Deep within the depths of the Kasstian Church, we find the longest reigning OCW Womens Champion Furiosa getting her ribs taped up by Francis.
Francis feels a presence enter the room and it’s none other than the 4x OCW World Heavyweight Champion H2O. Furi noticed Francis has stopped taping her up.
Furi: What is it Francis?
Francis nods his head towards the entryway for the room - Furi turns around and smiles.
Furi: Harvey, what a surprise. It’s nice to see you. Please come in.
Francis takes a pair of scissors and cuts the bandage. He tucks it in and fastens it with a pin and excuses himself out of the room. Him and Harvey acknowledge each other as H2O sits himself down in front of his fellow sister of Kasstianity.
Furi: What brings you here?
H2O: I’ve done everything I possibly can to not be alone with you at any point in time while we serve in his name. But today I was compelled to come and check on your condition today.
Furi: Chris Greene got to you last week I see.
H2O: He did and that’s why I came to talk to you…
H2O: Heather.
Furiosa's eyes widen as she’s caught off guard by Harvey. She shakes her head “No” as she is well aware of the unresistant urge that sparks her soul.
Furi: Harvey, why are you..doing…this? You said…you…were done.
Furiosa vomits off to the side as Harvey just sits there as stoic as he can be. He waits for Furi to compose herself.
H2O: Heather…
Heather: Harvey!
Heather jumps off the table and hugs H2O, almost knocking him over his chair. He doesn’t put his arms around her but Heather continues to hold on.
Heather: Harv, you have to help me. Please! You’re the only one that can keep me sane and away from this demon.
Heather feels the push back from her Ex. She releases the hug slowly and kneels down to an eye level with him.
H2O: I need you to listen, Heather. I don’t have much time to spend with you in this state.
Heather nods but wrenches in pain from her injuries. She sits back onto the table.
H2O: DOC is on a rescue mission to save me from Kasstianity. Much like how Terra, Bertha, and Zoe attempted. All of them have failed to bring you back. But I’m afraid Zoe knows how to bring you back, being an Ex Kasstian.
Heather: But this doesn’t make sense. Your presence brought me back instantly. You bring me peace in my life, Harvey. It’s why I came back.
H2O frowns at the thought. But he knows she’s right.
H2O: I need you to know that I cannot bring you back because that will violate my trust that I have with Papa Kass with you. He wants Furi and only Furi to be part of his family. Not you.
H2O: But there’s only a few here that knows the other way to bring you back and I see it happening already.
Heather: But how?
H2O: If I tell you, you have to promise me at the night of Lution, you stay close to me. Deal?
Heather waits for a moment and finally shakes her head “yes”.
Heather: But why at Lution?
H2O: Believe it or not, I feel I was at my best when you and I were champions together. I need to defeat DOC so I can continue to protect this family.
H2O: Papa Kass is so focused on Chris Greene and Shelly, that his presence is no longer felt with me. I need the presence of another Kasstian if I’m going to defeat DOC.
Heather: Ok. I’m in. I’m in. Now please tell me the other way. Hopefully it doesn’t have to involve you.
H2O: It doesn’t.
H2O: Did you notice Furiosa getting weaker at The Queen of OCW due to multiple fights in one night. Then she got weaker during her long fight with Terra? Then got weaker when she went the length with La Mujera? Let’s not forget how she’s performing after War Games.
Heather: Yes. I think I know what you’re saying.
H2O: You have to be beaten. I’m talking about being beaten so badly that the spirit of Furiosa can no longer be the harbinger of your body.
H2O: You have an amazing will and fighting spirit, Heather. But your spirit is so broken and that’s why that demon is so powerful over you.
H2O: Not to mention, you’ve allowed it to take over after you fell so low after The Kumite with Empress and The Chamber match.
Heather takes both of her hands and strokes her hair back from her face. Her eyes are closed as she takes in this revelation.
H2O: As of now you’re safe. But you’ll be safer with me. I will release the demon at times like this when we’re alone. But when it’s time to do Kasstian business you give me strength to continue to protect this family.
H2O: Do we have a deal?
Heather: And what if I don’t comply?
H2O gets up with a haste and proceeds to walk out of the room. Heather feels the dark force of Furiosa start to return.
She wrenches in so much pain.
Heather: Ok. Ok. We have a deal.
H2O smirks. But puts the smirk away before he turns around to face Heather.
H2O: Don’t let Zoe Cohle…or anyone else…beat you down. I need you.
Heather has waited so long for Harvey to say those words again. She goes to give him a hug and he puts his hand up to stop Heather from doing so.
Heather: It’s her that’s causing you to come back to me isn’t it?
H2O: Who?
Francis starts to come back down the stairs. Both Harvey and Heather regain their composure.
H2O: Furiosa…COME BACK…100% so we can lead OCW once again!
