Old man Hunt part 2 (XCrown 4)
Jul 28, 2023 1:58:25 GMT -5
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Post by Steve Awesome on Jul 28, 2023 1:58:25 GMT -5
“Phew…that dragon was tough.”
We fade in to find our gang back on the streets where they met the Elf. The elf and everyone are happy and celebrating but You can’t help but notice Steve Awesome is the only one with burnt clothing and dirt and soot marks all over his body. Steve leans against the wall, currently out of breath.
“But we knocked it out, no problem!”
Steve looks up while still trying to slow down his heart rate.
“Hah, hah, hah what do you mean “we”? I did all the work!”
Steve shoots a glare at Adam and Kelly. Adam sees it and puts his arms up in defense.
“I’m sorry man, we just kind of froze out there.”
Kelly nodded her head and agreed with her husband.
“Yeah, it’s just that we haven’t really been on a wacky adventure in a long time.”
Steve growled and shook his head.
“Grrrr. No! We are not on a wacky adventure. That was just ONE thing out of the ordinary that we had to do. Speaking of….”
Steve marches right over to the happy Elf.
“We did the stupid thing. We liberated your stupid land and slayed the stupid dragon, now tell me where the stupid old man is before I ring your stupid neck!”
“I saw him at the diner on twenty-third.
Steve slaps his forehead.
“Doh I knew it!”
Steve stomps away in frustration.
“And how exactly do you know it’s Leonard and not just any old man?”
The Elf smiled.
“You don’t think we got nCw on Elftar television? I’d recognize that legend anywhere. Yeah he was at the diner, he wasn’t very nice to the waitress then he left.”
Kelly regretfully nodded her head.
“Sounds like my dad as of late.”
Steve comes stomping back into the conversation.
“Wait, he left? Are you saying that we, -I-, went through all that and you don’t know where he is currently?”
Steve lunges for the Elf but Zelda holds him back.
“But now we have the start to the trail. Maybe someone at the diner will know where he was heading or which way he went or something! Come on guys, let’s go.”
Adam, Kelly, and Zelda start to rush off but a conflicted Steve stays still. He looks at his Apple Watch and the flashing dumbbell icon that means he should be training right now for one of the biggest matches of his life. Steve looks up and sees his family waiting for him to join him.
“Okay, but no funny business.”
He points at Zelda.
“We won’t need it. We will be hot on grandpa Fox’s trail and we will find him in no time now that we know where to start.”
Steve sprinted forward to join them and they went off on your typical everyday small errand of finding your lost grandpa.
Nothing wacky about that.
THE HARD(K)ORE REALITY OF STEVE AWESOME
Episode Six: Old Man Hunt Part 2 (Let’s Get Wacky!)
A wacky beat starts to play in the background.
A wacky montage begins.
Leonard Fox is seen shuffling slowly through the park nearby. A small group of cats were following him for some reason. A little kid makes a comment about how old Leonard looks.
“Eh? Pissoff ya little brat.”
The kids mother looks up and just at that very moment, one of those curious kitties just so happened to trip up another man so that the kid’s mothers attention goes to the man and not Leonard.
“You can’t speak to my son that way!”
“I didn’t say anything!”
The man and the mother argue as Leonard shuffled away.
🎼Ooohe, Makeba, Makeba ma qué bella
Can I get a "oohe?" Makeba
Makes my body dance for you🎼
We find our heroes outside the diner on twenty third.
“Nothing.”
Adam said, shaking his head in defeat.
“I can’t believe nobody has seen anything!”
Kelly said with a pout. Steve pulled out pulled out a chair and sat at one of the diners outside tables.
“Great. Another dead end. Wait…where’s Zelda?”
Just then she popped up. With a man who dressed like an archeologist behind her.
“I think I found something, you guys.”
Zelda says as she points to the man behind her.
“This guy says he can lead us directly to Leonard and all we have to do is solve one measly ancient Aztec riddle.”
“Doh come on!? We talked about this!
Steve attempted to protest but Zelda was already committed to the new plan.
