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Post by Osh Vaughan on Feb 7, 2022 13:27:54 GMT
Jonny FnC (c) vs. Tyler Debonair
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Post by JonnyFNC on Feb 8, 2022 0:54:52 GMT
American nightmare by Rob Zombie with Howard Stern hits as the scene opens to Howard Stern's studio. Howard is sitting behind his control desk with his trademark sunglasses on. He pulls the microphone close to his mouth and starts his show.
Howard - Heyyyyyy Nowwwwww. Welcome to the show today everybody. Richard and Sal will be doing butt bongo Fiesta and InFamous Jonny C will be stopping by soon to promote the upcoming IIW pay per view Keys 2 Success.
Robin - Huge show indeed. I love getting to talk with Jonny. I have always found the life of wrestlers to be such a fascinating one. How they are basically carnies traveling the world fighting everywhere.
Howard - It's a life that they truly love but I will never funny understand. Without further Ado ladies and gentlemen InFamous Jonny C.
Number 1# by Nelly plays as Jonny C enters the studio. He is wearing a suit and tie while holding the IIW world title over his shoulder. He walks over waving to Howard and Robin then puts a headset on and sits down on the couch.
Howard - Look at you. You look fantastic and even brought some new hardware to show off.
Jonny C - Yes I brought the world title. Truth be told it doesn't really ever leave my side. I worked my ass off for a long time to get this title and I want the world to know how much it means to me. I had said from day one if I was to win this championship I would be very present as the championship unlike what we had been used to with Jake. I wanted to be on every show wrestling or just doing some crazy thing backstage or calling someone out or talking shit but I wanted to be a part of everything because as the champion I'm the face of the company. I also said I would be a fighting champion and I would defend this title whenever and wherever there is a challenger and that's what I'm doing now. Being the champion here means more to me than anything in this world. That's why this title doesn't leave my side ever.
Howard - Yes at Red Alert you finally were able to overcome all the odds and beat Jake E Dangerously to become the new IIW world champion.
Jonny C - Not only did I beat him I retired him. I made sure that his last match ended with him on his back looking up at the ceiling and me standing over him holding up the world title. He may have had a legendary run with this title just about a year with it but I knew deep down that I was going to be the one to end that streak and I did. I told the world I would beat Jake E dangerously for the world title and that is exactly what I did because I'm a man of my word. I talk a lot of shit but I backup every single thing I say and no one can ever take that away from me.
Howard - Seems to me that when it counted most you won.
Jonny C - Jake made the announcement that win or lose he was done with wrestling. There was no way in hell I was going to give him the satisfaction of beating me and retiring the champion. I trained harder than I ever have to insure that didn't happen and it didn't. I knew how big the match was. I knew what we had riding on this match and I also knew what I needed to do. But that's when I'm at my best Howard when I know the only outcome is for me to win because I knew deep down there was no way I was letting Jake beat me in his final match. I wanted to embarrass him and make him look like an absolute fool in his last match ever. I knew exactly how much I was riding on this match you're right and my back was against the wall and I did exactly what I said I was going to do and I made sure Jake did not walk out of that ring one final time as champion.
Howard - There is a target on your back now though. You're the world champion of IIW and you retired one of the top talents.
Jonny C - My mouth has made sure that there has been a target on my back for years now. I will agree it's grown larger now. Winning the title is one thing but holding onto it is a whole different thing. Winning the title might be one of the easier things to do and now I'm not saying it's easy because it was not easy it took me years to get to this position. Took me years to get here and I will be here for years. Now I have to defend this title. I'm no longer the challenger. I'm the one who is the face of the company. I'm the one with the biggest target on my back but you know what that's how I like it. No matter who steps into this company I am their goal and I know that and I like that I don't call myself infamous for nothing. I will talk shit to anyone anywhere and I don't care what they think they're gonna do about it because I'm better in every sense of the word. No one in this company is on my level and I showed that by beating Jake in his last match ever I will show that when I step in the ring with Tyler and I will show that at every single match moving forward from here on out. So yes Howard I do have a target on my back I told you I like it that way and I do like it that way I like being the end goal for a lot of people, for everyone frankly I welcome the challenge because I'm a fighting champion.
Howard - Your first real test of that it's in a few weeks at Keys 2 Success. Your first title defence against Tyler Debonair.
Jonny C - That's not a real test come on now Howard. You're smarter than that. I know you don't really watch IIW all that much if at all. I know that wrestling is not your thing but I'm sure if you've seen anything on Tyler you would realize how much of a joke Tyler is and how this is not going to be a test for me because I've already passed it. It's a test for blind people if you ask me because Tyler is a complete buffoon in every sense of the word and I'm going to expose every flaw of his when he steps in that ring with me.
Howard - Anytime you need to defend a title in any sport it's a test. A test of wills, test of strength, test of merit whatever have you.
Jonny C - To an extent yes that's true but Tyler isn't on my level and doesn't even deserve a shot at the title.
Howard - What do you mean doesn't deserve a shot at the title? He was placed into the match and to me that means he would have had to earn the shot.
Jonny C - On paper he earned it. The record books show he won his number one contenders match but that's not the entire story. There was a whole lot more to that story that of course Tyler wouldn't want you to ever know because it doesn't make him look that great or even that strong as a competitor.
Howard - OH it's not?
Jonny C - No not at all. He did win the match that much I will agree with you on. But he needed a great deal of help to do so.
Howard - So you're saying he hired help?
Jonny C - Let me lay it all out for you and then I will let you be the judge of whether or not he hired some help. The match for most of it was normal 1 on 1 no interferences, no real major issues with that part but just when it looks like Curtis had been getting the upper hand The new Purge hit the ring. They laid waste to Curtis in a big bad way. They also laid waste to Tyler but it seemed they were there for Curtis. Tyler was able to win the match because Curtis got laid out so badly by the new purge. Had the new purge never hit that ring and taken out Curtis I don't feel Tyler would have been able to win that match.
Howard - The Purge that's Hawkins and Nitro correct. They have nothing to do with Tyler in any way.
Jonny C - Originally no they didn't but This is the new and improved purge. During all of the madness at the end of the number one contender's match the masks got ripped off and it was revealed that Tyler's cousin Darius is a member of the new purge.
Howard - Well now that changes everything. It's a member of his family who he has a very good relationship with that came in and made it so Tyler could win. I would absolutely believe that he hired these people to win the match for him.
Jonny C - Exactly. Tyler has tried saying on more than one occasion that he had nothing to do with the new purge attacking Curtis but it just seems a little fishy to me. Believe me I was more than happy to see Curtis get his ass kicked by the new purge but that still doesn't mean that I feel the match went fairly with Tyler winning. I don't understand why they would have decided that that was the match they needed to be involved in over everything else that was going on and it's a member of the Debonair family. So to me that strike one proves that Tyler does not deserve a title shot. If I was the one in charge of the IIW I would have immediately made a rematch at the following show to find out who was really worthy of contending for my title.
Howard - That does seem like it would have been the fair way to handle the situation. I'm guessing that's not what happened?
Jonny C - Nope not even a little bit. Nothing was said and Tyler was awarded the number one contendership Even though in my mind and a lot of other people's minds he technically didn't win the match so therefore shouldn't be the number one contender but the match is made and they're not going to take it away from Tyler now even if he doesn't deserve it.
Howard - That is kind of mind boggling to me.
Jonny C - It's mind boggling to me as well. Now please don't get me wrong here I have no issues beating Tyler to retain my title. I don't see him as a threat in any capacity nor do I think he has the ability to hold a candle to what I can do in that ring. I was just hoping that my first title match would be against someone that was worthy and deserving of a title shot.
Howard - Have you ever had any real interactions with Tyler yet?
Jonny C - I absolutely have. On two separate occasions I have had runnins with Tyler.
Howard - And how did those run-ins play out with Tyler?
Jonny C - The first interaction that I really ever had with Tyler was a bit ridiculous if I must say so myself. I was in Bob Mitchell's office in a heated screaming match about my situation. I was pissed off that Jake was barely showing up to anything and making my case that he is not a good champion. I was demanding a title shot. Bob Mitchell was disagreeing with me so I stormed out of his office in a fit of rage. That is when I bumped into Tyler who at the time was hobbling around the locker room on crutches. He sees me and apparently is angry that I didn't apologize for running into him but that's neither here nor there. He throws his crutches at me and says on your way out bring these to medical. I don't need them anymore.
Howard - Essentially he was trying to make you his errand boy then.
Jonny C - That's exactly how I saw it as well Howard. I didn't take kindly to that 1 bit and I made it very well known later that evening hitting the ring during his match and laying him out with his own crutches. Granted that was not the most mature move on my part and I probably could have handled it way differently but I let my anger and my ego get The Best of Me. I'm not going to apologize for what I did nor will I try to take back what I did but it wasn't the best thing I could or should have done but it happened.
Howard - Now this is before you were the world champion and he wasn't the number one contender at that point correct?
Jonny C - Yes that's correct. So I would say maybe our issues started that night and it just so happens that it carried over now till when he is the number one contender. We have not had a proper wrestling match since that moment outside of the 2 on 1 handicap match.
Howard - A handicap match, how is that fair to you?
Jonny C - It was supposed to be a tag team match. Me and my young protegee Noah versus Tyler and his old as dirt father. They decided it would be a great idea to attack poor Noah to the point where he couldn't compete in the match. So what I did would any real wrestler would do and decided to take them out anyway even though it then became 2 on 1.
Howard - Even though your partner was taken out you decided to keep the match going and fight alone?
Jonny C - I did. I'm not scared of anyone and I will never in my life back down from a challenge. The odds were definitely stacked against me but I feel I was able to hold my own out there.
Howard - How did that all work out for you?
Jonny C - I was able to get some good offensive in on my end and at one point I felt there was a very good possibility I could beat the 2 of them by myself. But the numbers game caught up to me and I lost the match.
Howard - So Tyler was able to get a victory over you last time you were in the ring with him?
Jonny C - On paper yes Tyler holds a victory over me but again there's way more to that story than meets the eye. It took Tyler and his father both together to beat me. Both men had to pin me at the same time to keep me down. Neither one of them was man enough to do it on their own and they knew that so they had to double team me.
Howard - That just doesn't seem fair at all.
Jonny C - It's not about being fair or not being fair to me. Once Noah was taken out it was a handicapped match and I knew the odds when I agreed to keep going and not back out of the match. What was shocking to me is how much of a coward Tyler and his father both were during that match. They cheated the whole time taking turns double teaming me knowing that neither one of them could stand on their own 2 feet against me. That is not a win I would be proud of. How could you be proud of that when you didn't earn that victory on your own just like you didn't earn the number one contendership on his own. Are you seeing a trend here Howard nothing Tyler has ever done has been on his own or for himself. He is an embarrassment to the sport of professional wrestling and doesn't deserve to share the same ring with me let alone a locker room.
Howard - The picture you are a painting of Tyler definitely makes him look like a chicken. To me it seems he is scared of you and knows that he can't even earn a shot at you or beat you by himself.
Jonny C - Ding ding ding you hit the nail on the head Howard.
Howard - Honestly how can Tyler look himself in the mirror knowing how he has gotten to this point. His road to this title match is littered with inconsistencies, mishaps and basically just getting lucky if not paying to get lucky.
Jonny C - I don't know how he looks himself in the mirror or lays his head down and goes to sleep at night with a clean conscience. He absolutely has to know how much of a coward he looks like. There is no way he's been doing this as long as he claims he's been doing this and he doesn't think he looks like a coward. I know I wouldn't be proud of the way I got to the title match.
Howard - No I wouldn't be either but it's not about how you get there it's about what you do when you're there. If somehow he can beat you and win the title I don't think it really matters how he got to that point as long as he did.
Jonny C - That's a very good way of looking at it Howard. The history books will only show the wins and losses not everything that led up to said wins and losses. If he somehow manages to get past me and beat me for the title that's all anyone will ever remember. I know this just as much as anyone else does. But I can promise you that's not going to happen Howard.
Howard - How can you make such a bold promise?
Jonny C - Because deep down I know something about Tyler. I know he is a scared, disgusting, no good, bottom feeding, trash bag, dumpster diving piece of shit. I know he doesn't have what it takes to beat me, he never has and he never will. I've been in pretty much every single main event that this company has ever had at least on the big shows. Where has Tyler been nursing some crappy little winning streak that he blew and hasn't been able to recover from. He isn't even in the same league as me Howard. I outclass him at every turn and I'm going to show the world that at keys to success.
Howard - I like that fire, you seem very confident.
Jonny C - I'm the champion for a reason. Everyone said Jake was the unbeatable champion and he would retire with the belt. But as we all have seen that isn't how it played out. Jake's storybook fairytale ending didn't go as he saw fit because of me. This cute little run that Tyler is on right now comes to an end when he meets me 1 on 1 in that ring.
Howard - How can you be sure it'll be 1 on 1?
Jonny C - I can't be sure of that. I would almost put money on the fact that one of his dumb-ass family members will try to get involved to make sure he wins. But I'll be ready for that not one single person in his family is better than he is and he sucks. They can't blindside me if I got my head on a swivel and my eyes open and I'm looking and waiting for that to happen. I know it will happen because Tyler can't do anything by himself; he has never been able to do anything by himself. He can't even cut a fucking promo by himself he needs to spend more than half of it talking to his family about shit that doesn't matter to anyone. I know I'm gonna have to sit through a bunch of those bullshit promos before he even mentions my name because he has nothing. He's gonna wait and wait and then try to show up at the 11th hour with some hail Mary promo thinking that that's going to be enough to put me away. That might have gotten him this far but it's not gonna let him beat me.
Howard - Just like a boy scout always prepared for anything that could happen.
Jonny C - I absolutely have to be. I didn't get to this point in my career, I didn't get to the top of the mountain by resting on my laurels and just coasting and I'm not going to start now. I know the type of games Tyler likes to play there's a reason why he was in an insane asylum.
Howard - Hold up hold up you can't just breeze past that he was what?
Jonny C - Oh yeah I should have led with that he was at Resnick Neuropsychological hospital.
Howard - How have you been sitting on that bomb shell for this long and haven't brought it up.
Jonny C - Oh trust me I knew when to bring it up and what to lead with. Maybe I should have led with the fact that he was locked up with the criminally insane but that's just a small part of this.
Howard - How is it just a small part? The man is mentally unstable and can't do anything on his own that says a lot about who he is as a person, not just a wrestler.
Jonny C - Look Howard, Tyler claims that he put himself in the psychiatric hospital because he needed solitude. He claims he's not insane, he claims he was medically cleared and all that happy horse shit but I deep down know his dark secret.
Howard - Oh you do, do you?
Jonny C - Oh I definitely do. He has repeatedly said he checked himself into that place but I don't buy that for 1 second. He has done nothing here to show any of us that he is sane. Plus I paid a little visit to resnick don't worry I got all the information I needed from the doctor that tended to his psychiatric needs. There will be a lot more on that at a later date I promise.
Howard - How did you manage that one you can't just roll into a psychiatric hospital and start demanding answers.
Jonny C - Infamous Jonny C can't no but Jonathan Cashman human resources from an employer who also has a doctorate in psychology can pull a few strings, use some fancy words and talk to a doctor on record.
Howard - Wow you're going for the juggler on this one aren't you.
Jonny C - If finding out who in fact locked him up and realizing that juggler might be a split personality juggler then yeah I'm going for it. You see, that's the problem with this business. Everyone loves to tell a story but the story they tell just isn't 100% accurate. They like to leave out a lot of details to keep people wondering I'm the type of person that absolutely goes and finds out the answer to the unanswered questions. When you're very vague and don't fill us in on all the details it makes me think you're hiding something and I turn into Sherlock C.
Howard - What made you think you needed to investigate what Tyler has said?
Jonny C - Look Tyler is a good enough wrestler I guess. He had at one point managed to rack up a fun little win streak. Then he lost a match and to me that's where everything went off the rails a bit. He came into the IIW as one thing. When he first debuted he was always talking about space and time. Auras meant a lot to him, all that hippy dippy look at me I carry around crystals in my pocket bullshit. It all seemed surface level but whatever he can pretend to be whatever he wants. He would often talk to himself like he was more than one person. It was a really odd thing to witness. He would be laying on a couch and you would hear Tyler one talk then something called Tyler 2 and it was very evident it was the same person with a slightly altered voice.
Howard - That plays into your split personality claims doesn't it?
Jonny C - Yes it does. He would have these weird little conversations with himself while he was having real conversations with people in his family like it's something that's normal. So that's a huge red flag. His own family didn't even seem phased by his clear mental illness. But that's not even the weirdest thing. He started disappearing from the ring then walking up asking what year it was.
Howard - Like into thin air.
Jonny C - Kind of yeah. The lights would go out and when they came on everyone was gone. It was insanely weird to watch and made no sense and worst of all we never got any answers. Once Tyler lost his winning streak he wasn't around. So the multiple times he disappeared out of the ring and came to sitting in his locker room asking what year it was and genuinely having no idea what happened allegedly then we never found out why. It's one of the greatest mysteries in the last year of the IIW that will never really get answers to kind of like why Anthony Phoenix is still around and thinks he's some kind of big shot. But the biggest kicker is after he took his little mental break after losing his little undefeated streak he came back as a completely different person. He went from being this person that was all about the time space vortex and kind of like a witch sometimes dabbling in witchcraft I don't really know because it was all stupid to me but then he came back as the Zen master. The complete polar opposite of what he was prior so that leaves me again to believe there's definitely mental issues that stem from possibly a split personality.
