Rebirth

[Armen]

[updated:LAST EDITED ON Jan-10-02 AT 09:27 PM (EST)]The location, the hometown of one ExE, professional wrestler. The scene from last nights GXW pay-per-view Fallout is slowly being dismantled and set-up for a baseball game that is scheduled to take place later this afternoon. Skydome and GXW staff work together in dismantling the ring and cleaning up in preparation for the baseball game. In the center of the organized clean-up is a single chair and sitting atop that chair is ExE. He looks oddly out of place but shows no signs of caring or even noticing where he is for that matter. He slowly looks up and gives a long slow nod to one of the workers on his left. The worker nods in reply and lets out a loud whistle. Everyone slowly stops what they were doing and file off in all different directions leaving the area all but soulless.

ExE: Alot of rumours have been circulating the GXW about my where abouts lately.... or so I hear. Dousands of... angry phone calls from management officials, letters of notice in the mail... house calls from friends and attorneys... even the police came I noticed, and yet... noone could discover my whereabouts. Perhaps this was because I didn't want to be found?.... I thought that was made pretty clear when I virtually cut off all contact with everyone I know.... I suppose.. or rather I know you've all been wondering where I am... what my attacks on some of the top contenders in the company were about, and yes I know some of you are questioning my mental stability as well....

ExE slowly stands from his chair and turns his back....

ExE: After my match with Angelus some time ago... I've been doing some thinking. Here I've been in this company for well over a year now and look where I've gotten. Nowhere... the highlights of my career were three matches against Evan Aho... and even when I beat him some questioned the victory. I've been given a few title shots over the time I've been here... yet I've never quite been able to pull it together when it came down to the punch. So I keep slipping lower and lower in to the ranks, now they've moved me to the cruiserweight division... cruiserweights...yes those are the guys you toss around like rag dolls. So I've been doing everything I can to figure out just whats been going on, why I havn't been able to achieve more when I know I'm capable of it.. and it hit me.

ExE turns back to face the camera he is now sporting the face of someone enraged...

ExE: The Mechanical Animals, ore more importantly.. YOU Angelus. You are to blame for my failure. You are to blame for everything... you always came off as a superior wrestler and when I was new you told me that you were one of the best and you'd train me to be the best. Well look where thats got me. Truth is Angelus, you're a washup.. no, no.. a never was. Spending all your time in the tag team division, relying on your partners to do all the work then wondering why they all suddenly disappear... pathetic really. When it comes right down to it, Angelus you made nothing but bad choices... you said "side with ewi, side with Zieba"... great decision, what'd we get for that? Not even a thank-you. You are a disgraceful ally and a disgraceful friend, you are a disgrace.

ExE: As I make my return to the GXW I do so solo. I no longer wish to side with something so pathetic and weak... I no longer wish to affiliate myself with the Mechanical Animals or Angelus. However.. the name ExE has become to intertwined with MA... my whole identity has... so things must change. From now on I will be known as Armen.. everything from my past will be forgotten. Title shots, feuds, losses, wins, allies, enemies... they all belonged to ExE and ExE is dead now. He died in the ring... fighting beside a worthless organization.

Armen: As I am reborn in to this company I do so with one goal on my mind; Gold. I am fueled by anger, and steered by desire. I answer to one voice... my own. My mark will be simply besting you... Watch yourselves and your titles for I am reborn....

Armen walks off and as the working crew returns to the area the camera slowly fades out....

 

[Angelus]

Rebirth?

(Camera fades in outside Angelus' mansion. It's ten pm and there's a slight storm occuring outside. As the camera pans towards the mansion it cut's inside. Most of the mansion is dark as the camera trails the halls. As the camera approaches the living room light can finally be seen eminating from the fire place. Angelus and Jessica are both sitting in front of it. Angelus is wearing black dree pants a black button up shirt, black socks and no shoes. Jessica's wearing a pink skirt and white silk spagetthi strap top. As the camera comes closer Angelus turns to face it.)

