Kassidy begins to walk up the ramp to return backstage when Cobra grabs his attention and signals towards Carter, who's still fading in and out of consciousness on the ground. Hayes smirks and nods before they look at Xander standing over Nathan and glaring at them.

Xander: Well? I dare y-

He's cut off by the man he'd been torturing for weeks absolutely slobbering him over the head and proceeding to stomp him all over him. Kassidy looks on bemused as Cobra unleashes weeks of fury on the rain man, getting up as he's barely conscious and making him watch as he picks Nathan up for a game over...........after a game over after a game over.

He only stops once Kassidy grabs him by the shoulder and ushers him up the ramp. Once they're at the stage and about to head into the back, Cobra has a Mic thrown at him by a sound guy and grins at Xander who is only now standing up.

Cobra: G-G-G-G-G UNIT MOTHERFU**ER

The Camera pans to the announce team!

	Afterweeks of torture it's finally over!
	GET'EM A.C, GET EM!!!

	Coming up a bitter rivalry comes to an head. The Scotsman Jimmy Henry takes on the Sebasstion Abbott.
	These 2 are going to kill each other!

 

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Jimmy Henry vs Sebastion Abbott

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The Camera pans to the announce team!

	He's done it!
	Yes!

The scene opens up as Jim Black makes his way to Jookie Marley’s Locker Room. He opens the door and sees Marley laid out on the floor, staring at the ceiling. The camera pans in on Marley’s bat right on the floor next to him. Jim Black approaches Marley slowly.

Jim Black: Jook you all right? Why are you on the floor?

Marley doesn’t reply. Jim Black slowly kneels down next to him.

Jim Black: Y-You do know your match is coming up soon. You have to get up and get ready.

Marley: What match? I lost last week, so what makes you think that I have a chance tonight? Weapons are not my friends. The only friend I trust is Black Power. She will never turn on me.

Marley pulls the bat closer to him.

Marley: I’m not doing the match. You can go out there and inform everyone that I forfeit my shot. Find someone else to take my spot.

The crowd starts to boo.

Jim Black: You hear that? That’s your Jah Army. What kind of leader are you if you let them down?

Jim Black gets up and turns on the television as Marley finally decides to sit up.

Jim Black: Look at that kid in the front row wearing your dreads. How do you think he would feel if he didn’t get to see you tonight?

Marley: OCW is making money off of my dreads and I didn’t even know it? Someone has to cut me a check.

Jim Black: How would you know? You’ve been out of your mind these past two months. No thanks to Nathan Carter, Xander Rane and KD. You let them turn you into a psycho. You’ve been walking around here talking about murder and gardens also.

Marley walks over to the TV and turns.

Marley: Yeah I’ve been out of it but my minds made up; I’m not going to do the match. Tell KD he can have the damn belt.

Jim Black: I cant believe that the man that used to walk around and call himself “THAT GUY” is now THAT BITCH! Heh some leader you are.

Jim Black exits the room as the scene fades with a shot of a distressed Marley.

The Camera pans to the announce team!

	What the hell?
	He's been broken!

For the third time in as many weeks, the in ring action on an OCW broadcast finds itself in a momentary lull as the big-screen switches to a feed of OCWFED.com. The computer mouse scrolls up to the center link and presses play on the waiting video.

The full screen is taken up by the SuzieShortCake Youtube channel. A second computer mouse starts up the second video titled: Awkward Conversations.

This second video must not take place too long after the first as there is still a banner hanging over the Storm living room couch which reads: "Happy 5th Birthday Suzie."

The camera's stationary, as if it's resting on bar counter top or taller coffee table; it's likely someone got distracted and laid the camera down without forgetting to turn it off or return for it.

Cody Storm comes walking into the frame. He seems distracted, pensive. He's pacing back and forth and shaking his head from side to side slowly.

Cody Storm: I mean.... I have to tell her.... Right? I'm losing....Time's just gone. And the dreams... the headaches....

Storm puts his head down resting it in the palm of his hand, rubbing at his temples as he continues pacing.

Cody Storm: Cherese!

Cody calls out for his wife, but gets no response. The house isn't massive by any means, but everyone knows the kind of attention and focus a five year old requires.

Cody Storm: CHEREEEEEESE!

This time the page seems to have gone through as Mrs. Storm comes running from the upstairs hallway and down the stairs.

Cherese Lee-Storm: What's wrong?!

