Post by Angel on Dec 1, 2008 22:41:26 GMT -6
What the hell was that about?
( We fade into the backstage locker room area during this past weeks Collision. Angel and Shelly are just re entering the Social Enemies locker room and Angel looks furious. )
Shelly: What the hell are you talking about?
Angel: The...hell...that...about?
Shelly: Me talking to Lance? It was a discussion Angel, you know, that thing two ADULTS do when they want to DISCUSS something.
Angel: No, I mean the part where he was brain washing you and you just sat there and took it.
Shelly: Brain washing? What are you talking about?
Angel: Do I look blind or stupid too you?
Shelly: You sure you want an answer?
Angel: *heavy sigh* Shell, he was trying to make you believe what he's doing is the right thing, you know, so you'd come back to me and relay the brain washing. All he wants is another soldier he can send in to battle and watch die.
Shelly: Did you ever think that maybe he's right?
( Angel just looks shocked. )
Shelly: Think about it Angel, Spike Kane has some how been the cause of all of your mis fortunes, every single one of them, now here we are on the verge of nCw ripping itself in half, there are two sides, Spike's side or the right side.
Angel: You've got to be kidding me, you bought into his bull****?
Shelly: No Angel, I didn't, I bought into yours.
Angel: Excuse me?
Shelly: Angel do you even remember your own pointless dribble? Do you even remember the dream you told me about? The one where you save nCw?
( Fade. )
And thats what this is all about, dreams.
Mine, yours, hers, AJ's. We all have dreams. Your dream is to see an amazing match, AJ's dream is to defeat me in the ring, Shelly's dream is to have a happy family... and my dream...
Well my dream is different. In my dream the faces of those around me are over cast by some unknown blackness, the whole of nCw somehow corrupted for a single, evil cause. The very foundation of the company is on fire, forcing nCw as a whole to begin to teeter and eventually topple.
In this dream I see myself and it goes one of two ways.
I either stand back, let it happen and watch as the company burns itself to the ground while everyone within it suffers their fate.
Or, I step forward, lead those who will be lead in a battle against the flames that ravage nCw, in a battle against the faces of evil that rape nCw.
In this dream I step into the role I once knew as a savior and I save those who will be saved.
And at the end of it, if I make the right choice, God comes to me and rewards me for all my hardships with eternal paradise...
I've made my choice, I will save nCw, it's only a matter of who will stand with me and fight the fire and the sickness that plagues our company. Will you stand with me?
( Our scene shifts and we re-open on a roof top, not a usual scene shift for Angel, but a welcomed one. The camera looks out over a city, the bristling city of Hartford, Connecticut, not all that far from Angel's own home. We turn, look up and to see a large gold dome, atop it is a cross. A noise is heard, a grunt, and we turn to see Angel sitting on a ledge, looking down and out over this city. )
Angel: I never thanked you AJ, for saving me from Johnny Rotten. Thank you AJ. Perhaps had you not come in when you did, I would not be sitting here, taking a much needed break from my training. My training which has become as much about my spiritual strength as it has been about my mental or physical. I know in my heart and soul I will need everything I am to beat you this time AJ. I cannot rely on just records or fear, because it won't matter. I will need every inch of my being to put you down AJ.
This match is important to me, I want this match, I need this match, we both need it, and I don't want that to be forgotten. My goal, my dream is to save nCw, yes, save it from itself and the evil that dwells within her. But this match isn't about that, it's about AJ and myself. This match is about our pride, our honor, our respect, about the privilege and the right to look one another in the eyes and know who is the best, once and for all.
( He draws his right leg up, resting his foot on the ledge as he wraps his arms around his leg, resting his head on his arms. )
Angel: You made a very accurate comparison AJ. My selfish and self serving nature has been well documented here in nCw. Which in it's own way does make me allot like the morning star, because I, unlike any other "Angel" have free will, but besides all of that, I'm only a man AJ, no angel, no devil, a man. I have no delusions of god like powers or authority, it isn't up to me who is saved and who is damned ultimately, and god himself did not speak to me with his almighty voice. I can fall, I can fail and I can sink right back into the dark hole of despair I have crawled out of.
AJ, alas, I am no angel, it is only my name. I have no great power, only my dreams. At the end of the day I eat, I sleep and I **** just like everyone else. To truly be God's hand would only burden me, for it is my free will that has lead me down my dark path, that has taught me the lessons I've needed to learn, and finally lead me back to where it is I should be. To do what I should do.
It's my ambition and my determination for salvation that may match that of the age old evil of Lucifer, but I promise you my intentions are anything but evil or malicious, and I assure that this is not something I wish to do for my own personal gain or pleasure. NCW needs saving and no god nor his choir of angels are going to save it, it's up to us AJ, you and me, to do everything and anything we can to keep nCw safe. Do you understand? What you and me have been through together, this rivalry of ours, this is what nCw should be about. We should be wrestling for honor and respect, not whipping out our cocks and seeing who's the biggest, not just for gold or the admiration of sluts. We should be wrestling simply because we love to do it, because we want to be the best at it. This company has become about egos, I myself am guilty of having one, but I no longer wish to walk that road.
