'Sacrifice' the ME for the WE
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 12:22 pm
Hey Guys here is my RP for Sacrifice. Hope you all enjoy it! Good luck Benjamin -DJ
In the blink of an eye, everything can change. Just a short time ago, The Miz was quickly growing into a name that was on people's lips as someone they wanted to route for. The Miz was someone that brought smiles to the faces of people young and old. His witty remarks, confident but lovable attitude, and his overall passion for in ring success, had made him a household name. Something then happened, that seemed to flip a switch that we hadn't seen flipped in quite sometime in the psyche of the Miz. That something was when Syxx climbed the ladder at King of the Ring to become the brand new Intercontinental Champion of the EBWF. A title that Miz had held since Wrestlemania. All of a sudden that loveable man was gone, in later in the night he became gone for good, when he did the absolutely unthinkable. The Miz, did what he said he would never again do, when he realigned himself with Ted DiBiase and AJ Styles. The Trilogy was reborn, and people were shocked and rocked to their very core. In the weeks that followed, they had more than made their presence felt. Attacking CM Punk, defeating Rated RKO, and putting their stamp back down on the EBWF in a major way. Sacrifice was going to be an event that could further cement this faction into the power that they once enjoyed. It would start with the Miz getting his chance to regain the Intercontinental Championship for the 3rd time in recent memory. To do so, he would need to go by another man who has gone through many transformations in his career, the very man who defeated Miz for the Intercontinental Championship at KOTR. It wouldn't be easy, but in lieu of recent events, he wouldn't have to do it alone.
The scene opened up outside of a building that read "Anger Management class, today at 3. An arm with a very expensive watch on it came into the direct view of the camera, and the time read " 2:58" The camera panned out to see The Trilogy all standing outside of this building. All 3 men donned black Trilogy T-Shirts that read in Red Letters" The Trilogy" on the front and "You wish you were us" on the back. Miz broke the silence.
The Miz: This is the place.
AJ Styles: What tipped you off?
The camera zoomed into the sign that it originally had been on. Miz looked at Styles with a pissed off look.
AJ Styles: Sorry.
The three men made their way inside the building. People were just starting to find their seats as a bearded man stood at the front of the class. Miz, AJ, and Ted made their way past all the seats and to the front of the room.
Teacher: Um excuse me, you three are going to have to find a seat.
They did not slow down, even in the slightest.
The Miz: You are going to need to find a new tone, or you are going to have to have one of these idiots find your insides to try and put back inside of your body.
AJ Styles: Too much.
The Miz: Really, you think?
Ted and AJ nodded.
The Miz: You are going to need to find a new tone, or you are going to have to have one of these idiots find a zip lock back to put all your teeth in for the tooth fairy, after I knock them out of your head.
AJ Styles: Better but not there yet.
Ted nodded in agreement.
The Miz: You are going to need to find a new tone, or you are going to have to have one of these idiots find a mop and bucket to clean your blood off every inch of this floor.
Miz looked to Styles and Ted for approval. They both gave the A-OK hand signal, and Miz then turned to the man as if this is the first thing he had said to him, the man was confused but responded.
Teacher: Well it certainly seems like you are in the right place, sir. Please find a seat.
AJ Styles: We're not staying.
The Miz turned to AJ.
The Miz: I'll handle this AJ.
Back to the teacher.
The Miz: We're not staying.
Teacher: Well then why are you here?
The Miz: We came to discuss a student that took your class before.
Teacher: Well I can't divulge anybody that has taken the class, unless they give me permission to do soooohhh man.
The teacher became spooked as The Trilogy each took a step towards him.
Teacher: Who..ahh.. who did you want to know about?
The Miz: Syxx.
Teacher: Six students?
AJ Styles: No dipshit.. Syxx the wrestler.
The Miz turned back to AJ.
The Miz: AJ.. please.
Back to the teacher.
The Miz: Syxx the wrestler.
AJ slapped Ted on the shoulder and whispered to him.
AJ Styles: Stay with him, I'll be right back.
Ted nodded as AJ went towards the students and out of frame. The teacher thought for a moment.
Teacher: Ohh! Sean, yes Sean has been here many times. He's really making great progress. I mean the first time he was here, he threw hot coffee on my face when I was just doing role call, and now he seems like he's really improving. He's articulate and just seems like he's in a better place.
Miz and Ted shared a glance before they started cracking up.
