Post by Adam on Jul 16, 2008 21:39:41 GMT -6
The Killing Joke
We see Xavier sitting at his X-Box, he is pounding away at the controller, the camera shifts views, but then
“SHRYUKEN!!!”
He seems to be playing Street Fighter II: HF, has he takes out his opponent with a well timed fireball.
“HADUKEN!”
“UGHH UGHH UGHH UGHH!!”
“RYU, WINS!”
The cheers from the cyber crowd, fill the room
You cheated
Ha, ha, you’re funny, Daddy!
No, you cheated, therefore automatic DQ!
How did I cheat?
You picked Ryu, you KNOW I own with Ryu.
Xavier… leave that boy alone.
Xavier hangs his head in shame, has his wife comes walking into the room
Sorry… not really, but he cheated.
Lisa socks him right into the arm, and he sells it like DEATH!
Eric, go wash your hands and fix yourself some lunch, hun. And you…
Xavier rolls his eyes…
Yes.
She sits in Xavier’s lap, and wraps her arms around his neck, and she holds her head on his chest.
Ya’ know, I can never know why people see you as such a monster.
Just like in life, people hate me, or they do. It’s something that I became comfortable with.
So yeah, you do dishonest things, but… it isn’t like they don’t do them either.
It’s the double standard of wrestling, your opponents want you to be the nice one, so they can cut you down at the knees. Angel wants me to play far, so he can take all the shortcuts. Quite simply, I can’t do that.
Seems kind of silly. Why doesn’t he just play dirty?
He has an image to uphold, he wants to be viewed as they good guy, but in reality, he is as just as rotten as me. Listen to how he talks, he wants my head on a pike… not a real big role model, huh? And he calls me evil. He calls me the fraud. The things I do in their business, to make sure people look real deep into the mirror, but they always turn away and block out that reflection.
Well, while you’re trying to figure out the world, clean up some of this stuff, and join us for a meal.
Wait… what! You come into my office, and you tell me to clean…
Yes, now you’re gonna do it, aren’t you?
Do I have a choice?
No.
Lisa giggles as she kisses Xavier and she gets leaves his office, throwing a little more into her hips as she walks away. Xavier looks at the camera
… she knows me too well.
Xavier hopes out of his and grabs the two controllers and just drops them in front of his X-Box he just shrugs his shoulders as he grabs his GTA IV case off his desk and places it on the shelf, he looks around and sits down at his desk. He places his feet up and just looks at the sky
Where to begin, where to start… I don’t know to be honest, we’ve said it all to each other, and now… it seems like we are reaching the point… that point in which words are no longer a necessity. I KNOW you don’t fear me Angel, if you did, you wouldn’t of made it this far. I never once doubted your ability t defeat me, but I do question your ability to finish me… can you rid me once and for all… can you finally move pass the bridge that is Xavier Williams, the pressure is on you this time, my friend.
You are the champion, you are now the standard for the X-Division… something that you once, failed at doing. You failed to uphold the morals of the X-Division and you let the title fall into my hands…
And I start to echo your sentiments.. the “What If’s…” and the “Maybe’s”… who knows what will happen, when that bell rings. This match is about will, drive, focus, and just the ability to take pain. And that is what I’ve felt, for so long… pain.
I lose the title and I just on a downspin… Something that would just eat away at you, like maggots, until there is nothing left. But unlike others, I refuse to lay down… and die. I refuse to just POOF… and disappear. When I signed my name to the nCw Contract, that’s when the blood of nCw started to flow through me, I left OUW behind, hell… I left it to die. Just to be here. I turned down being on OUW’s final card to take you on… I turned my back on my wrestling family to fight you in the Caged Deathmatch. IT hurt me to do so, but I knew I had to do it; I had to bury my past, And now I look to do the same here, I look to bury my past once again… that means you Angel. There is no need to take a walk down that bloody path… EVERYONE knows it.
While I’ve yet to defeat you… you still can’t shake me off… how much does that piss you off?
I’ve never pinned Angel, I’ve never made him submit, I had my stable hand me the title… and basically help me ruin his life… and when it was time for me to put of shut up… I failed. But I held one shed of hope… this match, is my final lifeline. If I can’t win it here, then I never deserved to be X-Division Champion, but I’ll tell you this, if I was int hat tourney… I’d DESTROY the entire field. Angel, no matter what happened to me, I always had to keep an eye on you. I always had to know what you where doing. I’ve seen the anger and I’ve seen the rage.
