[“Imperial March” reverberates throughout the arena and a video package flies by on the screen.

Lindsay Troy unmasking as Dis, holding the EPW World Title up for all to see.
JA hitting the Karelin Driver on Rocko Daymon.
Troy Douglas ducking a clothesline by Cameron Cruise and then tossing him with a belly to belly suplex.
Felix Red and First, perched on opposite turnbuckles, then diving down onto their opponents.
Fusenshoff, clotheslining Stalker over the top rope.
Larry Tact and Jared Wells stalking to the ring with the EPW World Tag Team Titles around their waists.
“Triple X” Sean Stevens standing victorious on top of a cage, face bloodied, holding the EPW World title up high.
And finally…. A dais with a throne upon it and Lindsay Troy sitting front and center, leaning back and staring right into the camera.

Then…

BOOM!!

The stage is illuminated by a veritable bonanza of booming pyrotechnics as the camera pans over the crowd, cuts to the ring from a wide angle, then concludes its journey with a smash cut to the broadcast team.]

DT: Welcome everyone to Aggression.. Dave Thomas here with Dean Matthews and the ever loveable Mike Neely.. And boy do we have a lot of stuff on our plate tonight, double so given the controversial ending to Aggression 50, which saw Sean Stevens get himself disqualified to save his EPW World Title!

MN: Oh give me a break, he was tired of dragging that bum around and put an end to that farce as quickly as he could. Sean Stevens is STILL the EPW World Heavyweight Champion, no matter if you like it or not.

DM: Not to mention that Cameron Cruise made his return to EPW since his ouster from Anthology and did it by beating down Stevens and his former best friend and the man who stabbed him in the back, Jared Wells.

MN: You two should just write mash notes to that tiny goofball and Cruise.. A guy winning a title match by disqualification and another guy getting a cheap shot on the best wrestler on the planet today amounts to a whole lot of NOTHING in my book.

[MUSIC UP: “Killing In The Name Of” by Rage Against The Machine As pyro BOOMS and the crowd goes NUTS, the former Anthology member dressed in black jeans and wearing a blue and orange Champ Bailey #24 Broncos jersey. Cruise stops and psychs up along with the town natives and hits the ring. Getting tossed a microphone, Cruise pauses as the crowd continues to pop big time while he sits up on a turnbuckle waiting politely as the crowd finally quiets down abit.]

DM: Lots of Broncos fans here in Albequerque and Cameron Cruise is playing it up!

MN: Whatta nerd.

DT: And here’s the man who threw down the gauntlet in Las Vegas, ending Aggression 50 standing in the ring with the EPW World Title in hand!

DM: Cameron Cruise speaking for the first time since he was betrayed by Anthology..

CRUISE: It’s been quite a while since I’ve heard such a response like that from the fans. I gotta admit.. one of the good things I’ve forgotten about performing and being in the squared circle is that I get to hear something like this.. and believe me when I tell you..

It feels GOOD.

[Crowd POPS!!]

See, in the time away that I took from Empire Pro, I found myself thinking alot about what some people might call a “Wake Up Call” or the latest “Kick Heard ’Round The World” from those who love digging into the “dirtsheets”.

From the boys I used to call “brothers” hiding and locking me out of the dressing room to getting superkicked by the World Heavyweight Champion before getting stabbed in the back by the one man I thought I could count on in a situation like that.. Jared Wells.

[The Camera cuts to a close up of Cruise’s face as he suddenly turns to a facial grimace while the crowd gives a gradual heel pop at the sound of “The Bastard Son’s” name being mentioned.]

Jared Wells, the same man that I had entrusted to watch my back in bars as well as in the ring.. turned his back on me, and turned his back on “The Dangle Brothers”.. I was thoroughly.. THOROUGHLY taken by surprise.

Afterwards, when I saw the replay on the tapes backstage and I’ll tell everyone right now right off the bat.. I got sick, sick at what had happened, sick at what had become of something that had taken the World by storm.. but something occured to me about three days before the show in Las Vegas, Aggression 50.

