Relic
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2018 10:39 pm
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Very familiar static took over the screen for a short while, before dissipating to a video. It was dark backstage, nothing could be seen, not even the wall. Nothing, until a dim red light flickered to life and revealed Tommy End. He sat in a chair with no emotion on his face. Just a blank stare downward to his hands. His elbows rested on his lap as he held up a gold plated, still bloodied knife. He spun the knife on the palm of his hand, with just a finger on the tip to keep it on track. Seconds pasts as he sat there, without a word.
Tommy End
”You thought that we were friends.. You thought that we forgot..
No…”
Tommy lifted his gaze away from the knife.
Tommy End
”We didn’t forget.. We will never forget.”
He looked down at the knife once more as he continued to spin it between his hand and fingertip.
Tommy End
”We came here for you.. We wanted to open your eyes to the truth. We wanted to show you, who exactly you were. Deep within.. We did just that.
We showed you who you were.. We showed everyone.”
He paused as the knife stopped spinning. Tommy looked at it a while longer, but then he looked up at the camera.
Tommy End
”We opened everyone’s eyes and showed them that you are nothing special. We showed them that you are just like all of the sheep that follow what story is told to them.
The lies.. The false truths…
We showed the world that you.. Jimmy.. You’re just another sheep.”
His face finally showed emotion as he looked sour as he mentioned Jimmy’s name.
Tommy End
”You are not the man you claim to be.. You’re not the destructive force that you’ve shown to be. No..
You Jimmy, you’re a follower.. You don’t walk you own path. Instead, you latch onto someone and you go along with them. You lay down all your beliefs to follow.
You’ve had chances to redeem yourself, but you’ve let them all slip through your hands. You were blinded by your own greed and let the truth slip through your hands. But now, here we are. You are EBWF World Champion. You’ve finally been given a chance.
You gave up all that you believed in.. All to hold on to that championship...”
Tommy looked down at the knife.
Tommy End
”Since you arrived to EBWF, you lost your own way. You were lead down this path.. The path that slowly lead you to where you are right now.
But that path also took you to a dark place. You closed your mind, your body.. You’ve shut yourself out from everything.. Everything except for that championship. You would stop at nothing to get that championship. Even let someone.. Die.
Someone who trusted you.. Someone who looked to you for help, but you turned your shoulder and you went down the path towards that championship.
And now..”
Tommy took a deep breath and looked up.
Tommy End
”Now.. She has been freed of the last bit of you there was still in her. Now she has been freed from the belief you were her hero.. Her savior.
I showed her the truth.. I showed her who you were. I showed her who everyone was. I opened her eyes to lies this world tells every single day. I opened her eyes and I showed her the truth.
The truth that you Jimmy, you’re nothing more than a servant..”
He paused momentarily.
Tommy End
”She saw the truth, and she hated it. She hated the lies. The failhoods.. She hated the fact that everyone she thought she could trust, she couldn’t..
She saw the truth with her own eyes when she saw watched you as you chose the EBWF World Championship over saving her. She saw your greed.. She saw the greed of the entire world. And she hated it..
But.. I showed her that all was not lost. There was still someone she could trust. I showed her that there was someone who would never turn away from her. Someone, who wouldn’t choose a material object over herself.
No.. I showed her that there was someone who loved her. I showed her.. Legion.”
Tommy smiled as he spoke of Legion.
Tommy End
”Legion is not about material things. We’re not about absolute power.. No..
Legion is about the truth.
Legion shows the world how damaged it is… We show how corrupt it has become.. Tainted.. We open the eyes of the world to their greed.. Their lust.. We open their eyes to the filth..
Then we give them a chance to purify themselves. We give them a chance to change..
We gave you that same chance Jimmy, but you failed. You failed because you gave into your greed.. You gave into your lust for glory.. You wanted to be remembered. You wanted to be bigger than you were. You weren’t content with who you were. You weren’t content with what the world thought of yourself. No..
