Post by Jonny Cedrone on May 7, 2023 20:38:58 GMT -5
The scene opens up as we see Jonny walking out of the AT&T Center looking a little distraught and extremely angry
“Another edition of Monday Night Clash has come and gone. One of the biggest matches I’ve ever been involved in so far in my Action Wrestling career. James Freedom and myself had the opportunity to become the Tag Team Champions. What happened?”
“We didn’t get the job done.”
“Some would look at it saying that it was Freedom’s fault. Some would look at it saying that it was my fault. Is either group of people wrong? Look at it. Freedom speared me out of my boots. I ate the pin. I gave ourselves way more credit than we deserved I guess. Going into that match I thought for sure that we were coordinated enough as a team to get the win. Going into that match I thought that we had the mutual goal; the same amount of desire to win that match and wear the Gold.”
“I was wrong.”
“The question is though: did Freedom spear me on purpose? Could he not stand the thought of being my partner long enough to be Tag Team Champions? Or was it an accident? If there’s anything that you learn in this business is that the only thing that’s for sure is that nothing’s for sure.”
“What I do know is that James Freedom’s ego is so big that they have to widen every doorway in every arena we go to just so he can collect a paycheck. And I can’t wait to deflate that ego. I can’t wait to shred away at his self-vision. He may portray that his being the United States Champion is necessary for the sport of professional wrestling; for the greatest country in the world, The United States of America, but I’m going to prove to him that what’s truly vital is that that Championship needs to be around MY waist! In order for the Championship to be back in the hands of The People, it needs to be back in possession!”
“So James Freedom, you can swear up and down, left and right and everywhere in between that that spear was on accident or that I’m the reason why we’re not going into Havoc as the Tag Team Champions all ya want but rest assured, I WILL get my hands on you. I WILL beat you. I WILL tear you limb from limb. I WILL take the United States Championship from you and I WILL return it to The People where it rightfully belongs!!”
“It doesn’t matter when. It doesn’t matter where. It doesn’t matter how. All that matters is that it’s going to happen. I will do whatever I have to do in order to make that happen and that’s a promise that I fully intend on keeping!”[/color]
The scene fades to black but fades back in as we see Jonny sitting at his desk in the Cedrone residence. He’s leaned back in his office chair watching video from the Tag Team Title match with his feet up on the desk when there’s a knock on the door.
“Come in!”
We hear the door to the office open then close. After a brief moment, into the shot comes the Cedrone butler, James Ellingsworth. He sees Jonny sitting back and just glares at him. Jonny turns his attention towards James for a quick second then back up towards the television as James takes a seat on the desk.
“What’s up James?”
James rolls his eyes before frustratingly answering
“Sir, I’ve known you for how many years now and you still have to ask that bloody question?!”
“And every time you give that rebuttal, I explain what it means and yet you still don’t understand. I thought the British were smarter.”
“We are.”
“Hm.”
“Don’t get your bra straps tied up in a knot at me just because you and your arrogant American friend couldn’t win the Tag Titles a couple of weeks ago!”
“First of all, he and I are NOT friends.”
“And you’re not Tag Team Champions either, are you sir?!”
Jonny shoots James a stern look that says both “True” and “That cut deep” then turns his attention back towards the television.
“You had the golden opportunity to win Gold. Instead, you were pinned by Corey Black once again. He’s proven that he’s your king and that you’re his…”
“Bitch?”
“I was going to say “peasant” but we can go your way if you’d like sir. They both work.”
“Sometimes I really don’t like you.”
“Sometimes I wonder what Madam Gloria sees in you.”
Jonny looks off camera and ponders on that for a second then quips back
“Same.”
“What about me?”
Into the scene saunters Gloria as she walks straight over to Jonny and sits down on his lap.
“We were just talking about how blessed I am that you had pity on a peasant such as myself and gave me a chance to please you my princess!”
“He calls it blessed. I call it lucky.”
“And you’d both be right!”
Jonny and Gloria share a laugh. James never cracks a smile
“Did you ever hear about the penguin who took his car to the mechanic?”
