs, fluro light globes, kitchen sinks, lawn mowers?
The same Angel who allowed his daughter to be taken from him while he spiraled down a dark road that began and ended with the World Title... The same Angel...
Alex Jones: Where's the Angel who was feared and respected by an entire company?
Who was feared... Who was respected...
*Smack*
Alex Jones: Look at me when I talk to you.!
Suddenly it all comes back to me... Who I was... What I was... And why I hated this man for so long.
Alex Jones: There he is...what are you gonna do Angel? Huh? Are you going to show those big ol balls we all know and put Lex in his place or are you gonna sit here in your suit doing the whole "retired" schtick?
What am I going to do? He wants to know what I'm going to do?
Alex Jones: Or are you actually afraid that you just don't have it anymore?
*Smack!*
My fist connects with his grinning ****ing face before I even knew it was moving but it only makes his smile get that much bigger.
Alex Jones: When you finally decide to remind the world who Savior X is then you'll know what to do.
Who Savior X is...
*Now*
I stand before a broken home... An empty home...
Everyone seems to want to know who Savior X is...
Once upon a time I would of told you he is the single most dangerous man inside or outside of that ring. Lex Sense would tell you other wise... With good reason...
Once I was feared, I was respected, I was looked upon by those around me as the absolute pinnacle of this business. I was the World Champion, I was the Icon of the promotion. I walked into nCw like so many others, a big name from a broken promotion and I found myself at the bottom of the ladder...
My name, my past, my record meant nothing. Men like Steve Awesome and Spike Kane who had never heard of Savior X scoffed at me and the things I had to say. And it was because of men like them, men who were not afraid, men who did not care, men who could actually provide me with the challenge I seeked, that I finally learned humility. More so, I learned what must be done to succeed in a promotion like nCw....
It takes more than perseverance, more than determination, it takes something else... Something intangiable... Something unexplainable... Something men like Andrew Jacobsen do not possess, do not understand and could never fathom... Something men like Steve Awesome and Rob Diamond are full of which is why the only one's who can knock them from their peak is each other...
You have this something Lex... I had it too..
Had.
The men and women of nCw, the fans at home, they wished to label me as something other worldly, almost god like, but much more akin to a monster. They wanted to see me as the boogie man, the monster under the bed, the sort of thing you would tell your children doesn't exist.
The thought brings a small smile to my face.
I let them... I encouraged them... Hell, I fed into it... Why? Because it provided me with the same advantage it provides you. You know as well as I do if you can get a man to fear you then you have already won, he is broken and will not come at you like he may have if he thought he stood a chance...
So I pushed the image, I pushed the limits, I became something more than a man...
Savior X ceased to be a catchy gimmick or slogan... It became a Legend...
I stop for a moment and reflect on the home behind me, what it once meant to me and what it means now...
But someone found the chink in my armor, Lex, just as some have found the chink in yours... For all the fear and respect and claims of being some sort of monstrous beast... He found my heart.
...Alex...
And like a man possessed with rage and jealousy he went for it. It started with my ex wife, with Shelly. He took her from me... At first, when she left, it only drove me to be more beastly, more devastating, more dangerous. Men paid for Alex's sins, many men, and the path of destruction I left through nCw at the time has become something almost nightmarish to think back on for those who were there when it happened.
He didn't stop with Shelly...
In my mind I can see her... playing...
He went after my daughter... Not like that moronic Brad Kane went after Adam's... He went for her heart like he did my ex wife's... The one thing I loved more than wrestling... My little girl... Stood by his side in front of the whole world and called him... daddy...
She's laughing as I chase her in the yard.
Perhaps someone as seemingly devoid of emotion does not understand how much that one simple phrase hurt me... Or perhaps you understand better than anyone Lex. The fact is, Alex found the weakness, he found what made me human, what made me average and he used it against me in our war...
The image slowly fades and the yard is empty once again.
He made me human...
I turn my head slightly, just enough to look you in the eye.
He made Savior X into just a man...
The corners of my mouth curl up into a smirk.
And man is the worst monster of them all, Lex.
What you see before you begins to fade away as the empty house with empty memories seemingly self ignites with the visage of Angel becoming something other worldly. Within the flames you see a memory, one some would like to forget... You see Ascension last year...
