Your Average Run (XCrown 1)
Jul 18, 2023 11:53:32 GMT -5
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Post by Steve Awesome on Jul 18, 2023 11:53:32 GMT -5
“I know what you're thinking.”
It’s a global event.
Not just any global event.
It’s Night of Champions Fourteen.”
“And for the second year in a row, Steve Awesome is in the main event, fighting for the XCrown Championship.”
“So really that only leaves one question.”
“What does ole Steve Awesome have in store for us this time?”
“What in the heck does that rascal have up his sleeve this year?”
“What kind of wacky adventure is the Face of the Franchise going to go on this time in order to entertain the masses and kick allllllll the asses?”
Well what if I told you the answer is “none.”?
What if I told you that there would be no wacky adventure this time around? No baby aliens, no Earths Only Hope, no making out with Spike Kane?
See, the way Steve sees it, he’s saved the world multiple times, done plenty of crazy things to get a rise out of his fans but no matter what he’s done he still hasn’t managed to reclaim the XCrown Championship.
So this time, instead of letting himself get distracted by some kind of whimsical journey, he’s decided to keep himself focused on the prize. He’s decided to train harder and strategize better than ever and you know, see if something like that works better.
And sure he could come up with some low hanging fruit but it probably won’t matter because we all know Florida Man is just picking up the fruit off the ground that fell off the tree.
So this time,
No wacky adventures,
No whimsical journeys,
No silly side quests.
Just Steve Awesome training and getting ready for another big match.
And that’s it.
HEY DONT CLICK OUT OF THIS RP!
COME BACK!
It’ll be fine, jeez!!!
THE HARD(K)ORE REALITY OF STEVE AWESOME
Episode 3: Your Average Run!
It was a bright sunny day. One of those really good ones where the greens of the grass and trees popped and everything just looked beautiful and vibrant.
Steve Awesome was out for a run. Well at this moment we find our hero chatting up a female neighbor. He’s currently explaining to her how cool his Apple Watch is.
“Yeah, you can totally send texts with this bad boy. Link up and drop files. I even ordered doordash off this thing. It’s so cool, you can pretty much do anything you want with it. They are pretty expensive and I could afford it but I knew a guy who got me one for free. Pays to be rich and famous, heh…”
The annoyed lady just stared at him.
Lady: I just asked you what time it was.
“Oh well it’s….”
Steve starts poking at his watch.
“Hold on, I know I got that app somewhere in here….”
The lady just gets more annoyed and walks away.
“Okay it’s, eighty three degrees. No wait that doesn’t sound right?”
Steve looks up and realizes she’s long gone.
“Well whatever, that could have turned into a major distraction from my training regimen.”
Steve rationalized as he got back to jogging.
“Ughh I have to be more careful. I know I’m easily distracted. Okay from now on, be focused. Don’t let nothing distract you. This is all for number three baby!”
Steve puts on his game face and started jogging faster. After a couple of feet he saunters past a couple of hitchhikers from the future looking for help to get back to their time. He knew they were from the future because they each had a sign one explaining they were from the future and the other explaining the help getting back to their time part.
“No! Don’t look at them.”
Steve furrows his brows and focuses even harder and he runs away from the distraction. Just when he thought he was safe he ran into his Anointed stable mates from HardKore World. Wesley Crane and Alexander Von Blankenship were both on super cool mopeds. Hasbulla sat in a baby seat on the back of AVB’s Wendy’s sponsored moped.
AVB: Steve! Bro, we need you!
Wesley: Apparently Hasbulla has an evil twin! The damn thing is running amok in the subway system!
You can tell Steve really wants to go but he fights through the urge and it’s tough but he ultimately stays true to his word.
“Dahhh I can’t go. I have to stay focused on this XCrown match.”
Wesley and AVB are a bit upset by the news but they understand and respect Steve’s commitment and drive to be the best. They all fist bump and Steve gets back to running.
“Man…this is hard! There are distractions everywhere!”
Steve runs a little bit further and suddenly runs into a dock area.
“I don’t remember this dock area being in this neighborhood.”
Suddenly a man holding a video game controller calls out to Steve from the dock.
Man: AHOY HOY! Hey Steve, do you want to cram into a small sub with a couple billionaires and look at shipwrecks?”
Steve got weak at the knees. Of course he wanted to do that! What could possibly go wrong with that idea? His body shook and sweat poured down his brow and he blurted out his answer.[/font]
“nnnnnnnnoidonotttt!!!!!!”
He lied and then took off running as fast as he could.
STEVE AWESOME
Going for the trilogy!