Instead, you wanted them to think of you as a champion.. You wanted them to think of you as a King.. A King of Goths.. Then you wanted them to think of you as a leader.. General Manager for the People. You wanted everyone to like you.. Jump every time they heard you music. Scream at the top of their lungs.. You wanted them to remember you..”
Tommy shook his head.
Tommy End
”And now.. Now you want them to think of you as a Champion for the Masses..
But last week, I proved that you’re not a champion.. You hold a belt, yes.. But you are not a champion. You are not a leader. You are not a King of Goths.. No.. You Jimmy, you are nothing more than a sheep.
A sheep that Legion sacrificed last week..”
Tommy smiled as he played with Jimmy’s knife once more. The very knife used to cut Havoc’s chest in the center of the ring.
Tommy End
”But Legion’s not done with you Jimmy.. We’re watching.
Everytime you turn a corner.. Everytime you walk down the street.. When you go into those enter into your hotel room.. When you go to get breakfast with friends…
Legion is everywhere..
And when the time is right, we will strike again.”
Tommy lifted the knife and he tucked it away inside is suit jacket. He crossed his arms and looked into the camera.
Tommy End
”However tonight..
Tonight Legion has.. As bigger issue to deal with. That issue is with the lost giant… Big Show..
A man who should be a dominant force.. An immovable object..
A man who has all the tools, gifted to him. His size.. He is a giant, much like Goliath. Strength like Samson.”
Tommy shook his head.
Tommy End
”Instead, we see a shell..
A shell that should be filled with a brutal monster.. But not anymore.. You lost that a long time ago Show.. You lost what drove you.. You lost the fire. The passion.. You lost what could have made you one of the most dominating men in this business..
But for what?
To be a joke.. A family man..”
Tommy cupped his hands in front of him.
Tommy End
”Instead of being a monster of a man inside the ring.. You’ve chosen to sit behind your cell phone and have one of the longest, and ongoing, Twitter beef known to man.
You.. Zelina Vega.. Hardcore.. Aiden..
You all believe that the words you type make you powerful.. I know that the saying going, “The pen is mightier than the sword.”, but you’re not using a pen. You’re using a finger tip.. And those are only going to get cut off if faced against a sword, believe me.
But needless to say, that is where you choose to show your strength.. Over the internet..”
He shook his head once more, slowly as he looked disappointed.
Tommy End
”A giant.. Lowered to a meer Twitter war.. How sad..
How sad that this is what you’ve become.. What you’ve allowed yourself to become.. Once a great man. I hard worker. A giant that was feared.. But now…
Now you are just a giant who wears a giant diaper to entertain people. A giant who is a punchline, instead of a fear villain.”
Tommy opened his hands and placed them at his sides as he sat back in the chair.
Tommy End
”But I see something in you Big Show.. I see that you want to get back to that dominating force. You want to become the giant that you once were.. But the only question now is.. Is it too late?
We’re not going to lie, we know that you time is coming to an end.. Your days in this business are numbered.. But that happens to us all.. Eventually our time will come and we will have to give into our bodies and give all this up.. We’re going to have to hang up our boots and we’re going to have to sit by and watch the next generation take our place..
For you Show, I’m not saying that time has come, just yet.. But there has been a influx of some, ancient.. Relics.. Not that it’s a bad thing.. Even you old guys can put on a comedy match, which let’s face it… That’s all you’ve ever had..
You and Hardcore.. The two of you are the novelty acts that EBWF brought in to give the EBWF Universe a moment in the night to use the restroom.. Get a snack.. Let the dog out.. The two of you are the intermission..
Which is why they’ve feed you to me.
They either want me to stay business with some fodder, or.. They think that I can get something entertaining out of the relics.. But, let’s not fool ourselves.”
He shook his head.