The Miz: Sean Waltman is not articulate grizzly adams. Sean Waltman, X-Pac, Syxx, Seven, Fourteen, whatever he wants to call himself is a fraud. In every sense of the word. No matter what he says to you, no matter how he acts, Sean Waltman is the biggest loose cannon in professional wrestling. Except for maybe us, if he's making progress towards anything by coming to these mickey mouse classes, it's that he's making progress towards the unemployment line. You are doing him a disservice by putting him through these little lectures of yours. You are ruining him.. and the job that you haven't quite finished yet.. I promise you I'm going to finish it at Sacrifice. You may teach in this class that it's best to keep your emotions in check, to take a deep breathe and count to ten, well I can promise you "teach" that on Sunday Night Sean isn't going to be able to take a deep breathe after I get through with him, he'll need some machines to do that for him.. and the only person that's going to be doing any counting is the referee.. and it will only be to three.. before I become the Intercontinental Champion once again.. mark my god damn words.
Teacher: You seem very angry sir. Is this a fair assessment?
The Miz looked at Ted who shook his head in disbelief. The Miz had squinted eyes as he came back to the teacher.
The Miz: Really? Are you even qualified to teach this class. Yes it's a fair assessment you bozo, I'm extremely angry. I'm angry that I am going into a match with Syxx for the Intercontinental Title, and I'm the challenger. I'm angry that Syxx is starting to gain momentum again making this whole company seem like we've all hopped in a time machine, I'm angry that you have Doritos crumbs in your beard, and I'm angry that AJ isn't standing with us anymore.. AJ!?
The camera cut over to AJ who was chatting up a very attractive anger management student. We were soon in his conversation.
AJ Styles: So you're angry huh? I'll be angry if I'm not balls deep in you in about an ho...
The Miz: AJ!
AJ Styles stuck his card in the woman's cleveage and returned to the group. At first she looked mad, but then she smiled and grabbed the card out of her shirt and stared at it longingly.
AJ Styles: What I miss?
The Miz: Guy says that Waltman is happier these days.
AJ Styles: Well he won't be happy for much longer.
The Miz nodded.
The Miz: You see teach, Waltman is going to come back to class soon. With a whole new list of issues. No longer will it be, "I'm mad.. at all the short jokes.. the jokes about me being old.. the jokes about me needing to shower.. the jokes about me having a Napoleon Complex." And it will be a lot more.. "I'm angry because I'm in a wheelchair.. I'm angry because my face is mangled.. I'm angry because I didn't heed the warning of The Trilogy." And that warning, in case you were wondering is coming right now. Show up to Sacrifice Syxx, and just hand me the Intercontinental Title. Just walk down the ramp, do a crotch chop or two.. if you still do that.. and then just put the title in my hands and walk back. Nobody is going to think less of you.. because everyone already thinks you're a loser anyway. Because if you don't, you'll be coming back to this building, but not for Anger Management. You'll be coming back for Physical Therapy, which is a few doors down the hall.
The teacher got defiant.
Teacher: Now wait just a second. Sean isn't afraid of you, he's in a better place, he's not letting his anger control him, I can't say the same for you, you lunatic.
AJ Styles: Why the fuck would he say that?
Ted DiBiase: Idiot.
The Miz held a hand up to his two fellow Trilogy members.
The Miz: Now guys, reacting violently would just prove his point that we are reactionary creatures. Reacting violently would prove that we let anger consume us and our actions.
AJ Styles: And?
The Miz: Good point.
The Trilogy began to lay waste to this teacher. As some of the students gasped in the background. The Trilogy knocked the man down instantly and began stomping and kicking him with several blows. AJ and Ted held the man up who was now a bloody mess. The Miz grabbed his face.
The Miz: You tell Waltman, next time you're trying to "cure" him, that unless he finds some of that anger that you're trying to get rid of, that unless he finds some of what made him be able to stick around this company for so long despite all of his "short comings" that he's going to end up ten times worse than your sorry ass.
The Miz delivered one more stiff left hand to the teachers face. The Miz turned to the class and offered one more comment.
The Miz: Class dismissed.
The scene faded away and reopened up to static, that every few moments was being cut into a scene but then went back to static a muffled "Trilogy" with a fade effect was heard, as if someone was adjusting their radio dial trying to find the signal. Finally the scene came into focus. We were in an extravagant looking room with high ceilings and expensive furniture. In the middle of the room was a pool table. Next to the pool table there was a long and fully stocked bar. The three men that occupied this scene, needed no introduction, but since you just started reading this I'll give them one anyway. On the pool table, participating in what seemed like an intense game of billiards was Ted Dibiase and AJ Styles. Ted wore a black v neck t-shirt and blue fitted jeans. While AJ Styles rocked black pants and a gray t-shirt with black letters that read "I'm The Man". At the bar with a scotch in front of him was The Miz. He wore light blue Fitted Jeans and a white with baby blue letters "Your favorite Wrestler's Favorite Wrestler" T-Shirt. His hair was slicked all the way around, and he took a sip of his scotch. He swirled it around in his glass a little bit, before putting it down. Styles with his pool stick on the ground in front of him, looked over at The Miz and broke the silence.
