Post by Alex Jones on Aug 20, 2008 23:53:22 GMT -6
The scene opens inside a hotel room, it seems to look like most middle to upper style hotel rooms, except in this room we see AJ Phoenix. He sits on the end of the neatly made bed, a packed suitcase next to him; a black backward baseball cap keeps his shoulder length brown hair out of his face, trimmed sideburns trail a line down his jaw to his chin where they meet. A black rubber band stays around his neck. dangling from it is a silver cross, his good luck charm, he wears black converse skate shoes and urban camo pants and a black AJ Phoenix shirt, a cocky grin comes across his face as he starts talking
"Some people say they're going to do things, some people actually do them, but many just break their promises and fail, me, I'm of a different breed, sure sometimes unexpected things happen to derail my plans, but on collision, everything fell into place. I went into an Assault X match with a man who I'll be stepping in the ring with again this sunday, Xavier Williams, and made him look foolish. I walked in with all the confidence in the world, telling him that I was going to make the title worth something again, that I was going to give the fans a real champion, and in the end, I did exactly what I said I was going to do...I took this....”
AJ reaches behind him and pulls out the X-Division title, he drapes it over his knee, the light from above hitting the gold making it shine and bristle, we see the nametag that now reads AJ Phoenix.
”And I’ve given it a new home, but this Sunday at battle grounds I won’t be defending my newly won title, instead I’ll be in an eight man fourway tag match Jack Manson and Xavier Williams representing Social Distortion versus Angel and Falcon representing Social Enemies versus Kole Kaos and The Ace representing the corporate empire against myself and Jackhammer representing Lethal Intent, it’s a match of huge proportions, all four major groups represented, the winning team will have bragging rights over the NCW. And when I look at the competition I can’t help but be confident. I mean I’m the X-Division champion and I think after all I’ve done I’ve earned the right to call myself the fastest rising star in the NCW, and Jackhammer is the national champion, a man mountain, a monster. And who do we have to face?....”
“Jack Manson?. Please. Jack, you were once a someone here, a national champion, a guy who many thought could be a world heavyweight champion. But who are you now?, you came back as Spike Kane’s bitch, and now that dear ol uncle Spikey got himself “forcibly retired” Jack has nothing to do, he got put in charge of Social Distortion and took it from a top stable to a boring group of nobodies. Who do they have?, well there’s Jack himself, Xavier, Rob “I wanna be my brother” Diamond and of course the corrupt Mr. Tyler Jacobs, am I supposed to be intimidated?, hell Rob Diamond is barely involved with the stable and Tyler Jacobs has also been noticeably absent since Mr Spike Kane’s demise, they’ve become a joke, a cruel joke that isn’t even funny to the saddest of the sad.....”
“And these men are supposed to be regarded as true competition to Lethal Intent?, please, as if that ass kissing shell Manson wasn’t bad enough we also have a wannabe never-was in Xavier Williams, now while Manson being a has-been is bad, Williams is worse, he fancied himself as a champion, a big name, and Angel and I have both humiliated him and shown that he is nothing but a fraud, a phony and someone who should not even be in the NCW, in fact, if he was a race horse he’d be taken out back, shot and taken to the dog food and glue factories, he’d be put out of his misery, maybe that’s what I’ll do this Sunday to both Manson and Williams, put them out of their misery, cause watching them both make utter fools out of themselves is just plain sad....”
AJ laughs to himself and stands up, he winces slightly trying not to show the pain his body is still feeling after collision, he throws the X-Division title over his shoulder holding it proudly
“And on the other side we have the “corporate empire”, wow, again should I be intimidated, impressed?, truth be told I was more impressed by the contents of my Kleenex the last time I blew my nose, Kole Kaos, the rich man of NCW, they say money can buy you anything, to bad it’s not true, cause then ol Kole could buy himself some talent, and how you can say with a straight face that I’ll fall to you, ha!, you’re living in a dream world, you took out Dark Prophet, and while I have to say I’m surprised, I can also look at what happened and say that DP was out of it, he was ready for a rest and you put him on the shelf, good for you, but Kole, Lethal Intent is going to get revenge for our fallen brethren, so all you have to look forward to is pain and suffering.....”