“All we have to do is solve the riddle then we find Leonard. I mean you are the one who wants to get this done as quickly as possible.”
Steve muttered under his breath as he followed the archeologist.
🎼Ooohe, Makeba, Makeba ma qué bella
Can I get a "oohe?" Makeba
Makes my body dance for you🎼
Leonard wandered into a construction site. The grumpy old man was bothering some of the workers.
“You call this a house? Back in my day real men built real houses.”
The workers did their best to ignore him until Leonard snatched one of their hammers from their pouch.
“I’ll teach you boys a few things. Watch.”
Leonard swings the hammer wildly and it flies out of his hand, through a window, and nearly smashing another worker in the head.
“Look old man, we gotta call our foreman now.”
The workers radio the boss and the boss picks up the call on a nearby forklift.
“I’m coming to the area right away.”
The boss put the radio down and then quickly stomped on the brakes when he saw a group of cats walk onto the site in front of him. The foreman spins the forklift to avoid hitting the cats and the big machine collides with the house they were building and the entire structure collapses to the ground. The workers panic and yell and scream at each other while Leonard Fox just walks away.
“Ehhh pissoff!”
🎼I want to hear your breath just next to my soul
I want to feel oppress without any rest
I want to see you sing
I want to see you fight
Because you are the real beauty of human right🎼
“That giant boulder came so close to running us all over.”
Adam, and Kelly are just fine and then you see Steve walking behind them, limping and holding his back. A giant track mark running up the back of his shirt.
Just then Zelda came walking up with a guy dressed up as “The Dude”.
“So now all we have to do is win in this guys bowling league and we will be that much closer to finding Leonard.”
🎼Ooohe, Makeba, Makeba ma qué bella
Can I get a "oohe?" Makeba
Makes my body dance for you🎼
We cut to Leonard Fox calmly shuffling out of a library left in chaos. Bookshelves have collapsed, books cover the ground.
One of the Librarians who isn’t buried in books calls out to Leonard. But the old man didn’t seem to care.
“Eh? Gopissoff!”
Leonard shuffled away holding a copy of The Lakehouse on dvd. The pack of cats still following behind him.
🎼Ooohe, Makeba, Makeba ma qué bella
Can I get a "oohe?" Makeba
Makes my body dance for you🎼
We cut to the gang out on the streets. Adam and Kelly hold the bowling trophy, Steve is reluctantly squaring up to fight a clown and Zelda is trying to give him a pep talk.
“Okay so all you gotta do is fight this clown to the death and then we can find Leonard!”
Suddenly the door to the clown’s car swung open and like fifteen or twenty more clowns filled up the street.
“That’s not good.”
🎼Ooohe, Makeba, Makeba ma qué bella
Can I get a "oohe?" Makeba
Makes my body dance for you🎼
We find Steve with a clown nose and a black eye. Steve knocks the nose off as Zelda approaches.
“Okay Steve, we just have to invade Florida Man’s promo. It’s gonna be tough, I’m not sure if there is any more room for another cameo.”
No!”
Steve shouted.
“That’s enough! Every time I do this we still don’t get any closer to finding Leonard. I said in the beginning that I wasn’t doing any kind of wacky adventure and I’ve already broken my own rule way more times than I like. I’m done! It’s time to let someone like the police look for Leonard. We’ve done all we can do. I’m going home to train.”
Steve storms off leaving Zelda, Adam, and Kelly alone when suddenly Steve is approached by a group of cats.
-“Steven.”-
The cats speak telepathically with Steve.
-“You are needed.”-
Steve glances back at Zelda, Kelly and Adam and just shakes his head.
“So I take it none of y’all are hearing these cats?”
They all just glance at each in confusion as Steve shakes his head and whines.
“Maaaaaaan. Why me? Why is this stuff always happening to me?
-“The one they call Leonard Fox is in trouble. He needs your help.”-
Steve looks at these strange telepathic cats and back at his family, sad and defeated. He does a few more double takes and after some whining and fussing he finally agrees.
“Fine. Take me to him!”
