Storm, looming on the high seas....

[TSiegel]

(fadein, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Cameron Cruise has taken a split-second decision to walk the beach, dressed in swim trunks to swim for abit in the empty waters. Drying off, he catches a cameraman pulling up to the parking lot on the cliff above.)

Cruise: (to himself) Can't even go to the beach on a Thursday-afternoon off. Hey you (to the cameraman)!! This is all about Privacy!! Take a hike!!

Cameraman: Sorry Mister Cruise, got strict orders to do what I'm assigned, *WHEN* I'm assigned them.

CC: No kiddin'?? What the hell then, hate to piss off someone's boss. Gimmie ten minutes? I gots to change.

CM: Sure t'ing.

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10 minutes later
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(fadein to the showerhouse, the Men's lockerroom. Cruise is now clothed in black pants, nike's, a solid blue "wife-beater" style-shirt, and puts on his trademark Anarchy sunglasses. Walking out, he sees the cameraman with Bill Buckley a few steps behind.)

CC: Well, put me on a stage and make me dance....Bill Buckley, good to see ya.

BB: (shaking Cruise's hand) Great to see you Cameron. Glad to see you in good spirits.

CC: I've got good reason to be Buckley (wiggles his engagement-ring finger).

BB: Very good. I hate to rush this, I don't have very much time. I have to go meet other clients' this afternoon. Ready?

CC: Sure, let's do this.

BB: Okay, 3,2,1. Welcome fans to another CSWA interview, this time with former CSWA Presidential Champion and soon-to-be married Cameron Cruise. Mr. Cruise, good to see you.

CC: Likewise, Bill, likewise.

BB: Cameron, with word going on all over the place about your "return-match" so-to-speak, with Mercedes Devon, myself as well as the fans around the world would like to know....what's next?

CC: Well Bill, (chuckles abit) to be completely honest, it's a different ride, this time around. Last time so many things happened at once, I guess I just got overloaded with things and you know the rest of what happened.

BB: That we all do. So now you've got a second chance and to start off, in a few days, you have Nate Logan in Orlando, then you're back over here in Charleston for Nathan Storm. Why them? Why not bigger? Like Rob Sampson or Radder again?

CC: I just wanted to start over, really. I was tired of doing matched that were appointed without any reason, and I wanted to start fresh. I went back and found out Nate was in town and in CSWA and thought I'd go back to testing myself. Nate Logan is a damn good wrestler who actually relies on skill....(sighs)...unlike someone else we know.

BB: We all know who that is...but you've decided instead, to go after Nathan Storm....

CC: Just a second Bill, Mercy took care of that. She's my valet remember? Not just my soon-to-be-wife. It's up to her who I take on. It's brought me gold before, so why not again.

BB: So you're looking for another championship then?

CC: Sure, but that comes with time. Right now, I'm just looking to get back to where I started, making a damn good name for myself. Now, before you go any further, Nathan Storm, and I know he's watching, like I've just said, I never picked your name out of a hat, but your name does stick out. You wanna come get some o' the Cruiser at Fish Fund XIII, where I already was taking on two other men....injured no less, that's fine. Because apparently, that tells me an awful lot about not just *YOU*, but Tom Adler as well, because number one, if you can't handle two men in a triple-threat, then you got problems. Two, Nathan Storm, if you gotta run-in on a match where you're apparent co-hort is taking on two men....and beat down one of them, who's ALREADY injured...then that just makes you a straight-up CHICKEN-#####-LOSER.

BB: Some shocking words from superstar Cameron Cruise. Well be right back after these messages.

(fadeout)

 

[TWhitefield]

No Calm Seas Ahead

[updated:LAST EDITED ON Sep-06-02 AT 09:29 PM (EDT)]Fade in to a gym. We see Tom Adler spotting Nathan Storm on a pommel horse routine when an attendant enters and approaches

Attendant: Mr. Adler, Mr. Storm, we got taped comments from Cameron Cruise regarding his match at On Time.

Adler: Is it cued up on the monitor? (The attendant nods) Ok, play it.

The attendant hits a button on the remote and Adler and Storm look on intently as Cruise's comments appear.