Look to my friends and stable mates for the greatest examples of what I speak. Falcon thrives on competition, if he were not being constantly challenged he'd die. Jack Hammond, the man lives to be tested, he's built his career on over coming the odds. Xavier Williams, though you may disagree, and I do concede that once Xavier was guilty of the sin of ego, but as of late Xavier has come to embody that true spirit of competition. Coming to even represent and defend the very same principals that you and I uphold.
This match is for your title, to finally find out which of us is truly the greatest X-Division wrestler to date in nCw. It is my honor to face you AJ and if I lose, I lose and the next time we face I will be that much better, stronger and faster for it. I will not hold a grudge against you or hunt you down. I will not suddenly revert to my old ways. I only wish for a great battle with a great man for a title that means more to us than it means to anyone else. But understand, losing is not what I plan on doing and neither do you. AJ, this match will be hard, grueling and possibly my greatest test to date in nCw. We will push each other to limits we didn't know we had. We will push each other past those limits. We will do things we didn't know were possible and at the end of it all when one of us is the winner, the other the loser, we will truly know that no one will ever come close to giving either of us a match quite like that again.
No AJ, you are not my greatest rival... Not just yet... But Sunday is coming quickly and I know you will not disappoint me.
( With a slight turn of his head, Angel shows use his pearly whites and smiles. )
Angel: You may or may not be wondering why you find me sitting here on top of this church, looking out over a city I once called home. The answer is really quite simple. This building is clean, pure and innocent and from up here you can see the entire city, a city that is wrought with crime, with disease, with egos and hatred... In the distance... I see a faint glimmer of hope that something or someone will come along and raise this city and it's people up from the graves they've dug themselves and carry them to their salvation.
( Angel pushes himself up to a standing position, turning to wards the camera and making his way closer. )
Angel: I don't know what the future holds for either of us AJ, I only know that we both hope and strive for great things. I know I dream of the day I fight for and represent a company built on a foundation of respect and I hope when that day comes you stand across from me as my worthy adversary and rival.
Stand up AJ for what you believe in, Stand up AJ for what is right, Stand up AJ for nCw...
( Fade out. )
( We fade into the backstage locker room area during this past weeks Collision. Angel and Shelly are just re entering the Social Enemies locker room and Angel looks furious. )
Shelly: What the hell are you talking about?
Angel: The...hell...that...about?
Shelly: Me talking to Lance? It was a discussion Angel, you know, that thing two ADULTS do when they want to DISCUSS something.
Angel: No, I mean the part where he was brain washing you and you just sat there and took it.
Shelly: Brain washing? What are you talking about?
Angel: Do I look blind or stupid too you?
Shelly: You sure you want an answer?
Angel: *heavy sigh* Shell, he was trying to make you believe what he's doing is the right thing, you know, so you'd come back to me and relay the brain washing. All he wants is another soldier he can send in to battle and watch die.
Shelly: Did you ever think that maybe he's right?
( Angel just looks shocked. )
Shelly: Think about it Angel, Spike Kane has some how been the cause of all of your mis fortunes, every single one of them, now here we are on the verge of nCw ripping itself in half, there are two sides, Spike's side or the right side.
Angel: You've got to be kidding me, you bought into his bull****?
Shelly: No Angel, I didn't, I bought into yours.
Angel: Excuse me?
Shelly: Angel do you even remember your own pointless dribble? Do you even remember the dream you told me about? The one where you save nCw?
( Fade. )
And thats what this is all about, dreams.
Mine, yours, hers, AJ's. We all have dreams. Your dream is to see an amazing match, AJ's dream is to defeat me in the ring, Shelly's dream is to have a happy family... and my dream...
Well my dream is different. In my dream the faces of those around me are over cast by some unknown blackness, the whole of nCw somehow corrupted for a single, evil cause. The very foundation of the company is on fire, forcing nCw as a whole to begin to teeter and eventually topple.
In this dream I see myself and it goes one of two ways.
I either stand back, let it happen and watch as the company burns itself to the ground while everyone within it suffers their fate.
Or, I step forward, lead those who will be lead in a battle against the flames that ravage nCw, in a battle against the faces of evil that rape nCw.
In this dream I step into the role I once knew as a savior and I save those who will be saved.
And at the end of it, if I make the right choice, God comes to me and rewards me for all my hardships with eternal paradise...
I've made my choice, I will save nCw, it's only a matter of who will stand with me and fight the fire and the sickness that plagues our company. Will you stand with me?