Steve rushed off following the cats. Adam, Kelly and Zelda are left to figure out what happened.
🎼Ooohe, Makeba, Makeba ma qué bella
Can I get a "oohe?" Makeba
Makes my body dance for you🎼
The song ends.
STEVE AWESOME
FACE OF THE FRANCHISE
We fade in on The Hard(k)ore Champion of the World as he faces the camera.
“You all know why I’m here by now. I couldn’t have made it any more clear. I’m walking into Night of Champions to walk out the NEW XCROWN CHAMPION.”
“I’m coming to sit on that throne as the new champ and the fresh Prince of Bel-air!”
Steve thinks about it for a few moments.
“After I win, I want someone to make me a graphic where it’s my head on will smiths body as he spins around on the throne. That will go viral.”
He writes that idea down on a notepad.
“I’m going to take my rightful spot as XCrown Champion. I’m going to right a wrong from way back at Supremacy when that asshole Dylan Black stole the Crown right out from under me. I really hope someone kicks him in the dick at Cruiserfest. But more importantly I’m going to show all these bums in this match how to be a real champion. When I walk through each and every one of them in New York City.
“Like Beef. Mister emoji meme himself. That guy says he doesn’t want to be the champion, that’s okay I’ll do it. He says he’s got plenty of time to win the title down the road….well….gee….don’t worry there Beef, I’ll handle it for now, Ill be the top guy now and then somewhere down the line you can come back and take a whack at it….oh and Eminem sucks!”
He sticks out his tongue and then crotch chops.
“Or Florida Man. I don’t drink anymore, but if you had to take a shot for the amount of cameos he had in those three novels he put out, you’d be absolutely wrecked. I don’t know if he thought casting the entire XHF network in his promos this week would make him seem more like XCrown material but if you can’t even carry your own life by yourself what makes you think you can carry a company?”
Steve smirked and shook his head.
“Go back to your swamp, Florida Mang.”
Another quick crotch chop.
Steve reaches off screen and puts on a news boy hat.
“Extra, extra read all about it.”
He pulls another prop from offscreen. He reads from a news article.
“Reason’s why Sam Sawyer will lose the XCrown.”
Steve shuffles the papers and you realize the reasons are on one giant sheet of paper that has hit the floor and rolled along the ground a little bit.
“Number one, charisma vacuum….”
He shakes his head.
“Just sucks it right out of the room.”
He rolls his eyes.
“Number two. They don’t like the show Full House.”
Steve feigns shock.
“Such a wonderful show.”
“Number three. Armbar.”
And number four, at Night of Champions I will knock them on their ass And afterward they won’t have to read an article about me, they will always know what I’m capable of and I’m the favorite to win and why I’m the Face of the Franchise.”
Crotch chop.
“And then Bloodied Fox……it’s over man. I’m taking your title.”
Steve shrugged his shoulders.
“Sorry I don’t have more of a cryptic riddle for you Foxy, no big flashy words that I have to look up, nothing poetic, short and to the point and strong. Just….”
Steve smiles and nodded his head.
“I’m gonna take your title.”
He holds up one lone finger.
“But I want you to know how I imagine it happening. How I see it in my head…”
He points to his temple.
“You just finished off that Trash Lizard Florida Man with a big move. You walk through the wreckage of your fallen foes and just when you think you are going to sit on that throne….blam….”
Steve points to himself.
“I come from out of nowhere and I blow out your kneecap with a hammer.”
Steve sliced through the air.
“Just decimate it. Blow through it like butter.”
He nods.
“And as you're trying to stand or crawl and you start to realize you can’t do either one, I’m gonna pick up that crown and sit down on that throne. I’m going to become a three time XCrown champion.”
He glares.
“I don’t care how dark and brooding you think you are, until you want that title as bad as I do, your little spooky threats mean nothing to me.”
“After I beat you Foxy, and I take your title. I wonder what type of person you’ll change into next?”
He smirks.
“At Night of Champions, I don’t care who I have to go through to become the XCrown Champion. Or what I have to do to make sure I sit on that throne. As long as I walk out the New Champion, it will all be worth it.”