“...much like your partner The Ace, a man who tried oh so hard to be funny with his little skit, a guy pretending to be me with a little cardboard cut-out, a guy who was “charged” with being lucky on collision, that’s rich coming from someone who wishes he was me. I could say “wished” but truth is, you still want to be me, and who wouldn’t be. But see, I’ve grown up, I’m no longer that person you once knew Jake. I’m not the wise cracking smart ass who would dress up for a cheap laugh, and see that’s the funny part, your career has mirrored mine, but you’ve always been ten steps behind, you’re where I was at a year ago, and now, as usual I’m ahead of you, I earned the X-Division title, meanwhile you’ve been sliding around on the coattails of Steve Awesome, when are you going to get your own career Conway?, when are you going to man up, grow a set of balls and be your own man?. Stop trying to be me, stop crawling up Steve Awesome’s ass and do something with your career......oh and by the way, yeah I was pinned in that fourway, but as you said, not by you, so Angel can have the bragging rights for that...”
AJ pauses for a moment as his cocky grin fades, he shakes his head and sighs deeply
“Angel.....well, what can I say eh?, first thing you do is try and take credit for me becoming X-Division champion, put the handbrake on there spanky, you really don’t believe that just because you criticized me I somehow gained superpowers and defeated Xavier do you?, I can’t believe you, what world do you live in?. You sit there and tr4y and make up with Xavier, going on about forgiving him and how he had nothing to do with Manson throwing you off the stage, dude, take a step bag, put down the hash pipe and come back to reality......”
“...Cause right now, you’re walking this line, and on one side is stupidity and on the other is insanity, and I’m not entirely sure which side you’re leaning towards, I mean, you pre-empted me and straight away said “please don’t say it’ll be different”, Uh hello, this match will be nothing like our one on one encounter, or the four-way we had, every match is different Angel or haven’t you learnt that?, are you really that egotistical that you think every time I step in the ring with you I’ll lose?. Get, your, head, out, of, your, ass , you, dick.....see I even said it nice...and....sloooowww”
“And by the way, I do want to defend my title against you, I may lose, I may win, but I just want the challenge, I love getting in the ring with you. At first it was a respect thing, now I just want to slap you around and shut you up. But, that is for another time and another place, cause right now, we have the warefare match at battle grounds. And it’s you and Falcon teaming up, I’ve seen al0ot of Falcon and he seems pretty talented, just like you, in fact I dare say you’re the biggest threat to Lethal intent....”
AJ pauses for a moment and smiles
“But, Lethal Intent is clearly the superior group, Jackhammer is the National Champ, I’m the X-Divisi0on champ, and our competition is who?, Social Distortion?, please, Corporate empire?, HA!, laughable, and Social Enemies?, well this is a two horse race, but the smart money should be on lethal intent.......we will be victorious....you just watch...”
AJ laughs to himself as the scene fades to black
"Some people say they're going to do things, some people actually do them, but many just break their promises and fail, me, I'm of a different breed, sure sometimes unexpected things happen to derail my plans, but on collision, everything fell into place. I went into an Assault X match with a man who I'll be stepping in the ring with again this sunday, Xavier Williams, and made him look foolish. I walked in with all the confidence in the world, telling him that I was going to make the title worth something again, that I was going to give the fans a real champion, and in the end, I did exactly what I said I was going to do...I took this....”
AJ reaches behind him and pulls out the X-Division title, he drapes it over his knee, the light from above hitting the gold making it shine and bristle, we see the nametag that now reads AJ Phoenix.
”And I’ve given it a new home, but this Sunday at battle grounds I won’t be defending my newly won title, instead I’ll be in an eight man fourway tag match Jack Manson and Xavier Williams representing Social Distortion versus Angel and Falcon representing Social Enemies versus Kole Kaos and The Ace representing the corporate empire against myself and Jackhammer representing Lethal Intent, it’s a match of huge proportions, all four major groups represented, the winning team will have bragging rights over the NCW. And when I look at the competition I can’t help but be confident. I mean I’m the X-Division champion and I think after all I’ve done I’ve earned the right to call myself the fastest rising star in the NCW, and Jackhammer is the national champion, a man mountain, a monster. And who do we have to face?....”
“Jack Manson?. Please. Jack, you were once a someone here, a national champion, a guy who many thought could be a world heavyweight champion. But who are you now?, you came back as Spike Kane’s bitch, and now that dear ol uncle Spikey got himself “forcibly retired” Jack has nothing to do, he got put in charge of Social Distortion and took it from a top stable to a boring group of nobodies. Who do they have?, well there’s Jack himself, Xavier, Rob “I wanna be my brother” Diamond and of course the corrupt Mr. Tyler Jacobs, am I supposed to be intimidated?, hell Rob Diamond is barely involved with the stable and Tyler Jacobs has also been noticeably absent since Mr Spike Kane’s demise, they’ve become a joke, a cruel joke that isn’t even funny to the saddest of the sad.....”
