JOSEPH GREER: We certainly hope you’re enjoying the action here at Anarchy Forty-Nine as we prepare for a Pay Per View that just may live up to it’s name, Pandemonium!
TOMMY ONIONS: Thata boy Greer get that bonus money for plugging the pay per view! Yeah, the boss lady has been tight lipped on this one. Come to think of it, she hasn’t actually announced what kinds of crazy ass matches will be coming! I can’t ducking wait!
Switching back to the arena, fans are cheering, not just in anticipation of Pandemonium, but there was still more Anarchy to come.
JOSEPH GREER: Here we go with what should be a very interesting match as we creep closer and closer to our main event of the evening. Before we get to that though, we have a lumberjack match.
TOMMY ONIONS: So they get Axes and chainsaws and shit?! Finally! My new favourite match!
JOSEPH GREER: *sighs* It’s been almost five years now Tommy, a lumberjack match.
Expecting an answer, Greer is instead greeted by a solid five seconds of silence. Clearly Tommy has no clue what he’s talking about.
JOSEPH GREER: You know, when the ring is surrounded by wrestlers so no one can leave, a lumberjack match!
TOMMY ONIONS: Oh, LUMBERjack match! Why didn’t you say so?!
JOSEPH GREER: Hopeless…
Saving Joseph Greer’s very sanity, their conversation is ended as "Iron Wolf" by Beast wars heralds the first true test of Big Ass Hank and the RSW Blackshirts’ replacements.
JOSEPH GREER: Led by Gabriel Tuck, here come the lumber jacks, the new RSW Security team. I don’t know about you Tommy, but I’m not exactly feeling a whole lot safer with our CEO’s hired goons now enforcing the rules!
TOMMY ONIONS: Look at these motherfuckers. I thought Reaper and the Dravens were creepy back in the day…look at that one!
Focusing on the pack of some twenty miscreants trailing behind Tuck showed a motley crew of likely sociopaths. Most of which were dressed in red and black, their faces painted with varying smiles.
A close up reveals an albino clown, his pale complexion further offset by his white clothes, just a little dingy but otherwise he was a beacon within the pack of ravenous clowns, a crazed look held his eyes.
JOSEPH GREER: I’m told that thing straight from my nightmares is called Whitewash.
TOMMY ONIONS: And that one! We’ve seen that one before!
Indeed, a dirty bloodstained jumpsuit clad clown with thick dirty green dreadlocks and cracked and peeling clown makeup stares around the arena cackling at anyone foolish enough to make eye contact with him.
JOSEPH GREER: That is HeHeHe, he and his twin brother faced ‘D’ and one Jakie Wentzel while ‘D’ was still under the guise of Vengador Oscuro.
TOMMY ONIONS: Where do you think they get them all? Like do they go to old carnivals? Or is there a pound?
JOSEPH GREER: There is Sticky the Clown, I’m not making that up folks. I think I can smell him from here…
At Tuck’s direction, the clowns circle the ring and start pounding on the mat. Some laugh, others shriek, a few simply scream. Some in the audience are clearly uncomfortable with the Krimson Kharnival clowns about.
GABRIEL TUCK: There’s one more…
The crowd erupts in boos as ‘Circus Apocalypse’ by Vermillion Lies blasts through the arena!
JOSEPH GREER: Esmeralda Von Krauss! Our acting CEO is one of the lumberjacks!
TOMMY ONIONS: She can go after my wood whenever she wants Greer…whenever she wants.
JOSEPH GREER: I’ll be sure to tell her…
TOMMY ONIONS: Oh dear God no! Do not do that!
Walking slowly to the ring, clearly the boos of the RSW faithful meaning nothing to her. This was her arena, her time!
BOB MOONEY: Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome to ringside, the acting CEO of Riot Star Wrestling…Esmeralda Von Krauss!
JOSEPH GREER: This can’t be good for ‘D’. With Esmeralda Von Krauss at ringside, you can almost count on some interference from the clowns!
TOMMY ONIONS: How Date you besmirch the good name of our boss lady!
JOSEPH GREER: I hear Shane besmirches her plenty…
TOMMY ONIONS: Damn Joey! Just damn! I mean good one and that should have came from me, but damn!
Reaching the ring side area, she snaps her fingers and a clown runs off to fetch her a steel folding chair. He’s back almost instantly.
ESMERALDA VON KRAUSS: That…*sighs* will do.
Taking a seat, she waves at Bob Mooney as if to say ‘you may carry on now’.
BOB MOONEY: Introducing first; from Dallas, Texas…weighing in at two hundred and thirty five pounds...Steve Murdock!
“Lunatic Fringe” by Red Ryder begins playing, rising slowly until the song fully kicks in as Steve Murdock, kendo stick in hand, bursts through the curtain to a loud, but mixed reaction!
