Post by Dave D-Flipz on May 28, 2020 16:55:17 GMT -5
*The scene opens up on a view of the Palm Springs Convention Center. The show is already underway and so the parking lot is full of cars and devoid of people. We zoom out and see a man driving up to the parking for talent in a blue corvette. He hops out of the car and locks it as he takes it all in. The camera view switches from overhead drone shot to a camera crew near the doorway to the backstage area. As the doors open and the man steps in we recognize the new #1 Contender to the MCCW World Heavyweight Championship, Death Trap. He sees the camera crew and smirks*
: "It’s funny, all these fans here in the stadium. MCCW had it in Canada and now here we are in Palm Springs and people are filling the arena. It’s the kind of rush I missed at the rumble, out there dominating with nobody to cheer my name. And here I am in SWAT for you fans. I’m not gonna lie it was surreal watching back the video of my first appearance here just to goad Zoran a bit. I didn’t know if you all were going to know who I was and yet you figured it out and cheered me over your own SWAT member. Well … der komissar Z has proven to be about as loyal to SWAT as Brutus was to Caesar. So I think I understand."
*He gestures to the locker rooms around him*
: "And so when he made the foolish taunt to the roster to challenge him, how could I say no? You all welcomed me for one brief appearance, I figured why not come back and give the people of this company what they want to see! Here in these locker rooms hide a collection of talented individuals who put themselves out there every show for you loyal fans. Here in these rooms are men and women who impress on the daily. Men like Radu and Timeless, Syberus and Valentine, women like Suzi and Lucky Linda. And yeah I guess even that snake Caffrey."
*He holds up his hands in innocence*
: "Call me a cynic but a man needs to do more than get harassed by the bossman and love on his home city before I buy that he’s turned a corner. The well of bad deeds and evidence is WAY too deep on Caffrey for me to buy this transition. I guess next Battleground I can judge for myself. My father used to have a saying back in the old days, ‘You can shave the tiger but that doesn’t remove the stripes.’ Basically some things run deeper. Ah if the old man could only see me now. See it’s funny, I consider myself to be a successful wrestler, a successful adult. But my old man … nah he never got on my side."
*He shrugs*
: "Maybe it’s why I crave the spotlight and adoration so much."
*He laughs at his own words*
: "Psychologically you crave adoration, attention from your parents. But I’m Italian and as you know we’re all just big momma’s boys. Getting on daddy’s good side is always harder. It always seems like a fight just to get noticed, nothing is worthy in his eyes. Daddy has these plans for his son and if he doesn’t meet them? Well fuck him. See I was always a good student in school. I would come home with A’s and B’s in all my subjects, real knack for science and math. All dad cared about is if I was joining the school sports teams. Wanted to play in the band, he shot that down pretty quick. A good old fashioned rousing round of 1980’s fearmongering about the ‘homosexual agenda’ and real men played sports, and ‘just thankful you don’t gotta take home ec.’ Real offensive behind-the-times kind of shitstain of a man. Mom would just stay quiet so he’d shut his trap and let us eat in peace."
*he begins walking down the hallway into the arena, away from the entrance doors. He heads towards craft services to grab a snack.*
: "When I got to high school it was baseball. As very few of you in XHF remember I started my adult life in the minor leagues before moving to ECF to try my hand at wrestling. A fine decision in the end. But for pops it was always about his ideas and how they were the best. Nobody could be smarter than him. So baseball was a ‘pussy sport’ and I should try ‘futbol’ or rugby. But you know how it is with those Europeans. Traditions and ideals die hard."
*He gets to the table of food and takes a hard look around judging the spread as compared to MCCW. He nods. Must be comparable.*
: "So while I toiled away learning my sport dad would shout insults from the kitchen window. He’d heckle me at games. He’d come only to hit on the other women there, and then regret how they weren’t ‘soccer moms’. Really he is an old, beat-up, crass, behind-the-times, narcissistic piece of work. He would call me Davey Disappointment"
*He shakes his head in sadness and wipes a mock tear from his eye as he grabs an apple and takes a bite.*
: "And don’t get me started on how he treated my mom. He man basically drank all the time and would often be gone for days at a time on some bender. We’d catch him coming in early in the morning covered in hooker sweat and stripper spit. Slap marks across his face because no amount of money was good enough to cover for the horrible person he was and how he treated people."