Howard - What exactly is a Zen personality?
Jonny C - He's all about being balanced and centered now I don't really understand it I think it's all a giant load of bullshit. The way I look at things is he couldn't handle defeat he ran away and cried like a little bitch boy and then came back with this whole new personality outlook on life what have you and it was dumb. Trust me no one has lost more big matches in this company than I have and I never went away to reinvent myself. I put my nose to the grindstone and I trained my ass off to get better than I was when I lost. I didn't need to go and throw myself a fun little pity party, maybe run away to a mental hospital for what we're calling a rest break. That seems to be a running theme in Mr. Tyler Deboner's life. Any time the going gets tough he packs up his bag, picks up his ball and goes home because he can't handle the heat. That's the biggest difference between Tyler and I is that I'm not a coward like he is. When I lose I don't revert into a crying little bitch like him who runs away. I'm better than that. I dig my heels in, stand my ground and fight another day. So that's exactly what I'm planning on doing at keys to success, yes beating him to the point of further embarrassment so that he has to run away and come back as some deranged truck driver or whatever he's going to do next.
Howard - To me it would seem like there are many differences between you and Tyler, not just the fact that you didn't run away and change your whole personality when you lost.
Jonny C - You know you're definitely correct on that. Not running away like a scared little bitch is the number one thing that makes us different but there are a lot more that's right. The 2nd biggest being I fight my own battles because I'm a man, I'm a wrestler and I'm damn good at doing what I do. I don't need to surround myself with 38 other people who are also terrible at life to make myself feel better and to have backup whenever I need it. I don't need anyone else to do my talking for me and I don't need anyone else to fight my battles for me but Tyler 100% needs all of that. First he had his sister then he had his girlfriend then he had his cousin then he had his father now there's a mystery voice that he's talking to because that's something normal people have. I don't need any of that. I don't have a family that I care about at least. I don't have very many friends here because I don't care for people in general and I know I'm good enough to not need backup. Every single time I've stood in that ring I've stood there alone and I've stared at my competitor not knowing in the back of my head that if I need the help someone will run in to assist. I don't need to spend 97% of my promo talking to other people about nonsense because that's not who I am as a person. You're not getting any story out of me. Everything in my life revolves around wrestling as it should be seeing as I'm the goddamn champion here. I don't care what anyone did last weekend or what their plans are for the following weekends. I don't care about any of that shit like Tyler does. Actually I don't know how much Tyler cares about any of that. To me it's all filler because he's full of hot air. He wants to step in the ring and throw hands with the best of us that's all fine and well but he needs to be prepared for what happens when I bring the fucking heat.
Howard - You know being able to stand on your own 2 feet in the center of that ring and stare down any challenge is definitely what will set you apart as the world champion. I've noticed that unlike the past world champion you're on every single show even if you're not wrestling in some capacity you are there cause some kind of issue.
Jonny C - That's the one thing I told Tyler from day one when he decided to cross paths with me. I am going to be on him like stink on shit I'm not going to let him up to breathe because that's who I am. Once I have my sites set on someone that is all my life revolves around. Like it or not Tyler is the most important person in my life right now. I'm living eating sleeping and breathing Tyler Deboner. We just found out the paper view was coming up in a few weeks officially at least and I'm already out here I'm already doing my business to promote the fucking show because that's what I do as a champion. I'm not scared of Tyler and I never will be because he is someone that needs to go 2nd. He will always be 2nd best and won't come out and stand on his own 2 feet first. no he needs me to come out and talk a bunch of shit so he has ammunition to come after me with. He is an unoriginal fuck who is scared of me and it shows. He can wait and be a responsive human being if that's what he so chooses because now I control everything. I set the story and I tell the people what I want them to hear and now he has to play catch up. Sure I guess that works for some people but it doesn't work for me. There is never ever a day in my life where I'm not gonna walk out and stand there like a man and tell people how it's going down. I do that heavy lifting and I let the other people play catch up. People that are below me, people that are worse than me, people that frankly suck like Tyler.
Howard - There is definitely something to be said about leading the charge. It shows who you are as a person whether or not you wanna go 1st or go 2nd whether you wanna set the bar or look at the bar and try to get to that point and then maybe try to go ahead of it.
Jonny C - I'm 100% here to set that bar and I'm gonna set that bar fucking high because that's what I do I'm a fucking champion for a reason. Tyler is the challenger for a reason because that's all he'll ever be in his life he's been an embarrassment his entire time here he's never amounted to anything. He's a Molehill that I'm making a mountain because that's what I do. Anytime someone steps in in that ring with me they get elevated to my level whether they're deserving of it or not. HELLO BAM MILLER IM LOOKING AT YOU BUDDY. But I'm gonna tell you right now what's gonna happen after the match. He's gonna go right back down to curtain jerking because that's where he belongs. Ask yourself a couple of questions Howard who had the feud of the year last year? I DID? Who had the match of the year last year? I DID. I'm the face of this fucking company whether you like it or not. Tyler hasn't done anything in this company that's worthy of even fucking remembering. All he is is a non-starter here. He showed promise he could have been a big deal but then he ran away again and took a mental break because he couldn't handle the heat. Now he wants to come out and step in the ring with the big boys to find out. Let's fucking go Tyler time to see how much of a man you really claim to be. He can try to dig himself out of that little grave he's put himself into but it aint going to happen on my back that is something I can promise. I'm the past present and future of this fucking company not Tyler Deboner and there's a reason for that. You want to step in the ring with the big boy's ha you'd better get ready cause I'm gonna spit venom and you're gonna feel it burn you.
Howard - Definitely not looking to make any friends out here are you Jonny?
Jonny C - Absolutely fucking not. I didn't get into this for the love of the fans or to make money or to make lifelong friends. This isn't fucking summer camp Howard. I got in this to prove that I'm the best in the fucking world. This title that's on my shoulder right now proves that Im the best in the fucking world. People like Tyler are a joke and they will always be chasing someone like me. I'm the whole fucking show Tyler and you're not even worthy enough of being on the show with me let alone in a fucking title match but don't worry I'll show the whole world that coming up very very soon. You're a little punk bitch Tyler who can't get out of his own fucking head. I'm not out here to make friends, I'm out here to hurt feelings. I'm out here to speak truths. I'm the one that says the things everybody's thinking but no one has the balls to say. Guess what mother fucker I do. I don't care what Tyler thinks about me I don't care what tyler's gonna say about me I've said a lot outlandish things in this interview today Howard and I know hes going to try to spin them and make me look like a fool and I don't give a fuck because all hes doing is playing 2nd fiddle to me now. I control the narrative now not Tyler nor will he ever control it because I'm out here like a fucking man when hes hiding like a little bitch. I told you Tyler from day one you're not ready for me and I'm gonna show you exactly what I meant by that first hand leading up to our match. You turn on your TV boom there I am. You turn on your radio boom there I am. Log into your social media boom there I am. Anywhere you go Tyler I'm in your head rent free living there loving it there. Being in your head doing whatever the fuck I want. Playing you like a little puppet controlling what you're gonna say because that's what I do best. Please spend 4 hours talking to your sister, your mother, your grandmother, your neighbor, the grocer down the street, your barista, the kindergarten teacher in your school district' the mayor, the governor, the fucking president for all I care. I don't care Tyler because at the end of the day I am in your head. You can't make a move in this world without me being aware of it because it's my world and you just haven't realized it yet.
Howard - I do have to admit I am sure glad I'm not the one going against you in this match coming up Jonny because you're full of fire right now.
Jonny C - Tyler has done nothing but continuously piss me off for months now. I didn't pay much attention to him when he first started here because I'm always at the top of the card. I don't see what happens in the first few matches because I'm better than that. He wanted to turn around and treat me like his little errand boy I'm a former champion here now I'm the current champion here what the fuck has he done that anyone's even gonna remember get the fuck out of here Tyler. I'm angrier going into this match and I've been in a long long fucking time and that is not good for you Tyler not good at all. I'm going to hurt you more than you've ever been hurt before. Maybe just maybe I can hit you fucking hard enough to knock some screws correct in your head and fix everything you got going on. I said it before and I'll say it again you want to step in the ring with me you need to figure out what the fuck is going on in your own head first. You made bold claims and you figured it all out and everything's good now but we all know that's not true. We know that you'll never figure out what's going on in your head because you're an absolute fucking disaster. Everything you've done here up until this point has shown us that you really have no idea what you're doing and you somehow just lucked your way into these matches. You don't deserve any of it because you're not a good wrestler Tyler, you need help. Mental help is needed, yes but that's not the type of help I'm talking about right now. What I'm talking about is you need backup to do anything you want to do. You don't have the balls to do anything by yourself because as I've stated you're a coward.
Howard - Well Johnny I'm glad I'm not Tyler. You're fired up and you are ready for your pay per view match. You've said it all here and we've kept you for far longer than we probably should have. I'm sure you're a busy man and got a lot of interviews to do.
Jonny C - I do have a lot of interviews but I will always make time for the Howard Stern show. Plus at this point I have to play the waiting game because as we've all seen in the past Tyler is not a very present or punctual person. So I get to just hang back and wait for his response because we all know he's not smart enough to start anything, he just likes to try to be a finisher. As we've seen though closing is not his strong suit. I got a few more radio interviews today a few television interviews because as I've stated I'm the face of this fucking company people want to see me people expect to see me we don't expect to see Tyler because I don't think that highly of him. I fully understand that he's barely gonna show his face prior to the match because that's his style. To each their own is what I say but I'm gonna talk shit about it because that's what I do and that's my style. But thank you for having me Howard. I really appreciate it. I appreciate this platform to promote my show well, not my show the IIW's show but I guess it's mine seeing as I am the main event and I am the reason people are coming to see the show. But I do appreciate the time everything you've done for me. I hope everyone tunes in to watch me beat the absolute shit out of Tyler worse than he's ever been beaten before in his life. I promise it's a spectacle that no one is going to want to miss.
Robin - I know I'm definitely going to watch it. You've gotten me excited about watching this fight. I don't know much about this Tyler character but I do know I want to see you beat him up because he doesn't sound like that great of a person.
Jonny C - Oh no he's a deplorable person
Robin - It sure as hell sounds that way the way you paint him. The way I see it is you have no reason to lie to us you're the champion he's the challenger So he's the one with the uphill battle not you. You need to retain the title he needs to actually win the title.
Jonny C - And I have the champion's advantage and I will never use that to my advantage but if any one of Tyler's little girl scout troop wants to come running down and try to get involved and he gets caught it's caught I win by disqualification and even if they make it look like I'm the one that cheated it's still a disqualification so his back is kind of up against a wall here. Because as we've seen for the past 100 years of wrestling you can't win the title with a disqualification. Something that Tyler will absolutely be looking to do cheat to win because that's all he can do because he has no really good offense he doesn't really have a good wrestling style and hes an absolute fucking coward.
Howard - I for one I'm also excited to watch what happens in a few weeks at keys to success. Jonny again thank you for stopping it means the world. I can't wait to see what happens at the pay per view. I wish you the best of luck at everything you do in the future.
Jonny C - Thank you Howard again I appreciate everything you've done for me and the IIW it means the world.
Howard cuts to a commercial for I Hate Stephen Singer as Johnny C stands up takes his headset off fistbumps Howard blows a kiss to Robin as the scene fades to black.
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Post by Tyler Debonair on Feb 12, 2022 10:50:12 GMT
***Tyler Debonair is limping, holding his ribs and splitting blood from where he’d bitten his tongue falling from the top turnbuckle as Fred kicks the dressing room door open, sitting his son down on the red fabric sofa situated in the far corner of the relatively well lit and just as relatively well designed room. Tyler sucks in breath as he tries to get comfortable, Fred turning to leave the room as quickly as they arrived, the light above his head swinging as he catches it on the way out***
Tyler: ”Pops, leave it…”
Fred: ”Leave it? Second time tonight Tyler, SECOND time! And after what that son of a bitch had done to Casie last week too?! Nah… I’m not leaving it!”
Tyler: ”He’ll be long gone and we both know it, you’re wasting your time… I could do with the Doc in here though, please?”
Fred: ”Ah yeah, shit sorry boy…”
***Fred walks out of the room, headed towards the medical bay as Tyler leans back and closes his eyes… The second he does, he senses something shift in the air and a soft jolt of pain flickers through his temples. He hears someone clear their throat but doesn’t open his eyes***
Voice: ”Everything still going as planned, I see.”
Tyler: ”No, no… No! We aren’t doing this right now! And how can you say going as planned? I just took a drop off the top rope and have probably broken a couple of ribs! My pops was attacked tonight before the match that HE was supposed to be in and to cap all that off, my Aunt Casie was beat up so bad, she’s still in the hospital! Going as planned?”
Voice: ”… Yes.”
Tyler: ”Alright that’s it, I’m sick of this…”
***Tyler jumps up, off the sofa and heads toward the mirror. Standing just behind his reflection, Tyler sees what appears to be a watery rendition of the outline, of a person***
Tyler: ”Okay we’re not going to keep doing this, alright? You say this is nothing like before and yet I feel exactly like I did before. You tell me I’m not simply hearing voices but you’re my “higher self”? You’re positivity and light and yet you stand there and you say that John Cavanagh and The Celtic Club destroying my family, that Jonny F’n C spreading bullshit is all “the plan”?! Come on, do better!”
Voice: ”The problem, Tyler, is that you aren’t seeing the bigger picture. Yes Casie has been injured and we’re extremely sorry about that, yes The Celtic Club and Jonny C have become obstacles on your path but the truth is they’re supposed to be there… You asked for them to be there because you wanted the challenges! You wanted this life you currently live because you know exactly how it ends…”
Tyler: ”I asked for this? ME? I asked for John Cavanagh to do what he’s done, I asked for Jonny C to do what he is right now?! And I did all this because I already know the outcome… Because, I’ve always known the outcome. Even before you came to me to give me the nudge and the advice I’ve needed…”
Voice: ”Now you’re getting it…”
Tyler: ”Because when I shifted my consciousness and drew out the negative back before my International Title match against Cav, I looked at all possible outcomes of what’s happening here in IIW and knew exactly what needed to be done.”
Voice: ”That is accurate…”
***Tyler grimaces and winces as his ribs continue to hurt, his face too as he notices the bruise forming around his lip and jawbone. He slumps back down into the sofa and closes his eyes…***
Tyler: ”And Darius? What about him…? Because I never saw that coming a mile from Sunday! Last I’d spoken to him, he told my dad and me that he was giving up his career as a wrestler because he didn’t feel it was for him… That he didn’t think he was good enough? And now he’s turning up with Shaun Hart, Chris Nitro, Ryan freakin’ Hawkins and those guys?!”
Voice: ”Ah yeah, you didn’t see that coming because that was a human choice Darius made… It’s not always about making the right decisions, spiritually and money talks… But it appears he’s disappeared yet again.”
Tyler: ”Disappeared? Meaning…?
Voice: ”He is nowhere to be seen, none of this incarnation of The Purge are after what happened tonight when Hawkins and Nitro destroyed John Tolly, they’ve done a quicker disappearing act than The Celtic Club after their cowardly attack on your Auntie and then again tonight against you and your dad…”
Tyler: ”That’s okay... I’ll be honest I don’t need anymore distractions anyway. After everything from Cavanagh and his cronies last week, I don’t need to be feeding Jonny anymore ammunition to come at me regarding my focus.”
***Tyler sits up again and pushes himself off the sofa, wincing yet again at the pain in his ribs, back and shoulder. He limps towards the mini “Hotpoint” fridge in the corner and yanks it open, grabbing at a can of Cherry Pepsi Max, cracking it open and necking it back***
Tyler: ”The focal point of anything for me right now, has to be Jonny C, it has to be the IIW World Title! It was all fun and games at the top of the show, because that’s who I am and what I do… I try not to make everything completely serious but in truth it is… But this is primarily because I already know what’s going to happen, this is why I’m so calm on the subject…”
***Tyler stops talking and turns his head slightly toward the door as Fred returns with the IIW head Doctor. As the Doctor checks on Tyler, the main event has just finished showing on a monitor in the room; when suddenly it fizzles to life in another setting, a church… And in that church, sits Jonny F’n C. Tyler rolls his eyes and sighs, watching on as the scene slowly begins to fade into the ether…
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…The rain makes a tip-tap, rattle sound, as it smacks against the fourth floor window of Manchester General. Casie Debonair is still laying in her hospital bed, her head covered in a bandage whilst she has wires connected to her and tubes protruding from her. The eerie beeping of the ventilator scratches through Tyler’s skull, as Fred stands talking to Doctor Bryant, the consultant who’s been looking after Casie since the attack on her by Shannon Reilly and The Celtic Club***
Doctor Bryant: ”As I mentioned previously, Mr. Debonair… A situation arose a few days before we were due to discharge your sister and she developed a small bleed on the brain. This has caused us to induce Casie into a voluntary coma in order to allow the pressure to subside…”
Fred: ”So how are things looking now, Doc??”
Doctor Bryant: ”It’s too soon to tell, at this stage… However we’re confident it just needs time to heal and confident Casie is in no real danger.”
Fred: ”And her career going forward?”