H2O’s words cause the dark force of Furiosa to come back and regain control. She starts to throw up once again. H2O walks out of the room to leave Francis to attend Furi.
Furiosa: What the hell was that! What just happened to me? I usually see all and hear all. I don’t remember.
As Harvey walks up the stairs, that sinister smile returns to his face. The camera pans away from him and into the room where you see Francis rubbing Furiosa’s back.
Backstage Mad Dawg phone goes off. Frustrated at his loss to Chance Williams and now having a record of 0-3, he hopes it’s not Bash with another mission this soon. When he looks at his phone his younger sister by 3 years, Ashley, name is on the screen.
Mad Dawg: Hello?
Ashley: Big bro! Hows it going “Mad Dawg”
Mad Dawg laughs a little because she never calls him that, only by his real name.
Mad Dawg: Honestly sis, I'm better now that I'm talking to your ugly ass.
Ashley: Man you sound like you just got your ass kicked? I saw your match at Ambition. You lost but you did a good job, you’re new to OCW some of these guys have been wrestling their entire lives. Cheer up man. I wish I was getting paid to just kick people.
Mad Dawg: Shit, you know me. Even when I lose, I still win in some way. I just been having a lot on my mind, on top of the shit I got going on here at OCW. Tonight was the first night I felt distracted while in a match.
Ashley: Ok, I can tell you're being serious right now, so ill be serious also and not call you a little bitch right now.
Both Mad Dawg and Ashley laugh a little after the joke cause Mad Dawg is usually the one calling others a bitch not the other way around
Ashley: You’re a rookie proving themselves in a league that, honestly, doesn't need you. But you are showing them WHY they really do. Remember your goal. Prove your damn worth both in and out of the ring! As far as outside things if its stressing you out and distracting you, CUT IT TF OUT. It better not be that bitch ass ex of yours either?!?!
Now feeling motivated but also grateful for his and Ashley's relationship Mad Dawg looks at a tattoo about family he has on his arm
Mad Dawg: Man chill out! You know damn well that answer is no!
Ashley: Ok, don't want to become a wrestler myself and have to beat her ass again. Now enough of this motivating, soft shit, you got us on right now and go fuck up the OCW the way a “Mad Dawg” would.
Mad Dawg: Shut up and get off my phone!
Ashley: Love you too
Mad Dawg smiles
Mad Dawg: Back at you sis, tell momma I said "Her favorite kid said hey".
Mad Dawg hangs up entertained at himself ending the call before Ashley can respond to his joke with a relit fire of motivation. He then starts texting Bash for updates on the next plans for the DarkNet Society.
TRIPLE THREAT ALEKSANDER BOLEK vs. SCOTTY X. vs. KAREEM FRANKLIN
We return from break as KC Barrett steps out from the curtain. Microphone in his hand as he isn’t even waiting for blood in the water to play as looks out towards the crowd.
You’re a fan….You’re a fan chants echo output from the crowd KC Barrett stands at the top of the stage. shifting his weight from side to side, raising the microphone to speak, shaking his head as he lowers it back down, struggling to find the words needed for the first time in his OCW career.
KC reaches up pushing his hair back out of his face as he takes a deep breath.
KC Barrett: So look….. Last week….
You’re a fan…..You’re a fan chants continue to grow. As a shaken KC Barrett stands alone at the top of the ramp his head hanging low.
KC Barrett: …..I…..
The chants quickly change to “Parca…. Parca…..Parca….” As KC lowers the microphone back down as he doesn’t even have it in himself to fight the crow tonight. Turning around as he begins to head for the curtain…Unsure of how he should continue.
His back is still to the crowd as he raises the microphone to speak.
KC Barrett: Look you know what I’m just going to speak for myself tonight
KC Barrett: if I ramble or this seems to go along please be patient…I have a lot going on up here…A lot of noise, a lot of pain that I thought I was past but….
KC gestures towards his head.
KC Barrett: Thoughts that I had buried years ago to protect myself but because of no actions of my own they have been brought back to the surface.
KC turns back around pushing his hair out of his face as he faces the crowd again.
KC Barrett: Some of you may already know this but I didn’t have the best upbringing…. Being told I was nothing more than a burden…Being told that I couldn’t come back home….
KC Barrett: Because the sight of me, and the dream of following in my father's footsteps was too difficult for my mother to deal with as she only saw the darkness inside of me…. She packed my bags and sent me to go meet my father….
KC Barrett: I was 10 years old when I was kicked to the curb by my mother as she washed her hands of me…. And sent me to live with the man who never known who I was…
KC Barrett: The same man who brought me into OCW years later was the same man who took one look at me and said I was better off being sent away.
KC Barrett: He handed me a cell phone and a 100$ bill and told me, call me when I find out who I want to be in this world and sent me on a plane as far as he could away.