One final crotch chop.
Fade.
We fade into Leonard Fox staring down the barrel of a pistol and for some reason it doesn’t seem to bother him. The man holding the gun was a mix of emotions, but mostly fear and anger.
“Get out of my house old man!”
Leonard just shook his head and waved him off.
“Eh? Pissoff!”
Leonard just walked away to another part of the house. Before the homeowner could follow he heard someone else breaking into his house.
Instead of climbing through the already broken window, Steve shatters the window next to it and starts climbing through. Steve is quickly met by the homeowner and his weapon. Steve quickly puts his hands up.
“I’m not trying to break into your house.”
The homeowner looks at all the glass on the floor.
“Could have fooled me.”
“Some cats lead me here. There wouldn’t happen to be an old man wandering around somewhere?”
“Yeah! He’s lucky I didn’t shoot him! Why are you people breaking into my house for?”
“I’m really sorry. I’ll pay for any damages. But just leave the old guy to me. He has Dementia.”
~
Steve finds Leonard out on the deck overlooking the lake.
“Lenny? Hey bud, I’ve come to take you back home. You really had us worried.”
Leonard was quiet for a few moments.
“I see it all so clearly now, Steve.”
Steve nodded his head.
“Yeah, yeah I know, “pissoff” wha-huh!?”
Leonard turned around from the lake with tears in his eyes. Steve is completely shocked he said his name!
“My wife and I used to stand together right here and we’d watch the lake. We’d watch the sunrise and the sunset. God I miss Gloria so much.”
Leonard wiped away a few tears and Steve started to get a bit misty eyed himself.
“And where is Kelly? My sweet daughter.”
“I sent them all a text. Kelly, Adam and Zelda will be here soon.”
“Good I can’t wait to see them and tell them how much I love them. You four came into my live at different times and in different ways but you have all been like children to me.”
“Must of been weird when we all started banging.”
Steve said wiping away a tear.
“Are you going to ruin this moment with your shenanigans or can I keep going?”
“Sorry.”
Leonard continues.
“I don’t know how long I have left. I don’t know how long this moment of clarity will last. You’ve always been like a son to me Steve, so I know I can trust you. All I have left is my legacy. The nCw and its championship. I want what I created to continue to make money for the next generation in our families. Maybe you and Adam could reopen the company again? Or maybe you could run super shows with talent all around the world and fight for the title. Or put everything in a museum and charge people ten bucks a person to see it.”
Steve laughed with tears in his eyes. He hadn’t seen Leonard like this in years.
“You haven’t changed a bit, old man…”
They both shared a laugh.
“But whatever you do, don’t let the nCw title and the company’s legacy become just another asterisk for the XHF XCrown title. It’s fine for other world titles that nobody cares about, but the nCw legacy was something special. I don’t want our family to lose that.”
Leonard walked over and put his arm on Steve’s shoulder.
“I know I can count on you Steve.”
Steve nodded his head.
“I promise. I’ll never cash in the nCw Championship in for the XCrown.”
Leonard smiles and hugs him.
“That’s my boy! Good. Good.”
Leonard yawns and slowly starts to take a seat on a lawn chair.
“I’m tired. I think I’ll just sit here and watch the lake.”
“Man it’s so crazy to be able to talk to you like this, Leonard. While I got the chance, I just want to say thanks. You said I was like a son to you but truth is, you were always like a father to me. You treated me better than my own dad did and you helped turn me into the star I am today. I guess I’m just trying to say that I love you too, old man.”
The tears were streaming down the cheek of an emotional Steve. He waited for a response for some time and finally he got one.
“Eh? Pissoff I’m watchin the water.”
Steve hung his head. He didn’t know how much Leonard got from that but he hoped it was somewhere in his mind. Steve sat down next to Leonard and watched the water with him.
“Water sure is pretty isn’t Len?”
Leonard nodded his head.
“Yup…”
The homeowner opened the sliding glass door and stepped out onto the deck.
