The camera follows Jim Black as he chases Aries down after his match with Justin Jehst.
Jim Black - Aries! God damn it, I’m an old man! Wait up!
Aries slows down the pace and eventually comes to a full stop. He turns to his old friend, Jim Black. Noticeably out of breath and out of shape, Jim attempts to conduct a quick post-match interview with the returning legend.
Aries - What is it, Jim?
Jim Black - Hold on. Need..to catch...breath…
Jim stands there, panting and panting, until he finally relaxes.
Jim Black - OKAY! Welcome back...again, but I have a question that’s on the minds of many right now.
Aries - Go on, Jim..
Jim Black - How can you be a force to reckon with against Nate Ortiz, when Justin Jehst, a man Nate has beaten just last week, took you to school?
Aries stands there, quietly stewing in his own thoughts. His face is becoming more sour as the time passes, but he finally answers Jim.
Aries - Took me to school? Were you and I watching the same match, Jim? That boy just learned a valuable lesson. Don’t go 100% when your opponent isn’t even putting in 20. Jehst is tough. Good wrestler, and has a mountain of potential, but you just can’t underestimate someone like me. I will do anything that I have to do to get ahead, and if that means lulling someone into a false sense of security, then so be it.
Jim Black - Are you saying you let him kick your ass?
Aries - That is EXACTLY what I’m saying, Jim. These people, this new OCW generation. They have no idea what a bad guy actually is, and I’m here to show them.
Aries - Take notes, because class is in session. Have you ever seen that movie “Captain Phillips”, Jim?
Aries turns to the camera.
Aries - Look at me, because I’m the “Alpha Heel” now. When Smythe was here, he taught me a lot of things. One thing in particular that he told me was to never take half measures. Tonight, I just took advantage of someone’s eagerness to win and prove himself. At Summercide, I’m going to take advantage of Nate’s ego-ness to get rid of me.
Aries - In schools, they teach you about the falls of many empires, most notably the Roman Empire. When I break Nate, you’re going to bear witness to The Fall of The Franchize, along with this stupid f***ing company.
Aries storms off, leaving Jim to the camera.
Jim Black - Well, uhh...back to you guys.
The CCW Heavyweight Champion walks down the back corridors of The Barclays Center to head towards the entryway to the stage.
He chuckles and pauses when he sees the OCW World Heavyweight Champion H2O.
The two stare at each other for several moments as you can hear the audience cheer escalating in the background.
Harvey lifts B17’s eye patch and sees how badly bruised his eye is and slowly puts it back down.
B17 rubs the side of Harvey’s bloodshot eye and squinches his face at the mushy feeling of it.
He motions to his eye patch as if to say, try it.
H2O: B…
B17: H…
H2O: You know there were never any hard feelings between you and I when you joined Kasstianity. I knew deep inside that you would come around and you did.
Harvey slaps B17’s CCW Championship Title that rests on his shoulder. B17 clutches his shoulder and grimaces in pain for a little bit.
B17: Ah...Yeah. And I always knew you would eventually stop missing your dives.
B17 exaggerates a slap and hits The OCW Champion’s shoulder hard as he recieved. Harvey bites his bottom lip to hide the pain. He then smiles.
H2O: I always wish you came around soon enough to chop it up with you at Wrestlution. But you were...preoccupied.
H2O: Unfortunately now, I’m preoccupied. Heather is missing, I lost my unborn child, Baker didn’t look like himself tonight because I sent him to Nevada and he came back to New York jetlagged for his match.
H2O: So I’m in no mood to fight you my friend. Besides, Rust Cohle and Danny Watts are going to attack me sometime before this night ends.
H2O: I know he smells blood.
B17 widens his eyes and just nods.
B17: Well my former mentor now wants to kill me because I’m dating his...
B17 screams this loudly to no one in particular.
B17: EX WIFE! His best friend who happens to be his (screams again) EX BROTHER IN LAW has just returned. He also happens to be the man that burned down my former apartment.
B17: Oh yeah, I have no idea where Kass is but I keep getting phone calls with heavy breathing on the other end. There is a Rolling Stones article that speculates I’m the father of Valk’s baby and I've been told that the eye will take at least two months to heal, but JCS has insisted that I have another to see out of…
B17 shrugs his shoulders.
B17: But I’m doing great!
The camera pans ever so slightly round the corner neither world champion can see it. Calmly, silently, Jacob Trance lurks, sipping a cup of coffee. It’s unclear how long he has been there for. He takes another large sip, and deposits the cup into a nearby trash can.
As he walks off camera, The Franchise Nate Ortiz walks by and taps his wrist.
Ortiz: Tick tok, Harvey.
As quickly Nate enters the camera frame, he exits just the same. Harvey looks over his shoulder until he disappears around the corner.
H2O: Guess that’s the price you pay being as great as we are.
B17 adds with a wink, however he could have just been blinking, you would never know
B17: Don't let your hubris get the better of you.
H2O: We both seem to be preoccupied so let's go out there and give the people what they want and then go handle our business like champions do.
