Can't quite grasp it, eh Benji?
[ Fade in to the Pepsi Center, just minutes before Wrestleverse goes live and on the air. The arena is filled to overflowing, everyone glued to their seats, buzzing loudly, the anticipation building within the sold out crowd. A dull roar overcomes the crowd as they talks amongst each other as the house lights suddenly fade down to black, only the emergency lights providing pin-point beacons at the entrances.
The sounds of chanting monks gradually fills the arena, and the murmurs in the crowd grow as does their excitement, then as the chanting reaches a fever pitch, they suddenly fade out, and a monstrous red and white pyro burst explodes around the stage as the power chords to Nickelback's "Figure You Out" begin to blare over the PA, and the crowd explodes into an ovation that rocks the very foundation of the Pepsi Center as EPW World Heavyweight Champion Beast steps through the pyro smoke, decked out in jeans and a black "FEEL THE GORE" t-shirt, his EPW Title around his waist.
Beast heads to the ring, high-fiving and shaking hands with fans along the way, before he then reaches ringside and walks up the ring steps and steps between the ropes. He pulls a microphone out of his back pocket, and raises it to speak, but the cheers of the fans make him stop, and he lowers the mic to take in the cheers. When they finally settle down, Beast raises the microphone again. ]
Beast: Thank you so much for that welcome! You have no idea what that means! We're just a few minutes away from the opening bell, so I hope y'all don't mind if I come out here and talk to you first.
[ Another cheer from the fans gives him his affirmative, and he continues speaking. ]
Beast: However, I'll keep this short. I don't want to hold up the show too much, and besides, Adam Benjamin didn't really say much of anything with any value.
[ Laughter from the crowd. ]
Beast: Although, Adam, I've got to give you credit for wishing the best man win. Like I said last time, you made me respect your abilities, even though I don't always reflect that in the way I talk. You see, I too, would like to see the best man win.
And, as these 20,000 screaming Beasties as my witness...
That's exactly what I'm going to do.
[ Crowd pop! ]
Beast: Adam, there is no insecurity. I've come into this event knowing exactly what it is I must do. I have to defeat a guy that gave me a great match, and the last GXW Champion. Now, while Boogie hasn't been as vocal as I might have liked, I'm sure he has his reasons for that, and that's fine. That doesn't change the fact that I have to beat him right here tonight. I know this title is on the line, but after being in the ring with you, and knowing that even your own repetoire couldn't keep me down - not to mention parts of others - I'm absolutely certain that I'll be coming through with the big 'W' here tonight.
[ Cheers from the crowd. ]
Beast: I have a question for everyone in the audience. Now, don't worry, it's an easy one. Listen up a sec.
[ A stunning young woman yells from the front row. ]
Woman: WE LOVE YOU, BEAST!
[ Crowd cheers. ]
Beast: Hehehe... [ bows ] Why thank you, darlin'. I done gone and think you made my blush!
[ More cheers. ]
Beast: But what I was going... what I was going to say, was... damn, honey, you got me all shook up! What I was going to ask was this:
When you want something - an object... the remote control, whatever - and it's just a little farther away than you'd like, what do you to do get it? You r-
Crowd: REACH!!
Beast: Tremendous! You get a gold star. And that's exactly what Adam Benjamin is doing right at this minute. He's reaching for anything and everything he can to try and turn things around for himself. I mean, let's get real, Adam! I can tell how you spell by listening to you speak? Is this some twisted Hooked on Phonics game here you're playing?
Man In Audience: Worked for me!
[ Crowd laughs. ]
Beast: You specifically said "Nickel and dine". I don't need to see the word to know that when you say "dine", that you said "dine", and I HEAR the word "dine". It's not like I'm the Great Carnac or anything, and what you actually said was "mxylptkz", and I somehow reached out and interdimensionally translated that into the word "dine".
You're freaking ENGLISH for crying out loud! Your people INVENTED the language! You'd think that as one of those countrymen, you could actually speak it!
But I guess you just need to hone your editing skills JUST a little more.
[ Crowd pop. ]
Beast: Once again, Adam, your sarcasm detector is turned off. But, I guess, if it makes you happy...
[ Beast lowers the mic and climbs out of the ring and hops to the arena floor. He heads over to the guardrail, where a man and his wife and four young children are gathered. The fans in the area go nuts as he approaches. ]
Beast: Good evening, folks. You all set to enjoy the show?