“Aw! Poor penguin. What was wrong with his car?”
“It was making one helluva noise so he took it to the mechanic. Unfortunately, it was the mechanic’s lunchtime but he took the car in anyway. He told the penguin that there’s a café in the strip mall just around the corner, go there, have lunch and we’ll take a look at your car. So the penguin goes to the café. The mechanic pulls the car into the garage. The penguin walks into the garage and the mechanic was sitting there eating his lunch. The mechanic sees the penguin and pretty much jumps to his feet. “Looks like you blew a seal.” Confused and bewildered the penguin wipes his mouth real quick and says, “N-n-no! No! I just had ice cream at that café!”
Gloria laughs causing Jonny to smile but once again James doesn’t crack a smile.
“Have you heard that Havoc is coming up on the 13th baby?”
“I thought I heard that.”
“I get an opportunity to fight for the World Championship! I…”
At this point James Ellingsworth begins to laugh. The laughter intensifies to the point where he’s literally on the floor, holding his ribs because he’s laughing so hard. Jonny and Gloria watches James in confusion as he writhes from the pain from laughing so hard. After a few minutes of nonstop laughing, he’s finally able to pull himself together long enough to confirm that he heard what he heard.
“Ha! Haha!!! Ha…you get an opportunity to fight for the World Championship…HAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAHAHAHA!!!! That’s the best joke I’ve ever heard sir!”
“But it wasn’t a joke Jim.”
James’s laughing slows to a stop then he bursts out in laughter once again. After a few moments of listening to him laughing Gloria finally inquires about what he’s laughing about now
“Is there something else that has tickled your funny bone James?”
“It just hit me…Hahaha!…that the only thing that would be funnier…HAHA!…is if he actually thought he could win the Havoc Rumble!”
His laughter has proven to be too much to hold back as James ends up on the floor once again, holding his ribs as he laughs so hard.
“Do we even need a butler around here anyway?”
“He came with your family honey.”
“He doesn’t do anything around here but give me a hard time.”
“That might’ve been the job your dad gave him.”
Jonny just looks at Gloria as she gives him a cheshire cat smile causing him to smile in return. The scene fades to black. The scene fades back in with Jonny getting dressed up for the promo part of this roleplay. He puts on his suit jacket then fixes the shirt underneath as to not appear on television as unkempt. Gloria gives his shirt some final touches.
“You seem nervous baby.”
“I am. I’ve never had much success in these rumble matches.”
“You’ll do good Love! I promise. And if you don’t win, you still have that shot for the United States Championship against Freedom! There’s a backup plan.”
“This is true. Have you seen our James?”
“He’s over there in the corner. He looks like he has PSTD or something.”
“He hates it when we cut these promos in the house. He has to do something afterwards.”
“You wanna put a smile on his face? Watch this.”
Jonny shouts over towards James and gets his attention. He motions for James to come over to him. James reluctantly gets up from the chair he’s sitting in and walks over towards Jonny and Gloria.
“I think I’m going to quit my job.”
This piques James’s attention
“A little late now seeing as everyone’s here for this promo shoot baby.”
“Have you finally realized that you haven’t what it takes to win sir?”
“I think I’m going to start making mirrors.”
“Making mirrors? Why making mirrors?”
“It’s just something that I see myself doing.”
Dead air
“Nothing?”
“Very punny.”
“You’d find a way to mess that up to sir.”
“Don’t you have soda cans to pick up somewhere around here?”
“I probably do but I’m having too much fun making you feel like rubbish.”
“You’re one of the best at it.”
“Somebody has to be good at something around here sir. Well, Madam Gloria is good at her job. So it just leaves you to fail so often.”
“James! You’re dismissed!”
“Very well Madam. Please make sure these miscreants clean up after themselves!”
“Why? You don’t want to have to do anything when they’re gone? Like, oh I don’t know…your job?!”
“Do not engage baby.”
“If anyone does the job around here it’s you sir!”
“Go James!”
James walks away from Jonny and Gloria
“You really seem like you let his words hit you harder than usual.”
