WWEA RP #3: "Anger is the best medicine!"
Posted Dec. 11, 2008
Match: RHane Vs. Evan Bourne

"I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry." -- Maxine Waters

ReDD RHane sits on the bench of his locker room. The only light that enters is through the television set in the corner with Evan Bourne's face paused in the center; proving RHane just watched Evans promo once again. Even with there being little light, no sign of RHane's kingship gown or crown is anywhere to be found. RHane stares straight into the camera with a strange smile on his face. He inhales sharply before beginning.

RHane: "You know Evan, all you had to do was ask. You come out to thing last week and go on and on about how you where cheated out of the match; and that you where the deserving one; and Jake storm this; Jake Storm that.. Quit your whining already, man. I get it, and I agree. You know that I haven't even had a proper ceremony yet? Last week, which would have been two weeks in action by the way, I didn't even walk out with my crown on? I don't feel that I am true King yet, and that's because the matches I faced off in where so easy. Jake Storm was the only one that really put up much of a fight and that was barely even anything anyways."

RHane: "You said that no one can take the Kingship away from me, but I have to disagree. I am giving you your due man by saying that you can. This match means more to me than you know. You asked for the match because you think you where cheated out of it to begin with, well so do I. I think I was cheated out of a real competition. I chose Jake Storm winning the match purely on what I thought was reputation. Being as you two had a match the night before I assumed you would both be too worn out to compete. You beat him at the Pay-Per-View, Survivor Series, and he beat you the next day. So maybe I was half right. I figured I'd never know. But the gods of fate have given us both a second chance to prove who we are, and on Raw we'll find out just who is the deserving man."

RHane: "One thing that I need to point out the Evan is, I was right. I did predict me and Jake Storm in the finals and that is exactly what happened. I was wrong about most of the rest but in the end I predicted a match and told the entire audience I was going to win. I did win the match Evan, and that's just the way it is. I fought hard to prove myself to this audience, even if the competition wasn't what its cracked up to be. Sometimes I wonder if the rumors that I only won because everyone in the match where not of high caliber are true. Sometimes.. It doesn't matter though. I am undefeated thus far and that's because I am everything I say I am. I am the number one contender for the ECW Heavyweight Championship, and deservingly so. I have sacrificed my body, my tears, hell even my family for this opportunity; and I am not going to let it slip through my fingers. Not this time. It is my time to shine, and I will not let you, nor anyone else get in my way!"

The camera fades off of RHane and the scene ends. Back in the arena Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler are almost speechless.

King: "You know I wonder why he didn't wear the crown to the ring."

J.R: "Well now we know."

King: Yeah It still seems a bit disrespectful J.R."

J.R: You know for a while there It sounded like he was actually being respectful to Evan Bourne, his next opponent for Raw."

"King: Of course it was short lived though; a man like ReDD RHane can't say too many nice things before contradicting himself. Did you know he had a family J.R?"

J.R: "No King, I didn't.."

The camera crew leaves RHane's locker room just before RHane does himself. He grabs his leather Jacket and goes for another walk to once again clear his head. The air outside is brisk and the snow covers the ground but all in all it isn't too bad. RHane walks a few blocks outside, thinking to himself.

"Maybe they're right. Maybe I try too hard in this business because of not having anything of my own. Do I really act like that? I never noticed it before. I don't try to act cocky, but I guess I do unwillingly come off that way sometimes. It's not intentional. I try to be respectful to the men and women that deserve it. Why would people say that though? Just because I know what I want and how to get it, I am automatically arrogant?"

RHane thinks too hard on himself with things sometimes. He lets the little things bother him more so then he should. Elements of his past keep coming back to haunt him. RHane was engaged once, and had a child on the way; events that could have changed his life forever. RHane vowed that if he ever had a child of his own he would never leave. He would give that child the love that they needed; the care that only a father could give. He would give that child something he never had - answers. He was stripped of that opportunity when his fiancé had a miscarriage, and she left him.

"I'm so close to the gold right now, but I have to beat Evan Bourne so I myself can feel the benefits have being the true number one contender. Evan says I don't give him the credit he deserves. Maybe he is the one that is being too cocky. Well, screw it, I don't care. I didn't come into this company to make friends. I came here to be the best and if it means being cocky, then I will do just that."

RHane is obviously struggling with everything right now. His mind is not clear. Thoughts of every direction in life invade his head to the point where one would go insane. Maybe wresting is getting the better of him. He wonders if he chose the right career. What else could he do? Wrestling is all he has ever known. Ever since he grew up on the streets of Germany, wrestling is all he ever wanted to do. RHane lives his dream, but the dream becomes more and more a nightmare with every week that passes.

"Then again, Evan isn't all that bad. He does have a lot of talent and maybe, just maybe, it is true that he is who he is because of not having to go through what I did. Having a father to love him and nurture him. To have a family that cared for him when he was sick. Maybe there is a point..."

RHane stops walking and lets out a huge bloodthirsty roar out of anger and confusion. The men and children that were walking by quickly cross the streets to get out of RHane's path; and the few birds that where in the trees fly away. RHane drops down to his knees and then curls up next to a wall rocking back and forth for a while.

"I am ReDD RHane! I am the Hardcore Icon! I am the two thousand and nine King of the Ring! I do not deserve to be feeling so tormented. Why do I do this to myself? I know who I am and yet I let feelings get in the way of my true destiny. I must get my act together!"

RHane slaps himself a few times on the face before standing up. His face chances from confusion to that of pure hatred as he starts walking back to the arena.

"I don't need anyone's guidance. I don't need a family. I sure as hell don't need anyone's acceptance. I am going to that ring and I am going to destroy any hope that Evan Bourne may have in this business. From this day on RHane is a changed man. I need to stop caring what other people think of me and do what I need to do to get things done! I cannot continue living the way I have been. For now on I go to that ring with one thing on my mind. Destroy anything that gets in my path. Unfortunately, Evan is the first to feel my rage. May he rest in peace."

*FIN*