Steve ran to the one place he was sure no one went to anymore. The local library. Even there he had to narrowly dodge being spotted by the Page Master. Once he was sure he was safe, and there were no more distractions he turned and faced the camera.
“No more distractions!”
He said as he cut through the air.
“Now it’s time for a hard question.”
Steve takes a step closer to the camera.
“Out of all five competitors getting ready to main event Night of Champions, what makes yours truly, The Face of the Franchise, stand out amongst his peers?”
Steve rubbed his chin as he thought about the answer.
“If you said, I’m better looking than all of them combined then you’d be right. If you said I have more charm and personality in my pinky finger then every single one of them, I could give you some bonus points. If you brought up the fact that I’m a legend and a certified main event on any show I pop up on, you’d definitely move on to the next round. Maybe you’d answer with my exceptional skills and talent inside a ring that has kept me in that certified main event and relevant for damn near twenty years, I’d have to give you a cookie. If you just so happen to talk about my innate ability to make bird calls, I’d probably say thanks for reading my autobiography.”
Steve smirks.
“You’d technically be correct if you said any of those things but none of that is the answer I’m looking for. See, what really separates me from the pack, what makes me stand out from every other opponent in this Throne of Gold match is the fact that I’ve been XCrown Champion before.”
He holds up two fingers.
“Two different times, just in case anyone’s counting.”
He nods his head.
“The other opponents in this match haven’t even sniffed the crown let alone hold it and I’m sure you are gonna hear a lot about how hungry these young stars and Florida Man are and how they are chomping at the bit to finally become champion.”
“And that’s all well and good of course, I get it, if you're in the wrestling business you should want to be on top. You should be hungry. Foxy too, he should want to do everything in his power to remain the champion. It’s not lost on me that Fox won an even bigger multi man match to become XCrown champion so I know what he’s capable of…”
He stops and his face slowly transforms from a confident gleam to a cold stare from behind his sunglasses.
“But let me tell you what really drives a man to do whatever it takes.”
He sneers into the camera.
“See it’s one thing to never get the chance to “eat” but for me, I’ve had the meal. I ate good. Then I had it ripped away from me. Twice.”
“Some of you in this match, you are just in love with the fantasy of being the top champion on the network. You just want it because you think you need it.”
Steve points to himself.
“But I need it more than you realize.”
It’s like a drug, like an urge I just can’t shake. I’ve been shown what it’s like to eat good, I got the sweet, sweet taste of being champion and now in order to get it back I’m willing to go to places some of you couldn’t even fathom. I need it more because I know that being the XCrown champ changes a person, hell I may as well be addicted and I’m back around to get my next fix.
He pulls off his sunglasses and stares daggers through the screen. The confidence oozed through him.
“I need to become XCrown Champion for a third time.”
“That’s why I’m going to train harder,
“Fight smarter,
And make sure I’m willing to do whatever it takes to make sure I get that crown and sit on my throne as the Xcrown Champion.
“I mean, I literally fought a PANDA BEAR to get here. And I won! If that doesn’t scream deadly focused warrior I don’t know what does.
He slides his sunglasses back on.
“To become the third man to be XCrown Champion three different times is my calling in life. It’s where I belong. It’s what I’m focused on. It’s what I’m training for. I think about it so much I came up with a name for it. I call it the trilogy win. I’m going for the Back to the Future baby! Or you know the Godfather to a lesser extent. I’m not going to let anything get in the way of what I have to do at Night of Champions to win that match. Nobody is going to stop me from sitting on that throne at Night of Champions. Especially not my opponents. Like Beef?”
Steve smirks.
“It’s kind of crazy how far you can take a basic meme before it dies out, isn’t?”
Steve shakes his head in mock disbelief and then slides his sunglasses back on.
“People are going to start saying “Where’s the Beef?” all over again after I knock his overgrown ass back to the Gun Show joke of the month.”
“Or Florida Man…
Steve smirks.
“It’s also kind of crazy how much meth you can take before you die out…”
Steve laughs at his joke and continues.
“If Florida “Mang” gets in my way of that crown or that throne I’ll whip his scaly ass so bad he will go crawling back to Kira on his hands and knees and dragging his belly on the floor like the big dumb gator he is!
“Certainly not Sam Sawyer. Truth is I’ve never met Sam but I’ve seen the hype and I guess they are supposed to be formidable. I guess we will see when I finally find out who Sam Sawyer is….”
Steve thinks about it.
“Or is it “Who Sam Sawyer are?”
Steve shook his head and shrugged his shoulders.
“It doesn’t matter. Because whoever you are, you are about to see you are in way over your pointy head at Night of Champions. But getting your guts stomped out by the Face of the Franchise is a major brush with the big time.”
