Post by The Ace on Aug 4, 2009 7:06:58 GMT -6
*The scene opens on some footage dated October 7th, 2007 - nCw Mind Games in the bottom right corner of the screen...*
~Milo covers Knite and the ref counts 1…2.. but Punisher has reached into the ring and pulled Adam Knite's foot onto the ropes! Milo saw the whole thing and goes to the ropes and begins jawing with Punisher. Milo reaches down and slaps towards him but Punisher sides steps and grabs Milo's arm pulling him out of the ring over the top rope! As soon as Milo hits the ground he gets to his feet while he and Punisher begin laying punch after punch into each other. The ref is against the ropes telling them to break it up, and during this time Adam is back on his feet using it as a break to catch his breath… too bad Dave Holland won't let him as he has entered the ring. Knite turns and Holland hits his Magic Touch! The crowd erupts!
Eric Hardy: Adam again gets his head taken off with another huge kick!
Kelly Fox: This is starting to get ugly…..
Dave as he's not the legal man goes through the ropes and jumps to the floor he breaks up Milo and Punisher by attacking Punisher in the back and then tells Milo to take Adam out. Milo comes and pulls Adam's lifeless body to his feet, Milo picks him up in the electric chair and is looking for his finisher, he throws Adam up but Adam isn't done yet he comes forward cluching Milo and nails the victory roll! Adam takes a handful of tights while arching back and the ref jumps down and counts 1…2…Dave notices what's going on and jumps in the ring but Punisher grabs his leg and Dave is just inches out of reach… and 3! Winners and new tag team champions The Alliance of Violence!
Kelly Fox: My God, THEY DID IT!, they really did it!
Eric Hardy: Adam held the pants of Milo Holland, that wasn't a legal pin….
Kelly Fox: It doesn't matter Hardy, they still won!
Punisher gets the titles from the time keeper and carries them into the ring handing one to Adam who is laying on his back having used every ounce of energy to pull off the pin, all he can do is hug the title close to his body. Punisher holds his title high into the air and points to the sky.
Kelly Fox: Great win, for two great competitors!
Eric Hardy: More like stolen win for two cheaters, well one cheater.
Kelly Fox: Oh get over it Hardy! ~
*The scene then switches to The Ace sat in his hotel room on the bed, in his new T-Shirt and jeans. The Ace stares directly into the camera and smiles...*
Now on that night, Kelly Fox told Hardy to get over it, and now almost two years on, I would offer Zane the same advice, your father's dead Jimmy, get over it! You see many legends and fairy tales are told around here of how supposedly great The Punisher was, was being the key word here. Ordinarily these myths have some roots in truth, and what we saw in the footage there was one example of the kernel that truth may have sprung from. If a single tag team reign after beating the Hollands makes Punisher such a great legend, then by all accounts so should The Ace be a legend right now. No? Is it because I'm not dead yet? You see Jimmy, it's a funny old world we live in when you get down to the brass tacks of it, apparently death makes legends of us all. All is forgiven and the world only chooses to remember all that was good about us after we kick the bucket...
*The Ace sighs*
I weep for humanity, I really do, that's how fickle we are as a race. The fact is that only you Jimmy and your associates in the Syndicate regard Punisher as a legend, and let's face it, your friends aren't exactly going to tell you your daddy sucked beans now are they? For the rest of us in nCw, we've moved on, sure your dear papa will be remembered for his one single solitary tag team title reign in the nCw history books, but beyond that, nothing. Your daddy died in this business Zane and this company as a whole couldn't give a damn, so why should I? Why should any of us? Not even his death made him Hall of Fame worthy in the eyes of Leonard Fox, and considering that in most cases death makes you a prime candidate, that really is sad. Does it burn you up inside Jimmy, does it burn you up inside that people gloss over your father's five week reign as a champion and remember him not as one half of a team that did the seemingly impossible and dethroned The Hollands, but as the man Adam Knite carried to success?