[Cruise hops off the turnbuckle and starts to slowly pace around the ring]

They did me a favor.

Not only was the beating I received a wake up call in one sense, but it made me wake up in another. So in that I owe Sean Stevens, Jared Wells, and the rest of Anthology a huge gratitude of thanks [Crowd starts to give abit of a heel pop], but unfortunately, it’s going to come in the form of my right foot STRAIGHT UP THEIR ASS!!!

[HEEUUUGGGEEE FACE POP!!]

[MUSIC UP: “Happy Birthday” by The Birthday Massacre. The crowd pops big as The First comes through the curtain. His face painted up in the spider web motif. He’s got a HOPE Obamacon T Shirt and black gi pants on as he heads to the ring.]

DT: And here is the man who many believe should be the EPW World Champion!

MN: Who thinks that?! Idiots and fools only, he never pinned Stevens, he never made him submit, he gets nothing!

DM: He drove Stevens to the point where Stevens got himself disqualified to save his title Neely, and you know that.

NM: He said he was saving himself, and this idiot for the War Games, EPW matters so much to Sean Stevens he’s willing to forgo finishing this freak off to be better prepared to defend the company’s honor in a company Vs company war!

DT: You are truly beyond belief..

[The First, mic in hand, enters the ring.]

FIRST: Cammy, we’ve had our issues.. But let me say this, I don’t think anyone in this building, me included, has a problem with you beating the hell out of Triple X and Jared Wells.. [Cheers!] .. But what I do have a problem with, is you trying to sneak your way into MY BUSINESS.. These people all saw Trip run from the ring, then get himself disqualified to save his title.. Now I’m not going to throw myself a pity party, to hell with that, but we got Black Dawn coming up…And as far as I’m concerned the main event of that night will be my FINAL SHOT at Triple X for the World Title.. [Cheers!].. Now you can go fight your former Dangle Brother Jared Wells, or maybe Copycat or someone like that.. But you’re NOT getting in my way when it comes to the EPW World Heavyweight Championship..

CRUISE: I was with you First, right up until that last part. See, until Aggression 50, you had already had one shot at pinning Sean Stevens, but on top of that you even had a shot at beating me for the EPW Intercontinental title as well as even your little buddy Layne Winters.

You FAILED.

Now, maybe some people who were able to accomplish things in the Tag Team Division were successful in turning just as successful in Singles, some were not, let’s be honest here First; between you and I..

I’m the Former, you’re the latter.

I’ve shown that I could do well in a title match and you.. you just can’t seal the deal. As far as Sean Stevens is concerned, I”d have expected a little more gratitude out of you. You’re lucky I waited until after the match was over to do what I did to Jared and Sean. Regardless of whether or not you won the World Heavyweight Championship, I was STILL going to do what I came to do and the circumstances around it had not one bit of an effect on it.

But you need to understand something while I”ve got you here in the ring, and that”s that while I plan on getting my revenge on Anthology, Sean Stevens and THAT DIRTY *****.. it only seems fair to me that it”s HIGH TIME that I get a chance at winning something that has evaded me since the BEGINNING: The EPW WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP.

[CROWD POP!!]

FIRST: OK Cammy.. Well ..

[MUSIC UP: “King Back” by TI. Stevens steps out onto the stage, pyro exploding around him, sunglasses on and the EPW World title slung over his shoulder. He strides to the ring purposfully, glancing into the crowd occasionally but remaining stoic as he approaches the ring.]

MN: Finally some sanity will be brought to these proceedings. Listening to this has been and this never will be argue over who’s going to be the lamb offered up to the slaughter was driving me nuts!

DT: Do you wash his collection of cars in your spare time Neely?! The EPW World Heavyweight Champion Sean Stevens now making his way into the ring.

[Stevens climbs into the ring, mic in hand.]

STEVENS: Let me tell you two rejects something. RIGHT. NOW. I’m the man around here. I call the shots. You.. [pointing at Cruise] ..don’t demand anything. And you.. [pointing at First] ..should be happy you’re even getting another chance at this. So don’t come out here and tell the King what’s gonna happen. When it comes to me and MY TITLE, I’m the boss. When I’m ready to..