Doctor Bryant: ”It probably won’t happen any time soon, Mr. Debonair… But in due course, she’ll be able to climb back into the ring…”
***Tyler turns away from looking out at the city through the rain soaked window and walks toward Casie’s bed, sitting beside it and taking her hand as Fred and Doctor Bryant continue talking as they step out of the hospital room. The beeping still crawling around inside his head***
Tyler: ”You know, Aunt Casie, I don’t think I ever told you exactly what you’ve done for me growing up… Of course mom and dad used to wrestle and Mercy and I followed in their footsteps, but most of my wanting to actually perform in that ring and get the crowd pumping… That came from watching you, in the squared circle. You were one the first “modern” females after mom to step inside the ring against the male roster of the RWF and then again in FcW and yet here you are now, at one of the most pivotal moments of my career and you can’t even witness what your advice and care have done for me…
In a little while, I’m going to be taking on Jonny C, for the IIW World Title, something that has been a long time coming for me, ever since I joined the promotion almost twelve months ago and which will be twelve months ago on the night of Keys 2 Success… On that night I’ll step into the ring to attempt to dethrone this man who, whilst having all the professional attributes of a Champion, does not in the slightest possess the personal fortitude of someone deserving of the belt, whether he likes to delude himself to the contrary or not…
The man has seemingly neglected everything in his life… From school grades, intellect and partners, to his own child and God knows what else, Aunt Casie, yet I’m expected to believe he won’t fall off, as the IIW World Champion?! I’m expected to believe that this man’s entire existence is to hold that belt when he doesn’t give two lumps of coal, about the very people he’s supposed to be carrying it for?! It’s pure selfishness, greed.
Selfishness… The quality of being selfish, lack of consideration for other people. Well I guess in fairness to him, Jonny has never said he had consideration for other people and he’d probably accept anyone calling it a quality he possesses… But the truth of it is, he isn’t really a “Champion” is he? He’s a Title holder, there is a huge difference. Champion for example, someone who has surpassed all rivals in a sporting contest, well I’m still here and Jonny hasn’t surpassed me no matter what he thinks! Another definition, vigorously defends something… Generally a cause which I suppose his ego works in that context! But the belt is what I’m thinking about…”
***Tyler let’s go of Casie’s hand and stands up, looking back out of the window across the Manchester skyline***
Tyler: ”Jonny loved to mock Jake and mention how he was hardly booked, hardly defended the title and he is somewhat accurate but Jonny has yet to do anything similar since becoming the holder of the IIW World Title, or even before. I mean yes the day I first bumped into him, he was in Bob Mitchell’s office crying about how he hasn’t been booked in a long while, but can he be taken at his word when he talks so much shit to begin with?! One thing I’ll say about him is his fortitude, his perseverance in getting what he wants, but he acts like Tyler Debonair is not something he wants, is this arrogance? Or is this worry, on his part? Is it confidence? Or is it fear in the voice, on the face, of Jonny F’n C?! I suppose we’ll find out soon enough won’t we… But I truly wish you could be there, Aunt Casie, when I finally pour that concrete over Jonny’s head, when I finally nail that coffin shut and when I zip that jabber jaw up…. For good.”
***Tyler walks back over to Casie, places a soft kiss on her forehead and quietly leaves the room, closing the door behind him as Fred Debonair has just finished talking to Doctor Bryant and heads back toward his son***
Tyler: ”So, has he said anything new, pops?”
Fred: ”Nothing, Ty. He doesn’t think it’ll be long before they’re able to take her out of the coma again, though…”
Tyler: ”Well, that’s something at least… Any idea of when that would be?”
Fred: ”He didn’t say, but I do know the bleed has dropped in size.”
Tyler: ”Well, I guess until then, there isn’t much else we can do right now. I’ll let Michaela know the latest, but then I think we should get on with what we had planned…”
Fred: ”I agree, I’m going to contact Abe later and have a quick chat about a few things but yeah, let’s get on with what we originally settled on, shall we…?”
***Tyler and Fred take one more look back at Casie laying in the hospital bed, before they turn and head toward the elevator and the exit, leaving us watching the scene slowly evaporate…
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…The space underneath the railway bridge, just east of Manchester’s city centre, is dark, except for one lamp that’s sat in the corner and shining toward the desk and chair, where Tyler Debonair is sat. Opposite him sits old family friend and quasi-brother to Fred, Abe Greenberg. He’s leaning forward on the desk as Tyler has done the opposite and is now leant back in his chair after filling Abe in, on the latest***
Abe: ”What you are proposing, Tyler…”
Tyler: ”What my dad is proposing…”
Abe: ”What your dad is proposing… Is very much illegal and not the slightest bit above board, you do realise this?”
Tyler: ”Of course I do, Abe, why do you think I’m here? In the next few hours is likely going to call you and make the proposition. You’ll say no because you know it’s a stupid idea, he’ll keep on until you either finally give in, or you leave him zero choice but to take matters into his own hands.”
Abe: ”And what is the latest on that subject?”
Tyler: ”He knows it shouldn’t be done, he also knows at this point in time that unless he has your agreement on the matter he can’t move forward which is why he is going to come at you…”
Abe: ”That’s understandable, but Ty’ you’re aware I can’t always be the Great wall, right? I can’t always be this, divide or whatever… There will come a point where, if your dad really wants to go direct for John Cavanagh, he’ll do so, without my blessing and without the blessing of the families.”
Tyler: ”Oh, I know…”
Abe: ”But do you? Tyler your father’s most used motto was that it was better to ask forgiveness than permission… Now he grew out of that mantra when you and your sister were born but when such thing as family is disrupted such as what John Cavanagh has done here? It re-enters the psyche… And let us be honest, you don’t need any of that, especially at the moment, you’ve got your own things to worry about.”
***It’s Tyler’s turn to sit up and lean forward now as Abe leans slightly upright and away from the desk***
Tyler: ”You’re right I do, Abe… This match has been a long time coming and I’ll be damned if I let something else skew my focus and that’s why I’m coming to the one man, who can simmer Fred Debonair down.”
Abe: ”And you know I’m there for you, son. About your match though… You’re absolutely right, you have been waiting a very long time to get to where you are now and the last thing you want is to walk in there unfocused and ill prepared. So what are you doing about it?”
Tyler: ”Well I’m…”
Abe: ”Because from what I’m hearing, Jonny C has you by the short and curlies…”
Tyler: ”What?!”
Abe: ”Jonny F’n C, has you by the balls…”
Tyler: ”No, Abe… I’m well aware of the euphemism, but… What?!”
***Abe stands, opening his arms out in expression as he does. He stands by a cabinet behind the desk and thinks how he approaches this***
Abe: ”He’s had a few choice things to say about you already… I don’t doubt you caught his words previously? It just seems like he can talk and talk and yet… Regardless of whether he makes any sense, everybody is eating it up.”
Tyler: ”Don’t worry about that, man… There’s only so much that can be said before the bile and word vomit just… Comes back up.”
***Both men chuckle as Abe walks toward the door to leave the building and Tyler follows behind. They share a respectful handshake and hug as he opens the door and Tyler heads out as the scene disintegrates…
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…We return to see a flashy logo pop up on the screen which reads the really cheesy phrase “TOO SUAVE, TWO DEBONAIR!” As the logo disappears we see both Fred and Tyler behind what appears to be a mock up news desk. Both men are dressed in suits and wearing glasses***
Fred: ”Good evening folks! I’m Frederick Debonair…”
Tyler: ”And I’m Tyler, Debonair…”
Fred: ”And this is too Suave…”
Tyler: ”Two Debonair! And this is the very first episode of our YouTube show, slash Podcast and it’s jam packed!”
Fred: ”Not quite jam packed, Tyler…”
Tyler: ”Okay, well we have a lot of ground to cover! A lot of topics.”
Fred: ”Two… Actually…”
Tyler: ”What??”
Fred: ”It’s just two topics, today on the show… The tale of the two John’s.”
***Tyler suddenly sits up straight, grins big and straightens the glasses on his face***
Tyler: ”That’s right Pops! The tale of the two John’s! I mean what the hell is wrong with people who are named a variation of John, Jon, Jonathan and so on?!”
Fred: ”I haven’t the first clue, Tyler!”
Tyler: ”I mean, firstly you’ve got John Cavanagh, who for someone who got pissed off at you, pops, for effectively calling him a coward…”
Fred: ”Literally…”
Tyler: ”Eh?”
Fred: ”I literally called him a coward, no effectively about it…”
Tyler: ”Alright, well you called him a coward and the way he’s countered that, is by pulling cowardly acts! Having my Aunt Casie beaten a couple of weeks ago… And for those who weren’t aware, they jumped Fred backstage before his match alongside Russell Wayne last week, which is why it ended up being me in the ring next to him! And then Cav stood there and watched as The Celtic Club almost beat me to a pulp and John himself tried to nail me with a chair shot until my pops came to my aid and as per usual, The Celtic Club skittered off!”
Fred: ”So that’s one John, a coward proving he isn’t a coward, by being a coward! And then you’ve got a man who appears to be feeding off an opposing vibe, a guy who is overcompensating for something! Jonny F’n C…”
***Tyler raises his eyebrows and removes his glasses, turning away from his dad and towards us, the viewers if you will. He chews on the arm of his glasses and shakes them as if trying to find a point***
Tyler: ”Hey Jonny, how are you buddy? Well I hope…? Anyway I just wanted to touch on to what my father and colleague just mentioned and that is how it does appear, Jonny, that you are indeed overcompensating for something! For what? I couldn’t tell you, but there’s definitely some insecurities there… Definitely some self-doubt and unequivocal instability in your personality. I mean let me ask you a very serious question Jonny, okay? Does your asshole ever get jealous, of all the shit that comes pouring out of your mouth? Genuinely wondering… I mean, I caught your little “confessional” last night on Mayhem, pretty well done…”
Fred: ”Not as good as yours at the top of the show…”
Tyler: ”I mean, naturally, however you do have to take into account mine was parody, whereas Jonny’s was part of a docuseries no doubt and therefore they would have been gaining the attention of different demographics… Mine being the very focused, controlled group who also know how not to take themselves too seriously and Jonny’s? Well I’m not sure but I’d assume it’s something akin to tin-foil hat wearing, fake news listening to, elders.”
Fred: ”But, weren’t you one of those tin-foil hat wearers at one point, Tyler?”
Tyler: ”No, no I was not pops. I was and still am, a spiritually awoken individual who at one stage successfully achieved enlightenment, through the seven stages of Alchemy. Very, very different… Now, Jonny would have you believe that I “ran away”, that I changed my persona to reset and you know to an extent he is indeed correct, but not in the way he is trying to push his little narrative. I generally wouldn’t give the time of day to someone who’s oblivious to my life but chooses to build their own story around what they want to see, but Jonny C is different because I feel sorry for him. He clearly has something going on up top, for him to believe half the crap he’s spouting when he talks… But something tells me that he doesn’t believe it, not even remotely. But then again, guys like him don’t care about the truth, only the mythos that surrounds the story.
As I say, Jonny, I saw your little confessional Monday evening… I didn’t really understand much of it I’ll be honest though, because I was too busy laughing at you. I mean going after someone’s “manhood”? I’ve seen better attempts at verbally abusing someone from one of the oldies at the home Curtis and Russell visit, it’s twenty twenty-two, Jonny boy, get with the times! Going after someone’s manhood is genuinely the laziest backdrop in anyone’s arsenal, hoss! I mean it’s so dense, I don’t even have the energy to react to it and defend said manhood! So, I’m not even going to bother… Let’s just call a spade a spade and be done with it, eh? I’ll give you a two for effort and suggest you do better next time! As for me losing the will to fight, Jonny? I guess you’ll find out whether that’s gone, when we meet at K2S, won’t we? I mean I’ve been fighting and surviving my entire life, Jonny, not just each week in the ring, since I learned how to walk and talk… Why’s that going to be any different now? Because you’re standing on the other side of the ring? Because you’re holding the IIW World Title? Hardly…
You see Jonny, I’ve seen people like you and ran through them my entire life. At school, College, even the workplace. You shine confidence, you exude this air of credible cockiness when in truth you’re nothing more than a regular Joe who can’t make it through the day without bluffing… What’s that saying? Fake it until you make it? Well Jonny you’ve finally made it so, let it go! Drop the act man because you’re fooling nobody. It feels to me that you’re actually afraid of who I am, Jonny, of what I bring to the table and what I’m capable of doing to you… You seem to be trying to convince yourself, more than anybody else that I don’t deserve a shot at your precious World Title, hoss… I mean I get it, if I’d tried and failed on numerous occasions to bring home the Championship and then finally did… I wouldn’t want to go against one of the only people in IIW who could snatch it away from me in a heartbeat either! But, it is what it is Jonny, deal with it.”
***Tyler releases the glasses that were still in his hand, slides the chair he’s sat in back and stands up as he walks around the desk***
Tyler: ”You drone on, about how I couldn’t win the number one contenders match against Curtis alone, Jon, seemingly forgetting that Curtis and I had already discussed this incident, publicly at that. I too had been beaten during that match by The Second Purge, Purge two point oh, whatever you wish to call them I was literally thrown on top of Curtis for the pin, Jonny! And yes, that group does include my old friend, Darius… A man who I’ll be dealing with at a later date, but anyone with an ounce of intelligence will know that Tyler Debonair had absolutely nothing to do with Curtis being targeted by those amadain! This was further evidenced by them trying for him yet again recently… I’ve never needed a hand in my ten win, two loss record I carry here, Jonny. I haven’t needed a hand, in the time up until I almost broke the IIW undefeated record, so why would I now…? But this is just another thing on your little list that I refuse to try and justify. I’ll let my actions do the talking; at Keys 2 Success… Although it’s genuinely hilarious you feel anyone should have to verbally validate earning their shot, Jonny. Like I just said, actions speak louder.
Jonny, I’m curious… What did you think our match, you know mine and my pops’ against you and your protege, Noah, was supposed to be? I’m, just trying to figure out what it was you were crying about during your trip to the Priests house…? I mean is this the same match in which, at the very beginning, you had your lackey doing all your work? The match in which you refused to step into the ring with me to start with when we were both at full strength… That match right? Ok so you’re obviously remembering inaccurately bub! Because it was me who sent Noah home, not my pops and you know who’s fault that is, Jonny? YOURS! Anything that happened to Noah was your responsibility… You tried to goad me, hoss and you got what you wanted… But what? Did you ACTUALLY expect Fred to voluntarily walk away and leave this as Tyler versus Jonny? And cheat the IIW fans of what’s to come?! Come on man! You’re so much smarter than that… So much smarter. Mitchell didn’t call the match off and officially changed it to two on one, was I happy about it? Of course not, but who am I to argue, eh?
Now folks, I spoke earlier about Jonny chatting some absolute uncouth trash about me “disappearing”. I can only assume he was talking about the situation when I faced off against, once again Curtis, in the International Title tournament match when I first got to IIW when I was boxed up and sent to New York via cargo plane or something, I’m still not clued up with what happened that night, however what Jonny failed to recall is that when I came back the way I am now, chill, relaxed, just me… I had finished my pilgrimage on the seven stages of Alchemy and wasn’t gone long at all, in fact it all happened prior to my facing John Cavanagh, in defence of the International Title at the time… I’ve never shied away from a challenge and Jonny knows it, but again the man is trying so hard to convince himself and the world, that Tyler Debonair is an undeserving challenger to the World Title… Tyler Debonair didn’t come back as a “new” person, Jonathan… He came back as a better person and also, I didn’t disappear after losing my first match after a seven match winning streak either… My “disappearance”, to the rest of the world, my four day vacation prior to the next event… Came just before my first loss!”
***Tyler slowly removes the tie from around his neck, unbuttoning his shirt and removes them both, revealing a black tee-shirt with a caricature of Tyler on it. He pulls a pair of shades from his back pocket and slowly places them over his eyes***
Tyler: ”What you’re doing Jonny… It’s called projection as well as creative storytelling of some kind and as fun as it is to listen to and I genuinely mean that, I’d absolutely subscribe to Netflix or Hulu to watch that, as fun as it is… It has no place in the the ring man! So, how about you quit talking about how much you want to wrestle, how much you want to defend the belt, how you’ve been through the mill and you’ve ground out wins here and battles there… AND DO IT! Because talking about how you want a challenge and in the same breath talking about how there isn’t a challenge here just makes you seem like you’re trying to worm your way out of the match, Jonny. I mean tell me hoss, what happens when this guy right here, no challenge at all… Beats you and takes your World Title?! What happens when I count your shoulders to the mat… 1, 2, 3…? Do you admit that I in fact AM a worthy opponent? That I DID deserve the shot in the first place? Or will you come up with some kind of excuse?!”
***Tyler and Fred’s attention is suddenly taken by someone running into the room. It’s Frankie and she’s visibly shaken and quite upset***
Frankie: ”Fred! Tyler! You’ve got to come quick! There’s been an incident at the First Class event!”
Fred: ”What do you mean?!”
Frankie: ”I don’t know exactly! Fire bomb, fire in the back… But it’s completely decimated! They had to evacuate everybody.”
Tyler: ”And what about Steph?!”
Frankie: ”She is fine where that’s concerned but she got jumped and battered by Jolie Vexx and Mercedes before hand knocking her out cold. She’s been rushed to hospital…”
***Fred and Tyler stare at each other as they grab their belongings from behind the desk***
Fred: ”Your damn sister!”
Tyler: ”Your damn daughter!”