*The Ace pauses briefly as if allowing Jimmy Zane to ponder that question*
Yes, yes Jim, I know that pain, I know it well, up until last week, I felt it because of my former tag partner and best friend Steve Awesome, for weeks and months I heard not only the fans but my peers in this business and in this company say I was the lesser half of The Smokin' Aces combination, some still maintain that I am and cite the fact that I only had five weeks at the top of the mountain and that I have yet to be inducted into the Hall of Fame as proof of that. I can only imagine that you feel the same way Zane when you sit back and consider that the men your father and Adam beat as the Alliance of Violence to become Tag Team Champions got inducted into the Hall of Fame before him. Consider also the fact that right now the smart money is probably on Adam Knite being the next inductee, not because he's playing hide the sausage with the boss' daughter, no, no, no, not even because he has broken half the roster in his wake as World Heavyweight Champion, but rather because this company takes sheer delight in slapping guys like you and me in the face Zane, they always have. Our hard work is seldom acknowledged or even appreciated, but what am I trying to share common ground with you for?
*The Ace sighs again, shaking his head*
We're not friends, we're enemies, right? Not by coincidence but by design. Your design Zane, if you hadn't made it your business to interfere in my affairs with Mac Bane two weeks ago on Trauma, all of this could have been avoided, you and the rest of that combo plate short of a few egg rolls that you call The Syndicate could have happily gone on to attack anybody just to get noticed, anybody but me. But your ego wouldn't allow it, would it Zane? It's in your genes to crave that spotlight which you do not deserve and never were worthy of in the first place. Like father, like son. He hung around with Adam Knite for a taste of the spotlight, just as you, Logan and Mac Bane hang around with Gib, who himself clings to Adam, and so the vicious circle continues, and why does Adam allow it? Simple, he allows it for the same reason I hung around in the various Empire spinoffs when I first arrived her just about two years ago. Adam knows now what I knew then, that he is the strongest in a chain of weak links, just as I was in any Empire...
*The Ace grins*
See Jimmy, it all makes sense now doesn't it? Why else would a Superstar of my calibre ever allow himself to be associated with tired old has beens like Spike Kane and spectacular never wases like Davey Ortega and James Franklin Karn? See Jim, I know what you think you are, you consider yourself the strongest link in the chain that is The Syndicate, the chain that you tried to strangle me with two weeks ago, but you see the trouble is, I'm not Sexy Jason, I don't choke out quite so easily with a chain wrapped around my throat. You Jim, are a desperate man, desperate for some attention, any attention and like all truly desperate men, you tried to get that attention by losing your mind. Spike's done it, Kole Kaos has done it and even Dark Prophet himself is at this very moment dusting off that old chestnut and beating us over the head with it by way of pain medicated poetry...
*The Ace pauses and takes a deep breath that manifests itself as yet another sigh for Zane's futile efforts at using the tired old gimmick of madness induced hallucinations to get noticed...*
Hardly original thinking was it, hey Jimmy? You knew your pleas for attention that way would ultimately fall on deaf ears, so you tried a different tactic. You miraculously stopped hallucinating to cover your butler's incompetence and became who you really are. You are 'The Vodoo Child' Jimmy Zane, Son of the Punisher and worshipper of Giblets and now unfortunately for you sunshine, you now have my undivided attention. You wanted the spotlight so bad, here's your chance. Here's your chance to justify why you are the sperm that made it to the egg at the expense of all your rivals. Here's your chance to prove that its not the Survival of the British that determines the evolution of the business but rather the Survival of the Zaniest...
*The Ace chuckles*
Yes, yes, I know that there are some people out there right now that don't see the link between biological theory and cards, so allow me to elaborate a little further, as I am after all a biology graduate and I think I can explain it to all of you who still don't understand where the concept of this match came from. It's simple really, you see in Blackjack, the dealing of an initial winning hand, that is to say, a hand that immediately has a value of 21 is known as a 'Natural', so in essence it is a natural selection. Now...
*Wavy lines suddely appear down both the sides of the screen as the scene dissolves into another, obviously one which The Ace prepared earlier to educate those not familiar with biology about some of its basic theoretical principles. The new scene is a classroom with only one very diligent attractive young student sat there at her desk in complete attentiveness. It is The Ace's wife Kathy, in a schoolgirl outfit with her hair in pig-tails. What? I had to do something to keep you interested at this point, stop drooling and pay attention. His voice carries over from the previous scene, as The Ace is shown infront of an Evolutionary chart with a cane...*
Natural selection is nature's way of selecting the winners from the losers in the great race for life, and it basically states that those with the most favourable genetic traits survive in their environment. Ah you see, it all makes sense now doesn't it? No? What's evolution you ask? *Audible sigh* I give up, I'll let Dr Conway explain...
