Zero To Hero
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 8:06 pm
The scene fades in on a shot of a man taping up his wrists, his arms resting on his legs as he is sitting on some crates backstage at EBWF Warfare, behind him a door reading “Jimmy Havoc”. As the camera slowly pans up it is shown that he's wearing black trunks with a red motif, matching it with a basketball-like jersey with the same colours, the camera keeps rising up to show the top of his head, he's facing down, glaring at his taped wrists, as he straightens his back slowly but staring at the camera, the trademark long blonde hair and bushy beard of one Chris Hero is shown.
Chris Hero: My name is Chris Hero, and I stepped out of Jimmy Havoc's office earlier today, with a new contract signed and a new company to call home, right here in EBWF. No longer will I depend on travelling across the world in a matter of hours to have two matches in one day. No longer will I have to answer to a ridiculous name the machine tried to impose on me. My success is dependant exactly on who it should be. Myself.
He starts hearing the sound of the crowd cheering, not too far from him, just down the hallway and past gorilla positon and can't help himself from smiling
Chris Hero: I'm not oblivious to what people say about me, you know. I know that people don't pay to see Chris Hero anymore. They say that “the young knockout kid” has lost the right to hold that name. I'm not young, not a kid anymore. But damn it, I'll be damned if I can't knock people out anymore. I didn't come to EBWF to be a grizzled old veteran, I came to prove that there's nothing I can't do. I've proved my worth all over the world, fought in front of audiences of all ages and nationalities, I've won World and Tag Team championships, and now I do it here, in EBWF. What better way to start than the man they've pitted me up against.
Hero points to a white board that was just out of the shot, on it one could read the match card, one of the matches on it was “Chris Hero vs Samoa Joe.”
Chris Hero: Yes, “The Destroyer” Samoa Joe. I've known and worked with Joe for years, he is one of the best and most lethal wrestlers I've ever stood across the ring from. He can make you go to sleep in ways you can't even dream of. He's also a very surprising man, I've watched the EBWF product for a long time, and I don't remember seeing him since, what, June? Maybe he put himself to sleep, it's such a shame, he looked promising. Just this year, he won the Royal Rumble, he was the Gateway champion, and all of that was gone within the blink of an eye.
Hero sighs, looks down, then back at the camera.
Chris Hero: Joe, you know I have the utmost respect for you, but I can see you're going through a rough patch. So don't mistake this warning for weakness. Don't mistake my calmness for complacency, don't you ever, for a second, think that you can just destroy me, like you've done to many others, even beating Jimmy Havoc, in the past. That's not happening anymore, oh no. Because my EBWF legacy starts right now, and I'm going from zero to Hero.
Chris gets up from atop the crates, and stands in the hallway, he glances down at gorilla position, then back at the camera.
Chris Hero. I may not be everybody's hero, but I'm here to be the one, true Hero.
With that, Chris Hero's theme starts playing as he heads towards Gorilla, then past it and into the EBWF stage to a cheering and roaring crowd. Hero, it seems, has found home.
Chris Hero: My name is Chris Hero, and I stepped out of Jimmy Havoc's office earlier today, with a new contract signed and a new company to call home, right here in EBWF. No longer will I depend on travelling across the world in a matter of hours to have two matches in one day. No longer will I have to answer to a ridiculous name the machine tried to impose on me. My success is dependant exactly on who it should be. Myself.
He starts hearing the sound of the crowd cheering, not too far from him, just down the hallway and past gorilla positon and can't help himself from smiling
Chris Hero: I'm not oblivious to what people say about me, you know. I know that people don't pay to see Chris Hero anymore. They say that “the young knockout kid” has lost the right to hold that name. I'm not young, not a kid anymore. But damn it, I'll be damned if I can't knock people out anymore. I didn't come to EBWF to be a grizzled old veteran, I came to prove that there's nothing I can't do. I've proved my worth all over the world, fought in front of audiences of all ages and nationalities, I've won World and Tag Team championships, and now I do it here, in EBWF. What better way to start than the man they've pitted me up against.
Hero points to a white board that was just out of the shot, on it one could read the match card, one of the matches on it was “Chris Hero vs Samoa Joe.”
Chris Hero: Yes, “The Destroyer” Samoa Joe. I've known and worked with Joe for years, he is one of the best and most lethal wrestlers I've ever stood across the ring from. He can make you go to sleep in ways you can't even dream of. He's also a very surprising man, I've watched the EBWF product for a long time, and I don't remember seeing him since, what, June? Maybe he put himself to sleep, it's such a shame, he looked promising. Just this year, he won the Royal Rumble, he was the Gateway champion, and all of that was gone within the blink of an eye.
Hero sighs, looks down, then back at the camera.
Chris Hero: Joe, you know I have the utmost respect for you, but I can see you're going through a rough patch. So don't mistake this warning for weakness. Don't mistake my calmness for complacency, don't you ever, for a second, think that you can just destroy me, like you've done to many others, even beating Jimmy Havoc, in the past. That's not happening anymore, oh no. Because my EBWF legacy starts right now, and I'm going from zero to Hero.
Chris gets up from atop the crates, and stands in the hallway, he glances down at gorilla position, then back at the camera.
Chris Hero. I may not be everybody's hero, but I'm here to be the one, true Hero.
With that, Chris Hero's theme starts playing as he heads towards Gorilla, then past it and into the EBWF stage to a cheering and roaring crowd. Hero, it seems, has found home.