Post by vespertine on Jul 2, 2024 15:24:50 GMT -5
Place:Marin Headlands, just across the Bay from San Francisco, Ca
Time: 4:00PM
Date: Future a long time from now
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“A Future In Pain”
(A broken city. A city in pain. A city with no habitants. A city crying out. As the camera pans around everywhere smoke billows from old abandoned buildings. There is so much smoke that it blots out what is left of the sun. Everywhere buildings are torn down, in shreds, in pieces. Billboards are tipped over and in the distance we can see Sutro Tower, half destroyed, half torn down. The camera cuts shot….
(the camera cuts to shot of another city, equally as big. This one is of New York City. In the distance we can see the Sears Tower, once the tallest building in the City after the World Trade Center, now only a charred husk remains. It’s neighbor have been blown to smithereens and everywhere cars are rotted or rusted out. Ocassionally once catches a glimpse of a rotting corpse of a human. The camera pans around and we see the statue of Liberty, now sawed off at the waste and her top half is laying at her base. The camera cuts shot….)
(The camera cuts to shot of Paris…again in ruins. A few people roam the streets but whatever happened here didn’t just happen minutes ago as smoke billows from buildings, in the distance the Eiffle Tower is sheared off halfway up and the Arch De Triumph is a charred space of what once was. The camera cuts shot…)
(the camera cuts to shot of Sydney Australia. The city is lifeless, the Opera House is in ruins, there is no life left in the city and there is nobody or nothing to keep the desert inland from taking it over. Hence as we watch a huge sand storm engulfs half the City and eventually covers all of it. The camera cuts shot….
(the camera cuts to shot of the Red Square in Moscow, the Kremlin is in ruins and the there is a circle of people in rags in the square and all of them are pointing guns at two figures who are in the middle of the circle. Two men and a woman. Suddenly, nothing is said but at once, everyone opens fire on them and all three figures drop in a heap. Nobody goes to collect anything on the corpses and eventually the people with weapons go back to the shelter of the building. We can see beyond the Kremlin a great wildfire is raging out of control. The camera cuts shot….)
(The camera cuts to a shot of a scene overlooking the burned out husk of the Golden Gate Bridge and the remains of what once was beautiful San Francisco. The camera pans around and we see charred grass and charred earth in what was once the beautiful Marin Headlands where people could hike and bike and watch wildlife. As the camera continues to pan around it stops and focuses on a figure on a rock, just sitting. The figure is cloaked and as the camera pans forward a gust of wind whips the hood off the head to reveal a female with scraggly stringy hair. The camera cuts shot….)
(Camera cuts to shot of the female on the rock. We see it is Vespertine. Days of wandering and waiting have drawn on her as her skin is now pock marked and sun burnt. She wears tattered army fatigues and black combat boots. At her side sits a rifle, an old Ak47, something that still survives and never breaks down in a time of need. Her voice comes up but she her lips don’t move. It’s a voice over of hers.)
VO: It came on quick, 30 years ago. It spread like wildfire. It wasn’t alien and wasn’t from space. It wasn’t human made either. There was no war to get the whole thing started. It wasn’t from any animal so hence any diseases that could’ve wiped out the human race are now gone too. The human race is now gone except for pockets here and there. So why am I still here? I’m a survivor. I have always been a survivor. I always will be a survivor. 30 years ago I was a wrestler. I worked in BWF, Blazenwing Wrestling Federation, I was a diva, a superstar for them. I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth. I wasn’t supposed to survive the Extinction but I have. I was born to drive fast cars, date hot men, win my matches, become world champion and live the good life. Now, in this City, I am all alone. Sure, there are pockets of people here and there that are left in the world. But when panic spread and people started dying out in San Francisco. I just holed up. Answered no knock, headed for my “sanctuary” downstairs. Now, those that didn’t flee soon died out. I am the only one left and I survive. Still. Is it worth it? I’m the only one in this City of Ash. A few people still inhabit San Jose but Oakland is nothing more than a memory and one day when I am dust as well, there will be no one left to remember it…or me… either.
(she sighs and her back heaves up and down. She looks around and puts the hood back up on her head)
VO: There is nothing left on earth now. And whatever it was, took the world by storm, people fled, people died or people did nothing and just laid down, didn’t care anymore and stopped living. I’ve wandered to the East Coast and back these past 30 years and have come across the same thing. Bad things have happened to earth. Bad people come out of bad things. And when set against good people, bad people always prevail in times and events like these. Whatever happened here, nobody knows for sure. It killed off our entire race. And what wasn’t killed off, made others into monsters. Hollywood had it wrong. I always thought Hollywood was wrong. But whatever happened to the people of earth, actually helped the earth itself. I’ve seen it. I’ve seen the land. I’ve seen the seas. I’ve seen the airways go back to its original state before humans arrived on the scene. Maybe it had something to do with Earth and Mother Gaia wanting to go back to its natural state. She didn’t kill off all humans but I’ve seen good humans go bad and bad humans get worse just by being the last to survive an Extinction of an entire race. In your lifetime, you don’t ever thing it’s going to happen to you. You don’t ever think that one day you’ll wake up and you’ll either be dead, hunted or the last one left alive.