“Are you guys leaving soon? I have work in the morning.”
Neither of them answer him.
“Hello?”
Fade.
We fade in to find our gang back on the streets where they met the Elf. The elf and everyone are happy and celebrating but You can’t help but notice Steve Awesome is the only one with burnt clothing and dirt and soot marks all over his body. Steve leans against the wall, currently out of breath.
“But we knocked it out, no problem!”
Steve looks up while still trying to slow down his heart rate.
“Hah, hah, hah what do you mean “we”? I did all the work!”
Steve shoots a glare at Adam and Kelly. Adam sees it and puts his arms up in defense.
“I’m sorry man, we just kind of froze out there.”
Kelly nodded her head and agreed with her husband.
“Yeah, it’s just that we haven’t really been on a wacky adventure in a long time.”
Steve growled and shook his head.
“Grrrr. No! We are not on a wacky adventure. That was just ONE thing out of the ordinary that we had to do. Speaking of….”
Steve marches right over to the happy Elf.
“We did the stupid thing. We liberated your stupid land and slayed the stupid dragon, now tell me where the stupid old man is before I ring your stupid neck!”
“I saw him at the diner on twenty-third.
Steve slaps his forehead.
“Doh I knew it!”
Steve stomps away in frustration.
“And how exactly do you know it’s Leonard and not just any old man?”
The Elf smiled.
“You don’t think we got nCw on Elftar television? I’d recognize that legend anywhere. Yeah he was at the diner, he wasn’t very nice to the waitress then he left.”
Kelly regretfully nodded her head.
“Sounds like my dad as of late.”
Steve comes stomping back into the conversation.
“Wait, he left? Are you saying that we, -I-, went through all that and you don’t know where he is currently?”
Steve lunges for the Elf but Zelda holds him back.
“But now we have the start to the trail. Maybe someone at the diner will know where he was heading or which way he went or something! Come on guys, let’s go.”
Adam, Kelly, and Zelda start to rush off but a conflicted Steve stays still. He looks at his Apple Watch and the flashing dumbbell icon that means he should be training right now for one of the biggest matches of his life. Steve looks up and sees his family waiting for him to join him.
“Okay, but no funny business.”
He points at Zelda.
“We won’t need it. We will be hot on grandpa Fox’s trail and we will find him in no time now that we know where to start.”
Steve sprinted forward to join them and they went off on your typical everyday small errand of finding your lost grandpa.
Nothing wacky about that.
THE HARD(K)ORE REALITY OF STEVE AWESOME
Episode Six: Old Man Hunt Part 2 (Let’s Get Wacky!)
A wacky beat starts to play in the background.
A wacky montage begins.
Leonard Fox is seen shuffling slowly through the park nearby. A small group of cats were following him for some reason. A little kid makes a comment about how old Leonard looks.
“Eh? Pissoff ya little brat.”
The kids mother looks up and just at that very moment, one of those curious kitties just so happened to trip up another man so that the kid’s mothers attention goes to the man and not Leonard.
“You can’t speak to my son that way!”
“I didn’t say anything!”
The man and the mother argue as Leonard shuffled away.
🎼Ooohe, Makeba, Makeba ma qué bella
Can I get a "oohe?" Makeba
Makes my body dance for you🎼
We find our heroes outside the diner on twenty third.
“Nothing.”
Adam said, shaking his head in defeat.
“I can’t believe nobody has seen anything!”
Kelly said with a pout. Steve pulled out pulled out a chair and sat at one of the diners outside tables.
“Great. Another dead end. Wait…where’s Zelda?”
Just then she popped up. With a man who dressed like an archeologist behind her.
“I think I found something, you guys.”
Zelda says as she points to the man behind her.
“This guy says he can lead us directly to Leonard and all we have to do is solve one measly ancient Aztec riddle.”
“Doh come on!? We talked about this!
Steve attempted to protest but Zelda was already committed to the new plan.
“All we have to do is solve the riddle then we find Leonard. I mean you are the one who wants to get this done as quickly as possible.”
