Post by Xavier Reid on Apr 19, 2024 22:25:01 GMT -6
Fireworks begin to explode about Rogers Centre as streamers begin to fill the ring, the crowd showing their support for The Last Magician and all of her accomplishments. Sally stands tall as the emotion of the moment over takes her. She falls to her knees as she looks around at the capacity crowd in Toronto. The camera cuts to Xavier Reid, his face showing his obvious disappointment as he looks at Sally. He simply nods to her, in a rare show of respect from the future hall of famer.
“That was me…giving her what the kids call, ‘her flowers’...the respect that comes along with winning the EWC Undisputed Championship…I could have been an asshole…screamed to the heavens and anyone that would listen that her championship win was tainted because she pinned Narumi Tsutsumi who wasn’t the champion but I wasn’t ‘that guy’...no, right there…in my damn hometown…in front of family and friends I gave her her props…that nod…as simple as it was…was me acknowledging her and the start of her championship reign…see I know how important winning that championship is…people will go their entire careers here in the EWC and never so much as sniff that championship…it’s a dream of everyone that signs a contract here and yet only a select few will ever know what it feels like to hold that championship in the middle of the ring and realize the dream of being the EWC Undisputed Champion and I wasn’t going to spoil her moment by throwing a fit because I was the champion and I wasn’t beaten…she won…and I showed her the respect she earned…little did I know then what Sally Talfourd would become…”
The camera cuts away from WrestleFest and onto Xavier Reid, who is showing his manager Bunny Love the footage on his phone from that night back in December of 2023…he looks down at himself on the screen and swipes it away to a basic black background…
“I wasn’t around to see how the off-season played out..her being bought by Prime, her taking over the mantle of ‘Queen’...we were in the Pacific and then dealing with your father’s arrest…but the Sally Talfourd I gave that nod to…she isn’t the same champion that stands before us today…”
Bunny shrugs this off…
“She’s embracing the role of champion…maybe it’s gone to her head…”
But Xavier shakes his head in disagreement…
“No…she’s rotting from the inside…”
Bunny looks strangely at Xavier…
“Excuse me…”
But Xavier looks at Bunny…and with certainty in his voice states…
“The Magic has turned black…”
“The Magic…”
Xavier nods his head…
“The Magic that is inside her…driving her every movement…the inner force if you will that makes her great…”
Bunny tries not to laugh…
“Like THE FORCE in Star Wars…Xavier…”
But Xavier’s hand comes up and he dismisses Bunny’s doubt with a wave of his hand…
“This isn’t a joke Bunny…it’s what makes her tick…The Last Magician isn’t just a corny gimmick…people want to mock it but look what she’s done in her short time here in the EWC…CW Broadcast Champion, Apple TV+ Broadcast Champion, winner of the Insanity Cage Match and Undisputed Champion…The Magic has lead her to a championship career here in the EWC but that same Magic that lead her is not poisoning her from within…it’s turned her black and sure…there were glimpses of that last season if you look closely…”
Bunny continues to look at Xavier as if he’s crazy but she doesn’t interrupt…
“You saw the darkness in her when she faced Ibuki last season…Apple TV+ Champion versus North American Champion…she wanted so badly to beat him so she could hold her championship above his and make herself bigger than she was…but she failed and that darkness crawled back inside her…but winning the Undisputed Championship unleashed the worst within her…that darkness came to the surface and I played a role in that…me not being able to get back into the ring and breaking up that pin at WrestleFest allowed her to win and the ‘Dark Magic’ to take hold…”
Bunny’s mouth drops open…
“OH…like when Willow was taken over by the darkness on Buffy The Vampire Slayer…”
Xavier pauses for a moment…knowing damn well Tommy would have never said that but he continues…
“Sure…like that I guess…the point is I failed and it unleashed the Dark Magic so now…I have to be the one that beats it back down…or BLEED THE MAGIC OUT OF HER…”
Bunny looks around and then at Xavier…
“Ok…so is that why we are…sorry, where are we again…”
The camera pulls back to show Xavier and Bunny at the Marble Arch in London…
Xavier smirks…