(Behind her a man a mountain lion jumps off the cliff to where she is sitting and slowly stalks her. She whirls into action, grabs her rifle and fires a few shots. She hits the mountain lion in the chest but this enrages it and it roars after her. From somewhere she grabs a knife and when the lion leaps to take her down, she strikes out and slits the lion’s throat. It falls dead at her feet. She begins skinning the lion and cutting up meat to take back to home with her.)
VO: 30 years ago my skills, my moves, my talents were different. If I had known 30 years ago that the world was going to be like this 30 years later I would’ve prepared differently. 30 years from now when I look back on this, if I’m alive to look back, do you think I would be saying the same thing then as I am now as I did 30 years ago?
(the camera zooms closer to her and focuses on her face as she cuts up the meat. Her eyes are soft yet in pain at the same time and there is a hint of moisture in them as if she is on the verge of crying. The camera moves closer to her eyes to within inches of them and then suddenly moves “through them” to a well of darkness and the camera turns around and we see we are falling away from her eyes as she cuts up the mountain lion. The scene shimmers….)
VO: In 30 years do you think it will matter what happens today?
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“Is Today any better?”
(Various promos against various opponents)
Ves: Hello Nash, remember me. Yeah, you think that just because I'm smaller than you that I will go down easy. Talk to Sitcom, see how easy it was for him to take me down. You're gonna come in and tell me stuff you think I haven't heard before. I'm boring, I'm outdated, I'm a failure and so on etc yada yada yada. Yeah you can give me all the bullshit that you want and tell me I don't deserve this but being the fast riser and the determined little bitch that I am, I deserve this more than you ever did. You stayed in the tag team division because you saw that you weren't good enough without a partner. And when your partner left you lost more than won. So what's that say about your wrestling skills. I hope you are better in hockey than you are in wrestling. Maybe leaving this business to focus on hockey is better business. Or stick that hockey stick up your pussy and become another mindless porn zombie. Amature style because you definitely aren't a pro. No hard feelings Nash, that's just this business. Like I told Cedone, I will break you down and tear you apart. There is no move or hold that i can't find a counter for so when you see me, just know, YOU... are in.... the ring...with ME.
Never give up,
never tap out,
never surrender.
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Ves: I'm here, Odin, I'm here Ciper. Don't ever forget that. And when your names are lost to the ashes of time and your memories are just dust in the wind, just know that for all that you did here, for all the success you had, they are merely footnotes to the story I am creating, as one of the blocks that I am building my legacy for in Action Wrestling. On my rise to greatness, you two are merely stepping stones. Dont' be ashamed, not every one can fail as spectacularly as you will when you meet me in the ring.
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Ves: Now you will claim that the Era of Leethality cannot be crushed, cannot be burned. But that is where you are so wrong. Say what you want, call me names, put me down because that's the only thing you are so good at. But when I get into that ring and wrestle circles around you in the end you will feel death by diva, and you WILL stay down. You will come to understand that the Era of Leethality is over. If it ever really began. THIS is the rise of Vespertine and it will be satisfying to crush you beneath my boot. BDSM style.
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Ves: Because Sitcom, really all you are is a joke. A stupid big fucking dumb joke. Insert one liner, insert laugh track, insert stupid moronic neighbor here. I deign to take it upon myself to show you that you can be better, bigger, meaner. I have to pummel and take your ass down just to show you that you don't need to be a sitcom king. But it's gonna be hard for me because you are a big fucking man with a small ass dick who can't think for himself so needs a smaller dick of a manager to guide him. Get rid of the manager, get a new gimmick and probably then you may be able to beat me. Probably even then people will take you seriously. That is if I let you. Truth hurts, don't it, big man.
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Ves: YOU.... are in my yard. In MY ring. You step into in my yard, I will make you bow to me. I thrive in these type of matches. I have no fear, no qualms, no shortcomings. I will climb and fly. I WILL outfly you. I will outrun you. I WILL outwrestle you. I WILL go everywhere, fly off anything and climb that ladder to reach my destiny. THIS.... IS...MY....DESTINY.