***The two rush out of the room, followed by Frankie, leaving the scene to fade - to - black!***
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Post by JonnyFNC on Feb 15, 2022 2:13:38 GMT
The scene opens to what appears to be a shot from a helicopter. It's moving fast over a ton of trees. The camera zooms in on a road. It follows the road for a bit before finding a car. It's a beige Ford Taurus. The car is flying down the winding road. The sun is going down in the distance but it's not too dark yet. The car comes to a fork in the road and takes the left one. The car drives for a bit longer before turning into a parking lot. The camera sweeps low focusing on the sign for the parking lot. Resnick Psychiatric hospital. The Ford Taurus comes to a stop next to a rusted gate. The door to the Taurus opens as Jonny C steps out of the car. Jonny is wearing khaki pants with a blue polo on. Jonny is clearly wearing fake glasses and has his hair pulled back. He leans back into the car pulling out a brown leather messenger bag.
Jonny C - You know I haven't spent a whole lot of time at psychiatric hospitals but God damn this place looks like a shit hole. Plus it's in the middle of fucking nowhere I don't know how Tyler or the people that brought Tyler heard even found this place. Again I don't know much about psychiatric hospitals but this one wouldn't rank anywhere near the top of the list that I would go to if I needed that which I don't. Because unlike Tyler I'm mentally stable for the most part OK so maybe not but I'm not diagnosed.
The camera pans off Jonny and onto Resnick. The building is huge but very very old. There are vines climbing up pretty much every part of the building. The lawns are completely overgrown and none of the bushes are trimmed. The windows are fully boarded up but look to be falling apart. Every single bit of the building is covered in rust or appears to be falling apart. It looks like the building should be completely condemned.
Jonny C - I'm not a big comic book guy but I do know what Arkham Asylum is from Batman and I'm pretty sure this is it. If anyone had told me that this was the birthplace of The Joker I would fully 100% believe that. Tyler, are you The Joker to my Batman? I mean you are the villain because I'm definitely the hero so I guess maybe this does make a little bit of sense. Just look at this sad depressing giant hunk of shit building in front of us. Looking at this building and now knowing how Tyler is as a person I fully understand it. There's no way you can spend a good amount of time locked up in this hell hole and come out any more normal than you were. He definitely dealt with abuse psychologically and maybe physically in this building so that's why I'm here today wearing my finest old white people businessman clothing. I have a meeting with one of Tyler's doctors there and they are going to fill me in on all of the details that Tyler hasn't filled us all in on. You know I had a feeling this would feel sad but I wasn't aware of just how sad. I can feel despair just hanging in the air here. This place just oozes depression. There is no way any person coming out of there is even close to normal. This looks like a full on horror movie. We need to push forward though and make this meeting so we can dig into Tyler's mind a bit.
Jonny closes and locks the car then makes his way to the rusted gate. He slowly pushes it forward looking around a bit nervous as he walks through the gate. He walks across a little stone bridge then up to a set of double doors with bars on the window. Jonny presses a button on a call box that's resting next to the doors.
Call box - Resnick
Jonny C - Hello my name is Dr. Johnathan Cashman and I have a meeting with Dr. Micheal Hunt.
Call Box - Yes Mike told me to await your arrival. Come in it Dr.
The door buzzes. Jonny grabs it pulling it open then walks in. Jonny is standing in the entry hall looking around. Paint is peeling, floor tiles are coming up from the floor. There is the smell of human waste just hanging in the air. Jonny looks disgusted but enters the hall walking to the front desk.
Desk Clerk - Welcome to Resnick if you could just sign in on this clipboard quickly. I will get you your visitors pass and send you to Mike's office.
Jonny - Awesome thank you. Man this place has seen some better days.
Desk Clerk - Yeah about 20 years ago it was hit hard with budget cuts from the state then a staffing issue. People keep coming in and trying to fix it but they never last long. It's been slowly circling the toilet for many years now. Don't know how it's still open but I guess as long as people keep showing up they will never close.
Jonny C - Job security for you at least and that's always a good thing.
The desk clerk nods as Jonny signs the clipboard then slides it to the desk clerk. The clerk grabs a laminated ID badge with a clip on it. He hands it to Jonny who immediately clips it to his polo shirt.
Desk Clerk - So take a left behind my desk and walk down the hall. When you get to the stairs on the right go up 2 flights. Keep walking down the hallway on the third floor. 4th door on the left is Mike's office.
Jonny C - Thank you, appreciate your help.
Jonny walks to the side of the desk then walks left down the hallway.
Jonny C - You know I'm not entirely sure if that person was an employee or a patient that just happened to be sitting behind a desk. I didn't want to bring it up or say anything because I did not want to offend it. I've seen what happens when mentally ill people fight they get this crazy strength about them and I wasn't willing to do that here. But man this place is just sad I don't know anyone who would voluntarily say they checked themselves in here for a rest. It's definitely not somewhere you want to go on vacation to escape everything to get your head right. I'm not here to judge though I'm here to get answers to my burning questions and then I'm going to judge. I'm just gonna wait to get the answers to my questions before I judge so maybe I am here to judge but just not right now.
Jonny starts making his way up the stairs. He goes to the second foor and continues down the hallway looking for room 4. He see the door for Dr. Micheal Hunt. He knocks on the door and a voice says to come in. Jonny opens the door walking into the office. There are banker boxes filled with paper and folders stacked all over the office. There is a desk with 2 couches next to it.
Dr Micheal Hunt - Hello Dr Cashmen nice to finally meet you.
Dr Hunt stands up to shake Jonnys hand.
Jonny C - The pleasure is all mine. I'm glad to put a face to voice. I feel like we have been talking forever Dr Hunt.
Dr Hunt- call me Mike.
Jonny C - Sure thing Mike Hunt call me Jonny.
Mike Hunt - Have a seat on the couch and we can get right into it.
Jonny C - If it's all the same to you I will sit in the chair over there you're not getting me to lay down on one of those couches. My goal is to leave here today unlike Tyler and if you start getting into my head you're not gonna let me do that.
Mike Hunt - HA HA sure thing, take the chair.
Both men sit down around the desk.
Jonny C - So let's get right into it then shall we. I am the IIW psychiatrist and an HR representative. Tyler Debonaire, a former resident of this hospital, has been employed with us for quite a long time and I have a lot of questions.
Mike Hunt - Let me stop you right there. We don't call the people here residents, we call them patients. No one is here by choice at all; they're all here under doctor's orders. This is a psychiatric hospital not a weekend away bed and breakfast.
Jonny C - You see I find it very interesting that you say that because Tyler has stood by his story for sometime now that he checked himself in here voluntarily. He was very forthright with his pre employment paperwork about being here but the details surrounding that are very foggy. Some of his actions have made me question what he has said to be true. I just don't believe everything he says.
Mike Hunt - Look around this place I'm doing my best to help everybody here but honestly who would voluntarily come here. I'm a bleeding heart and I want to help everyone but you can't deny that this place doesn't have charm or personality. Myself along with all of the staff here are very caring and do our best to help everyone but the state is just hindering us at every turn.
Jonny C - So what you're saying is that Tyler did not check himself in here and here on his own voluntarily he was placed under your care here.
Mike Hunt - That is what I'm saying yes.
Jonny C - Is there any way professional to professional that you can let me read the files and go over the situation because if he's an employee of my company and now under my care I need to know the truth. If Tyler is in any way a danger to himself or others in the IIW I need to know that now. I would never willingly and knowingly put my fellow doctors, staff or other wrestlers in harm's way.
Mike Hunt - I can't let you read the files due to Hippa violations and all of that but seeing as you're a medical professional like me we can discuss some things and I can lead you in the directions that you need to go.
Jonny C - Fair enough I understand completely. Being a medical professional myself I would never want to violate any of the Hippa guidelines. So if Tyler did not check himself into this hospital how did she get here.
Mike Hunt - He was brought in by a whole ton of people actually. There was an old man I believe was his father, a girl that he claims was his girlfriend and I believe his cousin, a sister and another friend all brought him in.
Jonny C - The Debonair family I unfortunately know them well. So even though he's been telling us for almost a year now that he came in here voluntarily, you're telling me his family actually brought him in.
Mike Hunt - Yes they did.
Jonny C - How did it feel to you. Did it feel like he wanted to be here and maybe his family came to send him off. Or where they bringing him here against his will.
Mike Hunt - I remember there was a lot of yelling on his part. I believe he even tried to kick an orderly. Some members of his family were holding his arms. I would say he absolutely didn't come here on his own merit. They brought him here to help him. It took Tyler quite a long time to calm down and then finally be OK with starting the program. It was not an easy transition for him for obvious reasons.
Jonny C - Hmmmm that's very interesting to hear. So not only did he not check in here voluntarily but his family had to literally drag him in here kicking and screaming. That's very interesting indeed.
Mike Hunt - I don't know why he would lie about it at all.
Jonny C - I don't really know either. I myself don't like people who lie that's why I try to be as truthful as I can all of the time. You know what they say about liars their pants catch fire then I don't want that to happen to my pants.
Dr Hunt gives a pity laugh at Jonny's lame joke.
Jonny C - He is very open about being a patient here but leaves a lot of what happened here out. He's not ashamed of being here but he is ashamed that his family forced him in. He never went into great detail about what he did here and I understand that that's personal to a lot of people but for someone who's not ashamed to say he was here he definitely likes to hide the details of anything that happened. To me that is a bit of a red flag that I should have picked up on earlier.
Mike Hunt - So it's a lie within the truth.
Jonny C - Yes that's it precisely. Now I don't know why he would lie to us all about that. We have officially caught him in a lie. He has been going around telling everyone that I'm the liar and making all this up. Yet he is the one changing the story and not being fully open. Is bending the truth or lying as you refer to it is a big thing within the psychiatric patient community.
Mike Hunt - We don't like to refer to it as lying because a lot of times in their heads they believe them to be true even if they aren't even remotely close to that. A lot of the people here in fact almost all of them lie about small things within their life. We don't believe it's fully lying because they do in fact believe it. So in their head it's their truth but it's not the reality of the truth at all.
Jonny C - OK hmmmmm. So even though Tyler is spinning this web that is filled with a ton of lies you're telling me that that's a common problem. The story overall may be true but he's going to change some of the details edited to make himself look better.
Mike Hunt - Yes. People with mental illness like to cling to the little bits of truth that they are OK with and fill people in on different details about what actually happened so yes it's based in truth but a lot of times it's completely false.
Jonny C - That's very interesting to hear. So he has definitely created a story in his head that makes his stay here seem less intense. Now we all know the truth: his family couldn't deal with his mental illness and dumped his ass off here for assistance.
Mike Hunt - That's not exactly how we would explain it but not one single person here has ever checked themselves in. Look around this isn't one of those nice fancy rich people rehabs. It's a gritty state run hospital. We don't have the best of the best but our staff cares and does what they can.
Jonny C - Now during his first few weeks here what did you notice? When he began his employment with the IIW he was fantastic. He was excited and ready to be involved albeit a little weird. Then all of a sudden out of nowhere a switch flipped in his head and he became someone completely different with a new way of acting.
Mike Hunt - That's what we noticed here as well. At the start of his stay here he was very into the program. He was always participating and trying to stay engaged then as soon as it got rough he changed.
Jonny C - Changed how exactly because I've noticed the same thing about Tyler.
Mike Hunt - Well he started showing up very last to groups. He would come in with seconds to spare.
Jonny C - Precisely what hes doing for us. At 1 point he was the most active and engaged person on our roster then things got off the rails a bit. He had a really nice winning streak for a while and everything was going great. He suffered a big loss and that's when things changed. He used to come out filled with vigor ready to wrestle and be a productive member of the roster but it all stopped. He started not caring and phoning it all in. He also pulls that showing up late shit. A Lot of times we won't see Tyler or his family until minutes before the show. It's actually pretty infuriating if I'm being honest. It's really hard to work with someone like that.
Mike Hunt - It really can be quite difficult but you have to remember that this isn't something he does on purpose. There is a lot going on in Tyler's head and he is doing his best to get through it.
Jonny C - I wouldn't say he's doing his best by any means but I do realize he's trying to get through it. Nothing he has done makes me think he's trying his best at all; he is giving a bare minimum effort. I agree he is capable of so much more yet doesn't seem to be applying himself to more than hanging out with his family and occasionally cutting a promo.
Mike Hunt - You definitely need to find a way to get him on track. He needs guidance.
Jonny C - That's exactly what I'm here today doctor. I wanted to talk to someone who knows Tyler a great deal more than I do so I can figure out the best way to help him. I understand that he has immense mental health problems and I want to do everything in my power to make sure that he is comfortable and safe at our place of business. As a medical professional myself I absolutely care for everyone that's employed by the IIW. I just want what's best for everyone and to make it the best place to work for everyone's mental health and quality of life purposes.
Mike Hunt - That's refreshing to hear. Sounds like you're one of the good ones who really cares.
Jonny C - I am one of the good ones. I care deeply about Tyler and his issues and just want what's best for him. Now back to his first few weeks outside of his actions changing did you ever notice any major lifestyle changes?
Mike Hunt - As a whole that's very hard for us to see play out. The lives people live here in our hospital are very different from any life they lead outside of our walls.
Jonny C - OK so maybe life style changes was a bad way to word it. What I mean was as a person did you see him change his overall demeanor or way of acting while in here. When he debuted with us he came in as very much one type of person and then when the going got tough and he didn't think he could handle it he completely changed everything about himself. And we're not talking just the way he dresses but it was the way he acts the way he conducts themselves the way he talks everything was different and it's a bit concerning that someone can just flip a switch and completely change everything about themselves.
Mike Hunt - We didn't really see anything like that but we did notice that Tyler would try to adapt to whoever he was with to make his programs a bit easier to manage. So like if we were delving too deep into one aspect of something he would completely change how he viewed that to go along with the way we thought he should feel just to kind of go along with the flow so to speak.
Jonny C - I can absolutely understand that and I see how Tyler would act like that. It seems like hes always trying to choose the path of least resistance regardless of what it does to him mentally or physically. Yeah so when his backs against the wall rather than fight for what he believes in and who he actually is as a person he just changes everything to appease us so we can just go with the flow and he thinks it'll be an easier road for him to get where he wants to be.
Mike Hunt - That is absolutely what we noticed here. But now how did he change where you were and how did it affect his work with you to the point where I brought you here today.
Jonny C - OK so at first he came in as this almost witch like character that he betrayed. He would speak in another language sometimes which is fine. That doesn't throw me for too much of a loop. He would present himself as almost better than you but not 100%. He definitely let on that he dabbled in the dark arts a little bit and a lot of things with auras and astrological symbols, and the history of astrological symbols and all of that hokey horse shit. He was very attuned with the universe and felt he had a grasp on how it all worked and how none of us would fully understand it because he is kind of a witch but also not really a witch but then everyone else and his family were witches but then one day it all changed.
Mike Hunt - Changed how exactly?
Jonny C - After he was dealt the first big loss with us he disappeared for a while. Actually he literally disappeared.
Mike Hunt - What, like ran away?
Jonny C - No not like he ran away he was in the ring wrestling and the lights turned off and when they came back on him and the other 2 men in the ring had all vanished into thin air.
Mike Hunt - How was that even possible?
Jonny C - I don't really think it is. That's why I wanted to come here today and kind of find out a little bit more about Tyler and his back story and what happened while he was here because we all saw him disappear and then when he reappeared he was a completely different person. Again not just looking like a different person but completely acting as if he was a new person completely. He went from being this almost witch to this Zen master everything is balanced. He went from these weird space time rift aura filled astrological symbols person to look at me I meditate and I'm completely Zen. It was the polar opposite of what he once was and for someone to make that big of a change like that I almost feel like that delves may be in 2 split personality in some capacity.
Mike Hunt - Split personality is something that is thrown around a lot but no one ever seems to really be able to hammer down what it truly is. In Tyler's case though we need to figure out if this is what he actually believes in his head or if this is the outward appearance he wants to portray to everyone even though he isn't actually like that.
Jonny C - I thought the same thing that maybe it was all just an act because he was scared or hurt or upset about what had happened so rather than deal with that pain and anguish he changed everything about himself to prove that it doesn't bother him. But I don't believe that's the case because if he is acting he's doing a really good job because it's hard to differentiate between what's real in what's mental illness when it comes to Tyler.
Mike Hunt - I don't believe split personality is the issue here. To me it feels like there's a personality disorder that is at the root of all of this. Split personality would mean he changes between what he first was and what he currently is but it doesn't sound like that's the case at all.
Jonny C - That's exactly why I wanted to come here today doctor Mike because you just hit the nail on the head with it. I have not and I don't believe anyone else has ever seen Tyler change how he acts in-and-out of one day. Once he made the big change into what he is now for all intents and purposes he has been that way since. So you're right there's nothing split about it, it's just a full on personality disorder.
Mike Hunt - We definitely saw some signs of that here that he didn't know 100% who he was deep down inside of himself. We were starting on that and really tried to get to the root of it but he wasn't with us long enough. It felt like anytime we were super close to a breakthrough Tyler would shut down and run away and hide because he didn't want us to really reveal the deep dark secrets that he holds within himself. Once someone completely closes down to you there is no helping them because they don't want to be helped.
Jonny C - Now did you ever come across him talking to himself at all.
Mike Hunt - Oh are the voices back?