The tape ends, and Storm and Adler look at each other with great concern, then suddenly both bust out laughing

Storm goes back to his work out as Adler heads over to the security camera

Adler: Cruise, for somebody who prides himself on his technical prowess, there are days when you come across as inheritly stupid.

You wanna know why the legendary Bill Buckley took the time himself to go interview you? Because all of the other footmen were out doint IMPORTANT things and there was nobody else for Merritt to send to try to drag a comment out of you.

Now, Cam, just like I said following Fish Fund, we all knew that you couldn't come out here and simply accept the TRUTH of what happened there. So, your comments are par for the course. But, the simple fact of the matter is that YOU set that up, not me.

You wanna come out and whine about being injured before the match. Funny, you didn't seem to have a big problem nailing ME with a chair after our match. No, Cruise, you dealt the cards, I simply played 'em.

As for Storm's involvement? Sorry, Cam, but I don't appologize for it one bit. I took a chair shot, just the same as you. I made it to the ring, you didn't. You don't sit back in the locker room tending to your little boo boo for twenty minutes while Stanley and I are wrestling our asses off then think you're gonna show up and take a cheap route to the belt. What's your plan to win your NEXT belt? Grab your own referee, sign an open contract and jump into some OTHER match mid-way? No, Cruise, I don't operate under 24-7 rules. If you can't show up on time for a match for MY belt, then you don't show up at all.

So, you can lounge around on the beach and p#$$ and moan all you want. But YOU set the actions at Fish Fund in motion, not me.

Now, you could take the moral high road, accept that you blew it, and move on. But, no, you want some sort of revenge for your own screw up and blame a guy who did nothing more than SECURE the sanctity of the match. And you call Nate Chicken-s##t. Whatever. Nate doesn't duck matches. And, unlike you, he doesn't make excuses for his own actions.

Adler motions to the attendant to take the security tape and send it off CSWA headquarters as static comes across the screen

 

[TSiegel]

RE: No Calm Seas Ahead

(fadein, Jacksonville, NC, Cruise's summer home, more along the lines of his porch. Cruise walks out and takes a seat on the bench, stretching while doing so.)

Cruise: Well, well, well. Mama sheep come out the pen again eh? Ya know Adler, I said it at Fish Fund, and I'll say it again. At Fish Fund, everybody got there butts kicked, and I mean everyone right down to the popcorn vendor tryin' ta make a buck. I'm man enough to admit that, that you Tom Adler kicked *my* a$$. All I'm sayin' is that it's just too damn bad you couldn't do it by yourself.

I find it funny about nailing you after the match. Then that chair shot must have hurt alot more because you're still missin' the point. I didn't hit you with a chair and put you down before the match like you did. No Tom, I actually wanted that first match as a CHALLENGER to be pure, because the last time we met, when *neither* of us held a strap, we hit the time limit. Now, as for the chair shot, listen up:

You Tom Adler, dropped the ball.

I hit you plain and simple, because I expected you to wrestle with dignity and integrity. Did ya? Nope. So, I gave ya a trip to la-la land. Now, notice that I said nothing about slammin' ya before the match? Or are ya gettin' up there in your career, you just don't give a damn?

As for showin' up? How about you get slamned in the head with a chair BEFORE a match, drawing blood and trying get out there. Oh wait aminute, you probably did ten years ago with all those beatings from Hornet, Joey Melton, Pippi Longstocking and Pee Wee Herman....you just can't seem to remember them.

No, Tom, you know damn well, I have every intent on making a match if I can make the arena. As far as the shot to the head before hand? Hey, it's like I said, I can't help it if you're too chicken-sh*t to wrestle two men at once. You put on a wrestling show with Stanley. Good for you.

Now, maybe I can hear from Nathan Storm this time? Or is he too busy working out, gettin' a breast-feedin' from mama, that you gotta answer for him again?

Chew on that.

(Fadeout)

 

[TWhitefield]

RE: No Calm Seas Ahead

Cruise, if it takes you twenty minutes after a chair shot to make it to the ring, you don't DESERVE to be in the match. And, yes, I've taken more than my share of 'em over the years. And, no, I've never let a chair shot come between me and a match. But then again, after you've wrestled Mike Randalls through the streets of New Orleans in an I Quit match, a chair shot seems rather weak.