He gives the camera a thumbs up.
“And then there is Bloodied Fox….”
Steve grinned into the camera.
“The champ himself.”
“You know I’m actually glad to see Foxy as the champion. Lord knows you always deserved it.”
He smirked.
“Just a real shame you had to change yourself to get it.”
Steve shook his head and tsked.
“Least I know who I am.”
He ran a palm through his luscious hair and cocked his head from side to side.
“And that is the next XCrown Champion, baby!
Steve hits a crotch chop. He starts to walk up and cut off the promo camera when he hears a car squeal into the parking lot.
“Woah what the-“
Suddenly a car hits the brakes and burns out right in front of him. Tuna Meltzer pops his head out of the window. Tunas face has soot and dirt all over it.
Tuna: Steve bro….I need your help. I accidentally set those Canadian Wildfires. It’s bad, real bad! You gotta help hide me from the government.”
Steve crosses his fingers in a cross and shoves the symbol in Tuna’s face.
“Back! Get back! I must stay focused on my training!”
Steve runs away from Tuna. In the background you can see Tuna’s car get nailed on all sides by police cars.
Steve runs right past a gang of pandas looking for a fight but Steve is doing everything he can to stay focused. He runs and runs and runs and just when he thought he was safe a big limo pulls up next to him. The back window rolls down and it’s Fran Drescher!
Fran: Steve! The Screen Actors Guild needs your help in this strike. We have a top secret mission that only you can accomplish. It’s for the betterment of actors all over the world!
Steve just screams in utter terror and runs like the wind away from any and all distractions that try to get in his way. Steve ran all the way home, past a couple aliens and a sparkling treasure box stuck in an oak tree.
He damn near ripped open his front door, jumped into his house and locked the door behind him and peaked through the window to make sure nothing followed him home.
“Ugh, finally I’m home.”
Steve said as he caught his breath. He could sense his girlfriend Zelda standing behind him.
“You would not believe the day I’ve had!”
Steve finally turns around and realizes Zelda has been and still is crying!
“Zelda?, what’s wrong?”
Zelda sobs a bit before she can get the words out.
“Leonard Fox….is gone.”
Zelda immediately buries her head in her palms and cries some more. Steve just stood there in complete shock. The owner of nCw, was gone?
“He was like a grandfather to me.”
She cried more and finally Steve embraced his girl. She cried on his chest and a single tear strolled down Steve’s cheek.
“I’m so sorry, honey.”
Fade.
It’s a global event.
Not just any global event.
It’s Night of Champions Fourteen.”
“And for the second year in a row, Steve Awesome is in the main event, fighting for the XCrown Championship.”
“So really that only leaves one question.”
“What does ole Steve Awesome have in store for us this time?”
“What in the heck does that rascal have up his sleeve this year?”
“What kind of wacky adventure is the Face of the Franchise going to go on this time in order to entertain the masses and kick allllllll the asses?”
Well what if I told you the answer is “none.”?
What if I told you that there would be no wacky adventure this time around? No baby aliens, no Earths Only Hope, no making out with Spike Kane?
See, the way Steve sees it, he’s saved the world multiple times, done plenty of crazy things to get a rise out of his fans but no matter what he’s done he still hasn’t managed to reclaim the XCrown Championship.
So this time, instead of letting himself get distracted by some kind of whimsical journey, he’s decided to keep himself focused on the prize. He’s decided to train harder and strategize better than ever and you know, see if something like that works better.
And sure he could come up with some low hanging fruit but it probably won’t matter because we all know Florida Man is just picking up the fruit off the ground that fell off the tree.
So this time,
No wacky adventures,
No whimsical journeys,
No silly side quests.
Just Steve Awesome training and getting ready for another big match.
And that’s it.
HEY DONT CLICK OUT OF THIS RP!
COME BACK!
It’ll be fine, jeez!!!
THE HARD(K)ORE REALITY OF STEVE AWESOME
Episode 3: Your Average Run!
It was a bright sunny day. One of those really good ones where the greens of the grass and trees popped and everything just looked beautiful and vibrant.
Steve Awesome was out for a run. Well at this moment we find our hero chatting up a female neighbor. He’s currently explaining to her how cool his Apple Watch is.
“Yeah, you can totally send texts with this bad boy. Link up and drop files. I even ordered doordash off this thing. It’s so cool, you can pretty much do anything you want with it. They are pretty expensive and I could afford it but I knew a guy who got me one for free. Pays to be rich and famous, heh…”
The annoyed lady just stared at him.
Lady: I just asked you what time it was.
“Oh well it’s….”
Steve starts poking at his watch.
“Hold on, I know I got that app somewhere in here….”