“The Marble Arch in London Bunny…see the Arch was relocated here in Hyde Park in 1851 but before the Arch was here…this was the sight where in the 1400’s Londoners tortured and executed ‘witches’ in Medieval times…they would dunk them in water…screw nails into their skin…drown women who were accused of witchcraft…they would try and get them to denounce the sorcery and a few members of the church believed they could drain the witches of their power by ‘bleeding them’...leeches were used by some who didn’t have the stomach but the popular means…they would cut the witches open and try to cleanse them…”
“So you believe Sally is a Witch…”
Xavier shakes his head…
“No…she isn’t a Witch Bunny…she’s The Last Magician and at StrangleMania inside Rage in the Cage I’m going to make good on that prophecy she will be the LAST of her kind…the LAST to have The Magic and like the holy men that once stood here…I will try and BLEED the Magic from her body…”
Xavier smiles at the thought…
“I understand why we are being placed inside The Rage Cage…one of Sally’s biggest wins in the EWC was her win at Night of Champions…inside the Insanity Cage and me…I’ve been inside this cage twice now against Ace King…”
Bunny frowns…
“Yeah but you lost both of them…and when you add that to your loss to Dominic Sanders in Hell in the Cell maybe they are trying to stack the deck against you…”
But Xavier shakes his head…
“No…the cage is wrapped in barbed wire, trash cans full of weapons on two turnbuckles…the match is designed for violence Bunny…much like the Weapon X matches…which I have dominated…beating both Stephanie Matsuda and El Pablo…you have to use a ladder to retrieve the championship…I climbed to TWO X-Division Championships…once last year at this very event…StrangleMania…the same night Sally was being pinned by Melinda Rhodes…”
But Bunny shrugs her shoulders…
“Yeah but that was last year…she’s a different animal now…you even said that…”
Xavier nods in agreement…
“She is…I know I’m in for a fight but Sally…she has gone on record telling people to not even order StrangleMania…she believes that win over me to kick off the season at Paramount #039 has set my fate…that I’m a beaten man because of that night…showing me that she doesn’t know Xavier Reid…”
Xavier smiles…so big that it covers most of his face…
“I have made a career of bouncing back after losses…ask King Flip…he beat me at Brawl #568 earning him a championship match at Brawl #575 inside a cage and I won with the championship on the line…ask Stitches…he, like King Flip beat me at Brawl #576 and earned himself a championship match at WrestleFest and I beat him in a Bed of Weapons Match…ask JoJo Rush, he beat me at Brawl #595 earning himself a championship match and I beat him in a Bull Rope Match at Hardcore Revolution…see I have this annoying habit of bouncing back and winning the one that matters most and make no mistake about it…this match at StrangleMania…it matters the most…”
Bunny nods her head in agreement…
“Because Sally Talfourd is going for career win number 300…”
But Xavier shakes his head…
“No…nobody other than Sally Talfourd cares about that…hell it’s a joke…she dressed up a fan to look like me…to mock me…in order to win number 299…the majority of those wins came outside the EWC so no…nobody cares about that ‘historic mark’...Sally is already looking past me…the second she beat me to kick off the season she has been looking past StrangleMania at what’s next but I understand what this match means…what it means to challenge for the Undisputed Championship…every person on the EWC roster would trade places with me in a second for the chance to close out our biggest ppv of the season and it’s not lost on me…it’s why I decided to cash in my rematch clause at StrangleMania because I understand what winning the Undisputed Championship at StrangleMania would mean…to my legacy…”
Xavier becomes very serious…
“I understand I would join Melody Malone with a 3rd Undisputed Championship reign…something that Ace King didn’t do…it would elevate me to a different standard and ink my name in the history books…I also no lose this match and it likely that I never sniff another EWC Undisputed Championship match again…outside a Night of Champions match that is...I understand better than most that the opportunity to challenge for this championship doesn’t come often…hell last season I had wins over wrestlers ranked over me and I wouldn’t have gotten a championship match if it wasn’t for the Rumble…my back is against the wall…or cage at StrangleMania because this could be my last chance to win that championship…and Sally think I’m just going to roll over because she beat me earlier in the year…that I’m going to just walk into the Rage Cage with my tail tucked between my legs and accept defeat…no, I’m stepping into that cage with my legacy on the line Bunny…she thinks I’ll be hurting from the loss against her…the loss to Apollo but those losses showed me just how important THIS match is and if she think coming into an Undisputed Championship match on a losing note diminishes my chances I’ll remind her and everyone else that Sally Talfourd was on a two match losing streak coming into the Undisputed Championship match at WrestleFest…”