*He takes another bite and begins tossing the apple in the air to himself and catching it*
: "I never wanted to disappoint my dear old dad. But it’s hard to match his standards … or lack thereof. Nothing was good enough because he didn’t really care. He was a selfish prick. When he ran off it was the greatest day of our lives. I was able to become a wrestler because he wasn’t there to steal my equipment and mooch off my baseball pay checks. I was able to start working out and go from the slim cruiserweight I was in ECF to the well built stud of a man machine you see before you!"
*He rubs his abs glistening with oil. That’s the money shot right there.*
: "But I still hear that nagging voice in my head. Oh you won a title? Big woop they put that International title on anyone. Oh you are world champ? Who’d you beat, the company is dying. Single handedly saved your company from an invasion and hostile takeover? Oh hey isn’t that Mongo buying the promotion anyway? Won a world title and dethroned a legend? Pfft look at you slacking off and having orgies with 8 men. Lost the title there didn’t ya? He was … uh … more upset he wasn’t around for the 8 men piling on me than that I lost. He assumed I never won and everything was charity. The man had no scruples. So I was daddy’s little disappointment. But that’s why I had to show up here. To shut him up for good. I owe my dear ol’ illegitimate dad a whopping."
*He smiles and tosses the apple over his head, it lands in a garbage bin*
: "Padre … papa … daddy-o … I’m sorry man. I wish I could impress you but it’s hard to impress a man who only thinks about himself and how to make himself look like a bigger man. It comes from that small dick energy he’s got going. Always the manager, not the fighter. So he steps up and takes some power in the company and immediately all the money goes missing while he ends up main eventing and in the craziest of matches. And no loyalty to the people who make the show he is supposedly a headliner for a success. When you get right down to it … Zoran is the worst father a man could have. Look at all the myriad failings of character and action! You’d never catch my mom teaching her son to act like that … that’s why I ended up a real man … cuz you weren’t there for me!"
*He laughs*
: "Zoran let’s face it, you are a failure of a man. Passing the blame for every fault, hiding every nefarious deed and hoping nobody uncovers what a weak minded, weak spirited, pathetic old failure you are. It’s clear I got my penchant for dropping titles quickly from your side of the bloodline isn’t it? It takes a real failure to rig a match and still lose. Entering last, check. Army of minions, check. Illegal knives, check. A fucking robot to fight your battles? Check check checkeroonie. It’s a good thing your minions are as pathetic as you or the plan could have worked. Say what you will about Caffrey and his flaws but if he had enacted that plan we’d all have been done from the start. And your robot superhuman got bested by my tag team partner. NOT … my bitch … my tag team partner. Mistress Discipline. You should learn the name because if you do meet MCCW at the Call to Arms you will have to reckon with the fact that you all ignored us and denigrated us."
*He shows a fire and fury in his eyes*
: "And that’s what all comes down to daddy komissar z. This is about more than that X*Crown title. Oh it’s a big piece of the puzzle baby you better believe it. But for too long I have had to sit around and watch you and Caffrey and Goth and Timeless and Syberus talk about how SWAT is the big boys place, where the best in the business are … in between you taking pot shots at your whole goddamned roster of course. And lo and behold but you were partially right. There is a lot of stuff to like here. Getting the fans in here safely is a marvel of social engineering, hosting a HUGE card every show with title matches and everything to please them. I tip my cap to you. This roster is full of impressive talent. And unlike everyone else who loves to shit on any company they aren’t a part of … DT is a global ambassador of sorts. And unlike you dear old father … I take the job seriously. It is bad form to go around crapping on the good names of companies doing good work. Sure AWF has a bunch of cheats and psychopaths but look at the quality of shows. J-ROK is tainted with business corruption and gang warfare but look at some of the talent there! I mean it’d be almost tops in the business if Dylan Black wasn’t signed on there …"
*He pauses to let Dylan catch that one and sink in.*
: "I for one am excited to see TGK and CW back with some kick ass shows. But see they all have their defenders. MCCW just gets the short end of the stick. And that’s why I’m here. Yes I want personal revenge on the man who never came to my professional baseball games, who tried to sell pictures of my mom to adult magazines in Eastern Europe, who stole my X*Crown title at Supremacy and tried to have a robot assassinate me at the rumble. And yes … when I beat you … WHEN … I will go on to next Battleground and claim that X*Crown from the ‘reformed’ Caffrey and make him tap out like a bitch. I will put him in that delightful retirement community in Seattle he turned me on to, ya know they are really quite nice. You should look into it too. But this will also show everyone in SWAT that MCCW has some top talent too. And maybe it’ll show everyone to come watch Voltage and Ignition and see the new X*Crown champ perform. Beats watching you game the system … and seeing Hayden Callahan in the main event …"
*He walks up to the security to enter into the area he can prep for his match.*
Security: "Name and business here sir?"