The lady just gets more annoyed and walks away.
“Okay it’s, eighty three degrees. No wait that doesn’t sound right?”
Steve looks up and realizes she’s long gone.
“Well whatever, that could have turned into a major distraction from my training regimen.”
Steve rationalized as he got back to jogging.
“Ughh I have to be more careful. I know I’m easily distracted. Okay from now on, be focused. Don’t let nothing distract you. This is all for number three baby!”
Steve puts on his game face and started jogging faster. After a couple of feet he saunters past a couple of hitchhikers from the future looking for help to get back to their time. He knew they were from the future because they each had a sign one explaining they were from the future and the other explaining the help getting back to their time part.
“No! Don’t look at them.”
Steve furrows his brows and focuses even harder and he runs away from the distraction. Just when he thought he was safe he ran into his Anointed stable mates from HardKore World. Wesley Crane and Alexander Von Blankenship were both on super cool mopeds. Hasbulla sat in a baby seat on the back of AVB’s Wendy’s sponsored moped.
AVB: Steve! Bro, we need you!
Wesley: Apparently Hasbulla has an evil twin! The damn thing is running amok in the subway system!
You can tell Steve really wants to go but he fights through the urge and it’s tough but he ultimately stays true to his word.
“Dahhh I can’t go. I have to stay focused on this XCrown match.”
Wesley and AVB are a bit upset by the news but they understand and respect Steve’s commitment and drive to be the best. They all fist bump and Steve gets back to running.
“Man…this is hard! There are distractions everywhere!”
Steve runs a little bit further and suddenly runs into a dock area.
“I don’t remember this dock area being in this neighborhood.”
Suddenly a man holding a video game controller calls out to Steve from the dock.
Man: AHOY HOY! Hey Steve, do you want to cram into a small sub with a couple billionaires and look at shipwrecks?”
Steve got weak at the knees. Of course he wanted to do that! What could possibly go wrong with that idea? His body shook and sweat poured down his brow and he blurted out his answer.[/font]
“nnnnnnnnoidonotttt!!!!!!”
He lied and then took off running as fast as he could.
STEVE AWESOME
Going for the trilogy!
Steve ran to the one place he was sure no one went to anymore. The local library. Even there he had to narrowly dodge being spotted by the Page Master. Once he was sure he was safe, and there were no more distractions he turned and faced the camera.
“No more distractions!”
He said as he cut through the air.
“Now it’s time for a hard question.”
Steve takes a step closer to the camera.
“Out of all five competitors getting ready to main event Night of Champions, what makes yours truly, The Face of the Franchise, stand out amongst his peers?”
Steve rubbed his chin as he thought about the answer.
“If you said, I’m better looking than all of them combined then you’d be right. If you said I have more charm and personality in my pinky finger then every single one of them, I could give you some bonus points. If you brought up the fact that I’m a legend and a certified main event on any show I pop up on, you’d definitely move on to the next round. Maybe you’d answer with my exceptional skills and talent inside a ring that has kept me in that certified main event and relevant for damn near twenty years, I’d have to give you a cookie. If you just so happen to talk about my innate ability to make bird calls, I’d probably say thanks for reading my autobiography.”
Steve smirks.
“You’d technically be correct if you said any of those things but none of that is the answer I’m looking for. See, what really separates me from the pack, what makes me stand out from every other opponent in this Throne of Gold match is the fact that I’ve been XCrown Champion before.”
He holds up two fingers.
“Two different times, just in case anyone’s counting.”
He nods his head.
“The other opponents in this match haven’t even sniffed the crown let alone hold it and I’m sure you are gonna hear a lot about how hungry these young stars and Florida Man are and how they are chomping at the bit to finally become champion.”
“And that’s all well and good of course, I get it, if you're in the wrestling business you should want to be on top. You should be hungry. Foxy too, he should want to do everything in his power to remain the champion. It’s not lost on me that Fox won an even bigger multi man match to become XCrown champion so I know what he’s capable of…”
He stops and his face slowly transforms from a confident gleam to a cold stare from behind his sunglasses.
“But let me tell you what really drives a man to do whatever it takes.”
He sneers into the camera.
“See it’s one thing to never get the chance to “eat” but for me, I’ve had the meal. I ate good. Then I had it ripped away from me. Twice.”
“Some of you in this match, you are just in love with the fantasy of being the top champion on the network. You just want it because you think you need it.”
Steve points to himself.
“But I need it more than you realize.”
It’s like a drug, like an urge I just can’t shake. I’ve been shown what it’s like to eat good, I got the sweet, sweet taste of being champion and now in order to get it back I’m willing to go to places some of you couldn’t even fathom. I need it more because I know that being the XCrown champ changes a person, hell I may as well be addicted and I’m back around to get my next fix.