“It’s this whole Havoc Rumble thing. I’m already in my own feels and self-doubt. His British wisecracks don’t help matters any.”
“Just don’t forget who you are my love! You’ve got this!”
Gloria and Jonny share a kiss before Gloria leaves him to do his promo. Jonny looks off camera at the producer…
“Are you ready Rick?”
The scene fades to black. When the scene fades back in, Jonny is standing in his Accolades Room. Championship Belts, Trophies, Plaques, pictures of highlights of his career, even some wrestling attires that he wore in the past. He stands in front of the World Championship that he has on display and stares at it for a moment before turning his attention towards the camera and begins to speak
“The World Heavyweight Championship. That’s what it’s all about. It’s the entire reason why one would want to get into this very business. It sure as hell is the reason why I found my way back into it. If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times…if you’re not in this business to be World Champion, then you don’t need to be in it. You’re wasting your time; you’re wasting my time; you’re wasting the fans’ time.”
“The World Heavyweight Championship is THE symbol of excellence. When you hold the World Championship, you are the cream of the crop; the top of the game; the best of the best…You. Own. The. Wrestling. World! Especially when we’re talking about the Action Wrestling World Championship. We all know that when you’re on the Action Wrestling roster, you’re already the elite of the elite! But when you’re the Action Wrestling World Champion…there is none better in the entire world!”
“This is just my second Havoc Rumble in my entire career. I’ve had a few rumble matches other than last year’s Havoc, but the Action Wrestling’s Havoc Rumbles are the most chaotic and the most grueling rumble I’ve ever had the pleasure and displeasure of being involved in. As I said before, Action Wrestling is already the home of the elite athletes, the top tier wrestlers and the most devastating fighters in the entire world! Then you put us all together in one ring fighting over the same goal AND you add in a few surprises? You’re just asking for turmoil!”
“In this year’s Havoc Rumble you have the likes of Tatiana Jolee, Jessie Lee, Carter Shaw, Odin Balfore, Corey Black, Lissie Hope, Dionysus, Alister McKissick, Gerard Angelo, Downfall, your hero and mine – James Freedom and sooooo many more deserving individuals. A lot of them are former Action Wrestling World Champions. A vast majority of them held the Championship for a very long time. Some of them have held it multiple times. Nevertheless, every one of them are top names in professional wrestling…but there’s only crème de la crème and that distinction goes to Jill Park.”
“You can’t get any better than Jill Park. I mean her actions leave a little to be desired honestly but her credentials are hard to argue! She pinned Dionysus to win the Championship back in January of this year and she hasn’t looked back since. Forward is the only way for her to go. That’s how you make it to where she’s at right now. You never look back. You only look forward. You beat the opposition in front of you right now then onto the next one. You beat that one then onto the next one. That’s the only way you can be as successful as she is and for as long as she has been. I guess in a sense of irony, since I’ve been gunning for the United States Championship and I’m set to face James Freedom for the US Championship, Jill Park is a former US Championship herself and in fact she holds the record for the longest reign of that Championship! Given her talents – and arguably thanks to her working relationship with Torture – she’s on course to having the longest reign of the World Championship as well! No matter what though, her reign of terror comes to an end at Evolution 6! The rest of the Action Wrestling roster and myself are tired of seeing her with that Championship and we’re not going to stop until we see it pried from her death grip!”
“This match isn’t just about ending the reign of Jill Park. It’s also a night that I can and will settle a few scores. The last time I was in the ring, James Freedom and I challenged for the Action Wrestling Tag Team Championships and we didn’t get the job done. My buddy Jim speared my ass and then I was dealt the embarrassment of being the one that ate the pin. Was it an accident? Did he do it on purpose? Who knows? I doubt he even knows himself. But just in that scenario right there I have a score to settle with three people. Odin Balfore, Corey Black and James Freedom!”