Angel… I’ve seen it before, and taking the bible and ****ting all over it, means nothing to me. I don’t care for it, I never bothered to read it, because I never placed my fate into a being that I couldn’t see… I took my fate in my OWN HANDS and I carried myself to the top. God can be a spectator for all I care… I’m making m own history… and nobody else.
Hmph… fate. It seems like we were destined to meet, like it was a right of passage for the both of us, we are the ultimate test for each other, lets be honest, either one of us, will be holding the World Title up in the air, some time soon… and this match… might be the way to see who might do it first. To say I was the last man standing… that is something that NOBODY can take from you. Once you are the Last Man Standing… nothing anyone can do will be able to lessen that accomplishment.
But back to a topic I touched on in an earlier promo
Xavier reaches into his desk and pulls out a comic book
forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/Batman%20Killing%20Joke%20special%20Alan%20Moore%20Brian%20Bolland.jpg[/img]
And here we have one of the greatest stories ever told. The Killing Joke is more, than the Joker’s origin… it is a look into the blood spattered mirror. You see, Joker goes mad, after being dumped into chemicals and his pregnant wife dying in a fire. And he basically makes Gotham feel his pain… with a smile.
Batman, after seeing his parents murdered in cold blood, he spots a bat… and basically uses the bat as a means of defense for Gotham City.
In an altercation in the book, Joker basically calls out Batman, for dressing up as a bat, and running around the rooftops. Even though they go on to kill each other, in the end, they share a laugh.
Or so we think.
What we relies as that these two men were driven insane, by traumatic events and they two DRASTICALLY different roads, and yet, they are same. They both have an unstable psyche, and they are driven by hat for each other and Batman, hates the fact that he is like is worst enemy… but Joker… thrives on it, he loves and he uses every chance to remind Batman of it… and here we stand.
You look into that mirror and you see me… and you hate it… you hate that maybe… you are not a mystery and I’ve figured you out… maybe because I’ve figured myself out, we have the same downfalls… maybe even that taking me out… would be like taking you out, and maybe that is too much for you. For Angel to kill a part of himself…
It’s almost poetic… in a sickening kind of way.
He places the book back into the desk.
I wish everything was handed to me, I wish I didn’t have to earn anything.. then I’d be on top of the world… wait…
No…
I’m not. Oh well.
Can’t win them all. And we are now… back to where we began. Xavier on the outside looking in and Angel living his happy life. Seems kind of familiar…
I am now, where you were last month, a man with nothing to lose. This match is about so much, maybe even more than what we can comprehend, the title, pride… but I see it as more. The future.
Think about it. The Lance Ryan’s, Spike Kane’s, Brad Kane’s, Trent Helms’s, and the Steve Awesome’s wont always be here… they will start looking for the new torch bearers. And let’s be honest you and me are at the front of that pack. And to know that one of us will be World Champion… I have to say that is a pretty big incentive to win, that is a reason for me not to stay down…
Xavier stands up from his desk and looks at the full length mirror on the side of his deks, he sits on his desk and looks at the reflection
10 years ago, this man in front of me stepped into the ring and he said he will not stop until he proves himself to be the best. I see a man who will not stop until his goal is fulfilled. Angel… I survived a fall from grace unseen by any man.
Then I survived… your attempt to rid me from the Earth.
You can’t kill the Devil… no matter how hard you try…
Xavier stands up from his desk and leaves his office, ending the promo
~Equal. It is a simple term, but it is a term we cant come to grips with. But it is something that angers us so much. When you are facing an equal, you begin to see things that you didn't see in the beginning. You see things that you didn't want to see. And as we peel away the layers of our equal we see an image, and inside that image and we see ourselves, and the walls begin to fall, sanity is broken and chaos will fill. When two equals meet... one must die, for the other to survive~
"See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum... and one night... one night they decide they don't like living in an asylum any more. They decide they’re going to escape! So like they get up on to the roof, and there, just across the narrow gap, they see the rooftops of the town, stretching away in moon light... stretching away to freedom. Now the first guy he jumps right across with no problem. But his friend, his friend daren't make the leap. Y'see he's afraid of falling... So then the first guy has an idea. He says "Hey! I have my flash light with me. I will shine it across the gap between the buildings. You can walk across the beam and join me." But the second guy just shakes his head. He says... he says "What do you think I am, crazy? You would turn it off when I was half way across."
*Fade to Smiting Stick*