Bunny nods as she recounts those losses…
“Lost to Morgan Darkwater at One Night Encounter and Ibuki Ito at WrestleFest two nights before…”
“Exactly…she wasn’t in ‘championship form’ yet managed to find her way right…so clearly it can be done…and yet she is telling people not to bother watching…to save their money…this is the darkness inside her…the evilness…this is what happens to The Magic when it gets success…”
Xavier shakes his head in disgust…
“It hires lawyers because people are mean to them…it refuses to wrestle on Brawl, Rampage or Paramount because they are not worthy of their time…do you remember all the shit people said about me…hell, after I won my first Undisputed Championship basically said I was ‘unworthy’ of the championship and was going to expose me in my first match as champion…hell people couldn’t even spell my name right…”
Bunny snorts while laughing…
“Reed…”
“If I was as thin skinned as The Magic as made her I would have been eaten alive…but what, she’s given a pass…the GM’s forgot they had power in the EWC…hell Chris Brock forced me to attend Anger Management sessions and he wasn’t even my GM at the time but they allow Sally to dictate terms because people were mean to her…I have to stop this madness Bunny…”
Xavier starts to get agitated…Bunny seeing this speaks up…
“Well…I know in times like this before you leaned on my father for his advice and I know deep down you wish he was here…it’s ok…there is no better wrestling brain than Tommy Love so…I asked him for advice and…”
She smiles at Xavier…
“He sent me a letter and these…”
Bunny pulls out a note and a set of handcuffs that she hands Xavier, who takes a look at them and sees the stamping on the side that reads Penal Del Altiplano…the prison he’s currently taken up residence at…Bunny clears her throat…
“Keep it simple, handcuff the bitch to the cage and then climb up the ladder and get back your championship…”
Bunny smiles as she folds the letter…
“Nice that he sent me instructions even though he thinks I set him up…but he has a point…she can’t climb the ladder if she’s handcuffed to the cage…so…”
Bunny reaches out and takes the handcuffs from Xavier…
“I’ll keep these with me and bring them down to the ring…”
She swings the handcuffs around on her finger…
“She sees you as a ‘scrub’...she took pleasure in passing your 85 days as Undisputed Champion by…she mocked you and thinks very little of you…that time and her has passed you by all because of one win…ignoring the fact that it was YOU Xavier…that hung her first every EWC loss on her…way back at Brawl #587…you sent her on a skid back then so just think how glorious it would be to beat her at StrangleMania…to take that Undisputed Championship and deny her her 300th win…to force her to ‘celebrate’ that historic number in front of 11,000 people inside Ryogoku Kokugikan at Prime #121 instead of the 90,000 people that will fill Wembley Stadium for StrangleMania…”
Bunny smiles just thinking about it…
“But to do that…you need to fight as if your life depends on it Xavier…you need to be willing to risk your own body in order to take her out…wrestle as if there is no tomorrow because…”
“If I lose then there is no tomorrow…the EWC Undisputed Championship is the goal of each and every one of us that lace up our boots here in the EWC and a loss Monday night and well…that dream is dead…it’s secondary options from that point forward and I don’t know if I can continue knowing that there is not hope for me to get back to the top so…”
Xavier nods at Bunny as the two share a look…
“I know the mistakes I’ve made inside the Rage Cage, I have to take Sally off her feet and keep her down…the handcuffs would work but she will have Ambrose lurking so you will have to be quick with those cuffs…I’ll have to lean on my X-Division days and history with these weapons…get creative with a chair or lethal with a kendo stick…maybe sneak a paintball gun into the trash can and unleash my deadly accuracy like I did on Stephanie…or simple overwhelm her with brute force the way JoJo did at Brawl #604 when he choked her out in one of the most violent displays we have seen in the EWC…or maybe I steal Candy’s Candy Crush…it seemed to work at Prime #119…one way or another I have to incapacitate her…she will be expected the Fuck You Stomp…she’ll have studied my moves to a T, I’m going to have to think outside the box…maybe a nod to my brother and have her Taste The Rainbow…”
He smiles at the thought of using El Pablo’s finisher to win a 3rd Undisputed Championship before Bunny brings him back…