( Our scene shifts and we re-open on a roof top, not a usual scene shift for Angel, but a welcomed one. The camera looks out over a city, the bristling city of Hartford, Connecticut, not all that far from Angel's own home. We turn, look up and to see a large gold dome, atop it is a cross. A noise is heard, a grunt, and we turn to see Angel sitting on a ledge, looking down and out over this city. )
Angel: I never thanked you AJ, for saving me from Johnny Rotten. Thank you AJ. Perhaps had you not come in when you did, I would not be sitting here, taking a much needed break from my training. My training which has become as much about my spiritual strength as it has been about my mental or physical. I know in my heart and soul I will need everything I am to beat you this time AJ. I cannot rely on just records or fear, because it won't matter. I will need every inch of my being to put you down AJ.
This match is important to me, I want this match, I need this match, we both need it, and I don't want that to be forgotten. My goal, my dream is to save nCw, yes, save it from itself and the evil that dwells within her. But this match isn't about that, it's about AJ and myself. This match is about our pride, our honor, our respect, about the privilege and the right to look one another in the eyes and know who is the best, once and for all.
( He draws his right leg up, resting his foot on the ledge as he wraps his arms around his leg, resting his head on his arms. )
Angel: You made a very accurate comparison AJ. My selfish and self serving nature has been well documented here in nCw. Which in it's own way does make me allot like the morning star, because I, unlike any other "Angel" have free will, but besides all of that, I'm only a man AJ, no angel, no devil, a man. I have no delusions of god like powers or authority, it isn't up to me who is saved and who is damned ultimately, and god himself did not speak to me with his almighty voice. I can fall, I can fail and I can sink right back into the dark hole of despair I have crawled out of.
AJ, alas, I am no angel, it is only my name. I have no great power, only my dreams. At the end of the day I eat, I sleep and I **** just like everyone else. To truly be God's hand would only burden me, for it is my free will that has lead me down my dark path, that has taught me the lessons I've needed to learn, and finally lead me back to where it is I should be. To do what I should do.
It's my ambition and my determination for salvation that may match that of the age old evil of Lucifer, but I promise you my intentions are anything but evil or malicious, and I assure that this is not something I wish to do for my own personal gain or pleasure. NCW needs saving and no god nor his choir of angels are going to save it, it's up to us AJ, you and me, to do everything and anything we can to keep nCw safe. Do you understand? What you and me have been through together, this rivalry of ours, this is what nCw should be about. We should be wrestling for honor and respect, not whipping out our cocks and seeing who's the biggest, not just for gold or the admiration of sluts. We should be wrestling simply because we love to do it, because we want to be the best at it. This company has become about egos, I myself am guilty of having one, but I no longer wish to walk that road.
Look to my friends and stable mates for the greatest examples of what I speak. Falcon thrives on competition, if he were not being constantly challenged he'd die. Jack Hammond, the man lives to be tested, he's built his career on over coming the odds. Xavier Williams, though you may disagree, and I do concede that once Xavier was guilty of the sin of ego, but as of late Xavier has come to embody that true spirit of competition. Coming to even represent and defend the very same principals that you and I uphold.
This match is for your title, to finally find out which of us is truly the greatest X-Division wrestler to date in nCw. It is my honor to face you AJ and if I lose, I lose and the next time we face I will be that much better, stronger and faster for it. I will not hold a grudge against you or hunt you down. I will not suddenly revert to my old ways. I only wish for a great battle with a great man for a title that means more to us than it means to anyone else. But understand, losing is not what I plan on doing and neither do you. AJ, this match will be hard, grueling and possibly my greatest test to date in nCw. We will push each other to limits we didn't know we had. We will push each other past those limits. We will do things we didn't know were possible and at the end of it all when one of us is the winner, the other the loser, we will truly know that no one will ever come close to giving either of us a match quite like that again.
No AJ, you are not my greatest rival... Not just yet... But Sunday is coming quickly and I know you will not disappoint me.
( With a slight turn of his head, Angel shows use his pearly whites and smiles. )
Angel: You may or may not be wondering why you find me sitting here on top of this church, looking out over a city I once called home. The answer is really quite simple. This building is clean, pure and innocent and from up here you can see the entire city, a city that is wrought with crime, with disease, with egos and hatred... In the distance... I see a faint glimmer of hope that something or someone will come along and raise this city and it's people up from the graves they've dug themselves and carry them to their salvation.
( Angel pushes himself up to a standing position, turning to wards the camera and making his way closer. )
Angel: I don't know what the future holds for either of us AJ, I only know that we both hope and strive for great things. I know I dream of the day I fight for and represent a company built on a foundation of respect and I hope when that day comes you stand across from me as my worthy adversary and rival.
Stand up AJ for what you believe in, Stand up AJ for what is right, Stand up AJ for nCw...
( Fade out. )