AJ Styles: Going with scotch today? What's the occasion?
The Miz smirked and shook his head.
The Miz: Come on man, it's not cool for me to TELL you why I'm drinking scotch. I'm just supposed to drink it, as the bad guy, and it looks cool and dark, like I'm capable of anything.
Ted took his shot sinking a ball, before he joined into the conversation.
Ted DiBiase: Wouldn't drinking a lot of scotch make you capable of less things, because you'd be.. like.. drunk.
The Miz shook his head again.
The Miz: Ted.. it's not cool for people to know you're drunk. You're just supposed to get a buzz that makes you only acknowledge the things that really matter, and you acknowledge them in a real mysterious and creepy way so that people never fully know what your answers mean. You guys are really screwing it up for me.
AJ and Ted looked at each other and they shared a quick smile.
AJ Styles: What's the occasion of you trying to take on this persona of the "bad guy."
The Miz thought for a second.
The Miz: It's not really a persona I've made a conscious effort to take on until now, but it's something people have been pushing me towards my entire career. I'm one of those guys that people really want to define. They've been making the decisions for me since I've stepped foot in this business. They've labeled me, and then I've proved them wrong. At first it was that I was a reality TV star, people hated me because they didn't think I deserved to even be in the company. Once I proved that was a crock, they then hated me because my head grew to an enormous size because of how good it felt to prove them all wrong, that good feeling grew into an amount of confidence that caused resentment. It was that same confidence that split us up the first time when I was the EBWF Champion. After I realized that being too confident wasn't necessarily the best way to go about things, I became loved by the people. They cheered me, and laughed at my smart ass remarks about my opponents, but still deep down I know that I wasn't meant to be the clown. I wasn't meant to be the guy who smiled and took pictures holding my action figure up. I mean sure my action figure was amazing and more handsome than anyone else's action figure.
AJ and Ted shared a knowing glance, so much for not being over confident.
The Miz: It just wasn't me though.
AJ Styles: So what is "you"?
The Miz: Me is what you see right now. I'm not an open book that wants to be read, like everyone has tried to make me out to be. I'm The Miz, I am a professional wrestler and a pretty damn good one, arguably the best one that there is, but the things I just mentioned, the transformations that I've gone through, they don't define everything that I am. The titles I've won, the matches I've won and even the ones I've lost, don't mean a god damn thing, all that matters is what I'm about to do, the things I'm about to accomplish.. dare I say it.. maybe for the first time in my career.. the things WE are about to do.. and that WE are about to accomplish. Success happens, when you substitute the ME for the WE. I am fortunate enough to be part of the best WE in the history of this company, that is a fact not an opinion, I am a member NOT THE LEADER.. but a member of The Trilogy. A group that has 3 members, and no leaders, because we are ALL ELITE and don't need to be led, we don't need to be advised, we need to kick ass, and that is exactly what we are going to do TOGETHER.
AJ went from light to dead serious.
AJ Styles: Fuckin right.
The Miz took a sip of his scotch, all of a sudden it wasn't the butt of a joke. He looked as though that drink fit his hand like a glove.
The Miz: The man I am about to face at Sacrifice, can relate to all of the things I'm saying, because he too has gone through many persona changes. He too, has scratched and clawed with the conflict of being who he truly is, and who the fans have wanted him to be. As messed up as it is, Syxx' not giving a shit attitude, as much as he tried to play it off as it was him rejecting everyone but himself, what he was really doing is embracing what people wanted to see him do. Sure they booed him, but in all actuality they nodded secretly, acknowledging that he was someone that with this current persona they loved to hate. Syxx was SO brash and SO edgy that they actually considered it cool, he fit the cookie cutter mold of your classic "bad guy," so "bad" and so "cool" that there were many fans who loved him this way. That swore by him, just as much as he "swore" at them. Before this, Syxx was a member of all the major "WE's" all the major factions. From DX to NWO, Syxx was there. He would tell you this to your face, so this isn't a knock on him that he wouldn't admit, but Syxx was THERE.. and that's about all you can say. He was THERE to join in on the gang assault, he was THERE to clap for Shawn Michaels or Triple H when they achieved greatness, he was there to make the coffee run, he was THERE. I think the frustration of always being THERE.. but not really THERE, is what caused him to snap. It's what made him so defiant, it's what made him so anti establishment so no conformist, because all he'd ever done was conformed. He may not have been accomplishing exactly what he set out to do, but somehow it worked for him for a long time. He achieved more success in this company on his own, than he ever did as part of a group, more than anyone would have predicted for him..but that was then..