“Well, if you are both up on the ladder slugging it out…I have an idea that I don’t like but…”
She bites her lip and wrinkles her nose…
“But Bobby and Jimmy said ‘have Xavier grab her and kiss her…it will shock the shit out of her and give him an opening to red mist her or headbutt the shit out of her knocking her off the ladder’...I mean desperate times call for desperate measure so…I’ll give you the ‘hall pass’ if it means winning the Undisputed Championship…”
Xavier reaches out and takes her hand…knowing she understands how much this means to him…
“The power of the Undisputed Championship has darkened Sally Talfourd…absolute power corrupts absolutely and it is time for that power to be taken from her…holy men…righteous men once stood right here in this spot and did what they had to do to rid evilness from their world and at StrangleMania I most to what must be done to rid the EWC of this Dark Magic inside Sally Talfourd…to humble her and send her back to Prime a former champion…to take the power away from her once and for all…inside the Rage in the Cage…I’ll rip her body to shreds on that barb wire…cane her back until the flesh rips off…and if I have to…”
Xavier holds out his hands…
“Wrap these hands around her throat and choke The Magic to death…I need to become that violent man I once was Bunny…the man that nearly crippled Peach Gelato…who beat Adriana Aquilla lifeless…who brutalized Gabi Visconty…the man that tore apart Stitches with glass and bounced King Flip skull off the cage over and over…I need to be that man again and unleash that kind of brutality onto Sally Talfourd and bring the Undisputed Championship back home to me and back home to Paramount…I need to become that violent man that can rid the EWC of The Magic once and for all…that violent man that can leave Sally Talfourd bleeding out inside that ring without a second thought…”
Xavier’s expression becomes ice cold as he looks past Bunny and at The Marble Arch…
“Because it’s now or never for me…it’s either lose and watch as the Undisputed Championship slips through my fingers for the last time or have my ‘StrangleMania moment’...winning the ultimate championship on the grandest stage…it’s on me…I know what I must do…it’s time to see if The Magic is greater than the ‘Chip on his shoulder Bastard’ that’s been told his entire life he’s not good enough…to see if the hate that drives me is greater than The Magic that drives Sally…to see which power is the UNDISPUTED power here in the EWC…”
Xavier looks back at Bunny one last time with a cold stare and an understanding of the man he must once again become inside the Rage in the Cage as the camera fades out
“That was me…giving her what the kids call, ‘her flowers’...the respect that comes along with winning the EWC Undisputed Championship…I could have been an asshole…screamed to the heavens and anyone that would listen that her championship win was tainted because she pinned Narumi Tsutsumi who wasn’t the champion but I wasn’t ‘that guy’...no, right there…in my damn hometown…in front of family and friends I gave her her props…that nod…as simple as it was…was me acknowledging her and the start of her championship reign…see I know how important winning that championship is…people will go their entire careers here in the EWC and never so much as sniff that championship…it’s a dream of everyone that signs a contract here and yet only a select few will ever know what it feels like to hold that championship in the middle of the ring and realize the dream of being the EWC Undisputed Champion and I wasn’t going to spoil her moment by throwing a fit because I was the champion and I wasn’t beaten…she won…and I showed her the respect she earned…little did I know then what Sally Talfourd would become…”
The camera cuts away from WrestleFest and onto Xavier Reid, who is showing his manager Bunny Love the footage on his phone from that night back in December of 2023…he looks down at himself on the screen and swipes it away to a basic black background…
“I wasn’t around to see how the off-season played out..her being bought by Prime, her taking over the mantle of ‘Queen’...we were in the Pacific and then dealing with your father’s arrest…but the Sally Talfourd I gave that nod to…she isn’t the same champion that stands before us today…”
Bunny shrugs this off…
“She’s embracing the role of champion…maybe it’s gone to her head…”
But Xavier shakes his head in disagreement…
“No…she’s rotting from the inside…”
Bunny looks strangely at Xavier…
“Excuse me…”
But Xavier looks at Bunny…and with certainty in his voice states…
“The Magic has turned black…”
“The Magic…”
Xavier nods his head…
“The Magic that is inside her…driving her every movement…the inner force if you will that makes her great…”
Bunny tries not to laugh…