Jonny C - They absolutely are, he regularly gets talking to someone even referring to them as another person even though there's no one else there it's just him. It's quite eerie to watch. A lot of us felt not us specifically but a lot of people we work with felt that he was talking to some kind of spirit. Now obviously me being a fully graduated medical professional knows that that wouldn't be the case and I feel that he's having an existential crisis inside of his own head fighting to figure out who he actually is.
Mike Hunt - That's a very astute observation and I tend to agree with you. It's definitely him having a conversation with himself while being inside of his own head. Essentially he's at war with himself.
Jonny C - Yes I can see signs of that absolutely. He definitely doesn't fully know who he is as a person or if he does hes not willing to share that with us 100% he is showing us what he thinks we want to see not who he truly is.
Mike Hunt - Sounds like he could use another stay with us here if you signed a few papers we could definitely make that happen and try to really get to the bottom of what's going on inside of his head.
Jonny C - That's definitely something that I'm willing to discuss at a later date but not just yet. This next weekend I have a one-on-one with him and I'm going to do everything I can and pull out all of the stops to make sure that I can help him. It's going to get intense and most likely very physical but I'm going to stop at nothing to show Tyler exactly who he is within the IIW brand. Maybe if I can't get through to him next week during our one-on-one session I will call you back and maybe we'll try to set something up.
Mike Hunt - I just want to warn you about his family. They try to play the loving supporting roles that they feel he needs in his life but there is something off about them. The way they all talked when they were here and they would visit him the way they acted around him it felt like they were putting on a show.
Jonny C - That's absolutely the feeling that I get as well. His family has definitely put their nose into things within the IIW that they shouldn't have. They're always there to try to catch Tyler and make sure that nothing bad ever happens to him now on the surface that seems like an amazing thing for families to do. But they're getting involved causing business to not run nearly as smoothly as it should. They are inserting themselves into situations because Tyler can't handle them himself but by them helping they're making things way worse for Tyler.
Mine Hunt - His family does seem to be an issue for him. Maybe his stories are all things that could have played out differently if his family wasn't involved.
Jonny C - Oh I have witnessed that first hand. Although in the IIW his family involvement hasn't hurt him it's helped him.
Mike Hunt - Oh really?
Jonny C - Yes absolutely. He has had many wrestling matches where his family got involved and made it so he could win. His father has taken people out and so has his cousin. A lot of people would say he needs to do a lot to prove that he belongs where he is. I am one of those people who feels that way. Now I'm a trained medical professional not a wrestler but I believe he hasn't done anything on his own to earn his spot in the title match next week. Then him and his father teamed up and attacked a man who was by himself. The man fought his heart out and almost best them both but in the end they doubled teamed the man and cheated to beat him.
Mike Hunt - Yeah you don't look like a wrestler. Not enough muscle on you, you wouldn't make a good wrestler.
Jonny C - Hey if I committed myself I would absolutely be the best wrestler on the planet. But sadly I went to medical school but I could absolutely be a wrestler.
Mike Hunt - If you say so Dr. Cashman.
Jonny C - I do say so but that's not what we're here to discuss. I only have one more question that I need answered about Tyler during his time here. And in your professional opinion, do you think Tyler is mentally stable enough to stay out on his own making his own decisions without the help of any professionals?
Mike Hunt - That's a very hard assessment to make for me right now. Seeing as he's not a patient of mine anymore and hasn't been for some time it would be very hard for me to gauge how he's doing in the real world without actually sitting down with him. From everything you've said to me here today your concerns seem to be valid and I agree that he would most likely be mentally unstable but professionally speaking I can't diagnose anything without seeing him myself.
Jonny C - As a medical professional myself I completely understand. Even asking you that question about Tyler I knew most likely what your response would be. I'm just very concerned about him and that's why I decided to make the long trip out here today to speak with you. He's showing a lot of signs of backsliding before he was a patient of yours here. I just had a couple questions that I wanted to run by you and I appreciate all of the time you're giving me today. It's given me a lot to think about and go over in my head before I have any conversations with Tyler about anything we've discussed today.
Mike Hunt - The way I look at things is once you are a patient of mine you always are and I will always care about them and want to see them helped and have the best life they can. It does sound like Tyler is a bit mentally unstable but it seems like he is in good hands with you. You seem to really care about him and as well being.
Jonny C - Trust me he is in the best hands with me and I absolutely do care about him and what happens to him. I promise you I will do my best to make sure that Tyler gets the help he needs more than anything.
Mike Hunt - Outside of what you've already asked about, do you have any other questions for me regarding Tyler?
Jonny C - No I don't, that about covers it all. I thank you for making time for me today and really appreciate you for your service to this fine hospital here.
Mike Hunt - Anytime DR. Cashman I appreciate you swinging by. If you need anything else you know my number get in contact we can go from there.
Both men stand up and shake hands. Doctor Hunt walks Jonny to the door. Jonny waves goodbye then starts making his way downstairs back out through the hallways. He stops by the front desk to turn in his visitors pass. He nods to the desk clerk then walks out the front door. He crosses back over the stone bridge then through the rusted gate. He gets back to his car, puts the messenger bag inside and takes off his clearly fake glasses. He un tucks his polo shirt.
Jonny C - Tyler I find it insanely funny that you're on this whole story that I'm the one who lies. Yet here we are talking to your doctor at this fine mental institution that you once resided it and I found out the truth behind a lot of your bullshit. Basically what if at all boils down to is you're not deserving at all of a title shot. I honestly don't think you're deserving enough to be out of this fine establishment behind me but somehow you convinced the doctors here to let you go. Seems your family was an issue even well before you joined our wrestling company. To me it looks like everyone understands just how much you and your family suck even if it's masked under wanting to help you. I see you as way less of a threat for my world title now than I ever have before. I didn't take you seriously pretty much ever in your entire time here but after talking to your former doctor and seeing your actions over the last couple weeks you're a complete fucking joke man. I stand firmly behind my stance that you don't deserve to be in the ring with me and have done nothing to earn that shot. You're gonna need to go way out of your way to prove to me that you belong in that ring and that you deserve your spot on the card because I along with most other people on our roster and even the people that run this place don't think you deserve it at all. I don't think you've got it in you to prove that you belong in the ring with me. With all that being said it's time for me to drive back to the airport and hop a flight to the arena. I got a lot of ass kicking to do coming up this weekend and I need to make sure I'm there bright and early because something tells me you won't be Tyler, you're never early for anything. Always playing 2nd fiddle right you need the ammunition I know you do so here it is, have fun tearing this one apart. Just know no matter what you say I'm not the one who's lying about anything. I went directly to the source so spin any little narrative you want buddy but we all know its bullshit just like your career here.
Jonny hops into his Ford rental car, turns it on, backs up out of the spot and leaves the parking lot for Resnick psychiatric hospital. He cracks the radio and peels out of the parking lot as the screen fades to black.
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Post by JonnyFNC on Feb 19, 2022 3:25:37 GMT
The scene opens to an empty IIW arena. It's all set up for keys to success. Jonny C walks through the curtain wearing a grey suit with his hair tied back. He is holding the IIW world title and pulling his wheelie bag. He stops at the top of the ramp looking around.
Jonny C - There is something to be said about being in the arena when it's empty. The lights are on, no asshole fans, everything is quiet. It gives the illusion of peace before turning into a modern day gladiator arena. The magnitude of what we do week in and week out can really be felt. That ring right down there is my happy place. It's the only place where everything in the world just seems to make sense. No matter if I win or lose I'm just happy to be in that ring doing what I do best. Obviously though I feel way better when I win. I know I come out here week after week and run my mouth like a like an absolute child but that's what I do. It's gotten me this far in life so it's not changing. At the end of the day though nothing that I say or what my opponent says matters in the least. All that matters is what happens in that ring from bell to bell. That's where you find out who the real men are and who the weak little boys are. I've managed to maintain my real man status and have continued to main event almost every single show that we put on here. That's because deep down we all know that I am the greatest wrestler to ever set foot in the IIW. This title that I'm holding proves that more than anything. It took me a long time to get back to this point to be the man here but I did it. I trained my ass off and worked harder than I ever have because I knew someone needed to save this company. I saw the direction we were heading in. I've seen it many times in the past and have been here for a long time. Shit needed to change and I knew I had to be the one to do it. That's why I'm out here more than anyone. Im the first face you see and the last face you see. I'm the hardest working wrestler that this company has ever seen. No one can outwork me. So when this place was struggling its most I picked up the mantle and I'm running with it. I'm a fighting champion, anyone that wants to get in the ring with me and challenge for it if I deem you worthy enough let's go baby. But that's where we get to Tyler.
Jonny walks down the ramp to the ringside area. He puts the world title on the ring apron.
Jonny C - Tyler for weeks now I've done nothing but come out here and attack your character. I've said some vile shit about you and your family. No, don't think I'm out here to apologize for that because I'm not. I stand behind every single thing I've said. I don't think you're worthy of a title shot because you've done nothing to earn it or prove that you even deserve to share a ring with me. I'm not going to sit out here and rehash why I feel that way. I've done that quite a bit so far and don't need to do it again. What it all boils down to is that I do not feel you're deserving of a shot of my title. I fully understand that you don't see it the same way I see it because we're different people. I'm a man of character and importance you're a man with mental illness. You're going to have to do a lot of work in that ring to prove to me that you're deserving to share it with someone at my level. I know how it looks. I'm going on and out about being a fighting champion and then sang that you don't deserve to even be in the ring with me. I fully understand how some people might see that as me being a coward or trying to run away from a fight. But I promise you that's not at all what I'm doing. I never once said I wasn't going to fight you Tyler in fact all I've gone on and on about is how I'm going to beat you so badly you're embarrassed and might change your whole gimmick again. I'm not trying to run away from a goddamn thing. It's more about how crappy the roster is in this company and how I don't really see any of you as a real threat to me. Part of me really wants you to come to that ring on Sunday night and 100% prove me wrong. I really want you to push me to my limit and make me work for that victory Tyler. I just don't see that happening in any way. Nothing you've shown me so far makes me think that you would be able to give me a run for my money in that ring. Now I'm not saying you're an all around shit wrestler not at all you do have some talent. That talent just isn't anywhere near the level of talent that I possess. Yes it's true I don't like you at all Tyler and I'm using this moment as a way to prove a point that you don't get in my way.
Jonny climbs the ring steps then steps through the ropes. He picks up the IIW world title and throws it over his shoulder.
Jonny C - We've been at this for a few months now Tyler, our cute little back-and-forth we've been having. That all started so simply and now look what's turned into. It all stems from disrespect and how I feel you saw me as an errand boy and you disrespected me by asking me to run a bullshit chore for you. I wasn't the champion back then and you weren't even close to being the number one contender back then and look at us now. I'm glad we get to do this on one of the grandest stages the IIW has. I'm glad that you're able to rise the ranks of the IIW and claim that number one contender spot. Even if I don't feel you deserve this match, that's a moot point right now because you have it and I need to do what I do best now. Our story is about to come to an end and you know what I'm feeling generous today so I'm going to spoil that ending for you. It's going to end with me hitting the F'N Point then penning your sorry sad ass in the middle of that ring to retain my world heavyweight championship. Then I'm going to stand over you holding that title high in the air so that you get a first hand experience of how great I truly am. You're going to be lying on your back staring up at me knowing you couldn't get the job done because you didn't deserve to share the ring with me. Once I'm done with you Tyler I'm knocking you all the way back down to curtain jerking where you actually belong. I hope you enjoy this 15 minutes of fame I'm giving you because once our match is done no one is going to remember that you even challenged for the title because you're such an insignificant part of this company. I would even go as far as I say you're a complete embarrassment to this company.
Jonny walks over to the corner of the ring. He climbs up and sits on the top turnbuckle.
Jonny C - The time for talking is nearing an end Tyler. I've said what I was gonna say and I really got nothing else without rehashing what I've already said. I've shown everyone why you don't deserve to be the number one contender. I've shown everyone that your family is the only reason you've gotten anything in this company so far. I even went to that dilapidated psychiatric hospital that you allegedly checked yourself into and got the real answers from your former doctor. It's a cute little narrative you're trying to spin about me being a liar. It didn't really work though because I've been able to call you on all of your bullshit. I presented irrefutable facts from medical professionals and video footage that's completely undoctored about how much you suck as a person. I definitely have the worst reputation hence why I call myself infamous and I don't care if you like me or not Tyler. But don't call me something I'm not. I'm a man of my word if nothing else. You claim you wanted to step inside the ring with the greatest to ever do this then that's exactly what you're getting Tyler and as we can all see now you just can't hang. I have outclassed you at every turn just like I said I would do. I stayed on you and where are you Tyler where have you been hiding my man. To me you look like a scared little girl hiding because you know anything you say I'm going to absolutely shit on and shove right back down your throat. You got nothing on me Tyler just like I said you wouldn't. I've gone out of my way to run my mouth and make you look like a goddamn fool and you've done nothing to make yourself look anything like a sane human being. You played right into my game. I told everyone you would and everyone didn't believe me but I've shown them I know exactly what you're gonna do before you do it Tyler. There's a reason why I'm in almost every main event on every show and you haven't been in Maybe a handful. My name means more than yours does Tyler and it always will. I'm not an embarrassment to this company like you. I'm not a legal liability to this company like you. I'm the face of this fucking company for a reason Tyler and you're gonna learn that 1st hand in the ring Sunday night.
Jonny runs his hands through his hair than takes the title belt off his shoulder and lays it across his lap.
Jonny C - This world title right here is the most important thing to me in my entire life. I worked my ass off to get it and I'm going to work even harder to keep it. No I'm not saying I'll have as long of a run as Jake did but you bet your ass is gonna be way more exciting. This title that I now have laying across my lap proves that I'm the greatest wrestler in this company. It validates every single thing I have said for the past year. It was a long road to get to this title and to me having it but I drove down that road with reckless abandon and got what I wanted. This title proves that I am the face of this company no it proves that I'm the face of professional wrestling as a whole. I've even branched out into other wrestling federations now and I'm holding victories there as well. I'm on a hot streaking in TPW, I'm gonna absolutely wipe the floor with my opponent at the Denzel Porter invitational. I even created a Twitter so that the entire Internet can see what I have to say. No one and I mean no one does more to get the name of IIW recognized more than I do. Everywhere I go I carry this title and I make sure everyone knows that this is the greatest wrestling federation on the planet bar none. I've become something of a big deal in the world of professional wrestling. Shit I was always a big deal but I found a way to make myself a bigger deal. Don't you worry Tyler IIW will always be my home. I will always care a hell of a lot more about what happens here than I will about anything else.
Jonny grabs the title then hops down off the top rope.
Jonny C - Tyler it's time to put up or shut up for me now. I've said I need to say now I need to get in that ring and do what I do best. I've said a lot of things and I've made a lot of bold claims and I will back up every single thing I have said. I'm not afraid of you and you're gonna see that when I come out of the corner when that bell rings like a raging rhino ready to tear your head off. Within the first 5 minutes you're gonna realize you've butten off way more than you can chew stepping in the ring with me. I'm going to show you exactly why I'm the world champion and exactly why I will be for the foreseeable future. Tyler I'm going to go out of my way to hurt you as much as I can. I don't want to just beat you in that ring, I want to absolutely destroy you and put this whole thing to rest. This isn't about finding out who the better wrestler is because I damn well know it's me. This is about proving a point to you that you stepped outside of your lane and I'm going to put you right fucking back in it. I'm already here at the arena where the hell are you man I haven't seen you in like a week it feels like. You would think as the challenger you'd be all over the place making a big big stink for yourself now that's what I would have done at least. You went in a different direction and that's exactly how I know I'm going to absolutely annihilate you in that ring. None of it means nearly as much to you as it means to me. This company is my everything. There's a reason why I've been here for 20 plus years and there's a reason why as long as the doors are opened I will continue to wrestle here. I may be spreading my wings and finding if I can hang another company's but I will always be here. Unlike you I will always be the first person through that curtain to promote a show. Unlike you I will be the last person to leave this building after a show. This place is my entire life and that's exactly what I want it to be. You're going to have to kill me in that ring to beat me Tyler and I promise you, you just don't have it in you to do that. Hell it took you and your father together to beat me and still I barely got beaten in that match. You knew that you needed help to take me on and that's embarrassing for you isn't it. But it's time to find out what you're made of Tyler because the witching hour is almost upon us. The talking's done well for me at least, now it's time for me to show you exactly why I am the world heavyweight champion and you're just a bullshit challenger.
Jonny steps out through the middle rope and hopes down off the ring apron. He walks up the ramp and pauses at the top. He looks around the arena. He walks through the curtain as the scene fades to black.
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Post by Tyler Debonair on Feb 19, 2022 15:57:05 GMT
***The door to the building opens on its own, with very little persuasion from Tyler at all. As he walks in, he sees that the corridors are completely empty, dark too except for the odd flashing overhead fluorescent that is somehow still working on this derelict former hospital. As Tyler approaches what was once the reception desk he feels something crack underneath his feet and looks down to see plastic tumblers, empty syringes, clipboards and other paraphernalia. His head swivels to look down a corridor, certain his name has just been called, but sees absolutely nobody as expected. He looks across at what used to be the waiting area and slowly makes his way over to one of the chairs, sitting down. He looks across from him and spots a man sitting opposite him, wearing a flannel shirt, jeans and a bucket hat; as if he were going fishing… He is also reading a newspaper, with the headline reading that “The outcome is inevitable.” With no story attached, the rest of the article looks as though it’s been scribbles with lines. The man doesn’t look at Tyler, he just addresses him***
Man: ”You okay, kid?”