*We now join the classroom scene with sound and the camera focuses away from Kathy (I know, sorry) to The Ace who is wearing some spectacles, shirt, tie and trousers and his long blonde hair is tied back into a neat pony tail...*
Dr Conway: Evolution is common across all species, the theory that we evolved from apes was first postulated by Charles Darwin in 1859 in his compelling work 'On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection'. Simply put, it states that modern humans and primates such as chimps and monkeys and gorillas all evolved from a common ancestor. For some years now it has been widely regarded that evolution has reached a state of equillibrium, but I dispute that, evolution is still happening. Some species are still evolving and after literally days of searching, I finally have proof of that fact. It is a new species, so very little is actually known about it at the moment, but early reports suggest it is an inferior primate-like species with half the intelligence and rudimentary skill of a chimpanzee...I give to you the Homozanius...
*At this point the camera focuses on the Evolutionary chart we saw a brief glimpse of earlier...*
Dr Conway: On this chart, you can track the theoretical evolution of Homozanius, all the way from "poopoo baby" Drypithocus to the expected final equillibrium state of "Vindaloo Man" Homo Sapien, provided of course that the species has testes which are capable of descent. As yet there has been no firm evidence of this although the progression from humble X-Division Spot Monkey to the current "Voodoo Child" Homo Erectus, commonly known as Jimmy Zane has shown considerable promise that evolution of this species is infact on track. Recently it was thought that Homozanius was infact evolving into the next stage - "Cuckoo Adolescent" Homo Acasuso when he became scatterbrained, but this was proven false when for the first time in biological history, we witnessed a marked devolution back to Jimmy Zane. Some of my colleagues have speculated that Jimmy Zane is infact the equillibrium state of Homozanius evolution but personally I am hopeful that eventually we'll see more...
*Kathy raises her hand at this point and looks at The Ace with a twinkle in her eye, clearly she had a crush on the teacher, and she giggled as he looked her in the eye...*
Yes, Miss Jones?
Kathy: Erm sir, how can you be so sure Homozanius is actually evolving?
Dr Conway: Good question, most of my evidence comes from actually observing the creature first hand in its natural habitat, Jimmy Zane seems to have already grasped the simple concepts of 'My Dad would beat your Dad' as you often see in human children, but then some of us don't have the luxury of being second generation mediocrity, do we?
Kathy: No sir...
Dr Conway: Also Jimmy Zane appears to mastered the art of mimickery by imitating the same old tired insults to those it feels threatened by, aand of course there is evidence of the species being able to form emotional bonds and to love as evidenced by "Voodoo Child" Homo Erectus actually being sexually stimulated by Homeless Haroldus, commonly known as Gib.
Kathy: That's funny sir, I thought interspecies mating was near impossible...
Dr Conway: In most cases it is Miss Jones, but unfortunately Jimmy Zane doesn't realise this and insists on writing secret love letters to Gib almost oblivious to the threats it faces on a daily basis. The only positive is that we know have evidence that Jimmy Zane can use simple tools such as a pen to express himself. Up until that point, all we knew was that he could run but not hide and was capable of organized attacks and empty threats and very little else...
Kathy: It really is remarkable that Homozanius as a species has even made it this far, isn't it sir?
Dr Conway: Indeed it is Miss Jones, indeed it is...
*At this point the bell rings signalling the end of class and Kathy gets up to leave, but The Ace stops her...*
Dr Conway: Oh Miss Jones, I wonder if you woouldn't mind staying behind for a moment, it's just that I could use your help with something...
Kathy: No, I don't mind, not at all sir...
*Kathy and The Ace smile at each other knowingly as the wavy lines dissolve the classroom scene back into the hotel room where The Ace is still sat. He looks into the camera with a sly grin...*
Indeed it is remarkable that Jimmy Zane has survived this long, but Natural Selection will take care of that as it always does, the law of the jungle is that everything that hunts can itself be hunted, and Zane you hunted me two weeks ago at your peril, this Sunday it's my turn...