AJ Styles was finishing up a pool shot, but chimed in.
AJ Styles: And this is now.
The Miz nodded.
The Miz: You see Syxx, you may have climbed a ladder and grabbed a title last month, and you may be trying to paint yourself in a different light now with your new found proper attitude and your little chick sidekick, but we both know an aching and painful truth don't we "kid."
Ted DiBiase looked up
Ted DiBiase: He knows.
The Miz: We both know that though being a part of a "WE" wasn't always what brought out the best version of you, we both know as well as anyone that the strength in our numbers, is greater than your strength as an individual. The weight of the Trilogy is something you can't hold, much less pin down to the mat for three seconds. We both know that even DESPITE that, that my strength as an individual is more than you can handle, let alone the lingering fact that Trilogy's reemergence makes me even more unbeatable in a one on one situation with you, than I already was. We both know, that you have NO chance at walking out of sacrifice with the Intercontinental Championship.. and that's for the best isn't it Syxx.. isn't it Sean. This isn't you. You aren't proper, you don't have a vocabulary. What the hell are you trying to pull, huh? Calling other people commoners? 'Kid' you can't even spell commoner. You've played a lot of different roles in this business, just like we all have to be successful. Only losers talk about how they've never changed to get ahead. Even the poster boy John Cena, was a mad man for awhile. You need to adapt constantly to this business because it changes so much, but NOT LIKE THIS SEAN! Who the hell are you? Isn't it exhausting for you to have to prepare to speak into the camera. Looking words up in the dictionary and the thesaurus to make it seem like you even have two brain cells to rub together after a lifetime of doing enough drugs and alcohol to kill a small village.
As Miz was saying this a spark was heard in the background as AJ Styles had just lit up a joint.
AJ Styles: Like that's a bad thing?
The Miz: AJ is who he is. He's the big bad wolf, the guy you NEVER want to see in a dark alley. As hard as it is for me to say this Sean, that was you too. For all the wise cracks that people make about your height and hygiene you were who you were and nobody wanted to mess with you. I don't know what the hell you are now, but I'll tell you what you aren't. You aren't someone that is going to be able to beat me, you aren't someone who has what it takes to hold a title like the Intercontinental Title, you aren't someone that is going to be able to stand tall against a force like The Miz, against a force like The Trilogy, and just so you don't think I'm trying to stand out by NOT making a short joke.. you aren't going to be someone that is going to be able to stand TALL in general.. midget.
AJ Styles almost choked on his joint from laughing.
AJ Styles: Fuckin' guy is a peanut isn't he? Holy shit.
Ted smiled as well as he racked the balls in a new game of pool.
The Miz: Syxx has something right now that I want.. and just in case you haven't been paying attention over the last week or two, this is going to be a time in wrestling that if I want something, or Ted wants something or Styles wants something, we are going to take it.. and it starts with the Intercontinental Championship on Sunday. You woke me up Syxx, you wiped the smile of my face the happy go lucky nature that led me to being on the mat looking up at you climb a ladder rung by rung and unhook my title. You woke me up to a reality, that I had forgotten.
Ted DiBiase: Rise and shine, Miz.
The Miz: And that reality was what I was missing over the past year. That something was NOT talent, because Syxx we both know I have more talent in my stool than most guys have in their entire bodies. That something that was missing was killer instinct. The willingness to eat the last piece of chicken in front of a starving man, the willingness to pull the seat out from under a man with no legs. The willingness to kick a man when he's down, to step on his throat when he's gasping for air. I guess maybe it's less killer instinct and more overall cruelty. Maybe cruelty isn't what everyone needs, it might not be everyone's "X Factor" but it's definitely mine. You see the cruelty that exists within this group, The Trilogy, is what makes us THE most feared and dominant factions in professional wrestling. We are going to win, we are going to get the best of you, and we really and truly don't give a bakers fuck as to what we have to do to make it happen. I don't care what persona you take on this week, I don't care if you call me a peasant, a commoner, a feudalism serf, or you go back to your old ways and call me something like "fucknuts" Call me whatever you want before this match, because after it, you'll only be calling me one god damn thing Syxx.
Ted DiBiase: Intercontinental Champion.