“Like THE FORCE in Star Wars…Xavier…”
But Xavier’s hand comes up and he dismisses Bunny’s doubt with a wave of his hand…
“This isn’t a joke Bunny…it’s what makes her tick…The Last Magician isn’t just a corny gimmick…people want to mock it but look what she’s done in her short time here in the EWC…CW Broadcast Champion, Apple TV+ Broadcast Champion, winner of the Insanity Cage Match and Undisputed Champion…The Magic has lead her to a championship career here in the EWC but that same Magic that lead her is not poisoning her from within…it’s turned her black and sure…there were glimpses of that last season if you look closely…”
Bunny continues to look at Xavier as if he’s crazy but she doesn’t interrupt…
“You saw the darkness in her when she faced Ibuki last season…Apple TV+ Champion versus North American Champion…she wanted so badly to beat him so she could hold her championship above his and make herself bigger than she was…but she failed and that darkness crawled back inside her…but winning the Undisputed Championship unleashed the worst within her…that darkness came to the surface and I played a role in that…me not being able to get back into the ring and breaking up that pin at WrestleFest allowed her to win and the ‘Dark Magic’ to take hold…”
Bunny’s mouth drops open…
“OH…like when Willow was taken over by the darkness on Buffy The Vampire Slayer…”
Xavier pauses for a moment…knowing damn well Tommy would have never said that but he continues…
“Sure…like that I guess…the point is I failed and it unleashed the Dark Magic so now…I have to be the one that beats it back down…or BLEED THE MAGIC OUT OF HER…”
Bunny looks around and then at Xavier…
“Ok…so is that why we are…sorry, where are we again…”
The camera pulls back to show Xavier and Bunny at the Marble Arch in London…
Xavier smirks…
“The Marble Arch in London Bunny…see the Arch was relocated here in Hyde Park in 1851 but before the Arch was here…this was the sight where in the 1400’s Londoners tortured and executed ‘witches’ in Medieval times…they would dunk them in water…screw nails into their skin…drown women who were accused of witchcraft…they would try and get them to denounce the sorcery and a few members of the church believed they could drain the witches of their power by ‘bleeding them’...leeches were used by some who didn’t have the stomach but the popular means…they would cut the witches open and try to cleanse them…”
“So you believe Sally is a Witch…”
Xavier shakes his head…
“No…she isn’t a Witch Bunny…she’s The Last Magician and at StrangleMania inside Rage in the Cage I’m going to make good on that prophecy she will be the LAST of her kind…the LAST to have The Magic and like the holy men that once stood here…I will try and BLEED the Magic from her body…”
Xavier smiles at the thought…
“I understand why we are being placed inside The Rage Cage…one of Sally’s biggest wins in the EWC was her win at Night of Champions…inside the Insanity Cage and me…I’ve been inside this cage twice now against Ace King…”
Bunny frowns…
“Yeah but you lost both of them…and when you add that to your loss to Dominic Sanders in Hell in the Cell maybe they are trying to stack the deck against you…”
But Xavier shakes his head…
“No…the cage is wrapped in barbed wire, trash cans full of weapons on two turnbuckles…the match is designed for violence Bunny…much like the Weapon X matches…which I have dominated…beating both Stephanie Matsuda and El Pablo…you have to use a ladder to retrieve the championship…I climbed to TWO X-Division Championships…once last year at this very event…StrangleMania…the same night Sally was being pinned by Melinda Rhodes…”
But Bunny shrugs her shoulders…
“Yeah but that was last year…she’s a different animal now…you even said that…”
Xavier nods in agreement…
“She is…I know I’m in for a fight but Sally…she has gone on record telling people to not even order StrangleMania…she believes that win over me to kick off the season at Paramount #039 has set my fate…that I’m a beaten man because of that night…showing me that she doesn’t know Xavier Reid…”
Xavier smiles…so big that it covers most of his face…
“I have made a career of bouncing back after losses…ask King Flip…he beat me at Brawl #568 earning him a championship match at Brawl #575 inside a cage and I won with the championship on the line…ask Stitches…he, like King Flip beat me at Brawl #576 and earned himself a championship match at WrestleFest and I beat him in a Bed of Weapons Match…ask JoJo Rush, he beat me at Brawl #595 earning himself a championship match and I beat him in a Bull Rope Match at Hardcore Revolution…see I have this annoying habit of bouncing back and winning the one that matters most and make no mistake about it…this match at StrangleMania…it matters the most…”
