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-= Getting Down To Business =-

I sat up on the couch a bit as I reflected on the pay per view and the pain and agony that I went through. I reflected on the trip to the hospital as a smile came across my face.

Man Steve Jason you are truly undeniable.....you are undeniably tough to keep down. I gave you almost everything I could dish out to you ,but you were able to stand for one whole second. You were able to grab victory for that one whole second before you crashed to the ground next to me. You see Steve Jason the record books may have you down with a victory over me ,but did anyone really win? I mean look at us both right now. We are both broken and battered. You see Steve Jason I did take something away from you at the pay per view. You weren't able to walk away the victor of the match. You were carried off in the Ambulance behind me. Yet another thing I sensed is that I got in your head. I mean you pulled out the rarest move in your arsenal to take out me out. An S4 off the stage. You almost ended yourself in the process. Yet Steve Jason don't think that this little loss is going to slow me down. No quite not. This match has made me realize that I am truly the next big thing in this company. I mean I took the best of the rest of the PDW has to offer to his limit. I made you throw everything at me. You see that is pretty damn astonishing considering that was my fourth professional match ever. You see Steve Jason, I am sure we will me up again ,but that time though Steve you will be on the other end of the win loss column. You will taste the bitterness of defeat. You see Steve Jason you gave me a renewed sense of confidence. Something that I lost after the Cyber Championship loss. You see this week is a start of a new beginning for Giovianni Aries. This is a new direction for me. I am going to prove to the world that I am indeed Platinum's Only Prodigy. Yet my body will have to endure yet another week of pain as I am booked with Nicholas Jaxx in a hardcore tag team match against a mentor and a student.

I let out a slight chuckle as I remember John Raide's rant and raving.

Stop the presses it seems the PDW has found a new old hero to save them from the big old mean Pantheon. I mean really what the fuck is it with people thinking they are going to take down us down? This hero epidemic needs to really chill out a bit. I mean really Steve Jason tried it and guess what we are still kicking. Hell we are stronger after Angel's lame attempt to cut us down to size. We now hold three of the four active titles. I almost ended the career of Steve Jason. I mean really John Raide thinks he can leave the local AA meetings and come back to the PDW to destroy the Pantheon? He says there was a crying for help. You see it seems John Raide has shown up too little too late. He rants about Joshua Payne like he is nothing. Well John I guess half of the roster to proved that. Then again that call you were telling people about came before the PDW little revolt on Joshua Payne. You see John Raide you have came back to take down a force that is nothing more than a ghost of what it is right now. You see maybe you didn't have your hearing aide turn up when Pete told the world that the Pantheon was going in another direction. We aren't looking for a war only validation that we are the greatest collection of wrestlers the world has ever seen. Yet don't let the facts of the matter get in the way of your mission to take us down. Don't let the fact that you are teaming up with a guy that has lost who he truly is. Though I will get to him a little later on.

You see John Raide your ego has led you a strayed down a path that only leads to a dead end. You want to believe that you can come back any time you want and reclaim the throne at the top of the mountain? You believe that you could had stopped Joshua Payne from winning the Platinum title? Please John, you couldn't stop drinking long enough to do that. So why should the PDW rejoice that an old drunk bastard has returned to save them from us? I mean really why should we even care about your little mission? Really John you are so caught up in the past that you can't recognize the present that is standing across the ring from you. You talk about the past titans of wrestling and can't see the new titans of wrestling are standing across from you. You see John Raide your reign has evaporated into the bottles of Jack Daniels. You are desperately hanging on to the past hoping that history will repeat itself. You are hoping that your old body still has what it takes to make it back to the top. See John you want to pretend that you just passed the torch ,but in reality we just grabbed it from you. We have become more of a force that you could have ever dreamed of. You see you may want us to believe this tall tale of how you were the one that single handily made the PDW what it is today ,but your stories are just falling on deaf ears. John Raide we don't care what you did, we don't care who you are. Hell before the pay per view I never even heard of your name. I went back and saw you were the Platinum Champion congrats. Yet I also know that you pissed it away. You know how the PDW pissed away supposedly everything you gave them. John Raide I see right through you. Your ego hides the fact that you are sore that no one cares about you. You are mad that nobody ever remembers you name. Your ego is going to be the death of you. I mean I look at a man who is nothing more than a former shell of himself. I see a man who glory days have already passed him. And yet you can look at the camera in a straight face and tell us that we are going to be taken down by you? Don't make me laugh. I don't think my ribs could take it. 