[ The fans say YES enthusiastically. ]
Beast: Awesome. Look, does Adam Benjamin bore you?
Wife: He sure does! Everytime he talks I have to fight from falling asleep!
Beast: Alright, that's great. Because Adam wanted me to explain to you why I've made racist comments towards other countries.
Father: Beast, you wouldn't do that.
Beast: You're absolutely right, sir. I am supposed to be a role model, a man that your children can look up to.
Father: But even if you did, we know that you're just doing it to get a rise out of your opponent.
Beast: Really?
Father: Yes. Either that, or for a joke.
Beast: Ahh, yes! So you understand what the word sarcasm means then!! You know what that means? That makes you and your family, a regular, average American family, smarter than Adam Benjamin! He's British, you know!
Father: Yes, we know.
Beast: And he's supposed to be all cultured and intelligent and "all that rot".
Son: Well, he obviously isn't!
[ Crowd pop. ]
Beast: Oh yeah, one more thing. Adam wanted me to explain to you why I was wearing a dress. You see -
Daughter: Oh, we know, Beast. That bad man Dan Ryan put you up to it. We know you didn't want to wear the dress.
Beast: You're such a sweetheart!
Other Son: Yeah, Beast! We know you're not a queer!
[ Crowd cheers and laughs. ]
Beast: You guys are amazing! Even your children are smarter than Benjamin is! Tell you what folks, after the show, you come and see that security guard right over there, and make sure he lets you in to come see me in my dressing room, alright?
[ Everyone cheers. ]
Beast: And if you're nice, I'll even let you wear my title, since we all know I'm going to beat Adam and Boogie for it right here tonight!
[ Thunderous crowd pop! Beast rolls back into the ring. ]
Beast: One last question for you all. When you want an object - sometimes your remote control so you can turn on EPW on your TV - and it's just a little further away than you think, sometimes you have to r-
Crowd: REACH!
Beast: That's it, Benji. Try and reach out - grasp at that last big straw. Try and find anything you can to try and twist around in your favor. You just know that I'm walking out of Wrestleverse STILL the EPW World Heavyweight Champion, and there isn't a thing on God's Green Earth that is going to stop me.
At least you've done one thing right this week, Adam. You did a marvelous job of recapping everything I've said to you all week long. Now, after Wrestleverse, after I drop you on your head again, you can take that job at ESPN you've always wanted doing nightly highlights. You'd fit perfectly. Hey, you could even have your own Plays of the Week segment, and you can end off with #1 being me hitting you with the Absolution 2K4, and pinning you for the 1, 2, 3.
You want me to tell the fans something about you that they don't know?
Umm.. you don't know what a nickname is? No, they already know that, especially after listening to you call yourself Yours Truly and the New Age Technician every time you open your mouth, so that can't be it. It wouldn't make you a hippocrite at all to mock me using my own catchphrase, even though you have TWO of them.
Oh, I know! You have bad teeth! Another stereotypical British thing.... but wait a minute... that sh*t eating grin you flashed at the end of your last promo, you showed some nice chompers. No doubt the result of years of dental surgery.
Oh hell, who am I kidding. I can't do it.
You're just so simple, Adam, it's like reading an open book.
[ Beast gets a little more of a serious look on his face. ]
Beast: And tonight, right here in this very ring, I'm going to prove it. Like a book, this is going to be an open and shut match. I'm going to read you like a textbook Adam, and throw every move in your little arsenal right back into your scrunchy British face. And then, when the time is right, it's going to be WHAM BAM Thank you ADAM - BOOM! Absolution 2K4, and you're going to be down for the count.
The 1, 2, 3.
And I will have proven yet again, that I AM the -
Crowd: ALPHA MALE!!
Beast: - of EPW... and Adam...
You're just on the low end of the food chain, there to be eaten up by the bigger Beasts. I hope you had fun this close to the top, Adam, because tonight, at Wrestleverse, you're getting tossed over the edge of the mountain, and this...
[ Beast unstraps the EPW World Heavyweight Title and holds it by the buckle vertically in front of him. ]
Beast: ... is still going to be MINE!
[ Beast tosses the mic to a ring crew member as Nickelback's "Figure You Out" blasts over the PA, and the crowd cheers wildly. Beast salutes the fans and climbs out of the ring and heads back up the ramp. ]