Kassidy is sitting in his locker room with his Note 20 Ultra propped up while he is video calling someone,
Kassidy: This has gone very 50/50 with people accepting this new me, some down right don’t believe me and think I am still plotting.
Kassidy: I understand that showing up and apologizing isn’t going to be enough but I was trying, I didn’t turn on Black Smith, we won that match.
???: Look. I’ll be honest with you. I’m very impressed by your change of heart. It’s definitely a step in the right direction. It’s great to see someone like you finally being on the good guys’ side, even though your choice to team up with Horsey is… “questionable” to say the least. I haven’t forgotten what that ANIMAL has done to me last year.
???: But you know what? Just like you, I have let bygones be bygones and moved on with my life. All you need to do is to keep it up and one day… you will be truly redeemed and your past will be nothing but a distant memory.
Blacksmith knocks on the door, and after the permission given by Kass, enters in the locker room of the former OCW Champion
Kass starts to close the phone app, but Blacksmith stops him…
TLB: Wait…
TLB: I guess who you are talking to. For this reason I ask you not to hang up…
Blacksmith sees Valkyrie’s image on the computer, and with a nod of his head he greets the former two times OCW World Women’s Wrestling champion
TLB: Hi Valk…
Valkyrie: ….
TLB: Kass, you know I didn't understand why you helped me. For days I was convinced that your goal was, as usual, to plot in the shadows, with the intent of achieving a goal. A personal revenge, or who knows
TLB: And I have to tell you, I'm still not sure otherwise. However, I have to judge the facts. And the facts say that, without you, I would have had a very bad time in the Summercide post match.
TLB: Valk, we don't know each other, at least not directly. I know what you think of me. And that's right. For no reason, 1 year ago I decided to surprise you after your match and knock yourself down. A desperate and cowardly move, which did not achieve the expected purpose …
Valkyrie: What you did to me was despicable, something that not even Ashley Moore in her prime would have done. I get it, Wrestling is all about instilling fear into one’s opponents and I assume that was what you were trying to achieve with that.
Valkyrie: Look at you know. Trying to find your way in today’s OCW, trying to redeem yourself for your shady past. Here’s the thing, Blacksmith. Redemption starts within. Say it.. say it out loud… “I… AM… SORRY….”
Blacksmith stares at Kassidy Hayes
TLB: I’m sorry.
TLB: Not for moral reasons, or because I feel guilty about myself, no. But because I involved, for nothing, someone who had nothing to do with it.
TLB: Because you know Kass, I don't regret trying to call you in the ring at Lution…Two years have passed since that event I saw on television. That Savage Lands where I decided to take this journey, here in OCW. And you know why ... you.
TLB: Your charisma, your personality, everything seemed to say "look at me, I'm the best". And you were. you were. For this reason, my goal was only 1. To get a match with you, and beat you. When I saw that flame in your eyes fade, I didn't care that I was still a Rookie, I tried to reignite it.
TLB: But the truth, which I understand now, is that what you are missing right now is not something you can find from the outside, but just something you can find by digging within yourself.
TLB: But you understand that I tried to do you a favor a year ago. And that's why, I think, at Summercide you decided to help me.
TLB: Am I wrong?
Kassidy: Something like that Blacksmith, so are we square?
Kassidy extends his hand,
Blacksmith nods his head, and shakes hands with Kassidy. He turns and as he goes towards the exit he adds…
TLB: Just to be clear. This is not a surrender. Sooner or later we will go into the ring together. But it will not be with the Kass of now, but with the real Kass. The strongest one of all OCW...
TLB: And with the real me too… I wish you good luck in your search …
Blacksmith goes out of the Locker Room and the scene fades...