Steve muttered under his breath as he followed the archeologist.
🎼Ooohe, Makeba, Makeba ma qué bella
Can I get a "oohe?" Makeba
Makes my body dance for you🎼
Leonard wandered into a construction site. The grumpy old man was bothering some of the workers.
“You call this a house? Back in my day real men built real houses.”
The workers did their best to ignore him until Leonard snatched one of their hammers from their pouch.
“I’ll teach you boys a few things. Watch.”
Leonard swings the hammer wildly and it flies out of his hand, through a window, and nearly smashing another worker in the head.
“Look old man, we gotta call our foreman now.”
The workers radio the boss and the boss picks up the call on a nearby forklift.
“I’m coming to the area right away.”
The boss put the radio down and then quickly stomped on the brakes when he saw a group of cats walk onto the site in front of him. The foreman spins the forklift to avoid hitting the cats and the big machine collides with the house they were building and the entire structure collapses to the ground. The workers panic and yell and scream at each other while Leonard Fox just walks away.
“Ehhh pissoff!”
🎼I want to hear your breath just next to my soul
I want to feel oppress without any rest
I want to see you sing
I want to see you fight
Because you are the real beauty of human right🎼
“That giant boulder came so close to running us all over.”
Adam, and Kelly are just fine and then you see Steve walking behind them, limping and holding his back. A giant track mark running up the back of his shirt.
Just then Zelda came walking up with a guy dressed up as “The Dude”.
“So now all we have to do is win in this guys bowling league and we will be that much closer to finding Leonard.”
🎼Ooohe, Makeba, Makeba ma qué bella
Can I get a "oohe?" Makeba
Makes my body dance for you🎼
We cut to Leonard Fox calmly shuffling out of a library left in chaos. Bookshelves have collapsed, books cover the ground.
One of the Librarians who isn’t buried in books calls out to Leonard. But the old man didn’t seem to care.
“Eh? Gopissoff!”
Leonard shuffled away holding a copy of The Lakehouse on dvd. The pack of cats still following behind him.
🎼Ooohe, Makeba, Makeba ma qué bella
Can I get a "oohe?" Makeba
Makes my body dance for you🎼
We cut to the gang out on the streets. Adam and Kelly hold the bowling trophy, Steve is reluctantly squaring up to fight a clown and Zelda is trying to give him a pep talk.
“Okay so all you gotta do is fight this clown to the death and then we can find Leonard!”
Suddenly the door to the clown’s car swung open and like fifteen or twenty more clowns filled up the street.
“That’s not good.”
🎼Ooohe, Makeba, Makeba ma qué bella
Can I get a "oohe?" Makeba
Makes my body dance for you🎼
We find Steve with a clown nose and a black eye. Steve knocks the nose off as Zelda approaches.
“Okay Steve, we just have to invade Florida Man’s promo. It’s gonna be tough, I’m not sure if there is any more room for another cameo.”
No!”
Steve shouted.
“That’s enough! Every time I do this we still don’t get any closer to finding Leonard. I said in the beginning that I wasn’t doing any kind of wacky adventure and I’ve already broken my own rule way more times than I like. I’m done! It’s time to let someone like the police look for Leonard. We’ve done all we can do. I’m going home to train.”
Steve storms off leaving Zelda, Adam, and Kelly alone when suddenly Steve is approached by a group of cats.
-“Steven.”-
The cats speak telepathically with Steve.
-“You are needed.”-
Steve glances back at Zelda, Kelly and Adam and just shakes his head.
“So I take it none of y’all are hearing these cats?”
They all just glance at each in confusion as Steve shakes his head and whines.
“Maaaaaaan. Why me? Why is this stuff always happening to me?
-“The one they call Leonard Fox is in trouble. He needs your help.”-
Steve looks at these strange telepathic cats and back at his family, sad and defeated. He does a few more double takes and after some whining and fussing he finally agrees.
“Fine. Take me to him!”
Steve rushed off following the cats. Adam, Kelly and Zelda are left to figure out what happened.