Cody lifts his head up to meet her eyes. The alarm should be quelled. It's just Cody standing still in the empty living room. But the worry found in Cody's eyes is anything but calming.

Cherese Lee-Storm: What's wrong....?

Cody Storm: Um... Uh.

All of sudden Cody's voice is failing him, he's flustered. Cherese moves just a few inches away from him.

Cherese Lee-Storm: Cody, what is wrong?

Cody indulges in his nervous tick of licking his lips before grabbing his wife's hands and leading her to sit on the couch. They're both sitting there and she's waiting patiently, but he's having trouble getting the words out. He just sits there for a moment, looking down at his lap and shaking his head. He finally looks up at her.

Cody Storm: I'm wrong Cherese.... And I... I don't know how to fix it. There are some things here that I haven't been telling you about. Things that I haven't been entirely honest about, actually I lied compl.... OW!

Cody's breathing quickens, growing rapid and erratic as he returns to rubbing his temples. You can see practically see the gears turning in Cherese's head, she assumes the worst; probably that her husband of 7 years has been cheating on her.

Cody Storm: Do you remember what I told you about why I left OCW?

Cherese Lee-Storm: Yeah.... You said you had accomplished everything that you set out to accomplish; that you had finally gotten "It All" in the ring and now you wanted "It All" with Suzie and I... You did that thing you do where you start quoting Wonder Year's songs and talking about airports and hospital beds and the whole nine-yards.

Cody's proves capable of cracking the slightest smile.

Cody Storm: All of that was true, you know I don't quote them lightly... but it wasn't the whole truth.

Cherese Lee-Storm: Cody Storm! I SWEAR, if you're about to tell me you left because you were gettin' it from one of those nasty hoe-bags backstage and started feeling guilty about i........

Cody Storm: Cherese I lied to you about my mom!

Her eyebrows fly south towards her lips as if the weight of the sudden confusion were dragging them down.

Cherese Lee-Storm: What are you talking about?

Cody Storm: That night when I attacked my mother in the ring.

Cherese Lee-Storm: Yeah, that plan you and your mom had to screw with Tobin Frost. You said you figured he'd go after someone you loved if you took his trainer so you had your mom prepared to feign an injury so you could look as cold-blooded as possible.

Cody Storm: It wasn't as much an illusion as it was a reality. Bella, that wasn't planned. I don't even know what happened.

Tears start welling up in Storm's eyes and he quickly drops his head back down, staring at his lap, his pride refusing to let him stay entirely vulnerable.

Cody Storm: I blacked out. I don't remember anything. One second I was holding onto all of the cards. I had Tobin backed into a corner. I was sure he was going to crack under that pressure and he'd be easy pickings. But then he brought my mom out, and it was like he had completely turned everything around. I was being forced to either let him hurt her or give up my ace in the hole.

Cody Storm: Either way he wanted me to look weak... No, not just look weak, be weak. He wanted to find where it hurt and push until I lost the my belt to him. I just remember standing there, frozen in place, trying to decide whether to hold on to the only person who was ever there for me my whole life or hold onto what I had been working to obtain my whole life.

Cody stops for a moment as if it's a decision he still struggles with to this day, but he senses what she must be thinking and his head snaps back up, tears streaming down.

Cody Storm: When I came back to she was lying there. She was just lying there..... crumpled and unconscious. And I didn't do it Cherese, I swear I didn't do it! I'd never have done it!

His wife pulls him close to her, patting his back through an awkward confession that anyone else would have run from.

Cherese Lee-Storm: It's O.K. Cody. Sometimes when we're faced with that kind of pressure our mind shuts down. We do things we wouldn't normally do. It's a defense mechanism. It's O.K.

Cody pushes his way back off of her.

Cody Storm: It's not O.K. Cherese! It's not O.K.! It wasn't a one time thing. It's started happening again. I get these constant headaches, I'm losing track of time, blocks of time. I'll have several hours when you're at Suzie's school volunteering where I don't even remember what I've been doing.

Cherese gives him a perplexed look, but seems to decide that calm, cool, and collected is the best approach given his current mental state. She simply goes on repeating herself.

Cherese Lee-Storm: It's O.K. Cody, we'll get you help, I promise.

The video abruptly shuts off and The Clash moves on.

The Camera pans to the announce team!

	The plot thickens.
	Hmmm, is that the truth?

 

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