Miz took a sip of his scotch and winked into the camera as AJ flicked ash at the lens and the scene faded to static.
In the blink of an eye, everything can change. Just a short time ago, The Miz was quickly growing into a name that was on people's lips as someone they wanted to route for. The Miz was someone that brought smiles to the faces of people young and old. His witty remarks, confident but lovable attitude, and his overall passion for in ring success, had made him a household name. Something then happened, that seemed to flip a switch that we hadn't seen flipped in quite sometime in the psyche of the Miz. That something was when Syxx climbed the ladder at King of the Ring to become the brand new Intercontinental Champion of the EBWF. A title that Miz had held since Wrestlemania. All of a sudden that loveable man was gone, in later in the night he became gone for good, when he did the absolutely unthinkable. The Miz, did what he said he would never again do, when he realigned himself with Ted DiBiase and AJ Styles. The Trilogy was reborn, and people were shocked and rocked to their very core. In the weeks that followed, they had more than made their presence felt. Attacking CM Punk, defeating Rated RKO, and putting their stamp back down on the EBWF in a major way. Sacrifice was going to be an event that could further cement this faction into the power that they once enjoyed. It would start with the Miz getting his chance to regain the Intercontinental Championship for the 3rd time in recent memory. To do so, he would need to go by another man who has gone through many transformations in his career, the very man who defeated Miz for the Intercontinental Championship at KOTR. It wouldn't be easy, but in lieu of recent events, he wouldn't have to do it alone.
The scene opened up outside of a building that read "Anger Management class, today at 3. An arm with a very expensive watch on it came into the direct view of the camera, and the time read " 2:58" The camera panned out to see The Trilogy all standing outside of this building. All 3 men donned black Trilogy T-Shirts that read in Red Letters" The Trilogy" on the front and "You wish you were us" on the back. Miz broke the silence.
The Miz: This is the place.
AJ Styles: What tipped you off?
The camera zoomed into the sign that it originally had been on. Miz looked at Styles with a pissed off look.
AJ Styles: Sorry.
The three men made their way inside the building. People were just starting to find their seats as a bearded man stood at the front of the class. Miz, AJ, and Ted made their way past all the seats and to the front of the room.
Teacher: Um excuse me, you three are going to have to find a seat.
They did not slow down, even in the slightest.
The Miz: You are going to need to find a new tone, or you are going to have to have one of these idiots find your insides to try and put back inside of your body.
AJ Styles: Too much.
The Miz: Really, you think?
Ted and AJ nodded.
The Miz: You are going to need to find a new tone, or you are going to have to have one of these idiots find a zip lock back to put all your teeth in for the tooth fairy, after I knock them out of your head.
AJ Styles: Better but not there yet.
Ted nodded in agreement.
The Miz: You are going to need to find a new tone, or you are going to have to have one of these idiots find a mop and bucket to clean your blood off every inch of this floor.
Miz looked to Styles and Ted for approval. They both gave the A-OK hand signal, and Miz then turned to the man as if this is the first thing he had said to him, the man was confused but responded.
Teacher: Well it certainly seems like you are in the right place, sir. Please find a seat.
AJ Styles: We're not staying.
The Miz turned to AJ.
The Miz: I'll handle this AJ.
Back to the teacher.
The Miz: We're not staying.
Teacher: Well then why are you here?
The Miz: We came to discuss a student that took your class before.
Teacher: Well I can't divulge anybody that has taken the class, unless they give me permission to do soooohhh man.
The teacher became spooked as The Trilogy each took a step towards him.
Teacher: Who..ahh.. who did you want to know about?
The Miz: Syxx.
Teacher: Six students?
AJ Styles: No dipshit.. Syxx the wrestler.
The Miz turned back to AJ.
The Miz: AJ.. please.
Back to the teacher.
The Miz: Syxx the wrestler.
AJ slapped Ted on the shoulder and whispered to him.
AJ Styles: Stay with him, I'll be right back.
Ted nodded as AJ went towards the students and out of frame. The teacher thought for a moment.
Teacher: Ohh! Sean, yes Sean has been here many times. He's really making great progress. I mean the first time he was here, he threw hot coffee on my face when I was just doing role call, and now he seems like he's really improving. He's articulate and just seems like he's in a better place.
Miz and Ted shared a glance before they started cracking up.