🎼Ooohe, Makeba, Makeba ma qué bella
Can I get a "oohe?" Makeba
Makes my body dance for you🎼
The song ends.
STEVE AWESOME
FACE OF THE FRANCHISE
We fade in on The Hard(k)ore Champion of the World as he faces the camera.
“You all know why I’m here by now. I couldn’t have made it any more clear. I’m walking into Night of Champions to walk out the NEW XCROWN CHAMPION.”
“I’m coming to sit on that throne as the new champ and the fresh Prince of Bel-air!”
Steve thinks about it for a few moments.
“After I win, I want someone to make me a graphic where it’s my head on will smiths body as he spins around on the throne. That will go viral.”
He writes that idea down on a notepad.
“I’m going to take my rightful spot as XCrown Champion. I’m going to right a wrong from way back at Supremacy when that asshole Dylan Black stole the Crown right out from under me. I really hope someone kicks him in the dick at Cruiserfest. But more importantly I’m going to show all these bums in this match how to be a real champion. When I walk through each and every one of them in New York City.
“Like Beef. Mister emoji meme himself. That guy says he doesn’t want to be the champion, that’s okay I’ll do it. He says he’s got plenty of time to win the title down the road….well….gee….don’t worry there Beef, I’ll handle it for now, Ill be the top guy now and then somewhere down the line you can come back and take a whack at it….oh and Eminem sucks!”
He sticks out his tongue and then crotch chops.
“Or Florida Man. I don’t drink anymore, but if you had to take a shot for the amount of cameos he had in those three novels he put out, you’d be absolutely wrecked. I don’t know if he thought casting the entire XHF network in his promos this week would make him seem more like XCrown material but if you can’t even carry your own life by yourself what makes you think you can carry a company?”
Steve smirked and shook his head.
“Go back to your swamp, Florida Mang.”
Another quick crotch chop.
Steve reaches off screen and puts on a news boy hat.
“Extra, extra read all about it.”
He pulls another prop from offscreen. He reads from a news article.
“Reason’s why Sam Sawyer will lose the XCrown.”
Steve shuffles the papers and you realize the reasons are on one giant sheet of paper that has hit the floor and rolled along the ground a little bit.
“Number one, charisma vacuum….”
He shakes his head.
“Just sucks it right out of the room.”
He rolls his eyes.
“Number two. They don’t like the show Full House.”
Steve feigns shock.
“Such a wonderful show.”
“Number three. Armbar.”
And number four, at Night of Champions I will knock them on their ass And afterward they won’t have to read an article about me, they will always know what I’m capable of and I’m the favorite to win and why I’m the Face of the Franchise.”
Crotch chop.
“And then Bloodied Fox……it’s over man. I’m taking your title.”
Steve shrugged his shoulders.
“Sorry I don’t have more of a cryptic riddle for you Foxy, no big flashy words that I have to look up, nothing poetic, short and to the point and strong. Just….”
Steve smiles and nodded his head.
“I’m gonna take your title.”
He holds up one lone finger.
“But I want you to know how I imagine it happening. How I see it in my head…”
He points to his temple.
“You just finished off that Trash Lizard Florida Man with a big move. You walk through the wreckage of your fallen foes and just when you think you are going to sit on that throne….blam….”
Steve points to himself.
“I come from out of nowhere and I blow out your kneecap with a hammer.”
Steve sliced through the air.
“Just decimate it. Blow through it like butter.”
He nods.
“And as you're trying to stand or crawl and you start to realize you can’t do either one, I’m gonna pick up that crown and sit down on that throne. I’m going to become a three time XCrown champion.”
He glares.
“I don’t care how dark and brooding you think you are, until you want that title as bad as I do, your little spooky threats mean nothing to me.”
“After I beat you Foxy, and I take your title. I wonder what type of person you’ll change into next?”
He smirks.
“At Night of Champions, I don’t care who I have to go through to become the XCrown Champion. Or what I have to do to make sure I sit on that throne. As long as I walk out the New Champion, it will all be worth it.”
One final crotch chop.