: "Death Trap, I have a match on the card. I’m here to disappoint my daddy one more time."
*He walks into the secure area and leaves the cameras behind*
: "It’s funny, all these fans here in the stadium. MCCW had it in Canada and now here we are in Palm Springs and people are filling the arena. It’s the kind of rush I missed at the rumble, out there dominating with nobody to cheer my name. And here I am in SWAT for you fans. I’m not gonna lie it was surreal watching back the video of my first appearance here just to goad Zoran a bit. I didn’t know if you all were going to know who I was and yet you figured it out and cheered me over your own SWAT member. Well … der komissar Z has proven to be about as loyal to SWAT as Brutus was to Caesar. So I think I understand."*He gestures to the locker rooms around him*
: "And so when he made the foolish taunt to the roster to challenge him, how could I say no? You all welcomed me for one brief appearance, I figured why not come back and give the people of this company what they want to see! Here in these locker rooms hide a collection of talented individuals who put themselves out there every show for you loyal fans. Here in these rooms are men and women who impress on the daily. Men like Radu and Timeless, Syberus and Valentine, women like Suzi and Lucky Linda. And yeah I guess even that snake Caffrey."*He holds up his hands in innocence*
: "Call me a cynic but a man needs to do more than get harassed by the bossman and love on his home city before I buy that he’s turned a corner. The well of bad deeds and evidence is WAY too deep on Caffrey for me to buy this transition. I guess next Battleground I can judge for myself. My father used to have a saying back in the old days, ‘You can shave the tiger but that doesn’t remove the stripes.’ Basically some things run deeper. Ah if the old man could only see me now. See it’s funny, I consider myself to be a successful wrestler, a successful adult. But my old man … nah he never got on my side."*He shrugs*
: "Maybe it’s why I crave the spotlight and adoration so much."*He laughs at his own words*
: "Psychologically you crave adoration, attention from your parents. But I’m Italian and as you know we’re all just big momma’s boys. Getting on daddy’s good side is always harder. It always seems like a fight just to get noticed, nothing is worthy in his eyes. Daddy has these plans for his son and if he doesn’t meet them? Well fuck him. See I was always a good student in school. I would come home with A’s and B’s in all my subjects, real knack for science and math. All dad cared about is if I was joining the school sports teams. Wanted to play in the band, he shot that down pretty quick. A good old fashioned rousing round of 1980’s fearmongering about the ‘homosexual agenda’ and real men played sports, and ‘just thankful you don’t gotta take home ec.’ Real offensive behind-the-times kind of shitstain of a man. Mom would just stay quiet so he’d shut his trap and let us eat in peace."*he begins walking down the hallway into the arena, away from the entrance doors. He heads towards craft services to grab a snack.*
: "When I got to high school it was baseball. As very few of you in XHF remember I started my adult life in the minor leagues before moving to ECF to try my hand at wrestling. A fine decision in the end. But for pops it was always about his ideas and how they were the best. Nobody could be smarter than him. So baseball was a ‘pussy sport’ and I should try ‘futbol’ or rugby. But you know how it is with those Europeans. Traditions and ideals die hard."*He gets to the table of food and takes a hard look around judging the spread as compared to MCCW. He nods. Must be comparable.*
: "So while I toiled away learning my sport dad would shout insults from the kitchen window. He’d heckle me at games. He’d come only to hit on the other women there, and then regret how they weren’t ‘soccer moms’. Really he is an old, beat-up, crass, behind-the-times, narcissistic piece of work. He would call me Davey Disappointment"*He shakes his head in sadness and wipes a mock tear from his eye as he grabs an apple and takes a bite.*
: "And don’t get me started on how he treated my mom. He man basically drank all the time and would often be gone for days at a time on some bender. We’d catch him coming in early in the morning covered in hooker sweat and stripper spit. Slap marks across his face because no amount of money was good enough to cover for the horrible person he was and how he treated people."*He takes another bite and begins tossing the apple in the air to himself and catching it*
: "I never wanted to disappoint my dear old dad. But it’s hard to match his standards … or lack thereof. Nothing was good enough because he didn’t really care. He was a selfish prick. When he ran off it was the greatest day of our lives. I was able to become a wrestler because he wasn’t there to steal my equipment and mooch off my baseball pay checks. I was able to start working out and go from the slim cruiserweight I was in ECF to the well built stud of a man machine you see before you!"*He rubs his abs glistening with oil. That’s the money shot right there.*