JOSEPH GREER: Steve Murdock debuting some new music here at Anarchy Forty Nine! A divisive wrestler, some love him for his wild and crazy style, while others dislike his need to seemingly keep upping the stakes!
TOMMY ONIONS: Fuck that! Keep going Steve! Keep going until you find whatever you’re looking for!
Making his way to the ring, Murdock looks focused, ready and maybe just a little more unhinged than usual.
JOSEPH GREER: As Murdock makes his way to the ring, let’s talk about the history between these two.
TOMMY ONIONS: History? Who cares? Let them get in there and tear each other apart! Hell, let the clowns in too! Let’s do this!
JOSEPH GREER: I appreciate your ‘enthusiasm’ Tommy, but these two go way back to Genesis, a promotion we here in RSW can draw our history back to via GCW and GwF! I understand that it was ‘D’ who personally reached out to Murdock to bring him here to begin with!
Cutting back to the stage as a ready and frustrated Steve Murdock paces the ring.
BOB MOONEY: Introducing his opponent; hailing from Parts Unknown, weighing in at two hundred and thirteen pounds…he is the number one contender to the RSW World Heavyweight Championship, he is the man known simply as D!!!!
A fresh burst of cheer accompanies the beginning chords to ‘Freak’ by Silverchair blast its way through the arena sound system.
Then darkness takes over the arena.
A single spotlight casts light towards the top of the ramp way. D steps out into the red spotlight at the top of the ramp way.
TOMMY ONIONS: Jesus he over does this.
JOSEPH GREER: ‘D’ has always been known for not just his in ring ability, but his ability to work a crowd.
TOMMY ONIONS: Work? He hasn’t worked the last two events!
D walks down the ramp way with a shadowy grace, as has become his norm lately, he ignores the fans as he surveys the arena, taking in the cheers, boos and confused in-betweeners alike.
JOSEPH GREER: ‘D’ has been concentrating on winning the World Championship, but am I the only one seeing the shift in his temperament?
TOMMY ONIONS: *laughs* And how the fuck is that going Greer? He didn’t get the job done at Masquerade and somehow managed to get a rematch despite being suspended.
JOSEPH GREER: Tommy that may be the closest thing to actual insightful commentary you’ve ever said. This is the first time ‘D’ has had a match since Masquerade, but he’s been plenty busy. Just ask Shane Mitchell.
TOMMY ONIONS: Ask Mitchell? You mean, ask the champ? The one allegedly banging our gorgeous German boss over there!? That lucky son of a bitch?! What am I going to ask him? How can I be more like him? Fuck you Greer, ya hater!
JOSEPH GREER: Ok, I guess you kind of have me there, but like I was saying…ever since he’s become focused on the championship…
Walking right past Gabriel Tuck, ‘D’ rolls into the ring to stand on the second turnbuckle to stand high above Esmeralda and her motley gang of thugs.
TOMMY ONIONS: Focused nothing, he’s staring down past the clowns straight at Esmeralda!
Looking satisfied with whatever is going on around the current CEO D jumps down from the second turnbuckle and begins stretching and testing the ropes.
Turning his attention to Steve Murdock, his features soften slightly.
‘D’: We don’t have to do this.
STEVE MURDOCK: Then quit!
Shaking his head, ‘D’ shrugs as Shawna Savante calls for the bell.
DING! DING!! DING!!!
The larger Murdock charges at ‘D’ swinging wildly!
JOSEPH GREER: There’s the bell and Murdock is a man possessed! He’s out there throwing bombs at the enigma!
TOMMY ONIONS: This Guy is great! Weapons and constantly trying to win…my kind of guy!
JOSEPH GREER: I think he also realizes that the longer this match goes, the more it favours ‘D’.
Dodging a fresh barrage of haymakers, ‘D’ touches up the larger Murdock with a couple body shots on his way out.
STEVE MURDOCK: Didn’t hurt.
‘D’: Wasn’t supposed to.
JOSEPH GREER: ‘D’ clearly doesn’t want to be in there with Murdock.
TOMMY ONIONS: Who would? That morherfucker’s crazy! He literally just said getting punched didn’t hurt!
JOSEPH GREER: No, I mean yeah he kinda is, but it’s looks like more than that. Maybe ‘D’ thinks they’re friends from their days in Genesis?
TOMMY ONIONS: My friends don’t take to take my head off with the old ass punches Greer, what kind of freaks do you hang out with?
JOSEPH GREER: I know what you’re saying Tommy.
TOMMY ONIONS: You do?
JOSEPH GREER: Murdock made it clear he, at least in part, blames ‘D’ for his loss to Andi Snow. He thinks ‘D’s’ coaching helped the returning Snow get the win over the former Genesis Daredevil!
TOMMY ONIONS: Ummm…yeah, that!