(She smiles wickedly)
So, ODD, Karlie, Joliday or Holidrone Whatever you want to call yourselves, let's go out there and give them the best show of the night. I say I will fly and when I do, you keep up with me. I will go faster than I have before, I will go higher than I ever have before. I WILL take myself past my breaking point, my lentation. I expect all of you to do the same. We always give 100% of ourselves. This time, I want you there with me to go past it to 150%. And if you can't, then you can die trying. But just know what it will look like when the smallest, lightest, person on the entire roster wins the Thunderdome at the greatest PPV of the year, Evolution. A fitting name because in a way we have all evolved in some way to get there, none more so than me. I will no fail. I will not falter. I don't give up, I don't tap out. And you will all feel
(pauses, continues)
Death... by.... DIVA!
(Camera fades to black)
(The camera backs up and shimmers again…. To the scene of her 30 years from now…)
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“Hope is ever present.”
(The camera cuts to shot of Vespertine just finishing cutting up her meat. She sits down cross legged and sighs and then takes a slab of meat and bites a good chunk out of it. She has her rifle at her side. Suddenly footsteps can be heard coming up to the overlook. She whirls into action, rifle at the ready and aims. Camera cuts shot….
(The camera cuts to shot of the scene in crosshairs. Through the viewfinder we see two children, one 15 year old female and one 12 year old boy. They come trudging up and when they see the crosshairs on them, they raise their arms in fear. Vespertine’s steady breathing slows down and she lowers the crosshairs. Camera cuts shot…)
(…Camera cuts to shot of Vespertine huddled over her meat with the rifle at the ready. The children look on hungrily. She beckons them over and offers them a few slices. They rush up until they get within a few feet of her and then stop and cautiously take the meat she is holding out.)
V: Where you from?
Girl: North. Seattle a ways.
V: How old are you?
Girl: I’m 15. My brother is 12.
V: You were… born in this? (she indicates the fall of Civilization around her in the distance.)
Girl: Yes Maam.
V: Where are your parents?
Boy: Dead. Died defending us against Ravagers.
VO: Ravagers. The name alone strikes terror in the heart of good and evil. True barbarians, cannibals, nazi’s all rolled into one. Worse villain than any Hollywood movie ever made or any book you have ever read. The only movie that ever got it right was The Road with Viggo Mortensen and even then, what you saw was child’s play compared to Ravagers. These two were 15 and 12. They weren’t cannibals or worse. They had parents who died defending them. They traveled all the way from Old Seattle down to San Francisco alone on the way burying their dead looking for a new life. Talking with them was interesting. They knew nothing about the Old Life back 30 years ago. I must seem so old to them. They grew up in this Nightmare of a World. They never stopped running, they never tired. They held the hope that someday the world would return to normal and the human race would be back where it was 35 years ago. There was hope for the human race.
V: I’m Vespertine.
G: I’m Bree. This is my brother Nikki.
V: Well, welcome to San Francisco, you made it. We had a big legacy here back 30 years ago but now. Now all that remains is ash and dust.
Echos: All that remains is ash and dust. Ash and dust. Ash and dust.
…The shimmer effect goes off again…
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"Remember this day. Remember me"
In 30 years will anybody remember the lights going out the SOFI arena, will anybody remember the day that Action Wrestling died and out of the phoenix of its ashes, grew Discovery Wrestling. In 30 years will anybody remember the names of Tatiana Jolee and Kyle Shane? Karlie Nash? Gerard Angelo? Sitcom, Sicko, Johnny Eden, Niobe Martin, Downfall, Muru, Jessie Lee, Draugr, Sara Pettis and Ragin Dead, Doc Holiday, Johnny Cedrone or even Addy A? Will they even remember the name of Vespertine?
The day AW died the sun rose a day later on Discovery, it was a new day. But in the end after all was said and done. After the lights went out, we walked off into our various sunsets...
(Camera cuts to shot of Vespertine watching the sun go down over the Pacific ocean as the bed blanket of darkness covers the land behind her)
When Death comes for all of us, when it turns the lights out in the Universe, will we be remembered for anything that we have done? Will the Halls of DW fall with time or will it stand strong protecting all those who have graced it's halls. Only time will tell.
(She turns and disappears down the hill as the sun shines its last rays of light over the horizen)
I've always said Dying is a day worth living for. I survived my early years on the streets of San Francisco, I survived wrestling, I survived being extreme, I survived the apolocolypse, I can survive this.
May you all remember the phrase death by diva.
May you all remember my Dark Buddha,
may you all remember the chaos that I sewed throughout the federation.
May you all remember the small little girl that I am but big in heart, bigger in aura and absolutely insane in the ring. I am... one of a kind, I am immortal. I am Vespertine. Remember my name in your dreams and nightmares.
May we meet again in this life or the next life. Good luck, my friends wherever your journey in life takes you. I see you all. I see your souls. May they see the light that guides your ways.
(The sun goes down on the charred ruins of what once was San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge as the light of day fades to black of night.)