The Miz: Sean Waltman is not articulate grizzly adams. Sean Waltman, X-Pac, Syxx, Seven, Fourteen, whatever he wants to call himself is a fraud. In every sense of the word. No matter what he says to you, no matter how he acts, Sean Waltman is the biggest loose cannon in professional wrestling. Except for maybe us, if he's making progress towards anything by coming to these mickey mouse classes, it's that he's making progress towards the unemployment line. You are doing him a disservice by putting him through these little lectures of yours. You are ruining him.. and the job that you haven't quite finished yet.. I promise you I'm going to finish it at Sacrifice. You may teach in this class that it's best to keep your emotions in check, to take a deep breathe and count to ten, well I can promise you "teach" that on Sunday Night Sean isn't going to be able to take a deep breathe after I get through with him, he'll need some machines to do that for him.. and the only person that's going to be doing any counting is the referee.. and it will only be to three.. before I become the Intercontinental Champion once again.. mark my god damn words.
Teacher: You seem very angry sir. Is this a fair assessment?
The Miz looked at Ted who shook his head in disbelief. The Miz had squinted eyes as he came back to the teacher.
The Miz: Really? Are you even qualified to teach this class. Yes it's a fair assessment you bozo, I'm extremely angry. I'm angry that I am going into a match with Syxx for the Intercontinental Title, and I'm the challenger. I'm angry that Syxx is starting to gain momentum again making this whole company seem like we've all hopped in a time machine, I'm angry that you have Doritos crumbs in your beard, and I'm angry that AJ isn't standing with us anymore.. AJ!?
The camera cut over to AJ who was chatting up a very attractive anger management student. We were soon in his conversation.
AJ Styles: So you're angry huh? I'll be angry if I'm not balls deep in you in about an ho...
The Miz: AJ!
AJ Styles stuck his card in the woman's cleveage and returned to the group. At first she looked mad, but then she smiled and grabbed the card out of her shirt and stared at it longingly.
AJ Styles: What I miss?
The Miz: Guy says that Waltman is happier these days.
AJ Styles: Well he won't be happy for much longer.
The Miz nodded.
The Miz: You see teach, Waltman is going to come back to class soon. With a whole new list of issues. No longer will it be, "I'm mad.. at all the short jokes.. the jokes about me being old.. the jokes about me needing to shower.. the jokes about me having a Napoleon Complex." And it will be a lot more.. "I'm angry because I'm in a wheelchair.. I'm angry because my face is mangled.. I'm angry because I didn't heed the warning of The Trilogy." And that warning, in case you were wondering is coming right now. Show up to Sacrifice Syxx, and just hand me the Intercontinental Title. Just walk down the ramp, do a crotch chop or two.. if you still do that.. and then just put the title in my hands and walk back. Nobody is going to think less of you.. because everyone already thinks you're a loser anyway. Because if you don't, you'll be coming back to this building, but not for Anger Management. You'll be coming back for Physical Therapy, which is a few doors down the hall.
The teacher got defiant.
Teacher: Now wait just a second. Sean isn't afraid of you, he's in a better place, he's not letting his anger control him, I can't say the same for you, you lunatic.
AJ Styles: Why the fuck would he say that?
Ted DiBiase: Idiot.
The Miz held a hand up to his two fellow Trilogy members.
The Miz: Now guys, reacting violently would just prove his point that we are reactionary creatures. Reacting violently would prove that we let anger consume us and our actions.
AJ Styles: And?
The Miz: Good point.
The Trilogy began to lay waste to this teacher. As some of the students gasped in the background. The Trilogy knocked the man down instantly and began stomping and kicking him with several blows. AJ and Ted held the man up who was now a bloody mess. The Miz grabbed his face.
The Miz: You tell Waltman, next time you're trying to "cure" him, that unless he finds some of that anger that you're trying to get rid of, that unless he finds some of what made him be able to stick around this company for so long despite all of his "short comings" that he's going to end up ten times worse than your sorry ass.
The Miz delivered one more stiff left hand to the teachers face. The Miz turned to the class and offered one more comment.
The Miz: Class dismissed.
The scene faded away and reopened up to static, that every few moments was being cut into a scene but then went back to static a muffled "Trilogy" with a fade effect was heard, as if someone was adjusting their radio dial trying to find the signal. Finally the scene came into focus. We were in an extravagant looking room with high ceilings and expensive furniture. In the middle of the room was a pool table. Next to the pool table there was a long and fully stocked bar. The three men that occupied this scene, needed no introduction, but since you just started reading this I'll give them one anyway. On the pool table, participating in what seemed like an intense game of billiards was Ted Dibiase and AJ Styles. Ted wore a black v neck t-shirt and blue fitted jeans. While AJ Styles rocked black pants and a gray t-shirt with black letters that read "I'm The Man". At the bar with a scotch in front of him was The Miz. He wore light blue Fitted Jeans and a white with baby blue letters "Your favorite Wrestler's Favorite Wrestler" T-Shirt. His hair was slicked all the way around, and he took a sip of his scotch. He swirled it around in his glass a little bit, before putting it down. Styles with his pool stick on the ground in front of him, looked over at The Miz and broke the silence.