So, allow me to take this opportunity to formally appologize to you and your fans for acting out of an assumption that you had enough sack to take what you don't seem to have a problem dishing out.

Now, I'm sure I could waste the next millennium listening to you make excuses why you lost, but, this isn't, or at least shouldn't be about you and me. It's about you and Storm.

Now, in case you've missed it, Nate doesn't do mic spots. Not because he can't. Certainly not because somebody won't let him. But, because he chooses not to. If and when he decides to change that policy, he'll let ya know. Until then, if you have a problem with that, maybe you can file a complaint at the No F'n Wrestlers head office up the coast. I'm sure you probably know the way.

But, I think you should worry less about who you're talking to, and more about who you're wrestling. Because that's where The Troubleshooter does HIS talking. Not from some beach where the only thing you've gotta worry about is whether your sunscreen is tough enough to protect your delicate sensibilities.

 

[TSiegel]

RE: No Calm Seas Ahead

You know Tom, one would think that at this point, a wrestler would give his opponent his due. At this point, a man would say sure, you've got some decent attributes, you're a damn good wrestler.

But not you.

Nope, not Tom Adler, CSWA Presidential Champion and supposed life savior of the CSWA....that is unless Deacon, Hornet, Evan Aho, or anyone else beats you to it first.

But you would also think that in the last year or so, medics and specialists would volunteer there time at events in the event that someone should get hurt out of the ordinary.

The fact of the matter is Tom, you should know by now, I don't make excuses; I make statements. It shouldn't matter to you when or how I get to the ring, when there's already someone giving you a bit of a challenge. Maybe you don't want a doctor to take a look at you at the matches. Personally, I ready to go at you as is, but with a gash of blood running down your forehead, it can lead to a pretty good distraction.

Hence the bandage, Einstein.

Now, Nathan Storm wants to play the part of the mute Tommy, and gain titles based on skill, not promo....I can deal with that. But the fact of the matter is, with what this sounds like, I shouldn't even have to waste my time with promo's on him, when, instead of YOU...he could very well use say....Scott Seeley.

Don't talk to me about worrying Tom, because it seems that after one promo on the beach you have some kinda personal vendetta the way you say it to me. Like I said before, it shouldn't matter to you where I do my promos. For all I care, I could do them on Sesame Street and it shouldn't make a difference.

Storm wants to make his points based on action, not words, I praise him for it, because to tell the truth, I'm not that different. But since he's not around now, maybe you ought to leave a message on his hotel room, or have your good pal Eric Wright fax it to him:

Start thinking of doing your own promos or get fined.

To be completely honest, with the suits and fiascos I've seen with Douglas and Flair, don't think that Merritt won't take the minute or two to do it.

--Cruise

 

[TWhitefield]

RE: No Calm Seas Ahead

Ya know, Cam, maybe I do owe you an appology. Ya see, I hit you with the chair in retaliation. But, clearly I hit you harder than I originally planned to. Because in your steel enhanced daze, you seem to want to forget... or IGNORE that I'm not the one who came out here and started running somebody down.

I am the one who made it known in the locker room that you were the first person I wanted to defend against.

I am the one who gave you a shot when nobody else cared because I thought you deserved one.

And I am the one who agreed to let you have the shot at Fund after YOUR own stipulation should have negated it.

No, Cam, I'm not the one who's been running somebody down. I've simply stated a fact. I won the match. And, from my perspective... which is the only one that matters... I did it by the book. And all you've done since is come out here and slight me.

So, consider this a formal appology for denting your head a bit harder than originally intended. But, none of this really changes the matter at hand, does it? Because you're not wrestling me. You're wrestling Storm. And chances are I won't even be at ringside.

Now, you can skirt around that issue all you want. But, THAT is where the issue lies. Not with who did what in our matches or who happens to be standing out here holding the mic. And certainly not with some non-existant plans you seem to think I have for either saving or hurting this place.

You wanna lobby to have Storm fined for not doing his own spots? Go ahead. There's nothing in either of our contracts that say we gotta do 'em. All we gotta do is show up and wrestle. And, last I checked, Merritt was far more interrested in ratings than he was with self promotion. I doubt he's gonna care who grabs the stick if it gets him a good pop.