*The Ace laughs as the scene fades away to black. The black abyss of the hunted becoming the killed...*
~Milo covers Knite and the ref counts 1…2.. but Punisher has reached into the ring and pulled Adam Knite's foot onto the ropes! Milo saw the whole thing and goes to the ropes and begins jawing with Punisher. Milo reaches down and slaps towards him but Punisher sides steps and grabs Milo's arm pulling him out of the ring over the top rope! As soon as Milo hits the ground he gets to his feet while he and Punisher begin laying punch after punch into each other. The ref is against the ropes telling them to break it up, and during this time Adam is back on his feet using it as a break to catch his breath… too bad Dave Holland won't let him as he has entered the ring. Knite turns and Holland hits his Magic Touch! The crowd erupts!
Eric Hardy: Adam again gets his head taken off with another huge kick!
Kelly Fox: This is starting to get ugly…..
Dave as he's not the legal man goes through the ropes and jumps to the floor he breaks up Milo and Punisher by attacking Punisher in the back and then tells Milo to take Adam out. Milo comes and pulls Adam's lifeless body to his feet, Milo picks him up in the electric chair and is looking for his finisher, he throws Adam up but Adam isn't done yet he comes forward cluching Milo and nails the victory roll! Adam takes a handful of tights while arching back and the ref jumps down and counts 1…2…Dave notices what's going on and jumps in the ring but Punisher grabs his leg and Dave is just inches out of reach… and 3! Winners and new tag team champions The Alliance of Violence!
Kelly Fox: My God, THEY DID IT!, they really did it!
Eric Hardy: Adam held the pants of Milo Holland, that wasn't a legal pin….
Kelly Fox: It doesn't matter Hardy, they still won!
Punisher gets the titles from the time keeper and carries them into the ring handing one to Adam who is laying on his back having used every ounce of energy to pull off the pin, all he can do is hug the title close to his body. Punisher holds his title high into the air and points to the sky.
Kelly Fox: Great win, for two great competitors!
Eric Hardy: More like stolen win for two cheaters, well one cheater.
Kelly Fox: Oh get over it Hardy! ~
*The scene then switches to The Ace sat in his hotel room on the bed, in his new T-Shirt and jeans. The Ace stares directly into the camera and smiles...*
Now on that night, Kelly Fox told Hardy to get over it, and now almost two years on, I would offer Zane the same advice, your father's dead Jimmy, get over it! You see many legends and fairy tales are told around here of how supposedly great The Punisher was, was being the key word here. Ordinarily these myths have some roots in truth, and what we saw in the footage there was one example of the kernel that truth may have sprung from. If a single tag team reign after beating the Hollands makes Punisher such a great legend, then by all accounts so should The Ace be a legend right now. No? Is it because I'm not dead yet? You see Jimmy, it's a funny old world we live in when you get down to the brass tacks of it, apparently death makes legends of us all. All is forgiven and the world only chooses to remember all that was good about us after we kick the bucket...
*The Ace sighs*
I weep for humanity, I really do, that's how fickle we are as a race. The fact is that only you Jimmy and your associates in the Syndicate regard Punisher as a legend, and let's face it, your friends aren't exactly going to tell you your daddy sucked beans now are they? For the rest of us in nCw, we've moved on, sure your dear papa will be remembered for his one single solitary tag team title reign in the nCw history books, but beyond that, nothing. Your daddy died in this business Zane and this company as a whole couldn't give a damn, so why should I? Why should any of us? Not even his death made him Hall of Fame worthy in the eyes of Leonard Fox, and considering that in most cases death makes you a prime candidate, that really is sad. Does it burn you up inside Jimmy, does it burn you up inside that people gloss over your father's five week reign as a champion and remember him not as one half of a team that did the seemingly impossible and dethroned The Hollands, but as the man Adam Knite carried to success?