“The score I have to settle with Black is the fact that I haven’t been able to get the win over him. I’ve given him a run for his money but each time he and I faced one another in the ring, he came out the victor. I’m not saying he’s not good and didn’t deserve the wins, because he is and he did. But what I am saying is that I owe him for those two pins. The score I have to settle with Balfore is him basically being guilty by association with Corey Black. I’ve beaten that big oaf before, I really have no issues with doing it again. And in all reality, what sweeter revenge is there than preventing either one of them from becoming the number one contender to the Action Wrestling World Championship?! I ask ya.”
“Now this score with James Freedom will NOT be settled at Havoc. That I promise you. One way or another our score WILL be settled, but Havoc is nothing more than a continuation. Even though he’s holding the United States Championship, a Championship that I want more than life itself, this is the golden opportunity to fight for the World Championship. Let’s be honest, I’ve been talking about being here for the Action Wrestling World Championship from the very beginning so I can’t let this opportunity pass me by. But Freedom, don’t think that I’ve forgotten about you. Don’t think that I’m letting you get off easy just because this opportunity arose. At Havoc I’m just going to have to find satisfaction in preventing you from becoming number one contender to the World Championship and laugh at your expense as I go on and become the number one contender!”
“Gerard Angelo. Our paths haven’t crossed a lot during our time here but we debuted the same night. When you came in you skyrocketed to the top. Admittedly, I’ve taken my time. I haven’t been able to get to the top as quickly as you have. I’m not knocking you or your abilities. You found yourself at the top because you deserved it. You still deserve it. When you were World Champion you and I found ourselves across the ring from one another once. I had the opportunity to take the Championship from you then but I came up short. You were the better man…that night. At Havoc, I’m going to throw YOU over the top rope and take my next step toward immortality at your expense!”
“To everyone else in the Havoc Rumble, to so many of you I’m some kind of joke. I’m some kind of pushover. I’m the easy elimination in this Rumble and I can’t wait to prove you wrong! I want this. I need this! I’m starving for the Action Wrestling World Championship! I have this insatiable appetite for it! I cannot and will not stop until I get that Championship around my waist! If I have to eliminate every single one of you in order to get that shot at Jill Park and the Action Wrestling World Championship then so be it. I’ll do just that. Just know that there’s not a damn thing that any of you can do to keep me from reaching that goal. I owe it to The People. I owe it to myself to win at Havoc and then win at Evolution! No matter who gets in my way, I will throw you OUT of my way. I would even throw my own grandmother over the top rope just to get a shot; just to get a taste of the World Championship! It’s my lifeblood! It’s my power source!”
“I eat, I breathe and I sleep this sport! Everything I do, I do because I love this sport! Everything I do, I do because it’s who I am. It defines me. The World Championship will be the embodiment of that passion; that hunger; that drive that I have to be the absolute best in this sport! I go out each and every night and I prove to the world that I deserve to be in this company, and I prove to the world that I deserve to be mentioned with the best this sport has to offer! Winning the Havoc Rumble then going onto Evolution 6 and beating Jill Park for the World Championship only solidifies it! It etches my name into the annals of time as being one of the all time greats this business has ever produced!”
“I’ve beaten the best and I’ve been beaten by the best along my long and windy road to the top of this company! At Havoc though I surpass them all! At Havoc I take one more step towards immortality! At Havoc I take another step towards bringing home the World Championship to The People where it rightfully belongs! The People have supported me throughout my career and here recently I haven’t been living up to their standards. Hell I haven’t been living up to MY standards. It changes, and it changes now. At Havoc, I eliminate every single person that gets in my way and The People and I head to Evolution!”
“I’ve been the laughing stock of this company for far too long. Very few people, if any, take me as a serious threat to their “spot” in this company. Given my record here, I guess I can’t really blame them but let’s face it. It’s just been the classic case of Mr. Nice Guy. Well no more. I will decimate and annihilate the competition from here on out. With The People being the driving force behind my every move in this sport, I have no choice but to win it all! I have no choice but to be the best! I have no choice but to win the Havoc Rumble and I have no choice but to beat Jill Park at Evolution and be your brand NEW Action Wrestling World Heavyweight Champion!”
“Once that happens, The People and I will cause nothing but chaos, havoc and destruction all over Action Wrestling!!”
The scene fades to black