Jones has Angel by the hair again rams his face into the steel posts that make up the entranceway, twists him around and chops him across the neck, head butts him then pumps kicks him in the stomach forcing him back. Angel looks up as Alex comes at him with a spinning neck breaker! Jones pulls Angel up and stands him near the edge of the stage, over looking a table. The fans begin to scream as Alex looks down and smiles. He scoops Angel up into pile driver position.
The moving pictures in the flames bring a dark smile to my face as I remind everyone...
Jones steps forward but Angel throws his weight and begins kicking his feet, he manages to plant his feet on the ground and now Angel lifts ALEX INTO PILE DRIVER POSITION!!!
Who...
Angel leaps off the side of the stage and sit down pile drives Alex Jones right through the table fifteen feet below!!!!
Savior X is... The fight didn't end there, Alex had so much to fight for... But I had more... Because the monster was fighting for his life, for his career... For his family
Alex rolls Angel onto the table and stands him up. Alex looks around as the crowd half boos, half cheers. Alex Jones hooks Angel in for the JagerBomb but Angel blocks it. Alex tries again but Angel blocks it again and instead he knees Alex in the gut and slips behind him for the REVELATIONS! Double knee back cracker! But the table doesn't break! Angel rolls off and spots the barbed wire. He picks it up and climbs in the ring. Angel begins to wrap the barbed wire around his torso. Angel climbs the ropes and does his trade mark "Jesus" pose... And he flies off the top rope with the SPIRAL TAP CORKSCREW MOONSULT!!!!
You find weakness in the love I have for my daughter just like Alex did... You see me as something less than the monster I portrayed on TV just like Alex did...
Angel crashes through Alex and the table, the barbed wire around his torso ripping them both to hell. Angel is on top of Alex and the ref drops down for the pin. One.. Two.. THREE!!!!
And for your ignorance and your incompetence you will suffer the same fate, Lex... I don't care if this match costs me my career... I don't care if this is the last Death Cage I ever compete in... I don't care what happens after that bell rings because Sunday Night in front of the whole entire world...
I will show you the true meaning of Savior X... He is not a man... He is not a monster... He is not a Legend... Savior X... Is...What you will never be.
You will Tremble...
Alex's fist slammed against my desk, his eyes blazed with an intense anger I hadn't seen... since last year...
Alex Jones: Goddammit man. What in the hell is wrong with you? Where's the Angel I remember?
The Angel he remembers... The one who so nearly lost everything he ever loved...
Alex Jones: Where's the Angel who hit me with chairs, fluro light globes, kitchen sinks, lawn mowers?
The same Angel who allowed his daughter to be taken from him while he spiraled down a dark road that began and ended with the World Title... The same Angel...
Alex Jones: Where's the Angel who was feared and respected by an entire company?
Who was feared... Who was respected...
*Smack*
Alex Jones: Look at me when I talk to you.!
Suddenly it all comes back to me... Who I was... What I was... And why I hated this man for so long.
Alex Jones: There he is...what are you gonna do Angel? Huh? Are you going to show those big ol balls we all know and put Lex in his place or are you gonna sit here in your suit doing the whole "retired" schtick?
What am I going to do? He wants to know what I'm going to do?
Alex Jones: Or are you actually afraid that you just don't have it anymore?
*Smack!*
My fist connects with his grinning ****ing face before I even knew it was moving but it only makes his smile get that much bigger.
Alex Jones: When you finally decide to remind the world who Savior X is then you'll know what to do.
Who Savior X is...
*Now*
I stand before a broken home... An empty home...
Everyone seems to want to know who Savior X is...
Once upon a time I would of told you he is the single most dangerous man inside or outside of that ring. Lex Sense would tell you other wise... With good reason...
Once I was feared, I was respected, I was looked upon by those around me as the absolute pinnacle of this business. I was the World Champion, I was the Icon of the promotion. I walked into nCw like so many others, a big name from a broken promotion and I found myself at the bottom of the ladder...
My name, my past, my record meant nothing. Men like Steve Awesome and Spike Kane who had never heard of Savior X scoffed at me and the things I had to say. And it was because of men like them, men who were not afraid, men who did not care, men who could actually provide me with the challenge I seeked, that I finally learned humility. More so, I learned what must be done to succeed in a promotion like nCw....
It takes more than perseverance, more than determination, it takes something else... Something intangiable... Something unexplainable... Something men like Andrew Jacobsen do not possess, do not understand and could never fathom... Something men like Steve Awesome and Rob Diamond are full of which is why the only one's who can knock them from their peak is each other...
