What the future holds
* The First RP for C02.
(FADEIN: We see a table with a black cloth over it, on the table we see four Tarot cards, The Fool, Death, The Hanged Man, and The Tower, the camera pans back to show Muse siting behind the table, dressed in black, with her hair dyed black, an ankh painted around her left eye. Standing behind her is The First, also in all black, his hair purple and black, his face painted like Kefka from Final Fantasy, only with black instead of red.)
MUSE: Oh to know the future, what we wouldn't give to know the next moment, the next hour, the next day...Since humanity began to think, it began to guess it's future, it's why weathermen try to understand the way nature acts, why men will wager on which horse will run faster, to know the future is to hold great power...And so we gaze upon the Tarot and try to divine the fate of one Mr. Michael Montgomery.
FIRST: We start at The Fool...And that I am sure you take as an insult, but it isn't, no The Fool is ambitious, The Fool is full of energy and has a zest to begin his great quest. The Fool truly doesn't know what he doesn't know, and while that might make him seem a fool, it makes him bold, decisive and full of spirit...
But he is also naive, like you Michael...For you insult me, degrade me, declare me unworthy, but shouldn't you be happy about these things? Shouldn't my gross inferiority to you be something that thrills you? One must win three matches to be allowed to set foot in the ring with the New ERA Champion...Shouldn't one desire the easiest path to that title? Shouldn't a weakling of an opponent be welcomed?
But enough of trying to figure out your mind...For next we come to the Hanged Man...Again I am sure you believe this card was drawn with ill intent...But you would again be wrong, for The Hanged Man stands for wisdom, insight, meditation...Odin hung upside down from the World Tree to discover great knowledge.
For you perhaps this is a message to think, to reflect upon the events of New ERA...To understand that with each victory only comes more pressure, that one loss sets back the clock to your chance to be champion, that to win once makes it all the more important to win twice, and to win twice...Well that puts all the weight in the world on your shoulders to win that final round...And doing that, all of that, only gets you a chance to be champion...So you REALLY must not lose that.
Perhaps the Hanged Man is telling you to think before you speak, to see what is in front of you more clearly...To not be so cocky and dismissive of your opponents, especially the one you face this week...
This brings us then to Death…I know Death sounds bad, but really it isn’t. No Death merely speaks of a transformation, of cycles, of the nature of things, and that you my friend are going from one state to another.
What this change is, well I’d like to believe it’s that from a man who’s got one win under his belt, to a man going back to the end of the line with his win streak stopped before it ever really got started. And well, come Cyberstrike, I’m going to do everything I can to make sure my interpretation of this card is the correct one…
Of course Death was not the last card drawn, no, the final card was The Tower, and that Mr. Montgomery is very bad news for you. I’m sure of the four you didn’t think this one would be a problem, but it is and it’s the gravest of problems. For The Tower stands for the false constructs we make around ourselves, the foolish believes we use to trick ourselves into believing that our perception is in fact reality, and when The Tower is revealed from a deck, well it means those notions, those ideas, are about to be destroyed.
You fancy yourself as an elite in this company, as the man who should be fighting in Chaos’ place for the New ERA Title this week, you believe yourself superior to everyone in the locker room, you act like you are already the standard bearer of this company. Well Michael, you’re about to have all of that shattered and taken away from you.
Because this isn’t your company, no, this is MY company, oh the cheerful story of the hometown boy making good might be a part of it, but it’s not the whole story…I’m more driven and determined then you can ever imagine, I am the very force of judgment upon your pompous soul…I am the wrath of the spirits and the supernatural that seek to strike down those full of hubris and arrogance…And that is you Michael…
Your reading has concluded with grim tidings and a dark shadow cast over you…And at Cyberstrike 2, I shall make that the truth, and it will be I that shall be one victory away from fighting for the New ERA Title…Cyberstrike 2 is where your world, comes crashing down around you…And you can’t stop it…
Nothing can stop me.
(FADEOUT)