“And these men are supposed to be regarded as true competition to Lethal Intent?, please, as if that ass kissing shell Manson wasn’t bad enough we also have a wannabe never-was in Xavier Williams, now while Manson being a has-been is bad, Williams is worse, he fancied himself as a champion, a big name, and Angel and I have both humiliated him and shown that he is nothing but a fraud, a phony and someone who should not even be in the NCW, in fact, if he was a race horse he’d be taken out back, shot and taken to the dog food and glue factories, he’d be put out of his misery, maybe that’s what I’ll do this Sunday to both Manson and Williams, put them out of their misery, cause watching them both make utter fools out of themselves is just plain sad....”
AJ laughs to himself and stands up, he winces slightly trying not to show the pain his body is still feeling after collision, he throws the X-Division title over his shoulder holding it proudly
“And on the other side we have the “corporate empire”, wow, again should I be intimidated, impressed?, truth be told I was more impressed by the contents of my Kleenex the last time I blew my nose, Kole Kaos, the rich man of NCW, they say money can buy you anything, to bad it’s not true, cause then ol Kole could buy himself some talent, and how you can say with a straight face that I’ll fall to you, ha!, you’re living in a dream world, you took out Dark Prophet, and while I have to say I’m surprised, I can also look at what happened and say that DP was out of it, he was ready for a rest and you put him on the shelf, good for you, but Kole, Lethal Intent is going to get revenge for our fallen brethren, so all you have to look forward to is pain and suffering.....”
“...much like your partner The Ace, a man who tried oh so hard to be funny with his little skit, a guy pretending to be me with a little cardboard cut-out, a guy who was “charged” with being lucky on collision, that’s rich coming from someone who wishes he was me. I could say “wished” but truth is, you still want to be me, and who wouldn’t be. But see, I’ve grown up, I’m no longer that person you once knew Jake. I’m not the wise cracking smart ass who would dress up for a cheap laugh, and see that’s the funny part, your career has mirrored mine, but you’ve always been ten steps behind, you’re where I was at a year ago, and now, as usual I’m ahead of you, I earned the X-Division title, meanwhile you’ve been sliding around on the coattails of Steve Awesome, when are you going to get your own career Conway?, when are you going to man up, grow a set of balls and be your own man?. Stop trying to be me, stop crawling up Steve Awesome’s ass and do something with your career......oh and by the way, yeah I was pinned in that fourway, but as you said, not by you, so Angel can have the bragging rights for that...”
AJ pauses for a moment as his cocky grin fades, he shakes his head and sighs deeply
“Angel.....well, what can I say eh?, first thing you do is try and take credit for me becoming X-Division champion, put the handbrake on there spanky, you really don’t believe that just because you criticized me I somehow gained superpowers and defeated Xavier do you?, I can’t believe you, what world do you live in?. You sit there and tr4y and make up with Xavier, going on about forgiving him and how he had nothing to do with Manson throwing you off the stage, dude, take a step bag, put down the hash pipe and come back to reality......”
“...Cause right now, you’re walking this line, and on one side is stupidity and on the other is insanity, and I’m not entirely sure which side you’re leaning towards, I mean, you pre-empted me and straight away said “please don’t say it’ll be different”, Uh hello, this match will be nothing like our one on one encounter, or the four-way we had, every match is different Angel or haven’t you learnt that?, are you really that egotistical that you think every time I step in the ring with you I’ll lose?. Get, your, head, out, of, your, ass , you, dick.....see I even said it nice...and....sloooowww”
“And by the way, I do want to defend my title against you, I may lose, I may win, but I just want the challenge, I love getting in the ring with you. At first it was a respect thing, now I just want to slap you around and shut you up. But, that is for another time and another place, cause right now, we have the warefare match at battle grounds. And it’s you and Falcon teaming up, I’ve seen al0ot of Falcon and he seems pretty talented, just like you, in fact I dare say you’re the biggest threat to Lethal intent....”
AJ pauses for a moment and smiles
“But, Lethal Intent is clearly the superior group, Jackhammer is the National Champ, I’m the X-Divisi0on champ, and our competition is who?, Social Distortion?, please, Corporate empire?, HA!, laughable, and Social Enemies?, well this is a two horse race, but the smart money should be on lethal intent.......we will be victorious....you just watch...”
AJ laughs to himself as the scene fades to black