[BOOM.

Pyro.

“Zero” by Smashing Pumpkins starts up and DAN RYAN steps out onto the stage, mic in hand. The crowd roars but Ryan quickly motions for the music to stop and holds a hand up to calm down the crowd.]

RYAN: Actually, Sean.. I’m the boss.

[Another roar of the crowd. Meanwhile. Stevens seethes.]

RYAN: And truth be told, you’ve all got this stuff a little wrong. First, you’ve had a couple shots at this – and this last time, the KING took the easy way out. But it’s not gonna be one on one – because Cruise, I’m making your day tonight. You’re in.

[CAMERA SHOT: Cameron Cruise with a huge **** eating grin as the crowd cheers – and Stevens shakes his head in disgust.]

RYAN: Furthermore, if we all wanna be completely technical .. there’s one man whose name has been left out of all of this, a little bit unfairly. There’s one man who’s been overlooked, who may be more deserving of a title shot than either one of you. There’s only one man.. who recently pinned the champ.

[Huge crowd pop again as Stevens perks up, now shaking his head and mouthing the words ‘no way’.]

RYAN: That’s why.. the World Championship match at Black Dawn is now.. a FOUR.. WAY.. DANCE. The fourth man?? “THE PHENOM” .. SHAWN .. HART.

[Ape**** crazysexycool pop.

Stevens still saying ‘no way’ in the ring.]

RYAN: And Shawn.. I decided to make things interesting. You wanna be known as the greatest to ever step in the ring? You wanna be the greatest EPW World Champion of all time? Here’s a true test of that – because this match will be.. No disqualification.. no countout.. and last but not least, and I like this one the best.. everyone else on the EPW roster is BANNED FROM RINGSIDE. If anyone.. and I do mean ANYONE.. interferes in this match, they will be FIRED ON THE SPOT.

[The First and Cruise look at Stevens, smiling .. and Stevens spits right in the face of Cameron Cruise. Stevens sneers at First and Cruise, they stare at him, then each other, and then turn and start throwing punches at Stevens!]

DT: Both First and Cruise just beating the daylights out of the World Champion!

MN: This is unfair! Get Anthology out here now!

DT: Wait! Cruise just grabbed First’s arm and PULLED HIM INTO A SHORT ARM CLOTHESLINE! Stevens now with a eye gouge on Cruise! Cruise stumbles away clutching at his eye.. Stevens loading up..

MN: Take his head off!

DT: X FACTOR! NO! Cruise side steps! Cruise hooks Stevens.. REALITY CHECK ON THE WORLD CHAMP!! [Cheers!]

DM: Cruise sending a BIG message to everyone!

DT: Stevens rolling to the floor, Cruise now standing in the ring arms raised..

DM: He’s got to turn around!

DT: FIRST FROM BEHIND!! SOULBREAKER! NO! CRUISE HELD THE TOP ROPE!! First crashing to the mat, Cruise grabs First.. REALITY CHECK ON THE FIRST!!

MN: INCOMING!

DT: Anthology and HOPE storming out here! Cruise quickly makes his escape out through the crowd!

[A camera follows Cruise who’s amid the sea of people in the stands, Cruise making the belt motion around his waist.

MUSIC UP: “Killing In The Name Of” by Rage Against the Machine, drawing another cheer from the crowd!]

DT: Stevens back to his feet seething on the floor, while in the ring First is looking disgusted, and it doesn’t exactly look like anyone in HOPE is ready to give him a shoulder to cry on. What a wild way to start tonight’s show.

MN: I’m all for beating that little freak up, but really, what nerve does Cruise have thinking he has the right to go after Stevens?!

DT: He’s gotten the best of the World Champ the last two times we’ve seen him, I think that gives him all the right in the world..

MN: Oh whatever..

DT: Big time events happening as we move towards Black Dawn, don’t go away everyone!