AJ Styles: Going with scotch today? What's the occasion?
The Miz smirked and shook his head.
The Miz: Come on man, it's not cool for me to TELL you why I'm drinking scotch. I'm just supposed to drink it, as the bad guy, and it looks cool and dark, like I'm capable of anything.
Ted took his shot sinking a ball, before he joined into the conversation.
Ted DiBiase: Wouldn't drinking a lot of scotch make you capable of less things, because you'd be.. like.. drunk.
The Miz shook his head again.
The Miz: Ted.. it's not cool for people to know you're drunk. You're just supposed to get a buzz that makes you only acknowledge the things that really matter, and you acknowledge them in a real mysterious and creepy way so that people never fully know what your answers mean. You guys are really screwing it up for me.
AJ and Ted looked at each other and they shared a quick smile.
AJ Styles: What's the occasion of you trying to take on this persona of the "bad guy."
The Miz thought for a second.
The Miz: It's not really a persona I've made a conscious effort to take on until now, but it's something people have been pushing me towards my entire career. I'm one of those guys that people really want to define. They've been making the decisions for me since I've stepped foot in this business. They've labeled me, and then I've proved them wrong. At first it was that I was a reality TV star, people hated me because they didn't think I deserved to even be in the company. Once I proved that was a crock, they then hated me because my head grew to an enormous size because of how good it felt to prove them all wrong, that good feeling grew into an amount of confidence that caused resentment. It was that same confidence that split us up the first time when I was the EBWF Champion. After I realized that being too confident wasn't necessarily the best way to go about things, I became loved by the people. They cheered me, and laughed at my smart ass remarks about my opponents, but still deep down I know that I wasn't meant to be the clown. I wasn't meant to be the guy who smiled and took pictures holding my action figure up. I mean sure my action figure was amazing and more handsome than anyone else's action figure.
AJ and Ted shared a knowing glance, so much for not being over confident.
The Miz: It just wasn't me though.
AJ Styles: So what is "you"?
The Miz: Me is what you see right now. I'm not an open book that wants to be read, like everyone has tried to make me out to be. I'm The Miz, I am a professional wrestler and a pretty damn good one, arguably the best one that there is, but the things I just mentioned, the transformations that I've gone through, they don't define everything that I am. The titles I've won, the matches I've won and even the ones I've lost, don't mean a god damn thing, all that matters is what I'm about to do, the things I'm about to accomplish.. dare I say it.. maybe for the first time in my career.. the things WE are about to do.. and that WE are about to accomplish. Success happens, when you substitute the ME for the WE. I am fortunate enough to be part of the best WE in the history of this company, that is a fact not an opinion, I am a member NOT THE LEADER.. but a member of The Trilogy. A group that has 3 members, and no leaders, because we are ALL ELITE and don't need to be led, we don't need to be advised, we need to kick ass, and that is exactly what we are going to do TOGETHER.
AJ went from light to dead serious.
AJ Styles: Fuckin right.
The Miz took a sip of his scotch, all of a sudden it wasn't the butt of a joke. He looked as though that drink fit his hand like a glove.
The Miz: The man I am about to face at Sacrifice, can relate to all of the things I'm saying, because he too has gone through many persona changes. He too, has scratched and clawed with the conflict of being who he truly is, and who the fans have wanted him to be. As messed up as it is, Syxx' not giving a shit attitude, as much as he tried to play it off as it was him rejecting everyone but himself, what he was really doing is embracing what people wanted to see him do. Sure they booed him, but in all actuality they nodded secretly, acknowledging that he was someone that with this current persona they loved to hate. Syxx was SO brash and SO edgy that they actually considered it cool, he fit the cookie cutter mold of your classic "bad guy," so "bad" and so "cool" that there were many fans who loved him this way. That swore by him, just as much as he "swore" at them. Before this, Syxx was a member of all the major "WE's" all the major factions. From DX to NWO, Syxx was there. He would tell you this to your face, so this isn't a knock on him that he wouldn't admit, but Syxx was THERE.. and that's about all you can say. He was THERE to join in on the gang assault, he was THERE to clap for Shawn Michaels or Triple H when they achieved greatness, he was there to make the coffee run, he was THERE. I think the frustration of always being THERE.. but not really THERE, is what caused him to snap. It's what made him so defiant, it's what made him so anti establishment so no conformist, because all he'd ever done was conformed. He may not have been accomplishing exactly what he set out to do, but somehow it worked for him for a long time. He achieved more success in this company on his own, than he ever did as part of a group, more than anyone would have predicted for him..but that was then..