KC Barrett: A 10-year-old boy who had nothing and no one sent to live on an island on the other side of the world…
KC Barrett: I sat on that island and asked myself why me? What did I do to be left alone like this…
KC pauses as he turns away from the crowd and camera for a second, doing his best to control his emotions as he is struggling to hold them back.
KC Barrett: fighting day to day to survive, from month to month when I forced myself to grow up and stop letting these thoughts control my life. I made a promise to never let anything or anybody get in the way of my dream of being a pro wrestler.
KC turns back to the camera.
KC Barrett: And that’s when I met you….. El Parca... And something inside of me just switched those thoughts of why I became replaced with Why not me?
KC Barrett: El Parca was my escape from the thoughts that haunted me and I knew from watching him that If he never gave up on his dream then why should I?
KC Barrett: So I busted my ass to build my place in this world and I did it in the best way I could by stepping out of my family’s shadow as I knew one day it would all pay off.
KC Barrett: And it did as the phone I was given as a 10-year-old boy rang… wasn’t a hello, how are you or anything, my father called and left me a ticket to bring me here to OCW.
KC Barret: Just days after Wrestlution where I watched the main idolized walk into the main event as Worlds Champion…. I knew in just a few days I would be able to shake his hand and be sharing a locker room…
KC looks down at his empty hand, still fighting to hold the emotions spelled out on his face.
KC Barrett: Yet he wasn’t here… the one man that helped me survive so much of my fucked up life had taken his ball and gone home… The day I needed him most he was gone….
KC Barrett: So I put on a brave face and shut myself off from everyone… I was the outcast of the family as I struggled to get the job done, letting them all down multiple times… But there was a light at the end of the tunnel when I heard you were coming back…
KC Barrett: I heard you were coming back and that switch happened inside of me again as I started to turn that corner and fight for my dream again so I could stand across from you and shake your hand.
KC Barrett: To thank you for how you saved me, but what I got instead was a man who took the fact I idolized him and used it to embarrass me…
KC Barrett: To embarrass me about one of the greatest days of my life as my start of professional wrestling…. The one dream that I always wanted to be a professional wrestler like you…
KC Barrett: But last week that dream was crushed… that dream caused me more pain than I could ever realize possible, so I stand here tonight to tell you I have a new dream….
KC Barrett: I want to be that example I needed for every outcast kid who was kicked to the curb, or written off by this world. And from the bottom of my heart, I will never make them feel less for how they looked up to me like how you did to me.
KC Barrett: I’ve spent my whole life feeling less than enough for those that I wanted love from I refuse to ever let another person feel that. I’m going to be there
KC tosses the microphone down as he quickly turns from the camera as it fades to black.
The camera fades in slowly to the same remote location as last week. Servers with fans screaming loudly drowns out all other sound. BASH sits staring intently at a screen full of different code. He rolls his chair back quickly and stands up.
BASH: Joe Deaver will see how BASH and The Worm operate.
BASH: Samsin is growing ever closer to giving up entirely to The Worm.
BASH: Riot 605 will be the night BASH & Mad Dawg infect Joe Deaver.
BASH: Now it is time to continue my pursuit of technical perfection.
BASH walks across the room and into the Server Farm. BASH then gets on the apron and into the ring.
BASH: Time for my favorite part of the day.
BASH begins to laugh manically. He calls HTB into the ring.
BASH: HTB we must work on preparing BASH for Joe Deaver at Riot 605.
BASH: We must infect him with The Worm.
HTB: I am here to serve BASH in his pursuit of technical mastery.
BASH wrestles HTB well into the night. The two finally stop after BASH forces HTB to tap out to the C-Sharpshooter.
BASH: HTB I need you to analyze more Joe Deaver, I expect more of a challenge next time.
HTB: Joe Deaver is technically inferior to BASH.
HTB: I am emulating his technical level.
BASH angrliy begin to walk towards HTB. His fist shaking in anger.
BASH: Get to work or I will scrap you and build another better model in your place.
BASH tosses HTB across the ring with a powerful German Suplex. He rolls out of the ring and begins to walk back to his desk.
BASH: Let me have a little more quick fun this evening.
BASH makes it back to his desk and begins to work on his computer.
BASH: I wonder how Mad Dawg is doing with our new friend?
Camera fades out as BASH gets back to work obsessing over The Worm's code.
TAG TEAM TURMOIL FUTURE IDIOTZ vs. KASSTIANITY
After shutting the door and returning to the living room area, El Parca takes a seat across from his therapist, Dr. Harry Malloy. Harry has a notebook out with a pen, he looks over to El Parca and smiles.
Harry: So, Miguel, I see you had yourself some company. I hope I wasn’t intruding?