In the ring, Murdock and ‘D’ lock up, the more powerful Murdock Irish whips the enigma to the ropes.
JOSEPH GREER: Lock up and Murdock now with an Irish whip…
A simple, but effective shoulder tackle sends ‘D’ to the mat for the first time this match. The crowd cheers as Murdock goes to work.
JOSEPH GREER: Big shoulder tackle! Murdock looking to take control early!
TOMMY ONIONS: Here we go!
The moment ‘D’ hits the canvas, Esmeralda bolts up from her seat.
ESMERALDA VON KRAUSS: Now!
The crowd erupts in boos as the clowns dive into the ring swarming ‘D’ and knocking Steve Murdock from the ring!
JOSEPH GREER: Oh come on! This is totally uncalled for!
TOMMY ONIONS: And that’s why you don’t fuck with the boss Greer.
Simply staring at Bob Mooney, Esmeralda outstretches her hand. No further explanation is needed as the veteran ring announcer hands over the microphone.
ESMERALDA VON KRAUSS: Now Dahling…you didn’t think I would simply allow you walk back into my ring after all you’ve done no?
Fighting as best he can, ‘D’ is overwhelmed almost immediately as the sea of clowns seems to be competing for a chance to drag a piece of the enigma back to their queen as Gabriel Tuck hangs back directing traffic.
JOSEPH GREER: Skilled or not, there’s got to be twenty of them or more! Wait…
A cheer bursts from the crowd as random objects; chairs, a ladder, and a fire extinguisher crumple the outer row of clowns!
JOSEPH GREER: Murdock is launching artillery into the lumberjacks! He’s got a kendo stick and a chair! See their time together in Genesis wouldn’t allow Murdock to simply let them pick apart the enigma!
Cracking Gabriel Tuck across the back, the security team lead hits the mat and rolls to the outside as Murdock hacks a path through the clowns with a freshly launched chair!
TOMMY ONIONS: Holy shit! Yes! This is nuts Greer! I mean he’s probably gonna pay for this, but fuck yeah!
HeHeHe crumples to the mat with a chair shot. Some six clowns are down and with their leader licking his wounds outside the ring, several scatter, Whitewash and Sticky the Clown among them.
TOMMY ONIONS: I mean Murdock’s probably just pissed off that they hit him too, this isn’t some golden moment Greer, they just pissed of a sociopath!
‘D’ makes it to his feet as Murdock hands him a chair and switches to a kendo stick.
JOSEPH GREER: Still think that? He just gave ‘D’ a chair!
TOMMY ONIONS: He’s crazy not stupid! There’s like twenty of them…you said it yourself!
Driving the chair into the abdomen of the nearest clown, ‘D’ leaves the clown wide open for Murdock!
JOSEPH GREER: Teamwork here from Murdock and ‘D’!
TOMMY ONIONS: Shhhh! Listen to this…
CRACK! The sound of the kendo stick buckling and stinging the flesh of this poor unfortunate clown practically sends shockwaves throughout the arena!
JOSEPH GREER: Listen to that crowd Tommy! These fans are going wild and the clowns are retreating! Esmeralda Von Krauss is NOT impressed!
TOMMY ONIONS: Yeah, I hope they enjoy their little moment here because they’re going to pay for this!
Esmeralda drops the microphone, ordering a nearby clown to light the end of the cigarette for her.
A giant puff of smoke later, Gabriel Tuck is at her side as the crew of clowns and their Queen glare at the two men in the ring.
JOSEPH GREER: Well folks this is where security would be great, but this gang is the security!
TOMMY ONIONS: Ain’t that a bitch?!
‘D’: I’m sorry…
Bang! The chair connecting with Murdock’s head sends the bear six and half footer to the mat as though he’d been shot.
‘D’: …but this chapter needs to close. It’s time. I really am sorry Steve.
Blasting Murdock once more for good measure, ‘D’ drops the chair containing the head indent of his former brother in arms.
Climbing the turnbuckle once more as medical staff starts to check on Murdock, ‘D’ states down at Esmeralda and her goons as the crowd boos, unsure of what they’ve seen. In turn ‘D’ motions to his waist miming the championship.
JOSEPH GREER: I said it earlier, ‘D’ is different now that he’s chasing after Shane Mitchell and the RSW World Heavyweight Championship! A clearly conflicted enigma might have just buried Genesis once and for all!
TOMMY ONIONS: Ok Greer, big deal…you were right. The last time you were right the question was ‘is my wife cheating on me?’ Don’t let it go to your head!
Smiling, Esmeralda waves off a furious Gabriel Tuck, who in turn orders the clowns to stand down.
ESMERALDA VON KRAUSS: Come Dahlings, our work here is done.
The show cuts to commercial as the CEO and her veritable army of clowns exit the ramp.
JOSEPH GREER: We have to take our final commercial break folks, when we come back…our main event!!!