Tyler: ”Yeah, I’m good… But I’m dreaming aren’t I?”
Man: ”What makes you say that, Tyler?”
Tyler: ”Oh I don’t know… The fact that I was with my pops, coming to see my partner and suddenly I’m in some squalid, remnants of what appears to have been a hospital at some point…”
Man: ”Oh, no… You’re definitely in the hospital you were heading to. Manchester general. You’re also here to see Stephanie. But you’ve closed up, into your mind…”
Tyler: ”And why would I have done that? There’s no reason for me to retire into myself in this situation.”
Man: ”Evidently someone wanted you here to talk to you…”
***Tyler stands and looks up and down each of the visible corridors, before turning back and finding that the man has gone. As he turns to look back at the reception desk he jumps out of his skin as standing in front of him, is his dad, Fred Debonair. All the lights are on, the building is definitely not derelict on the contrary it is busy and full of life with patients and hospital staff alike milling around. Tyler quickly moves out of the way as a Nurse passes by with someone in a wheelchair***
Fred: ”Hey, you ok??”
Tyler: ”Erm, yeah I’m fine. Why?”
Fred: ”You just look like you’ve seen a ghost, that’s all. The Nurse at the reception just told me where we can find Steph, come on this way man…”
***Fred heads off down one of the corridors, toward some elevators as Tyler looks back behind him at the seats. When he turns back and catches up with Fred, they spot Doctor Bryant approaching them from an elevator***
Doc: ”Fred, Tyler?! I’ve not even called you yet… How did you get here so quickly?”
Fred: ”Eh? What do you mean, Doc?”
Doc: ”It’s about Casie, some great news! Come with me to my office and we’ll talk.”
Tyler: ”My girlfriend, Steph, is actually here Doctor Bryant, that’s why we’ve come. Pops… You go talk with the Doc, I’ll see how Steph is and then meet you.”
Fred: ”You sure, son?”
***Tyler nods and presses the elevator button, as Fred walks off with Doctor Bryant. Tyler enters the elevator when it arrives and presses three. The doors close and Tyler yawns, rubbing his face as he moves upwards slowly. Suddenly the lights flicker in the elevator and it comes to an abrupt halt. Tyler narrows his eyes as the doors of the elevator open and confusion fogs his mind as he peers down the corridor, which again looks like an empty, derelict building. Tyler steps out of elevator and begins to walk down the corridor, stopping and freezing as one of the doorways along the passage begins to open. Swallowing hard Tyler continues to make his way toward the door when he spots the same man from earlier coming out from it and shutting it behind him***
Man: ”So you’ve made it up here at last, I see.”
Tyler: ”I guess so, but what is this? Some form of symbolism for where I am in life right now?”
Man: ”What? No, don’t be stupid man… You’re on the third floor of the hospital. You don’t need symbolism Tyler, you already know what’s coming and you already know why you’re here. Later this week you’ve got match against Johnny C, for the IIW World Championship! A man who’s been going around the entire planet chatting absolute shit about you…”
Tyler: ”What do you mean?”
Man: ”You’ll see… But that doesn’t matter, Tyler. What matters is what you already know. You’ve waited so long for this moment to come and finally you’ll get to show the world exactly why you’re in the match against Jonny C and exactly what you’re capable of…”
Tyler: ”Didn’t I already do that, when I took on John Cavanagh? Defending the International Title?”
Man: ”No, in case you forgot you lost that match and the belt…”
Tyler: ”Exactly…? I showed that I was capable of losing a belt that I carried for months.”
***The man tilts his head at Tyler’s words, as they walk down the hallway, Tyler stopping every two to three seconds because he can hear noises coming from somewhere. Whispering, shuffling, beeping. The man grabs at Tyler’s arm which sends him turning at a snap***
Man: ”What is this shit man...? What are you? Fifteen being rejected for the ball?! Am I going to have to sit here. No hey! You listen to me, don’t worry about that going on around you; it’s not visible to you right now! Am I going to have to sit here and listen to these sob stories when you’ve got such confidence and aggression about you, you could destroy anyone that tested you just like Thanos! At a snap.”
Tyler: ”Right, as you keep saying but let’s face facts. If I was going to be able to do everything you say my mind is willing me to do… Why didn’t I snap Cav? Why am I not still holding the International Championship and facing off against Russell Wayne this weekend?!”
Man: ”Because you’re about to step into the ring against Jonny C for the IIW World Title, you absolute moron!”
Tyler: ”You make an extremely good point, man what is all that noise?! Ghosts or some shit?!”
Man: ”Not quite… Erm, she wants to know if she can help you…”
***The man points behind Tyler who, as he turns, notices everything going back to normal and a Nurse at the station staring at him, as he gasps for air***
Nurse: ”Can I help you, sir?”
Tyler: ”Oh, yeah sorry… I’m looking for Stephanie LaCroix?”
Nurse: ”Ahh yes, the wrestling chick. She’s okay, just a little banged up. She’s in room six down the hall.”
***Tyler thanks the Nurse and begins to head down the hall, looking for room six. As he approaches the room, he slowly opens the little window blind on the door. He can see Steph half sat-up in the bed, watching some British soap opera on the TV. He wraps on the door a couple of times and slowly opens it poking his head inside. The smile on Steph’s face when she sees him, lights up the room and Tyler grins wide as he approaches her. That grin however turns to a slight grimace as he gets closer and sees how bruised up Steph is***
Tyler: ”Jesus Christ, did my sister do this to you, Steph?!”
Steph: ”I’m okay Ty’… Nothing I’ve not had from here and Jolie before, just somehow I was slightly less prepared this time. Knocked me out cold.”
Tyler: ”So you don’t know what happened after the match then?? With the fire and everything?”
Steph: ”Fire? What? No, not at all… What’s going on? Everyone ok?”
Tyler: ”For the most part, yeah. But there was a fire, or explosion or something and the whole arena had to be evacuated! It was crazy apparently, you guys have been moved to the IIW Combat Arena for the time being…”
***Tyler runs his hand over Steph’s bruises on her face and shakes his head. They share a soft kiss, then he looks back at the TV pulling a fade***
Tyler: ”I dunno why you watch this trash though, babe…?”
Steph: ”Oh no… No! You do not get to smack talk, Eastenders! This show puts Days of Our Lives to shame! And you know I’m seeing similarities here between Jonny C, you and two characters in the show.”
Tyler: ”Oh yeah? Do tell… I’m all ears.”
Steph: ”Well, take Jonny right? He’s just so much like Gray, apart from all the murder of course… Although I don’t know what’s in that guys past. But he’s a vindictive, manipulative son of a bitch, who tells a story he fabricated and repeats it over and over enough times that it actually becomes the truth. He’d sell his own mother for a story or to progress at anything.”
Tyler: ”Unsure about his mother, but he’d definitely sell Curtis… Again… So what about me?”
Steph: ”You’re like Jack Branning. Former cop, disgraced a number of times but also redeemed himself more than a number of times to balance it out. Hard, complicated family life and whilst not above the law, has definitely on a few occasions taken matters into his own hands in order to rectify a situation.”
Tyler: ”Well I can’t say that you’re wrong in any of that to be honest. Although I did think you were going to tell me we had a spiritual, new-age, hippie in this soap of yours! But hey a sociopathic degenerate who’s way too old to be playing the games he is, alongside a law abiding guy who wears his heart on his sleeve and more than willing to stir the pot if needs be, definitely fits the bill too!”
***Tyler stands as the credits to “Eastenders” start rolling and flicks it over to Netflix. One of the IIW build-up shows is available to watch and allegedly has something about Jonny C coming up. Tyler turns back to Steph***
Tyler: ”So do you remember anything? Before the incident even??”
Steph: ”Not really, I just remember that she and Jolie were going to jump Ada and I wanted to make sure it didn’t happen and the next thing I know is, I’m being assaulted and I blacked out at one stage, the next thing I remember is waking up here…”
Tyler: ”So, absolutely no idea where she and Jolie disappeared to after everything?”
Steph: ”None, sorry. But something needs to be done about that girl. She’ll be at the arena this weekend I’m sure, she’s got a match.”
Tyler: ”That’s good. I’m gonna speak to my pops, see if we can’t sort it out…”
***Tyler and Steph watch the TV as the scene cuts to something to do with Jonny C. Suddenly Nelly’s “#1” starts playing and Tyler reaches into his pocket for his phone. Steph just looks at him with her eyebrows raised as he takes the call***
Tyler: ”Pops, everything okay? What? Are you shitting me?! Man that’s great, okay I’ll be up soon!”
Steph: ”Hey, what’s up??”
Tyler: ”It’s Casie, the bleed on her brain has subsided, she’s healed up. They’re bringing her out of the coma and she’s waking up!”
Steph: ”Oh my God, what?! Come on then, we’ve got to get up there!”
Tyler: ”Woah! What are you doing?? You’ve got to rest, babe!“
Steph: ”You’re kidding right? I can come back and rest in a bit. I’m not missing this, come on.”
***Steph slides out of the bed, chucking a tee-shirt and pair of leggings on, before she and Tyler head for the elevator to the fourth floor… As Tyler shuts the door behind him and Steph the lights in the hospital begin to flicker. He closes his eyes, sighs and turns around and of course the hospital is dark, desolate and empty, except of course once again, for him… The man Tyler had already met and spoken to twice before is stood behind the Nurse’s Station but this time, he’s dressed in Surgeons Scrubs. He pulls off a pair of latex gloves and disposes of them in a waste bucket as he smiles at Tyler, walking toward him***
Man: ”I was there you know, the day Angeline gave birth to you… Not, in the room of course, but I was present.”
Tyler: ”That doesn’t make sense, she gave birth to us, so clearly you would have been in the room, as much as I was…?”
Man: ”I thought that’s what was going on here… Ahh, Tyler. You’re having these conversations with me, under the belief that I, am you…”
Tyler: ”Well, aren’t you?!?”
***The man smiles, almost apologetically as he pats a huge hand down on Tyler’s shoulder, patting it. He turns him toward the elevators and walks with him***
Man: ”No son, I am most certainly not. For one, I could never have climbed into a Wrestling ring… I’m more of a preparation in the wild kind of person, bow and arrow, machete, all that kind of stuff. But you know what this does tell me?”
Tyler: ”What’s that?”
Man: ”That looks can be deceiving. You see someone and they give off this air of importance, this sense of entitlement and because they’re carrying something heavy, that misconception about them floats on the wind like a bad smell… When in truth they’re obsessive and desperate, they’ve likely taken an age to get where they are and have what they do and… They’re scared and also a little pissed off, when they can see that there’s a very good chance that you could take it off them, at the drop of a hat.”
Tyler: ”Are you talking about…”
Man: ”You know I am, young man… You know I am. Now, you coming in??”
Tyler: ”What??”
***Suddenly the lights flicker back on and Tyler is standing right in front of his father who’s looking at him with a confused expression***
Fred: ”You good, son?”
Tyler: ”Er, yeah pops, I’m cool. You okay?”
Fred: ”Much better now, you coming in?”
***Tyler looks over through the window to Casie’s room and sees her stirring causing a smile to cross his lips. He signals to his dad to go on through as he follows behind and the scene slowly disintegrates…
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…The scene reopens in the middle of the waiting area to the hospital. Again, it is derelict, dark and looks like something out of a nightmare. Tyler is leaning against the back of one of the waiting area chairs, body moving as if he’s laughing at a private joke, or choking on something, but most likely laughing. He stands up and takes a deep breath in***
Tyler: ”I think I’ve figured it out… I’ve finally figured out the true mantra behind Jonny C’s identity. You’re the live-action reincarnation of the legendary Freddie Mercury right?! Why do I think that…? Because Jonny C, you my friend are THE GREAT PRETENDER!! You are like the Pied Piper of Hamlin, you are my friend for lack of a better way to put it… A Politician! Jonny you open your mouth and the word vomit just spews forth, out down your top, onto the floor and puddles around you… But those morons who listen to you speak seem to crawl on all fours and eat that shit up! And I don’t know why because well, quite frankly Jonny, you talk the utmost cranyway! I’ll come back to this a little later, because right now I need to ask you a very serious question, Jonny, one that could determine the very direction of our match at K2S! Are you suffering from early onset dementia, C-Man?!?
I’m asking you this, in all seriousness… Because Jonny I’m pretty sure you’re what? Even younger than my pops…? But you seem to have this habit of not remembering what you’ve already said man, that’s got to be exhausting, hasn’t it? I mean you went to this Priest, wherever that happened and you started talking about how Tyler Debonair hired help from Shaun Hart’s cronies and you even went on to talk about how I was part of that despite the air already being cleared with Curtis about that incident and he knows I’ve seen what’s happened since then and I’ve got his back. But I digress, my entire point here is simply Jonny… You’ve either forgotten that you’d already brought up this whole fantasised story from your head or… Or, you purposely said it again because you’re delusional and you think it’s going to actually make it a fact if you say it over and over again… Newsflash hoss, that’s not how any of this works.
You know it is quite amusing that you happened to get this interview with Howard Stern, because he and my pops go way back. Howard got the exclusive when Fred beat Kurt Ragnarok for the RWF World Title and when he won the RWF North American Title for the first time, against of all people my mom! But that’s neither here nor there it was just very interesting to say the least but Jonny, what was even more interesting was the absolute bile coming out of your mouth. You know there was a man once like you who lived in the most famous house in the world and he was the same way. He panicked loads, Jonny… He was desperate and he used to just say stuff in the hopes that people would believe everything he said and you know what? He had his fans, he had his loyal supporters and they listened with baited breath to every little thing he said, the only issue was when he came to providing the evidence behind his claims, Jonny…”
***Tyler continues to walk around the waiting area seats, running his hand along the backs of them as he moves toward the Nurse’s Station in the centre of the floor. He walks behind this desk and sits on a swivel chair that is just living behind the counter***
Tyler: ”Jonny, you told Stern that Tyler Debonair was not a challenge to you… You told him that this match essentially was a waste of your time. Now, I’m not quite sure Jonny boy if this was you attempting to get under a guys skin, or if you were just trying to psyche yourself up, that the upcoming match is going to be a walk in the park for you, spoiler hot-shot, it won’t be. And believe me when I say you won’t get under my skin either sunshine; how could you? I lived for five years in a mental institution when there was nothing wrong with me, I was then flown to England by my pops to compete in IIW without knowing who my financial backer was, being dragged from place to place and made to feel like I was going insane again… There’s literally nothing you can do or say that’ll trigger me, hoss, so why even try?? And as for me giving Curtis a rematch to see who’s really worthy of holding that belt? Let us not forget that I’ve already beaten your son once, in the International Title tournament… But hey tell you what, how about I give Curtis that rematch FOR the IIW World Title after I take it away from you, this weekend, hm?
The other absolutely baffling thing about your interview, brother; is the fact you’ve had to keep reminding everybody about the run-up to this match… I mean, who wouldn’t remember how you assaulted me for asking you to do me a solid? I mean I’ll admit I’ve learned my lesson in trusting people, but I genuinely figured you were a decent human being, but after the fact you allowed Osh to believe Curtis was potentially his, kind of says a lot so okay that was on me! But this repetitive chat, this constantly forgetting what has happened or what has been said… I’m honestly getting slightly concerned for you man, maybe you should go have a scan prior to our match. We could reschedule if you want? Maybe it’ll help, then when we’re both at full capacity we can go at it? Your call hoss! I’ve also got to laugh at Howard Stern’s attitude toward things like “a handicap match”, how much did you pay the guy to pretend he knows nothing about our industry, Jonny? It’s all rather suspect man…
So, when you were done repeating to Howard the same trash you spouted off to the invisible congregation and Father Bordovyu, about our Tag-Match that was indeed sanctioned by Bob Mitchell to continue as a two-on-one, after I laid your minion to rest and sent him home for being a cocky son of a bitch… Which you even changed the narrative there in the space of a week too! The big bad “Infamous” Jonny C, the man who has all but confirmed he would do anything to win… A man WHO HAS done some questionable things to win, crying like physically bitching about how a handicap match, played out like a handicap match?! Tsk tsk, I’m not sure whether I should be disappointed for you brother, or just plain old embarrassed! Oh and calling my pops old as dirt, you’re what…? Thirty eight this year…? My father has only just turned forty. So, maybe you should be filling out those applications to the old folks homes, eh?”
***The sound of chattering and movement can be heard around Tyler as he sits there in thought at the desk, before pushing the chair back and standing up attempting to switch on one of the monitors that is sat there, to not avail. He clicks his teeth before jumping off the small platform and begins walking toward some of the rooms, stopping to look into one, verifying it’s empty and continuing along***
Tyler: ”You know what we call what it is you’re doing, Jonny? This thing where you take yourself, your emotions, your actions and you pretend that it’s happening to somebody else? It’s called projection. However generally the projection is unconscious but you Jonny… You know exactly what you’re doing don’t you? I mean you paint this picture that Tyler Debonair is “scared” of you and yet he’s not the one making comments like he doesn’t deserve this shot and he hasn’t proven anything… The only one who looks shook here C-Man, is you! My record here is ten wins, two losses… Yours? Not much more than mine. You just happened to have had a few of your wins for bigger prizes and on bigger stages… However Jonny the record books and the rankings don’t lie. You may be holding that belt but you aren’t the top of the pyramid and neither am I however when I do beat you and I do take that belt away from you I will be top of the heap, king of the hill… And there ain’t a damn thing you or anyone else can do about it!