Tommy End
”We all know that EBWF is hoping that Show gives me a tough match, that way I’m too tired to get to Jimmy Havoc tonight and leave another scar on him. They don’t want me to end his reign as EBWF World Champion, not yet..
That is the only reason this match is happening.. They think that Big Show’s size will give me a workout and make me exhausted.. But what they don’t know is.. It’s not mean that wants Jimmy..
No.. I’m just one of many..
Legion is full of people who know Jimmy Havoc. Friends.. Family.. Foes.”
Tommy gave a little smirk.
Tommy End
”If Legion wanted to get to Havoc tonight, we’ll get to him. There’s not a single person on this planet, who can stop Legion.
And that goes for giants..”
He cupped his hands together on his lap once more.
Tommy End
”Show, I know what you’re thinking..
Last week, you got your revenge on Matt Hardy.. You got that win that you were looking for. That win that you thought that you needed to set you down the right path of redemption after losing to Hardcore..
I get that..
I get that you didn’t want your name to be tarnished by a horrible loss to a man who you should have beaten. I get that you wanted to get back onto the path that could one day lead to a championship. I doubt it would lead to Jimmy Havoc, but it could at least get you back to Aiden..
I get that you needed that win last week, however.. The roller coaster that you career has, and will forever be on, will continue with the ups, and the downs.
SummerSlam, that was a down for you. Losing to Hardcore Holly was definitely a low point in your life. But then you road the coaster up.. You got the victory over Matt Hardy like you wanted.. Like you proclaimed you were going to do. That’s your up.. But you know what comes after a up? You get hit with another down..
That’s where I come in..”
Tommy motioned to himself.
Tommy End
”I’m going to give you next down..
Not because I have to.. Not because you were put into a match against me. No.. I’m going to be your next down because I’m going put you down. Permanently.
See, that’s just what I do. Ask anyone about the bottom of my foot. Not only will it break your jaw.. It will break your spirit. It will break any momentum you have. I will break any dream you have to making a name for yourself in this company. I will break any dream you have of ever becoming a champion..
Not because I have to.. Not because you were put into a match against me..
Because I want to.
I want to because I see this as a statement. A statement to the rest of the roster that Legion, we’re the ones that run things around here.. We’re the ones that run things all over. Legion’s not just three people.. Legions not get one continent. No..
Legion is everything.. Legion is everywhere..”
Tommy stood up and outstretched his hands with a smile.
Tommy End
”We know who we are, but no one else does..
We’re wrestlers.. We’re politicians.. We’re movie stars.. We are you children’s school teachers..
You can’t look in any direction without seeing one of us, but you will never know who it was.. And that’s why it has always been, since the dawn of time we’ve been here. Since the moment Eve ate the Forbidden Fruit and damned the world.. We’ve been here.”
He brought his arms back in front him.
Tommy End
”You all will see just how deep the rabbit hole goes in due time, but now..
Tonight it’s not about our coming out party.. No..
Tonight.. I take things into my own hands. Tonight, I prove that Big Show’s redemption was short lived because his redemption.. Means nothing. I prove that Big Show means nothing..
Tonight I prove that you don’t belong here.. Tonight I prove that the relic of yesteryear do not belong in EBWF. This is the place of the future.. This is the company where the stars of tomorrow come to prove themselves to the world. Not where relics come to die.”
A stern look returned to his face.
Tommy End
”But if that’s what you wanted, I will be happy to kick your big head off that giant body..
Don’t think I can get my foot up that high?
Just watch.. Somehow.. Someway.. I will kick your head off your shoulders. If it takes one kick.. Two kicks.. It doesn’t matter.
The first kick will break your jaw.. The last, will kick off your head.”
He smirked one more time.
Tommy End
”Then, after I’m finished with the relic, I’ll be watching the main event.. Very closely. We will be watching.. Very.. Very closely.”
He continued to smirk as the red light flickered once more and then went completely out. Static overtook the screen once more as Warfare went to commercial.