Fade.
We fade into Leonard Fox staring down the barrel of a pistol and for some reason it doesn’t seem to bother him. The man holding the gun was a mix of emotions, but mostly fear and anger.
“Get out of my house old man!”
Leonard just shook his head and waved him off.
“Eh? Pissoff!”
Leonard just walked away to another part of the house. Before the homeowner could follow he heard someone else breaking into his house.
Instead of climbing through the already broken window, Steve shatters the window next to it and starts climbing through. Steve is quickly met by the homeowner and his weapon. Steve quickly puts his hands up.
“I’m not trying to break into your house.”
The homeowner looks at all the glass on the floor.
“Could have fooled me.”
“Some cats lead me here. There wouldn’t happen to be an old man wandering around somewhere?”
“Yeah! He’s lucky I didn’t shoot him! Why are you people breaking into my house for?”
“I’m really sorry. I’ll pay for any damages. But just leave the old guy to me. He has Dementia.”
~
Steve finds Leonard out on the deck overlooking the lake.
“Lenny? Hey bud, I’ve come to take you back home. You really had us worried.”
Leonard was quiet for a few moments.
“I see it all so clearly now, Steve.”
Steve nodded his head.
“Yeah, yeah I know, “pissoff” wha-huh!?”
Leonard turned around from the lake with tears in his eyes. Steve is completely shocked he said his name!
“My wife and I used to stand together right here and we’d watch the lake. We’d watch the sunrise and the sunset. God I miss Gloria so much.”
Leonard wiped away a few tears and Steve started to get a bit misty eyed himself.
“And where is Kelly? My sweet daughter.”
“I sent them all a text. Kelly, Adam and Zelda will be here soon.”
“Good I can’t wait to see them and tell them how much I love them. You four came into my live at different times and in different ways but you have all been like children to me.”
“Must of been weird when we all started banging.”
Steve said wiping away a tear.
“Are you going to ruin this moment with your shenanigans or can I keep going?”
“Sorry.”
Leonard continues.
“I don’t know how long I have left. I don’t know how long this moment of clarity will last. You’ve always been like a son to me Steve, so I know I can trust you. All I have left is my legacy. The nCw and its championship. I want what I created to continue to make money for the next generation in our families. Maybe you and Adam could reopen the company again? Or maybe you could run super shows with talent all around the world and fight for the title. Or put everything in a museum and charge people ten bucks a person to see it.”
Steve laughed with tears in his eyes. He hadn’t seen Leonard like this in years.
“You haven’t changed a bit, old man…”
They both shared a laugh.
“But whatever you do, don’t let the nCw title and the company’s legacy become just another asterisk for the XHF XCrown title. It’s fine for other world titles that nobody cares about, but the nCw legacy was something special. I don’t want our family to lose that.”
Leonard walked over and put his arm on Steve’s shoulder.
“I know I can count on you Steve.”
Steve nodded his head.
“I promise. I’ll never cash in the nCw Championship in for the XCrown.”
Leonard smiles and hugs him.
“That’s my boy! Good. Good.”
Leonard yawns and slowly starts to take a seat on a lawn chair.
“I’m tired. I think I’ll just sit here and watch the lake.”
“Man it’s so crazy to be able to talk to you like this, Leonard. While I got the chance, I just want to say thanks. You said I was like a son to you but truth is, you were always like a father to me. You treated me better than my own dad did and you helped turn me into the star I am today. I guess I’m just trying to say that I love you too, old man.”
The tears were streaming down the cheek of an emotional Steve. He waited for a response for some time and finally he got one.
“Eh? Pissoff I’m watchin the water.”
Steve hung his head. He didn’t know how much Leonard got from that but he hoped it was somewhere in his mind. Steve sat down next to Leonard and watched the water with him.
“Water sure is pretty isn’t Len?”
Leonard nodded his head.
“Yup…”
The homeowner opened the sliding glass door and stepped out onto the deck.
“Are you guys leaving soon? I have work in the morning.”
Neither of them answer him.
“Hello?”
Fade.