I’ll admit though, your interview was the comedic remedy I needed with everything that was going on lately… I just cannot believe how much Howard played along with it though! Is his show getting cancelled? Is he getting no sponsorship? I mean the money he must have needed is beyond comprehension… Your language is also undesirable man, but I wouldn’t expect anything less than that, from a cornered, rabid animal. You seriously think name calling is gonna do something, Jonny? You genuinely believe calling me a scared, disgusting whatever else it was you said, I mean I didn’t actually pay attention, but you’re swinging all these names around like we’re at the United Nations General Assembly and I haven’t got the first idea of what it is, you’re whinging about brother! And you saying I didn’t recover from my loss to John Cavanagh for the International Title says everything I need to know. I literally went on a second winning streak after that loss, Jonny… How about zipping the lips like the body bag you’re going to leave in, at K2S and use your actions to prove everything you’re saying! I’m not in your league? Already beaten you, can you say the same? Oh you *might* be able to after the Pay-Per-View, but right now we’re on an almost even keel… Don’t forget that, but remember I said almost.
And where in the world have you gotten this idea, that I would want, let alone expect, anyone from my family to get involved in our match?! Or is this just you wanting to put your stamp on the narrative again, Jonny? Tyler Debonair never has his family get involved in a match. Unless of course I’m being jumped by someone or my opponent decides to pull out a weapon on me or something, I’ve never had a family member step through the curtain, let alone climb into that ring. But Jonny you don’t seem to have an issue getting involved in matches yourself when it suits you right? Or, did you forget when you came down to the ring with a steel chair during my match with Curtis? You know, now that I think about it… What’s to say it wasn’t YOU who perhaps paid Shaun and his little group to come down and take Curtis out? Who’s to say this wasn’t your plan the whole time?! I bet that’s it, eh Jonny? Get everybody looking at Tyler Debonair over an incident that he’s never taken part in, whilst you play that very role… We all know you do whatever benefits your interests so perhaps you’d prefer to take me on than your own son. Perhaps this was, all you…”
***Tyler stops at a room that appears larger than the previous ones, he has passed. He steps inside as we witness what appears to be outlines or shadows of people walking around behind him. He walks toward a bed in the room that looks clean, freshly made and a world away from its dilapidated surroundings. He sits on the bed, sighs and lays back with his arms behind his head***
Tyler: ”You brag about how you’re “the champion for a reason”, Jonny. How you’ve sacrificed everything to be where you are and yet you say I don’t deserve to be the challenger for “your” Title… But here’s something I want to know, hoss and I really want you to be honest with yourself, when you answer… You seem to believe fully, in your heart that you beat Jake and knocked him off his perch, right? You believe that you made sure he didn’t retire as a champion, that you stripped him of his belt? Well Jonny, here’s food for thought… You said something the other night that I’m surprised you still haven’t realised in that oh so genius brain of yours Jonny… You said and I quote “Jake made the announcement that win or lose he was done with wrestling.” Did it ever occur to you, brother, that Jake just didn’t give a damn whether he walked out of that arena as the Champion? Did it ever enter your brain that, just as you continue to drill into peoples heads, Tyler had assistance getting where he is, Jake gave you a little boost up?! Think about it, man… Perhaps you’re not as worthy as a Champion, as you believe yourself to be, you may have just as easily been HANDED that belt, Jonny! And until you prove it at K2S, you’re nothing more than a PAPER Champion. You are AN INTERIM.
It’s amazing that your interview with Howard Stern went on longer than the Nile, longer than the Druzhba oil pipeline, longer than… Well you get the point! It went on forever, even his interview with Ozzy in nineteen ninety-seven didn’t last as long as yours did… I mean I like to talk but hoss, really? The droning of your voice is so monotone I don’t think you’ll be beating the likes of Morgan Freeman or Tom Hardy for storytelling anytime soon… But I genuinely don’t get what you hope to gain, from historically commentating on my time here in IIW, either… I mean telling people stuff that happened, after they too have witnessed it, has to be the most irksome quality someone… Anyone, can have! Do you genuinely think you’re doing something here, Jonny? I’m trying to figure it out because as you we both know who we are, what we did, in the past means nothing… I mean hell if it did I’d have written an entire series of novels on your exploits before we met but the truth is man, I don’t really care and I’m sure nobody cares about what I went through before I beat you and become the new IIW World Champion…
I’ve already corrected you once, Jonny, but I feel like it needs to happen again… Just because you either have this terrible knack for getting things wrong, or you just love the lies and propaganda; I feel it’s a little of both and in that regard you could definitely run for office, in Connecticut, that’s for sure… But Tyler has only ever lose two matches since he arrived in the IIW, one whole year ago, hoss… One of those was a Tag-team match against The Celtic Club and one was when I lost the International Title to John Cavanagh and when I had finally achieved full enlightenment after completing the seven stages of Alchemy, I hadn’t even faced Cav yet and I haven’t gone anywhere since… You see man? You aren’t even the best Jonathan here in the organisation brother! As I said earlier, you are a PRETENDER! You’ve also played off what I’ve gone through as some kind of hippy-dippy mumbo jumbo and the reason you’ve done that, Jonny, is because you don’t understand it and never could! I encompass light and positivity whereas you only see the negative surrounding you unless it is you and therein lies your problem and it’s what’s clouding your judgement going against me…”
***We hear the *ding* of an elevator which causes Tyler to sit up in the bed, stand and walk back out to the corridor. He looks toward the elevators and can see one is open, but there’s no light emanating from within. He begins to walk toward it, casually***
Tyler: ”For somebody who doesn’t care about what anyone else did the week before you take them on, Jonny, you sure seem hell bent on talking to Howard Stern about what Tyler was up to six months ago, bub! Has the word irony every crossed your path? You time and again to people, have offered up this weird flex about how you don’t have to spend the majority of your time, like Tyler Debonair, talking to other people about nonsense and yet you quite literally spent two hours in a booth doing exactly that to Howard Stern and his poor ears! Man, when are you going to get it into that skull of yours that you are what you represent? You, of all people have fallen at the first hurdle when taking me on! How have you not, since this match was booked, figured it out yet…? I’ll give you a little longer man but then I’m gonna have to cut the cord and explain it all to you in simplistic terms, ok? “Ooh people that are below me, people who are worse than me have to play catch up” man, do you hear yourself over all that overinflated ego? K2S is going to be fun, Jonny…
I’m the challenger for a reason, you’re the champion for a reason… That’s what you said Jonny and yes, you’re the champion over me because as you said yourself… YOU BEGGED Bob Mitchell for that fiftieth shot at Jake E. Dangerously! Remember that day we first met properly? When I thought you were cool but then realised you were a douchebag?! Tyler Debonair was third on the rankings like he is still now and Jonny C was nowhere to be seen! But low and behold like that after speaking with Bob Mitchell about how he lives, breathes and bleeds IIW so he deserves another shot at Jake and the title. And you want to keep spitting rhetoric about how I’M the one here of the two of us, that doesn’t deserve a shot at the IIW World Title?! Man you are every much a hypocrite, as you are weak and desperate! You haven’t earned the fight to call yourself a Champion yet Jonny! I’ll say it again. Pretender… And none of that I’m bigger than you bullshit is going to change that… You want me to prove I deserve a shot at the belt? Prove you deserve to be defending it! Simple.
Oh man I had to laugh also at this deluded belief you have that holding the belt you’re holding makes you “the best in the world”, at what Jonny? Because if you didn’t get into an industry that’s all about fans, all about travelling companions and all about the hype, why are you here?! What exactly ARE you the Champion of man? I’m supposed to be the one with the mental health issues buddy so what’s up?! You hold a belt you don’t even know how to represent and you want people to recognise you as a CHAMPION?! Please! So, tell me Jonny when I was the International Champion and you were chasing Jake, what did that make you? Were you a joke?! Were you a little bitch boy when you were storming into Bob Mitchell’s office grovelling for a shot at Jake’s Title? I mean, your very own logic dictates that to be the case but who am I to make that call? I mean I get it, Jonny, you feel some necessity here to boost yourself up by belittling your opponent constantly… But look at it like this, what happens if I beat you at K2S and take the World Title from you? You’ll look weak man, you’ll look pathetic, because a man you deemed to be so far off your level and so far beneath you, humbled you… And what happens if you manage to beat me and retain? What kind of match is that going to have been? What kind of CHAMPION will that make you, Jonny F’n C?! When your opponent is a feeble, unfortunate soul?! Let me spell it out for you, hoss… For you this whole scenario is a lose-lose!”
***Tyler reaches the elevator and steps inside, pressing G, before leaning back against the mirrors at the rear of the construct as the doors shut and it begins moving downward***
Tyler: ”You know, Jonny, all I’ve heard from you is how Tyler is a bitch, Tyler is weak, Tyler ran away… But then I’ve heard you counter it with how you know the things you’ve said have been bizarre and fantastical, essentially you’ve confirmed you’ve lied and just fabricated the entire pot… Why, though? It just makes you seem extremely hopeless and lost in a world of despair as the realisation hits you that Tyler Debonair just might be able to beat you and ruin your handful of weeks holding on to a belt that was never yours to begin with! I mean you’ve been doing nothing but screaming, shouting and cursing. Anger begets carelessness Jonny, just remember that. Keep your composure and you may just make it out of the match intact. I’ve listened to you and more than once you’ve lost it entirely when mentioning me and yet you seem to think that you’re in my head? My friend, the minute I handed you those crutches the seed was planted, I didn’t know we’d be here at this point though, or did I? But I’d already paid my entry fee, to your psyche Jonny, I’d already unpacked my bags… Where do you think that ego of yours developed, Jonny? Ask yourself that, consider what you were thinking before you went onto Howard’s show, why you were going to say one of the ten things you repeated at least ten times each throughout the show and learn the term conditioning and no, I don’t mean for that awesome hair of yours.
Brother why are you so angry? I mean I can quite literally see those… Little veins… Just popping up between your eyes on the bridge of your nose there, Jonny. Is it because the rent is due and I’ve yet to pay it? You know me living in that little cranium of yours rent free must be so annoying for you eh?! Although something I didn’t quite understand is why you told Stern that you have to play the waiting game, Jonny… Aren’t you the Champ? Aren’t you the litmus test here? Don’t you set the standards, hoss? Hm? So what is it you’re so afraid of, Champ?! Why is it you need to wait around for little old weak Tyler? Why does it matter where I am or what time I arrive man? Is it really that important to you? Does it really matter when I turn up, Jonny? Just know I will turn up and that’s what counts… It doesn’t matter if it’s today, tomorrow, last week. You can always bet I’ll be there when it counts!”
***The elevator door opens and Tyler steps out into a busy, bustling and thriving hospital reception area. It’s no longer dark and dreary nor is it depleted of personnel or equipment. Tyler smirks as he heads for the exit***
Tyler: ”The bottom line is simple, Jonny. You’re predictable and you’re transparent. You think you’re saying nothing and you’re dripping with ambiguity when really you’re setting your best laid plans out in front of me. You run your mouth so fast and so loose that one may even start mistaking you for a gentlemen of the night, Jonny… Slurp, slurp, slurp. You’re hypocritical and you’re contradictory hoss. You’re a watch me do this, but don’t do that, kind of guy and you have the ever loving stink of desperation, weakness and ultimate failure on you Jonny-boy… You’re a former Champ? So? You’re the current Champ? Hardly… You’re a man holding a belt that he hasn’t proved belongs around his waist yet. The problem is, your ego is bigger than my pops’ appetite or Steph’s ass, so you won’t even heed what I’ve said here today… It is nice to see you admit you’re that scared of losing the belt to me, you’re willing to get yourself disqualified to keep hold of it, brother…
I hope you’re ready for K2S Jonny, because the way you’ve been speaking about me, about the match, indicates otherwise. Your words indicate to me that you think this is going to be a breeze, that you’re just going to walk all over me. Massive mistake and hugely disrespectful hoss and trust me when I say I will beat the respect into you. And when all is said and done this weekend, you’ll come to understand why you don’t overlook anybody, any time… Enjoy your weekend, Jonny.”
***Tyler pulls a coin out of his pocket and tosses it in the air, as he walks out of the hospital. The coin floats in slow motion and hits the floor of the hospital reception area. The sliding doors close as the coin spoke to a stop, but before we see what it lands on, the scene begins to fade - to - black***
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Post by Tyler Debonair on Feb 20, 2022 23:49:31 GMT
***A week has passed since we last saw anything from Tyler or his family and as we fade in on todays story, we find ourselves at The Courthouse training facility, in the middle of Manchester. The ring clatters and bangs as we enter the building, watching two of The Academy students spar whilst the rest hang around the outside of the canvas watching. Rico Dominica has just nailed “Horrible” Stevie Hennessy with a DDT and the other guys and girls applaud it. As we move around the ringside area and towards the office, we see Fred Debonair inside on the phone, he’s smiling and talking animatedly as he laughs and finishes up the conversation. He opens the door to the office and looks all around***
Fred: ”Casie! Hey Casie where you at?!”
***Casie looks over the bannister from the living quarters upstairs as Fred flags her hurriedly. She raises an eyebrow and jogs down the stairs followed by Steph and Tyler***
Fred: ”Quick, it’s Jenny Fletcher from the office.”
Casie: ”Jenny, from the IIW office? What does she want me for?”
***Fred just shrugs as Casie walks into the office leaving Steph and Tyler to look at one another and walk away from all the noise, toward the exit of the Academy***
Tyler: ”I wonder what that’s all about?”
Steph: ”I don’t have a clue... But listen. You sure you wanna do all this?”
Tyler: ”More than sure, Steph. I’m walking into the lions den and I’m gonna do it proudly, head held high… Our “esteemed Champion” has no idea what’s coming.”
Steph: ”Okay but so long as you’re sure? I mean that whole thing isn’t the only den you’ll be walking into. You’ve still got triggers Tyler and it’s not even going to be Jonny that activates them at this stage, lord knows he hasn’t yet… You’ll be doing it all yourself.”
Tyler: ”Babe, I’ve got this. Like you say, he hasn’t triggered me yet and he won’t. I am my own worst enemy and I’m the only one I fear or worry about… Jonny has spent so long trying to get into my head, he didn’t realise after finding all the locks and bolts changed, he’d climbed through the window of the wrong property. I haven’t been inside my own head for a very long time, so I really don’t know how he figured he’d get there… But come K2S, he’ll understand that nothing he said stuck and he’s going to be fighting a man who’s Tabula Rasa… “
Steph: ”You’ve got this, Ty’, hey what time is your flight?”
***Tyler looks at his watch and grabs up his bag that’s laying by the door really quickly. He grabs Steph and kisses her***
Tyler: ”Shoot, not long now… Hey dad! I’ve gotta go catch my plane.”
***Fred, who’s been talking to one of the students who’s just finished sparring and giving him some tips, looks up and walks towards him, as Casie opens the office door really fast***
Casie: ”Steph! Come here quickly please! HEY FRANKIE DOLL?! You too wherever you are! Have a save trip Tyler!”
***Tyler smiles and waves at his aunt Casie, as Fred approaches him. Steph walks into the office, followed by Frankie who’s appeared from upstairs. They close the office door as Fred hold his hand out to Tyler who shakes it, but is pulled in for a hug***
Fred: ”Look son, I get why you’re doing this but…”
Tyler: ”Already had the talk with Steph, Pops, mind’s made up.”
Fred: ”Okay!”
***They pull out of the hug and Fred holds onto Tyler’s shoulders, sizing him up with a smile; not realising something has fallen out of his back pocket***
Fred: ”Man, when did you grow up?? Okay, okay you’ve gotta go. Go on, catch your plane!”
Tyler: ”Alright, I’m going. Hey Pops you’ve dropped your wallet.”
***Tyler leans down and hands his father the wallet, before noticing a small photograph has fallen out. He picks it up and turns it over, balking at what he’s seeing. The photograph is showing a man on a farm, sitting on a combine harvester, dressed in a flannel shirt, jeans and a bucket hat… The man he met at “the hospital” just over a week ago. He hands Fred the photo***
Tyler: ”Hey, who’s this??”
Fred: ”What? You’ve never seen this photo before?? That’s your Grandpa, Joseph, my dad.”
Tyler: ”Holy shit… I’ll be damned…”
Fred: ”Why? What’s up, son?”
Tyler: ”Oh, nothing it’s cool. But listen Pops I’ve really gotta go. Love you all! I’ll be back in a few days!”
***Tyler heads out of the door, looking at his plane ticket that reads “LAX”, he grins as the scene begins to dissipate***
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…As the scene picks up, we see an Airbus ACH175 chopper approaching a few hundred million acres of greenery in the middle of nowhere. As the chopper slowly descends and touches down on the grass, a door opens and before the rotors can stop spinning, “Jonny C” hops out and looks around, shielding his eyes from the Sun high above him. He smiles as things get quiet and raises his arms in the air***
“Jonny C”: “You know I really enjoyed being here so much this last week, I decided to pay another visit here and get a personal tour of the place, before I decide if I’m gonna come back permanently and reside here, once Tyler Debonair beats me and takes my precious away from me!”