Bunny nods her head in agreement…
“Because Sally Talfourd is going for career win number 300…”
But Xavier shakes his head…
“No…nobody other than Sally Talfourd cares about that…hell it’s a joke…she dressed up a fan to look like me…to mock me…in order to win number 299…the majority of those wins came outside the EWC so no…nobody cares about that ‘historic mark’...Sally is already looking past me…the second she beat me to kick off the season she has been looking past StrangleMania at what’s next but I understand what this match means…what it means to challenge for the Undisputed Championship…every person on the EWC roster would trade places with me in a second for the chance to close out our biggest ppv of the season and it’s not lost on me…it’s why I decided to cash in my rematch clause at StrangleMania because I understand what winning the Undisputed Championship at StrangleMania would mean…to my legacy…”
Xavier becomes very serious…
“I understand I would join Melody Malone with a 3rd Undisputed Championship reign…something that Ace King didn’t do…it would elevate me to a different standard and ink my name in the history books…I also no lose this match and it likely that I never sniff another EWC Undisputed Championship match again…outside a Night of Champions match that is...I understand better than most that the opportunity to challenge for this championship doesn’t come often…hell last season I had wins over wrestlers ranked over me and I wouldn’t have gotten a championship match if it wasn’t for the Rumble…my back is against the wall…or cage at StrangleMania because this could be my last chance to win that championship…and Sally think I’m just going to roll over because she beat me earlier in the year…that I’m going to just walk into the Rage Cage with my tail tucked between my legs and accept defeat…no, I’m stepping into that cage with my legacy on the line Bunny…she thinks I’ll be hurting from the loss against her…the loss to Apollo but those losses showed me just how important THIS match is and if she think coming into an Undisputed Championship match on a losing note diminishes my chances I’ll remind her and everyone else that Sally Talfourd was on a two match losing streak coming into the Undisputed Championship match at WrestleFest…”
Bunny nods as she recounts those losses…
“Lost to Morgan Darkwater at One Night Encounter and Ibuki Ito at WrestleFest two nights before…”
“Exactly…she wasn’t in ‘championship form’ yet managed to find her way right…so clearly it can be done…and yet she is telling people not to bother watching…to save their money…this is the darkness inside her…the evilness…this is what happens to The Magic when it gets success…”
Xavier shakes his head in disgust…
“It hires lawyers because people are mean to them…it refuses to wrestle on Brawl, Rampage or Paramount because they are not worthy of their time…do you remember all the shit people said about me…hell, after I won my first Undisputed Championship basically said I was ‘unworthy’ of the championship and was going to expose me in my first match as champion…hell people couldn’t even spell my name right…”
Bunny snorts while laughing…
“Reed…”
“If I was as thin skinned as The Magic as made her I would have been eaten alive…but what, she’s given a pass…the GM’s forgot they had power in the EWC…hell Chris Brock forced me to attend Anger Management sessions and he wasn’t even my GM at the time but they allow Sally to dictate terms because people were mean to her…I have to stop this madness Bunny…”
Xavier starts to get agitated…Bunny seeing this speaks up…
“Well…I know in times like this before you leaned on my father for his advice and I know deep down you wish he was here…it’s ok…there is no better wrestling brain than Tommy Love so…I asked him for advice and…”
She smiles at Xavier…
“He sent me a letter and these…”
Bunny pulls out a note and a set of handcuffs that she hands Xavier, who takes a look at them and sees the stamping on the side that reads Penal Del Altiplano…the prison he’s currently taken up residence at…Bunny clears her throat…
“Keep it simple, handcuff the bitch to the cage and then climb up the ladder and get back your championship…”
Bunny smiles as she folds the letter…
“Nice that he sent me instructions even though he thinks I set him up…but he has a point…she can’t climb the ladder if she’s handcuffed to the cage…so…”
Bunny reaches out and takes the handcuffs from Xavier…
“I’ll keep these with me and bring them down to the ring…”
She swings the handcuffs around on her finger…