AJ Styles was finishing up a pool shot, but chimed in.
AJ Styles: And this is now.
The Miz nodded.
The Miz: You see Syxx, you may have climbed a ladder and grabbed a title last month, and you may be trying to paint yourself in a different light now with your new found proper attitude and your little chick sidekick, but we both know an aching and painful truth don't we "kid."
Ted DiBiase looked up
Ted DiBiase: He knows.
The Miz: We both know that though being a part of a "WE" wasn't always what brought out the best version of you, we both know as well as anyone that the strength in our numbers, is greater than your strength as an individual. The weight of the Trilogy is something you can't hold, much less pin down to the mat for three seconds. We both know that even DESPITE that, that my strength as an individual is more than you can handle, let alone the lingering fact that Trilogy's reemergence makes me even more unbeatable in a one on one situation with you, than I already was. We both know, that you have NO chance at walking out of sacrifice with the Intercontinental Championship.. and that's for the best isn't it Syxx.. isn't it Sean. This isn't you. You aren't proper, you don't have a vocabulary. What the hell are you trying to pull, huh? Calling other people commoners? 'Kid' you can't even spell commoner. You've played a lot of different roles in this business, just like we all have to be successful. Only losers talk about how they've never changed to get ahead. Even the poster boy John Cena, was a mad man for awhile. You need to adapt constantly to this business because it changes so much, but NOT LIKE THIS SEAN! Who the hell are you? Isn't it exhausting for you to have to prepare to speak into the camera. Looking words up in the dictionary and the thesaurus to make it seem like you even have two brain cells to rub together after a lifetime of doing enough drugs and alcohol to kill a small village.
As Miz was saying this a spark was heard in the background as AJ Styles had just lit up a joint.
AJ Styles: Like that's a bad thing?
The Miz: AJ is who he is. He's the big bad wolf, the guy you NEVER want to see in a dark alley. As hard as it is for me to say this Sean, that was you too. For all the wise cracks that people make about your height and hygiene you were who you were and nobody wanted to mess with you. I don't know what the hell you are now, but I'll tell you what you aren't. You aren't someone that is going to be able to beat me, you aren't someone who has what it takes to hold a title like the Intercontinental Title, you aren't someone that is going to be able to stand tall against a force like The Miz, against a force like The Trilogy, and just so you don't think I'm trying to stand out by NOT making a short joke.. you aren't going to be someone that is going to be able to stand TALL in general.. midget.
AJ Styles almost choked on his joint from laughing.
AJ Styles: Fuckin' guy is a peanut isn't he? Holy shit.
Ted smiled as well as he racked the balls in a new game of pool.
The Miz: Syxx has something right now that I want.. and just in case you haven't been paying attention over the last week or two, this is going to be a time in wrestling that if I want something, or Ted wants something or Styles wants something, we are going to take it.. and it starts with the Intercontinental Championship on Sunday. You woke me up Syxx, you wiped the smile of my face the happy go lucky nature that led me to being on the mat looking up at you climb a ladder rung by rung and unhook my title. You woke me up to a reality, that I had forgotten.
Ted DiBiase: Rise and shine, Miz.
The Miz: And that reality was what I was missing over the past year. That something was NOT talent, because Syxx we both know I have more talent in my stool than most guys have in their entire bodies. That something that was missing was killer instinct. The willingness to eat the last piece of chicken in front of a starving man, the willingness to pull the seat out from under a man with no legs. The willingness to kick a man when he's down, to step on his throat when he's gasping for air. I guess maybe it's less killer instinct and more overall cruelty. Maybe cruelty isn't what everyone needs, it might not be everyone's "X Factor" but it's definitely mine. You see the cruelty that exists within this group, The Trilogy, is what makes us THE most feared and dominant factions in professional wrestling. We are going to win, we are going to get the best of you, and we really and truly don't give a bakers fuck as to what we have to do to make it happen. I don't care what persona you take on this week, I don't care if you call me a peasant, a commoner, a feudalism serf, or you go back to your old ways and call me something like "fucknuts" Call me whatever you want before this match, because after it, you'll only be calling me one god damn thing Syxx.
Ted DiBiase: Intercontinental Champion.
Miz took a sip of his scotch and winked into the camera as AJ flicked ash at the lens and the scene faded to static.