***The man rips off his sunglasses and of course the wig he’s wearing, to reveal that obviously it’s not really Jonny C, but Tyler Debonair in the same get-up he was wearing the last time we saw him parading around as Jonny, on Mayhem. As he continues to walk, he reaches a huge sign that reads “Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital”. The smile slowly fades from Tyler’s face and he raises an eyebrow***
Tyler: ”Really, Jonny? I mean I know I said a week ago that you were predictable and transparent; but here?? Man you definitely took the bait, hook line and sinker didn’t you? You came out all guns blazing, you came out angry and so you decided on the only possible outcome you could think of, hoss… You provided a diagnoses of Mythomania, or as some people know it, Pseudologia Fantastica… Now we will get into that a little later but right now I’m honestly baffled at how you managed to get in here, Jonny?? I’ve seen your little investigation and I’ve seen people asking me Tyler are you sure that it wasn’t fake? But oh no, the setup was way too realistic, Jonny C was definitely here, he definitely decided to make this exceptionally personal and he did that because he was certain he was taking this to a level that would affect me. Wrong again Jonny! Oh and I definitely don’t know anyone working at Resnick, called Mike Hunt; but I’m pretty sure I know his Eastern European cousin, Yurak…”
Tyler winks at the camera, before stripping out of the rest of the “Jonny C” garb. He holds his arms out wide as he spins around looking up at the sky, laughing out loud***
Tyler: ”Man it’s so good to be back here, believe it or not… I’ve got some awful traumatic memories here, but I’ve also got some really good, deep, peaceful ones too. Jonny you should have told me you intended coming to Res man, I’d have shown you around the place personally! You see this is what I don’t understand Jonny! You went to such lengths to somehow sneak paid crisis actors into the center, I call them crisis actors by the way, because Jonny C is having a damn crisis, but I digress! I still don’t know how you got that guy past the security here, but you did… But why the hell didn’t you just open a Freedom of Information request and speak to the actual Doctors that treated me while I was here, J?! You’d have got way more juicy gossip for your showreel had your done that, brother. Like this guy, right here! Doctor Hankem!”
***Tyler extends his arm and a man walks into the frame. He has curly black hair and a goatee to match, he’s dressed in a relatively expensive suit, overshadowing the actual wage someone in his position would earn and he’s wearing a long white Doctor’s jacket over the suit, with a name tag to match. This is Doctor Hankem, the man who has treated Tyler since he first arrived at Resnick, over six years ago now***
Tyler: ”Doctor Hankem, it’s so good to see you! It’s been a while!”
Doctor Hankem: ”Hey, Tyler. You’re right it has been a while! I’ve been following your progress in the IIW over there in England and I’ve got to say you’ve really outdone yourself.”
Tyler: ”What exactly is it you mean by this comment, Doctor?”
Doctor Hankem: ”Well one year ago, when you told me at our very last meeting, you were travelling to England to be part of the Wrestling promotion… I laughed when you left the office, I’m not going to lie to you. But watching you over that time you’ve stuck to your goals and your aspirations and, despite the best efforts of your family to keep you safe by being at your side you’ve proven time and again that you’re “fit for purpose” and can do things alone.”
Tyler: ”Well thank you, Doc! That is very much appreciated and what about when you first met me, when I first signed myself into Resnick…?”
Doctor Hankem: ”Well when you first came here you were quite, delusional. You had hallucinations and…”
Tyler: ”Okay Doc, I think we’ll leave it there. I mean we don’t want to bore good ol’ Jonny C with stuff Tyler Debonair did before I met him in the ring, you know? Talking to you about nonsensical things and all that mumbo jumbo! Let’s face it, Doc, even if I sat back and let you tell the sordid, dark secrets of my past; Jonny would just dilute his own version and tell that anyway. It’s like Roland Joffé trying to reimagine a Sam Raimi movie, or Walt Becker trying to create a vision only seen by the likes of Tarantino! It sounds good when you look at the potential in the upcoming reviews, but the minute you’ve got your Nachos and your supreme Cola and you’re sat down post-trailers you just begin to realise that you should never have forsaken the original to begin with! And this is exactly what you’re going to learn, at K2S, Jonny… You walked straight into Arkham as you so eloquently put it and you declared yourself a hero, Jonny… Essentially stating that this right here is exactly where you should belong! Are you aware of the context of a hero, hoss? A person admired for their courage, outstanding achievements or noble qualities… Now whereas you may feel that’s you, I can safely say it isn’t… I mean firstly to be admired for anything you have to just simply be admired and I’m not sure what goes on in that brain of yours, Jonny, but not giving a damn about those who come to watch you in the ring? Yeah, buddy, not endearing!
Now I said you really came here, but you definitely didn’t go inside and you definitely didn’t speak to anybody who was associated with Tyler Debonair on either a personal or medical level, that’s for sure… And this is where I bring us back to something I mentioned beforehand, Jonny. Mythomania or as it’s also termed, Pseudologia Fantastica. Now my good friend, Doctor Hankem here will explain exactly what is meant by these terms and how it affects those who fall into categorised diagnoses…”
Doctor Hankem: ”Well yes, I’d be more than happy to, Tyler… So, Pseudologia Fantastica is a rare but extremely dramatic psychiatric presentation, in this state, a patient would represent certain fantasies as actual happenings. This illness goes by a few names, including the other you mentioned Tyler, Mythomania and the layman’s term, pathologic lying.”
Tyler: ”I see, Doc. So would you agree that somebody who let’s say… Told story upon story about another person ‘relying on others’ in matches or, that same person needing certain aspects of care and assistance when they in fact, do not all to make themselves feel better and more confident… Would be presenting with such a mental condition?”
Doctor Hankem: ”Yes, I absolutely would.”
Tyler: ”And would you agree that, the person in question could be, also in layman’s terms, deemed “a regular Walter Mitty”?”
Doctor Hankem: ”Again, this is something I would absolutely agree with.”
Tyler: ”Thank you very much, Doctor Hankem. No doubt then that this someone, should definitely be in this facility.”
***Doctor Hankem shakes Tyler’s hand and walks away as Tyler heads in the opposite direction, continuing across the hospital grounds. He removes his sunglasses as he’s now got his back to the Sun, placing them on his head***
Tyler: ”So you see, Jonathan… Whereas you just thought you were doing something so indirectly, so nonchalant, so “normal but funny” in order to trigger me, to get inside my head, to anger me in a way that would fog my brain and distract me from the true target at hand… You have opened up a doorway to your own mental state, you’ve opened a window to your soul and the truth behind the man, I use that term loosely; that you really are. You can’t do these things and “not” have an untreated condition that really should be discussed, it’s there Jonny. So in all seriousness when this is all said and done and you don’t have to do those mandated tasks a Champion signs up to do, because you won’t be the Champion anymore, you really should consider going to speak to somebody and really trying to get to the bottom of this… Thing… You’re going through, because I can assure you if you spent as much time digging inside your own head as you have mine the last couple of weeks, you’d be on some dope shit right now not caring a sailors harp what’s going on in the world right before you and I get to the brass tacks!
You know Steph loves her some British soaps as you’ve all been witness to recently, especially this Eastenders, personally I don’t go for any kind of soap but if I did, it would definitely be something from back here, back home. But you know I’ve found watching these diatribe’s masquerading as promos which are themselves masquerading as Telenovela’s from Jonny C, far more interesting! I mean you’ve got Tyler Debonair, one of the most recognisable faces on the West Coast even before I climbed into a ring thanks to my status and family name… You would think that any Doctor in this place would know about me and have followed me through my time in IIW when I left, so like paying Howard Stern to pretend he knows nothing about the industry, Jonny got these strange actors to pretend they know nothing about what I’ve been upto since leaving Resnick? And that they would believe that “Doctor Cashman” exists… It’s a masterpiece I’ll give you that Jonny, but you still haven’t found my Punctum Mordax yet, brother and you know what? You never will…
I don’t even have the energy to address the nonsense script you issued to this “Doctor Hunt” either if I’m honest, Jonny… It just upsets me so much that you went to the lengths you did to try and get a reaction that didn’t come. A reaction you’d likely have actually got, as I’ve mentioned, if you’d dig up some real dirt on Tyler Debonair. I mean Patient? Hospitals like this aren’t even legally allowed to call those who stay behind it’s doors patients anymore… It kind of ruins the ambience if you will, hoss. Your guy sure did not do any research into method acting for this role and if I were you, I’d probably make a very large note on a sticky pad somewhere, to never, EVER, use this guy again man… I mean both you and he tried way too hard, Jonny, way too hard. Did you decide to go for comedic value this time around or something? I’m honestly lost! For someone who doesn’t give a damn about how how he’s perceived, what people think or say about him, you sure are putting on a shit ton of effort to make somebody laugh, J!”
***Tyler shakes his head, closes his eyes and sighs. He stops at a fountain, in the center of the grounds and takes a seat***
Tyler: ”As you and everybody else know Jonny, I’ve never shied away from my time here at Resnick. As has been attested to, before now, my time here was purely voluntary and I used this space to complete a sacred ritual in the seven stages of Alchemy. We both know the facts and we both know the truth behind it all. None of what I’ve been through however makes up for your pathologic lying, as Doctor Hankem so kindly pointed out, I’m not sure who you’re trying to entertain or at least convince about Tyler Debonair’s history but you keep pushing little fella, you may actually find someone to buy into your story… You’re a snake oil salesman, Jonny, that’s all you are. You’re a conman, a charlatan, but do you know what? I’m better than you in every aspect. I’m a better Snake oil salesman than you, I’m a better grifter than you and I’m a better storyteller than you.
Let me tell you the one about the kid from Los Angeles, California, who spent all of his life trying to be the perfect individual. Not for his parents, his teachers or his peers, but for himself. That individual grew up to enter a Sanctum Sanctorum of sorts where he built his own persona through the use of his own magic… This individual had a sidekick who basically couldn’t cut it in the world his friend was from and turned to the dark side of money and pain, whilst the magic was still alive with our protagonist who moved halfway across the globe to enter another tribal institution to bring about the end of a seven staged journey and spend an entire three hundred and sixty-five years pushing his way through obstacle and checkpoint to get to the place he is now… When he walks into the IIW arena this weekend at K2S, looks you straight in the eye and shuts you down… There’s no doubt the match is going to be tough Jonny, probably almost as tough as my International Title match against Cav, but of course the stakes are higher, way higher… And I do not plan on letting things slip, not even a little bit.
And it didn’t take long, did it Jonno? For you to repeat yourself again… For you to keep pushing this false narrative about Tyler Debonair to anyone who’ll listen. A Priest you’ve probably known exceptionally well since you were young, Howard Stern and now some random stranger you probably pulled off of the Starnow website. You’ve spun the same old scenario over and over and over again and like I said JC, you’re predictable as almighty hell. I could see this line coming a mile off and I’ll be honest I was more than half expecting it… But I’m beginning to think you actually believe your own words, right about now. I think it started as you saying stuff you know full well weren’t true to see if it triggered me, but the more you go on and on about things, to every Tom, Dick and Harry you speak to… The more I’m convinced you’re just betrayed by your own consciousness…”
***Tyler stands back up and begins to walk toward the security checkpoint at the entrance and exit of the hospital, as his Airbus ACH175 takes off in the distance***
Tyler: ”It falls on deaf ears I suppose when you don’t know a lot about how the world truly works… When you’re stuck in your bubble and can only see as far as your blinkers will let you. Jonny becoming ZENsational, after going through the seven stages of Alchemy isn’t the “polar opposite” it’s the next evolutionary phase, brother… It’s the next step in what’s to come. You pass the seven stages and you enter in to the light, you enter what is evident and realisation. You become your better self and no matter what anybody tries to throw at you, you don’t buckle, you don’t fall to their whim… Are you getting it yet, Jonny? Are you comprehending that for every thought you have, you have two inaccurate thoughts…? I just don’t think you’ve fully grasped the gravity of the situation you’re in, have you Jonny?
You talk, talk, talk. But what it all boils down to is that your fantasist, bullshit, lying is only going to get you so far. Sure it may entertain the morons who don’t care that you actually despise them, they’ll see it as some form of comic relief you acting like a complete and utter moron but for those who understand what’s actually happening, for those who understand why you’re really the way you are, you just become another case, another portfolio number, just another investigation into behavioural attitudes of the ego, the ID and the wearer of the belt… Let’s narrow this down shall we? Always running away, always talking to himself, family always step in, changes persona, hasn’t proven he deserves a shot. And you know what I get from this, hoss? That you’re plain old scared of Tyler Debonair… I mean you say I’ve done nothing to prove I deserve a shot, the hierarchy don’t feel I deserve a shot and yet here I am with a shot? And it’s not like they just gave me it because they “felt bad”, or your first point becomes nothing more than what it’s known for being anyway, Jonny… Bullshit.
I mentioned brass tacks earlier Jonny so let’s get down to those shall we? Although honestly brother, I kind of feel like we’re going around in circles here. You say I don’t deserve a title shot, because I’ve done nothing to prove I do? I’ll give you that. Aside from being on a six, seven match winning streak, being ten and two, already beating you once prior to this one on one, holding the second highest tier Championship in the promotion previously and beating Curtis to become the number one contender for the Title, no… Jonny I’ve done nothing to prove I deserve to be here, where I am. Aside from doing everything my own way, unless someone or group of someone’s decided to get fresh, then and only then would anybody interfere for me. Hell my sister, auntie and girlfriend didn’t even get involved with in-ring action until Osh Vaughan purchased FCPW and created First Class, I didn’t even remember who Darius was until about two months into my tenure here and even then I wasn’t too trusting and my Pops? Hah! He didn’t even show up until the night I lost the International Title to John Cavanagh, hoss.”
***Tyler walks right up to the checkpoint and bumps fist with the guy on security duty, chats to him for a brief moment, as he continues on his way, then pulls the sunglasses back over his eyes***
Tyler: ”Let me ask you a question though, Jonny. What is it that makes you think you’re any different to me? Genuinely asking you this question not because I’m trying to trap you into answer I know you won’t give… Just because I’d like to know. I mean you’re entire demeanour this whole past couple of weeks and your attitude towards me being your opponent at K2S, kind of gives the perception that you most likely belong in one of these places more than I do. I mean think about it for a moment, Jonny… You’re running around thinking you’re this big badass deserving World Champions, shouting down the guy who’s got his shot around literally insulting everybody and their families, running your mouth… Now try and imagine what would happen if you were to be doing that on the street, brother… You would quite literally be committed and locked up, possibly here! And this is why I never judge a book by its cover, Jonny. You looked at me and you saw mental illness and not only did you see mental illness but you mocked it and that was a huge mistake on your part.
You spoke on me changing my “gimmick”, Jonny but what is a gimmick? Is it big hair, flamboyant clothes, rock star image? Is that the kind of thing you mean by, gimmick? I’ve never had one and never will. I painted my face because it’s who I was at the time, not a gimmick, I wore that getup every single day, even when I was at Target or Walmart… When I became enlightened it wasn’t a gimmick change, hoss, it was called having an ego death, seeing myself for who I truly am, realising that most of peoples beliefs these days are shit and I am my own truth. It’s as simple as that bub. You also speak of actually hoping I come to K2S and prove you wrong, Jonny, well be careful what you wish for because despite that already going to happen, I will definitely put a disclaimer on that wish and boost your expectations so high you’re going to wish you hadn’t had a thought in your head about how beneath you I am, how much better than me you are or how badly you believed you’d beat me…
You want to talk about disrespect, Jonny? You walk around here like you’re too good for everybody and you don’t show anybody that same courtesy you expect to be shown to you… But God forbid that one time the same response or confrontation is afforded to you, you quite literally run off crying like a bitch, dude! I mean what is with you? You wanna whinge about disrespect brother, respect has to be earned! You’d never earned my respect and by that token I had never earned yours at that stage but hey I had the fortitude to turn to you, explain what I’d done and why but admitted it was an error of judgement on my part. The fact you didn’t want to accept that Jonny, the fact you continued to look for a reason to go at me? That made it all the more sweeter, when you finally beat Jake and I, beat your son… You call me insignificant yet here I am, you call me an embarrassment yet there’s a very good chance you won’t be leaving with the IIW World Title this weekend and I will be…
You say I’ve been hiding Jonny but I’ve all been doing is sitting back, waiting for lie after lie, after lie… To come rolling out of your mouth. Waiting for those comments that just make you look like one stupid, petty little bitch that I’ve been able to prove you wrong and correct you on, every single time. You said the time for talking is almost over, Jonny… You’re right and as I’ve said this whole time, the only one of us talking is you, me? I’ve just sat here, chalked off your words on my “Jonny C comments and accusations” drinking and got myself hella drunk, hoss! I’m almost at a loss at how you believe anything that comes out of your own mouth too, brother. I’ve heard your claims and how I’ve done exactly what you’ve said? If, Jonny, by doing exactly what you said you meant I did the exact opposite of what you predicted, then yes I did exactly what you said! However… You Mr. Transparent, that’s another story. I mean you still don’t get it do you Jonathan? Take your little narrative and switch the main character from me to you… Go on do it, I dare you. Now read your little story back and see just how much better it fits. Do you have the balls to do that, Jonny? Do you really have the guts to see that play when putting yourself in that position? See you at K2S… Champ!”
***We pull back slowly as we see the Sun beginning to set as Tyler walks down the long driveway, away from Resnick… Humming Nelly’s “#1” as he struts off and the scene slowly begins to fade - to - black!***
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