You have this something Lex... I had it too..
Had.
The men and women of nCw, the fans at home, they wished to label me as something other worldly, almost god like, but much more akin to a monster. They wanted to see me as the boogie man, the monster under the bed, the sort of thing you would tell your children doesn't exist.
The thought brings a small smile to my face.
I let them... I encouraged them... Hell, I fed into it... Why? Because it provided me with the same advantage it provides you. You know as well as I do if you can get a man to fear you then you have already won, he is broken and will not come at you like he may have if he thought he stood a chance...
So I pushed the image, I pushed the limits, I became something more than a man...
Savior X ceased to be a catchy gimmick or slogan... It became a Legend...
I stop for a moment and reflect on the home behind me, what it once meant to me and what it means now...
But someone found the chink in my armor, Lex, just as some have found the chink in yours... For all the fear and respect and claims of being some sort of monstrous beast... He found my heart.
...Alex...
And like a man possessed with rage and jealousy he went for it. It started with my ex wife, with Shelly. He took her from me... At first, when she left, it only drove me to be more beastly, more devastating, more dangerous. Men paid for Alex's sins, many men, and the path of destruction I left through nCw at the time has become something almost nightmarish to think back on for those who were there when it happened.
He didn't stop with Shelly...
In my mind I can see her... playing...
He went after my daughter... Not like that moronic Brad Kane went after Adam's... He went for her heart like he did my ex wife's... The one thing I loved more than wrestling... My little girl... Stood by his side in front of the whole world and called him... daddy...
She's laughing as I chase her in the yard.
Perhaps someone as seemingly devoid of emotion does not understand how much that one simple phrase hurt me... Or perhaps you understand better than anyone Lex. The fact is, Alex found the weakness, he found what made me human, what made me average and he used it against me in our war...
The image slowly fades and the yard is empty once again.
He made me human...
I turn my head slightly, just enough to look you in the eye.
He made Savior X into just a man...
The corners of my mouth curl up into a smirk.
And man is the worst monster of them all, Lex.
What you see before you begins to fade away as the empty house with empty memories seemingly self ignites with the visage of Angel becoming something other worldly. Within the flames you see a memory, one some would like to forget... You see Ascension last year...
Jones has Angel by the hair again rams his face into the steel posts that make up the entranceway, twists him around and chops him across the neck, head butts him then pumps kicks him in the stomach forcing him back. Angel looks up as Alex comes at him with a spinning neck breaker! Jones pulls Angel up and stands him near the edge of the stage, over looking a table. The fans begin to scream as Alex looks down and smiles. He scoops Angel up into pile driver position.
The moving pictures in the flames bring a dark smile to my face as I remind everyone...
Jones steps forward but Angel throws his weight and begins kicking his feet, he manages to plant his feet on the ground and now Angel lifts ALEX INTO PILE DRIVER POSITION!!!
Who...
Angel leaps off the side of the stage and sit down pile drives Alex Jones right through the table fifteen feet below!!!!
Savior X is... The fight didn't end there, Alex had so much to fight for... But I had more... Because the monster was fighting for his life, for his career... For his family
Alex rolls Angel onto the table and stands him up. Alex looks around as the crowd half boos, half cheers. Alex Jones hooks Angel in for the JagerBomb but Angel blocks it. Alex tries again but Angel blocks it again and instead he knees Alex in the gut and slips behind him for the REVELATIONS! Double knee back cracker! But the table doesn't break! Angel rolls off and spots the barbed wire. He picks it up and climbs in the ring. Angel begins to wrap the barbed wire around his torso. Angel climbs the ropes and does his trade mark "Jesus" pose... And he flies off the top rope with the SPIRAL TAP CORKSCREW MOONSULT!!!!
You find weakness in the love I have for my daughter just like Alex did... You see me as something less than the monster I portrayed on TV just like Alex did...
Angel crashes through Alex and the table, the barbed wire around his torso ripping them both to hell. Angel is on top of Alex and the ref drops down for the pin. One.. Two.. THREE!!!!
And for your ignorance and your incompetence you will suffer the same fate, Lex... I don't care if this match costs me my career... I don't care if this is the last Death Cage I ever compete in... I don't care what happens after that bell rings because Sunday Night in front of the whole entire world...
I will show you the true meaning of Savior X... He is not a man... He is not a monster... He is not a Legend... Savior X... Is...What you will never be.
You will Tremble...