He pulls off his sunglasses and stares daggers through the screen. The confidence oozed through him.
“I need to become XCrown Champion for a third time.”
“That’s why I’m going to train harder,
“Fight smarter,
And make sure I’m willing to do whatever it takes to make sure I get that crown and sit on my throne as the Xcrown Champion.
“I mean, I literally fought a PANDA BEAR to get here. And I won! If that doesn’t scream deadly focused warrior I don’t know what does.
He slides his sunglasses back on.
“To become the third man to be XCrown Champion three different times is my calling in life. It’s where I belong. It’s what I’m focused on. It’s what I’m training for. I think about it so much I came up with a name for it. I call it the trilogy win. I’m going for the Back to the Future baby! Or you know the Godfather to a lesser extent. I’m not going to let anything get in the way of what I have to do at Night of Champions to win that match. Nobody is going to stop me from sitting on that throne at Night of Champions. Especially not my opponents. Like Beef?”
Steve smirks.
“It’s kind of crazy how far you can take a basic meme before it dies out, isn’t?”
Steve shakes his head in mock disbelief and then slides his sunglasses back on.
“People are going to start saying “Where’s the Beef?” all over again after I knock his overgrown ass back to the Gun Show joke of the month.”
“Or Florida Man…
Steve smirks.
“It’s also kind of crazy how much meth you can take before you die out…”
Steve laughs at his joke and continues.
“If Florida “Mang” gets in my way of that crown or that throne I’ll whip his scaly ass so bad he will go crawling back to Kira on his hands and knees and dragging his belly on the floor like the big dumb gator he is!
“Certainly not Sam Sawyer. Truth is I’ve never met Sam but I’ve seen the hype and I guess they are supposed to be formidable. I guess we will see when I finally find out who Sam Sawyer is….”
Steve thinks about it.
“Or is it “Who Sam Sawyer are?”
Steve shook his head and shrugged his shoulders.
“It doesn’t matter. Because whoever you are, you are about to see you are in way over your pointy head at Night of Champions. But getting your guts stomped out by the Face of the Franchise is a major brush with the big time.”
He gives the camera a thumbs up.
“And then there is Bloodied Fox….”
Steve grinned into the camera.
“The champ himself.”
“You know I’m actually glad to see Foxy as the champion. Lord knows you always deserved it.”
He smirked.
“Just a real shame you had to change yourself to get it.”
Steve shook his head and tsked.
“Least I know who I am.”
He ran a palm through his luscious hair and cocked his head from side to side.
“And that is the next XCrown Champion, baby!
Steve hits a crotch chop. He starts to walk up and cut off the promo camera when he hears a car squeal into the parking lot.
“Woah what the-“
Suddenly a car hits the brakes and burns out right in front of him. Tuna Meltzer pops his head out of the window. Tunas face has soot and dirt all over it.
Tuna: Steve bro….I need your help. I accidentally set those Canadian Wildfires. It’s bad, real bad! You gotta help hide me from the government.”
Steve crosses his fingers in a cross and shoves the symbol in Tuna’s face.
“Back! Get back! I must stay focused on my training!”
Steve runs away from Tuna. In the background you can see Tuna’s car get nailed on all sides by police cars.
Steve runs right past a gang of pandas looking for a fight but Steve is doing everything he can to stay focused. He runs and runs and runs and just when he thought he was safe a big limo pulls up next to him. The back window rolls down and it’s Fran Drescher!
Fran: Steve! The Screen Actors Guild needs your help in this strike. We have a top secret mission that only you can accomplish. It’s for the betterment of actors all over the world!
Steve just screams in utter terror and runs like the wind away from any and all distractions that try to get in his way. Steve ran all the way home, past a couple aliens and a sparkling treasure box stuck in an oak tree.
He damn near ripped open his front door, jumped into his house and locked the door behind him and peaked through the window to make sure nothing followed him home.
“Ugh, finally I’m home.”
Steve said as he caught his breath. He could sense his girlfriend Zelda standing behind him.
“You would not believe the day I’ve had!”
Steve finally turns around and realizes Zelda has been and still is crying!
“Zelda?, what’s wrong?”
Zelda sobs a bit before she can get the words out.
“Leonard Fox….is gone.”
Zelda immediately buries her head in her palms and cries some more. Steve just stood there in complete shock. The owner of nCw, was gone?
“He was like a grandfather to me.”
She cried more and finally Steve embraced his girl. She cried on his chest and a single tear strolled down Steve’s cheek.
“I’m so sorry, honey.”
Fade.