Angelus: Well, well. My former right hand man finally speaks. I think this is the first time I've heard from you since the Genocide match. Good to see I didn't completely destroy you. I'm going to give you a friendly piece of advice. Watch what you say to me or we could see the Genoicde match all over again, though this time it won't be a match. It'll just be me sending you to the fiery depths of hell, with all the pain that comes with it. Now, you wanna sit there and blame your failures on me? You wanna sit there and say I've been holding you down?

(Angelus laughs.)

Wake up, your failures are your own fault. You see, you have what it takes to be a title holder. You have what it takes to make it to the top. You just can't seem to do it for some reason. No matter how much I pushed you, no matter how much I helped you you still somehow managed to fall flat on your face. Instead of getting up and learning from it you decide to blame it all on me. The one person who was there for you. The one person who.....accepted you. While everyone else laughed at you back in MWC it was me and MA that embraced you as a friend and ally. When you've been in trouble it's been me showing up to help you out. I've been the one watching your back all these years.

(Angelus sighs.)

I guess this is what happens when you try to help someone though. Instead of saying "Thank you for accepting me." you call me a washup. You sit there and say my partners carried me to the titles when you should know better than anyone, it is I that carried them. Despite everything that's happened. Despite being abandonded by the rest of MA because they couldn't win their matches. I never once thought you'd abandon me as well. What do I expect though. I align myself with those who don't fit in and with those who are being put down by the rest of the fed and no matter how much I do for them, how much I bleed for them, they always turn their backs on me....

(As Angelus speaks he's interrupted offscreen by a female voice.)

Female: Did you see it Angelus?

(The woman approaches and enter's the screen, it's Armen's former manager/girlfriend Kate.)

Kate: Did you see what he said about you. About us?

Angelus: What do you mean...us?

Kate: Us. You, me, Jessica, Reaver, you know. MA.

(Angelus laughs.)

Angelus: I guess you haven't noticed. MA's dead. The likes of Reaver and his comrades killed it.

Kate: What?

Jessica: They all abandoned Angelus and I. Left us to fend for ourselves and now even Ex.....I mean Armen, has turned on us. MA no longer exists.

Kate: Why not? We can remain MA. I'm sure Armen will come around.

Angelus: Listen, MA's dead. Don't worry though, you've been loyal so even if Armen does turn his back on us you will always have a job with Jessica and I. Now...

(Angelus turns back to the camera.)

Angelus: I hope, for your sake Armen, that you change your mind about the course your taking. Otherwise you will have hell to pay. That's all....for now.

(Camera pans out and fades to black.)

 

[Armen]

RE: Rebirth?

(Scene opens in a small, private movie theatre. There are three rows of five seats, and in the center row Armen is sitting with a bucket of popcorn and a large soda. Displayed on the big screen is Angelus' promo entitled "Rebirth?")

Armen: "You know Angelus, you were always good at hiding your emotions. As I watched this promo over and over.. I noticed something. You first start off with your calm, collective.. sometimes a little angry attitude that you have towards everything in life. Then, however.. you start to get agitated. Do you even know what you believe anymore? My theory is that your sitting there, with Jessica and Kate.. wondering what you did wrong. You say that it's all my fault but can you honestly say you believe that? Surely you question wether you've done something wrong... wether it is all your fault."

Armen: "And this, Angelus.. is what seperates us. I know where my faults lie.. you however do not. You referred to our ever so famous genocide match. Let me educate you on what really happened at the genocide match. You didn't give me some big beat down in that match. You didn't come out on top with some huge victory, it wasn't some phenominal win. Hell, you could barely walk out after that match. You know that we went blow for blow.. you just happened to land the last one. So before you start throwing threats of a huge beating at me, just remember the condition you were in last time. Because yes, I may go down.. but I can guarentee your coming with me."

(Armen shuts off the video and stands up)

Armen: "But maybe your right, Angelus. Maybe this is a big mistake... maybe I've just never driven myself hard enough. But rest assured, Angelus.. for or against my allegance will become clear at X-perience.."

(Armen drops his pop corn on the ground and walks away)