Parca: Absolutely not. I mismanaged time in all reality, I was wanting to meet with Dennis a bit earlier before our appointment. I was trying to avoid-
Harry drops his glasses on the bridge of his nose a bit as he stares at Parca.
Parca: I was trying to avoid that. From happening in all honesty Harry.
Harry: What is “that” Miguel? We don’t communicate with riddles, if you want people to understand you, you need to have a clear, concise, statement.
Parca facepalms at what Harry is saying and visibly is starting to regret the decision of seeing him today.
Parca: You and Dennis running into one another. Dennis is a great guy, but he has a few things about him that I’m sure you would not be most approving of.
Harry: Well it isn’t my approval you need Miguel. It’s your own approval, you need to make sure you are content and okay with the decisions you make; and the people you surround yourself with.
Harry: Tell me about last week, I’m aware you did something that you are now regretting. What was it and why now are you feeling regret?
Parca leans back in his seat and grows quiet for a moment. He looks around the room and then back to Harry, who of course is documenting and making notes in his notebook. Finally, he clears his throw and begins to open up.
Parca: Well… last week, I confronted KC Barrett, I don’t know if you would say confront really as there wasn’t any conflict… I made sure to get out of dodge before that happened.
Harry: You’re walking around the point here Miguel.
Parca: Okay, okay, well I had Dennis do some research on him. Found out that KC has been following me, as in my career for quite some time. I realized he had been using some of my moves, he even took inspiration from one of my attires as well.
Parca: So I showed everyone… I put it on the X-Tron and made fun of him really. I didn’t think it was something serious enough to go blow for blow with but… when he shoved my face… and he wouldn’t stop calling me Primero… I just felt like I HAD to do something.
Harry writes in his notebook some more as he is nodding up and down to what Parca is saying. He finishes writing and closes the notebook, sets it down on the table, and looks back to Parca.
Harry: Now you know what I say. Every conflict is an opportunity for a peaceful outcome. This doesn’t dismiss how you feel about getting treated by KC but still, playing fire with fire is a dangerous game.
Parca: I played fire with fire for too long Harry. I really want fire out of my life, I just at times don’t really know who I am anymore. It feels like I am just walking around and doing stuff but I don’t know where I’m going or what I’m working toward.
Parca: Now with KC on my back I feel like I have some sort of purpose but, that’s just going back to the old. Fight after fight, problem after problem, I want to get away from that, I want to be at peace.
Parca adjusts himself as he crosses his legs looking forward at Harry. His body language shows guilt, sadness, and looking dejected; Harry clears his throat while getting into a more comfortable position and continues talking to his client.
Harry: The path to “peace” is a long one Miguel, you have a lot of unpacking left to do. We’ve made tremendous progress thus far and I am proud of how far you have come. Progression isn’t a linear line or track you must remember that. There will be setbacks, naysayers, mistakes, and sometimes outright relapses.
Harry: This doesn’t mean to lose focus on the end goal. If this is what you want then you must work for it, just like you would work for anything in your career field. And remember what is one of our key sayings? A negative outlook-
Parca finishing Harry’s sentence: leads to a negative outcome.
Harry: Exactly right.
Harry: This KC Barrett, if he is going to be a problem for your growth, it might be best to try and separate yourself from him. Minimal distractions is one of my biggest recommendations. If feasible have a chat with him and try to see if you two can come eye to eye, hm?
Parca looks uneasy by this recommendation, not knowing how KC would react to such a thing he tries to segway around it.
Parca: Do you know what business I’m in? It really doesn’t go that well most of the time… I mean especially with guys like KC. I mean for god's sake the man got thrown off a scaffolding just to make a point to someone.
A timer goes off in Harry’s pocket, he pulls out his phone and hits the snooze button. Harry slides the phone back into his pocket and begins gathering his things.
Harry: That is all the time you have scheduled me for Miguel. I would think today was a good session and just a few things, with growth you must forgive yourself just as much as anyone who has wronged you. You can’t live in the past or with anger, resentment, or any transgressions toward someone.
Harry: If you wish to grow you must give other people the chance to grow with you as well. In due time I am sure you will understand this as we continue to see one another. I’m assuming we will do this again next week?
Harry extends his hand to Parca for a handshake, as now he and Parca are standing up.
Parca: Yea… yea. Absolutely, next week sounds great.
Parca shakes Harry’s hand and walks him to the door, as he opens the door he says his goodbyes to Harry.
Parca: Thank you, once again Harry. This does really mean a lot to me and I can’t thank you enough for taking me on.
Harry: Not a problem at all Miguel, you’re a nice young man, you have yourself a great rest of the day and I will see you next week.
With this Harry exits the apartment and Parca closes the door. He turns around making his way back into his apartment as his phone vibrates, he pulls out the phone to see a notification from “Mi Corizon” and smiles wide at the notification. The cameras back up and fade to black.