*The Ace pauses briefly as if allowing Jimmy Zane to ponder that question*
Yes, yes Jim, I know that pain, I know it well, up until last week, I felt it because of my former tag partner and best friend Steve Awesome, for weeks and months I heard not only the fans but my peers in this business and in this company say I was the lesser half of The Smokin' Aces combination, some still maintain that I am and cite the fact that I only had five weeks at the top of the mountain and that I have yet to be inducted into the Hall of Fame as proof of that. I can only imagine that you feel the same way Zane when you sit back and consider that the men your father and Adam beat as the Alliance of Violence to become Tag Team Champions got inducted into the Hall of Fame before him. Consider also the fact that right now the smart money is probably on Adam Knite being the next inductee, not because he's playing hide the sausage with the boss' daughter, no, no, no, not even because he has broken half the roster in his wake as World Heavyweight Champion, but rather because this company takes sheer delight in slapping guys like you and me in the face Zane, they always have. Our hard work is seldom acknowledged or even appreciated, but what am I trying to share common ground with you for?
*The Ace sighs again, shaking his head*
We're not friends, we're enemies, right? Not by coincidence but by design. Your design Zane, if you hadn't made it your business to interfere in my affairs with Mac Bane two weeks ago on Trauma, all of this could have been avoided, you and the rest of that combo plate short of a few egg rolls that you call The Syndicate could have happily gone on to attack anybody just to get noticed, anybody but me. But your ego wouldn't allow it, would it Zane? It's in your genes to crave that spotlight which you do not deserve and never were worthy of in the first place. Like father, like son. He hung around with Adam Knite for a taste of the spotlight, just as you, Logan and Mac Bane hang around with Gib, who himself clings to Adam, and so the vicious circle continues, and why does Adam allow it? Simple, he allows it for the same reason I hung around in the various Empire spinoffs when I first arrived her just about two years ago. Adam knows now what I knew then, that he is the strongest in a chain of weak links, just as I was in any Empire...
*The Ace grins*
See Jimmy, it all makes sense now doesn't it? Why else would a Superstar of my calibre ever allow himself to be associated with tired old has beens like Spike Kane and spectacular never wases like Davey Ortega and James Franklin Karn? See Jim, I know what you think you are, you consider yourself the strongest link in the chain that is The Syndicate, the chain that you tried to strangle me with two weeks ago, but you see the trouble is, I'm not Sexy Jason, I don't choke out quite so easily with a chain wrapped around my throat. You Jim, are a desperate man, desperate for some attention, any attention and like all truly desperate men, you tried to get that attention by losing your mind. Spike's done it, Kole Kaos has done it and even Dark Prophet himself is at this very moment dusting off that old chestnut and beating us over the head with it by way of pain medicated poetry...
*The Ace pauses and takes a deep breath that manifests itself as yet another sigh for Zane's futile efforts at using the tired old gimmick of madness induced hallucinations to get noticed...*
Hardly original thinking was it, hey Jimmy? You knew your pleas for attention that way would ultimately fall on deaf ears, so you tried a different tactic. You miraculously stopped hallucinating to cover your butler's incompetence and became who you really are. You are 'The Vodoo Child' Jimmy Zane, Son of the Punisher and worshipper of Giblets and now unfortunately for you sunshine, you now have my undivided attention. You wanted the spotlight so bad, here's your chance. Here's your chance to justify why you are the sperm that made it to the egg at the expense of all your rivals. Here's your chance to prove that its not the Survival of the British that determines the evolution of the business but rather the Survival of the Zaniest...
*The Ace chuckles*
Yes, yes, I know that there are some people out there right now that don't see the link between biological theory and cards, so allow me to elaborate a little further, as I am after all a biology graduate and I think I can explain it to all of you who still don't understand where the concept of this match came from. It's simple really, you see in Blackjack, the dealing of an initial winning hand, that is to say, a hand that immediately has a value of 21 is known as a 'Natural', so in essence it is a natural selection. Now...
*Wavy lines suddely appear down both the sides of the screen as the scene dissolves into another, obviously one which The Ace prepared earlier to educate those not familiar with biology about some of its basic theoretical principles. The new scene is a classroom with only one very diligent attractive young student sat there at her desk in complete attentiveness. It is The Ace's wife Kathy, in a schoolgirl outfit with her hair in pig-tails. What? I had to do something to keep you interested at this point, stop drooling and pay attention. His voice carries over from the previous scene, as The Ace is shown infront of an Evolutionary chart with a cane...*
Natural selection is nature's way of selecting the winners from the losers in the great race for life, and it basically states that those with the most favourable genetic traits survive in their environment. Ah you see, it all makes sense now doesn't it? No? What's evolution you ask? *Audible sigh* I give up, I'll let Dr Conway explain...
