The scene opens focusing on someone finishing up reading some sort of magazine. The person finishes reading and closes the magazine revealing it to be a vintage edition of Online Wrestling News magazine.
The camera pans up to reveal the face of OCW rookie, Luis Bishop who’s left wide-eyed by what he’s just read.
Bishop: I still can’t believe I found such an old copy in near mint condition.
Bishop: That Cypher guy was really ONE SICK-
Bishop: Well you know the chant.
Bishop: Did you know that he actually had to admit himself into a mental health facility?
Bishop looks deeply into the camera waiting for an answer that will never arrive.
Bishop: ...Cause I didn’t.
Bishop: Just like I didn’t know that I left about a 5 foot 8 and 170 pound indent in Viktor Karmine’s mind from the last time we faced.
Bishop: I find it ironic how you dress like a teacher and try to lecture the whole class, yet it’s clear you have a lot more learning to do.
Bishop: Just because I’m not out there each and every week doesn’t mean I’m not out here doing my best to absorb every piece of knowledge…
Bishop holds up the magazine to the camera showing the Hall of Famer in all his glory.
Bishop: …I can literally get my hands on and prepare to be the best wrestler I can be when I step inside that ring.
Bishop: Because contrary to what you might think, even though that bell might ring,
Bishop: GAME. NEVER. STOPS.
Bishop: And even though you may not want to admit it, you have just as much to learn from me as I have to learn from you.
Bishop lets out a deep breath and leans back on his couch.
Bishop: But maybe you got a point, maybe I should realize my potential.
Bishop: So come Ambition 14, let’s both step outside your comfort zone.
Bishop drops the magazine on the table and leans forward to look at the camera
Bishop: You step outside your box,
Bishop: And I’ll step outside mine.
The camera harshly cuts to black as the show keeps rolling.
ROOKIE CHALLENGE JOE DEAVER
vs. "DYNAMITE" DARRYL WEBSTER
Mujera is sitting on a chair in the middle of a dark room, spotlight on her. She seems concerned and sorry when 2 gloved hands take their place on her shoulders. Kass’s helmet is appearing in the spotlight, just over her head.
Kass: Mujera, fighting between family is normal so I can understand if there is tension between sisters but nothing can be resolved if you don’t air these concerns with me in a comprehensible manner.
Kass: Outbursts and taking unavailable time from others, such as Chris’ moment of vulnerability on Turmoil was not the place or time.**
Kass: Next week on Furiosa’s Clark Effect platform you will show the world that every member of Kasstianity leads by example; You will mend the issue between Furi and yourself before Kasstianity goes to the ring and takes control from Team OCW, showing everyone Kasstianity will continue to stand tall Together.
Mujera is still looking at the ground. She mumbles some words.
Mujera: I am sorry, Kass. I did not act the way you deserve. I will make things right and start my redemption to you, and to the others. Because we are a unit. And everything is fine in our family.*
Kass leans down kissing Mujera on the top of her head,
Kassidy: That’s the Sister I know and love.
Back at the Cesar Dojo, we see Regina Tacet Dragana Cesar staring at a television, fiddling around with the remote until the screen lights up with a memory of the past.
Turmoil 230. Terra Daturas takes on Dragana Cesar in a friendly bout after weeks of rehabilitation. The Silent Queen removes a small notepad and a pen from her back pocket.
She flips through the pages, most of them containing crude drawings of featureless people performing wrestling moves on each other. The drawings also have symbols like question marks and exclamation points on them.
Notably, she flips to a page with drawings of figures performing a dragon sleeper and a cravate sleeper, moves she was rehearsing with Jasmin Kaffee for her OCW 2k23 motion capture session.
Dragana: Hm….
She flips to a blank page now and looks up at the screen. Terra and Dragana are battling in a back and forth contest, but in the end, Terra has the upper hand; drilling The Silent Queen to the mat with the Devil’s Trumpet and forcing her to submit with the Grievous Fly Trap.
Dragana stops and rewinds the footage several times, drawing out the moves on her notepad with exclamation points and stars. As the match concludes with the women giving each other a hug, she turns off the TV and rushes to the Cesar family’s makeshift ring. A lethargic Bubba reclining on the couch decides to tag along.
The lion watches from the apron as his good friend applies a cravate sleeper on a dummy, Dragana notices the cet watching her and is caught by surprise when the dummy’s head pops off.
Dragana: Oh!
Bubba rolls over onto his back and wags his tail in amusement. She goes over to him and scratches his tumtum.
TRIPLE THREAT! ASHLEY MOORE vs. MARISA XPENSIVE vs. LOTUS FLOJO
We go into the TWC locker room. John can be seen in his ring gear while taping up his wrists. Marcus is standing up towards the middle of the room. Noticeably the chairs that Jasmin,Spider and Aisu usually occupy are empty. John would take a look at the empty chairs.
John: Every week this place feels emptier…
Marcus: I tried contacting them but no one gave me an answer.
John would look up at Marcus.
John: Don’t tell me you tried talking to Spider.
Marcus: I tried. I’m torn because the man helped us so much but yet screwed you out of a cash in. Doesn’t he hate H2O?
John: That’s what I thought but apparently not. He’s known to be a snake.
Marcus: Well I guess we should’ve known what we got ourselves into with him.
John looks over at Aisu’s chair.
John: What’s the word on Aisu?
Marcus: Nothing. After the fall to that lunatic, Christian Garcia he hasn’t been around. I should’ve just helped him, JC. I was right there to grab his leg or distract the referee but all I heard was his words, your words, that told me not to interfere.
John: You did the right thing. You made the right decision.
Marcus looks over at Miss Jasmin’s chair.
Marcus: Now she’s down in the dumps again. Day in and day out this man stalks her every move. What kind of friend am I to those two? I wasn’t there for either of them and now they’re gone
John: How do you think I feel? Aries gave me the biggest opportunity of my life by taking me under his wing. I repaid him by joining a man who left me a few weeks later.
John looks down at the ground his hands clasped together as he contemplates what to say
John: Aries had us on the right path. When we were with that man I felt like I had a proper direction. Without him I feel lost at times. I don’t know what to do with this Investment I don’t know how to handle Kasstianity.
John:
I know nothing and the one man who had those answers I threw to the waste side for what? The Wrestling Club is falling apart, this locker room used to be full and now look at it, it’s me and you that’s it.
???: ….and you left your father.
Marcus: What?
Marcus looks up past John’s shoulder and sees his Pops sitting there looking like Professor Charles Xavier and with his chin resting on his hands as he stares at Marcus.
John looks up at Marcus looking behind him and he sees no one.
He looks back at Marcus.
John: I didn’t say anything. Are you ok?
Marcus: Nevermind. You know what John? We have the basic fundamentals and tools of people in our past that can and WILL make us successful.
Marcus: It’s about time we get our heads out of our rear end and time to make statements like we’ve done this past summer!
Marcus: Aries, my father, Aisu, Spider and even Miss Jasmin taught us something from their strengths. We need to make a statement and do it now!
Marcus stands up and throws his towel on the floor.
John: You’re right and that starts with finishing what Aries started. Tonight Im going to end Ryu once and for all!!