: "But I still hear that nagging voice in my head. Oh you won a title? Big woop they put that International title on anyone. Oh you are world champ? Who’d you beat, the company is dying. Single handedly saved your company from an invasion and hostile takeover? Oh hey isn’t that Mongo buying the promotion anyway? Won a world title and dethroned a legend? Pfft look at you slacking off and having orgies with 8 men. Lost the title there didn’t ya? He was … uh … more upset he wasn’t around for the 8 men piling on me than that I lost. He assumed I never won and everything was charity. The man had no scruples. So I was daddy’s little disappointment. But that’s why I had to show up here. To shut him up for good. I owe my dear ol’ illegitimate dad a whopping."*He smiles and tosses the apple over his head, it lands in a garbage bin*
: "Padre … papa … daddy-o … I’m sorry man. I wish I could impress you but it’s hard to impress a man who only thinks about himself and how to make himself look like a bigger man. It comes from that small dick energy he’s got going. Always the manager, not the fighter. So he steps up and takes some power in the company and immediately all the money goes missing while he ends up main eventing and in the craziest of matches. And no loyalty to the people who make the show he is supposedly a headliner for a success. When you get right down to it … Zoran is the worst father a man could have. Look at all the myriad failings of character and action! You’d never catch my mom teaching her son to act like that … that’s why I ended up a real man … cuz you weren’t there for me!"*He laughs*
: "Zoran let’s face it, you are a failure of a man. Passing the blame for every fault, hiding every nefarious deed and hoping nobody uncovers what a weak minded, weak spirited, pathetic old failure you are. It’s clear I got my penchant for dropping titles quickly from your side of the bloodline isn’t it? It takes a real failure to rig a match and still lose. Entering last, check. Army of minions, check. Illegal knives, check. A fucking robot to fight your battles? Check check checkeroonie. It’s a good thing your minions are as pathetic as you or the plan could have worked. Say what you will about Caffrey and his flaws but if he had enacted that plan we’d all have been done from the start. And your robot superhuman got bested by my tag team partner. NOT … my bitch … my tag team partner. Mistress Discipline. You should learn the name because if you do meet MCCW at the Call to Arms you will have to reckon with the fact that you all ignored us and denigrated us."*He shows a fire and fury in his eyes*
: "And that’s what all comes down to daddy komissar z. This is about more than that X*Crown title. Oh it’s a big piece of the puzzle baby you better believe it. But for too long I have had to sit around and watch you and Caffrey and Goth and Timeless and Syberus talk about how SWAT is the big boys place, where the best in the business are … in between you taking pot shots at your whole goddamned roster of course. And lo and behold but you were partially right. There is a lot of stuff to like here. Getting the fans in here safely is a marvel of social engineering, hosting a HUGE card every show with title matches and everything to please them. I tip my cap to you. This roster is full of impressive talent. And unlike everyone else who loves to shit on any company they aren’t a part of … DT is a global ambassador of sorts. And unlike you dear old father … I take the job seriously. It is bad form to go around crapping on the good names of companies doing good work. Sure AWF has a bunch of cheats and psychopaths but look at the quality of shows. J-ROK is tainted with business corruption and gang warfare but look at some of the talent there! I mean it’d be almost tops in the business if Dylan Black wasn’t signed on there …"*He pauses to let Dylan catch that one and sink in.*
: "I for one am excited to see TGK and CW back with some kick ass shows. But see they all have their defenders. MCCW just gets the short end of the stick. And that’s why I’m here. Yes I want personal revenge on the man who never came to my professional baseball games, who tried to sell pictures of my mom to adult magazines in Eastern Europe, who stole my X*Crown title at Supremacy and tried to have a robot assassinate me at the rumble. And yes … when I beat you … WHEN … I will go on to next Battleground and claim that X*Crown from the ‘reformed’ Caffrey and make him tap out like a bitch. I will put him in that delightful retirement community in Seattle he turned me on to, ya know they are really quite nice. You should look into it too. But this will also show everyone in SWAT that MCCW has some top talent too. And maybe it’ll show everyone to come watch Voltage and Ignition and see the new X*Crown champ perform. Beats watching you game the system … and seeing Hayden Callahan in the main event …"*He walks up to the security to enter into the area he can prep for his match.*
Security: "Name and business here sir?"
: "Death Trap, I have a match on the card. I’m here to disappoint my daddy one more time."*He walks into the secure area and leaves the cameras behind*