*We now join the classroom scene with sound and the camera focuses away from Kathy (I know, sorry) to The Ace who is wearing some spectacles, shirt, tie and trousers and his long blonde hair is tied back into a neat pony tail...*
Dr Conway: Evolution is common across all species, the theory that we evolved from apes was first postulated by Charles Darwin in 1859 in his compelling work 'On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection'. Simply put, it states that modern humans and primates such as chimps and monkeys and gorillas all evolved from a common ancestor. For some years now it has been widely regarded that evolution has reached a state of equillibrium, but I dispute that, evolution is still happening. Some species are still evolving and after literally days of searching, I finally have proof of that fact. It is a new species, so very little is actually known about it at the moment, but early reports suggest it is an inferior primate-like species with half the intelligence and rudimentary skill of a chimpanzee...I give to you the Homozanius...
*At this point the camera focuses on the Evolutionary chart we saw a brief glimpse of earlier...*
Dr Conway: On this chart, you can track the theoretical evolution of Homozanius, all the way from "poopoo baby" Drypithocus to the expected final equillibrium state of "Vindaloo Man" Homo Sapien, provided of course that the species has testes which are capable of descent. As yet there has been no firm evidence of this although the progression from humble X-Division Spot Monkey to the current "Voodoo Child" Homo Erectus, commonly known as Jimmy Zane has shown considerable promise that evolution of this species is infact on track. Recently it was thought that Homozanius was infact evolving into the next stage - "Cuckoo Adolescent" Homo Acasuso when he became scatterbrained, but this was proven false when for the first time in biological history, we witnessed a marked devolution back to Jimmy Zane. Some of my colleagues have speculated that Jimmy Zane is infact the equillibrium state of Homozanius evolution but personally I am hopeful that eventually we'll see more...
*Kathy raises her hand at this point and looks at The Ace with a twinkle in her eye, clearly she had a crush on the teacher, and she giggled as he looked her in the eye...*
Yes, Miss Jones?
Kathy: Erm sir, how can you be so sure Homozanius is actually evolving?
Dr Conway: Good question, most of my evidence comes from actually observing the creature first hand in its natural habitat, Jimmy Zane seems to have already grasped the simple concepts of 'My Dad would beat your Dad' as you often see in human children, but then some of us don't have the luxury of being second generation mediocrity, do we?
Kathy: No sir...
Dr Conway: Also Jimmy Zane appears to mastered the art of mimickery by imitating the same old tired insults to those it feels threatened by, aand of course there is evidence of the species being able to form emotional bonds and to love as evidenced by "Voodoo Child" Homo Erectus actually being sexually stimulated by Homeless Haroldus, commonly known as Gib.
Kathy: That's funny sir, I thought interspecies mating was near impossible...
Dr Conway: In most cases it is Miss Jones, but unfortunately Jimmy Zane doesn't realise this and insists on writing secret love letters to Gib almost oblivious to the threats it faces on a daily basis. The only positive is that we know have evidence that Jimmy Zane can use simple tools such as a pen to express himself. Up until that point, all we knew was that he could run but not hide and was capable of organized attacks and empty threats and very little else...
Kathy: It really is remarkable that Homozanius as a species has even made it this far, isn't it sir?
Dr Conway: Indeed it is Miss Jones, indeed it is...
*At this point the bell rings signalling the end of class and Kathy gets up to leave, but The Ace stops her...*
Dr Conway: Oh Miss Jones, I wonder if you woouldn't mind staying behind for a moment, it's just that I could use your help with something...
Kathy: No, I don't mind, not at all sir...
*Kathy and The Ace smile at each other knowingly as the wavy lines dissolve the classroom scene back into the hotel room where The Ace is still sat. He looks into the camera with a sly grin...*
Indeed it is remarkable that Jimmy Zane has survived this long, but Natural Selection will take care of that as it always does, the law of the jungle is that everything that hunts can itself be hunted, and Zane you hunted me two weeks ago at your peril, this Sunday it's my turn...
*The Ace laughs as the scene fades away to black. The black abyss of the hunted becoming the killed...*