“She sees you as a ‘scrub’...she took pleasure in passing your 85 days as Undisputed Champion by…she mocked you and thinks very little of you…that time and her has passed you by all because of one win…ignoring the fact that it was YOU Xavier…that hung her first every EWC loss on her…way back at Brawl #587…you sent her on a skid back then so just think how glorious it would be to beat her at StrangleMania…to take that Undisputed Championship and deny her her 300th win…to force her to ‘celebrate’ that historic number in front of 11,000 people inside Ryogoku Kokugikan at Prime #121 instead of the 90,000 people that will fill Wembley Stadium for StrangleMania…”
Bunny smiles just thinking about it…
“But to do that…you need to fight as if your life depends on it Xavier…you need to be willing to risk your own body in order to take her out…wrestle as if there is no tomorrow because…”
“If I lose then there is no tomorrow…the EWC Undisputed Championship is the goal of each and every one of us that lace up our boots here in the EWC and a loss Monday night and well…that dream is dead…it’s secondary options from that point forward and I don’t know if I can continue knowing that there is not hope for me to get back to the top so…”
Xavier nods at Bunny as the two share a look…
“I know the mistakes I’ve made inside the Rage Cage, I have to take Sally off her feet and keep her down…the handcuffs would work but she will have Ambrose lurking so you will have to be quick with those cuffs…I’ll have to lean on my X-Division days and history with these weapons…get creative with a chair or lethal with a kendo stick…maybe sneak a paintball gun into the trash can and unleash my deadly accuracy like I did on Stephanie…or simple overwhelm her with brute force the way JoJo did at Brawl #604 when he choked her out in one of the most violent displays we have seen in the EWC…or maybe I steal Candy’s Candy Crush…it seemed to work at Prime #119…one way or another I have to incapacitate her…she will be expected the Fuck You Stomp…she’ll have studied my moves to a T, I’m going to have to think outside the box…maybe a nod to my brother and have her Taste The Rainbow…”
He smiles at the thought of using El Pablo’s finisher to win a 3rd Undisputed Championship before Bunny brings him back…
“Well, if you are both up on the ladder slugging it out…I have an idea that I don’t like but…”
She bites her lip and wrinkles her nose…
“But Bobby and Jimmy said ‘have Xavier grab her and kiss her…it will shock the shit out of her and give him an opening to red mist her or headbutt the shit out of her knocking her off the ladder’...I mean desperate times call for desperate measure so…I’ll give you the ‘hall pass’ if it means winning the Undisputed Championship…”
Xavier reaches out and takes her hand…knowing she understands how much this means to him…
“The power of the Undisputed Championship has darkened Sally Talfourd…absolute power corrupts absolutely and it is time for that power to be taken from her…holy men…righteous men once stood right here in this spot and did what they had to do to rid evilness from their world and at StrangleMania I most to what must be done to rid the EWC of this Dark Magic inside Sally Talfourd…to humble her and send her back to Prime a former champion…to take the power away from her once and for all…inside the Rage in the Cage…I’ll rip her body to shreds on that barb wire…cane her back until the flesh rips off…and if I have to…”
Xavier holds out his hands…
“Wrap these hands around her throat and choke The Magic to death…I need to become that violent man I once was Bunny…the man that nearly crippled Peach Gelato…who beat Adriana Aquilla lifeless…who brutalized Gabi Visconty…the man that tore apart Stitches with glass and bounced King Flip skull off the cage over and over…I need to be that man again and unleash that kind of brutality onto Sally Talfourd and bring the Undisputed Championship back home to me and back home to Paramount…I need to become that violent man that can rid the EWC of The Magic once and for all…that violent man that can leave Sally Talfourd bleeding out inside that ring without a second thought…”
Xavier’s expression becomes ice cold as he looks past Bunny and at The Marble Arch…
“Because it’s now or never for me…it’s either lose and watch as the Undisputed Championship slips through my fingers for the last time or have my ‘StrangleMania moment’...winning the ultimate championship on the grandest stage…it’s on me…I know what I must do…it’s time to see if The Magic is greater than the ‘Chip on his shoulder Bastard’ that’s been told his entire life he’s not good enough…to see if the hate that drives me is greater than The Magic that drives Sally…to see which power is the UNDISPUTED power here in the EWC…”
Xavier looks back at Bunny one last time with a cold stare and an understanding of the man he must once again become inside the Rage in the Cage as the camera fades out