You see John Raide you may want to believe it in your own little drunken state of mind. You may want to think that Jaxx and me are below you yet the reality of the fact is that you have just pulled yourself from some gutter and trying to throw around wild accusations hoping you may land one on us. You think that we should really be impressed that you were in the Platinum chamber. So you signed with company before us. You think I saw should be awed at the fact that you ascended to the top of the likes of Jake Matthews and Julian Dark? Well guess what, now you can say that you were there to see Jaxx and Aries ascended to the top of the Dynasty food chain. You were there to see the Pantheon hold all the titles in the PDW. You can tell your great grandkids about the time you faced the Pantheon. You can tell them how you were proved as nothing more than a false prophet. You can tell them how you saw the greatest team ever to grace the Dynasty grounds. You see John Raide you are not stepping into the ring with a guy that can't control his emotions, we are not Joshua Payne. Rather we are the Platinum Stamped Sinners. We are the stamped with greatness and even in your drunken state you will be able to see that after this match.

We will prove that we are not surrounded by false illusions of ourselves. We are not trying to hide anything. You may want to believe that we are nothing more than guys that can talk the talk ,but can't walk the walk. You want to believe that we are nothing more than mindless sheep following the herd. Yet your beliefs are built on nothing more than false hope. False hope that we are do fall apart. Yet you don't get it. Pete and Jaxx have been doing this together for over seven years now. Why would the fall of Joshua hurt us? Really it had opened our eyes. We have taken notice that all Joshua wanted was a security blanket for his Platinum title. I mean after all isn't knowledge a sign of strength? You see John Raide, there is no little brush fire to turn into one of those California fires that wipes out half of the state. We are not going fall to pieces. I mean that is what you hope we do. You hope we just lose direction and drift apart yet really we are truly more united than ever. You wanted us to splinter so it would make it possible for you to take us down. Sorry to disappoint you ,but that isn't going to happen. We are going to be even stronger now that we don't have to deal with that paranoid psycho in the group. We can finally focus on greatness rather than some invisible war. You see John Raide, you came out of retirement only to be forced back into the nursing home by the Pantheon. John Raide, the Pantheon will never fade as we are marking our legacy right now. Yet the only thing that will fade is you back into a bottle of Jack after we defeat you and Inferno at Disclosure.

I readjust myself to find a less painful way to sit up as my thought process then changes to Inferno.

As Inferno will have to now seek help from another person. You see Inferno you are putting your faith in a false prophet. He is a guy that has promised you are rise from your recent losing form. He has promised you that he will help ascend to the top. The only problem with that is you will still be below the Pantheon. You will still be just one notch below us. Yet don't listen to me, go listen to a guy that has hid away in the bottle of Jack for the last couple of month. Listen to a guy that has coward away in a drunken state the last couple of months. Yeah that is the guy to listen to. You see Inferno you have lost all hope. I mean you are looking for help under the wrong rocks. You think that this losing streak is going to end now that you have aligned yourself with the Crimson King? Please you have just aligned yourself with a target. At Disclosure if you thought the loss of your Next Big Thing title felt bad, just wait till Jaxx and I get done with you two. You see Inferno you seek an identity now that you are lost in the shuffle that is mediocrity of the roster. You now look to reclaim that taste victory as do I. I know what you are going through yet I have found the answer. You see Inferno I didn't enlist the help of an old drunk rather I looked inside of myself and found what I was made of. I know that I go past the limits that I once set for me. I now have new definition of my threshold for pain. You see Inferno, I know who I am now. I know I am this company's only prodigy. I mean really I have taken the savior of the PDW and had him carried out on the stretcher after our match in just my fourth match. I have got the attention of everyone including the Crimson King.

Inferno, though you are now nothing more than a lost soul that will have to endure the wrath of the Pantheon. You chose the wrong person. Now you have found yourself in the wrong place at the wrong time. You are reliving Hitchcock's North by Northwest. You have found an mistaken identity. That identity will only lead you in one more loss and one more beating. You see Inferno you have put your trust into a disillusioned old man. You are trusting that he helps you back to the glory that you seek. Yet you will only be led out to the pasture with him. You will be led out behind the shed and taken out Old Yeller style. Yet don't get down after all you will at least go down beside a supposed Titan of the PDW. Too bad nobody will remember you two.

You see Inferno, you had been confused by the illusion of grandeur. You want so bad to be at the top of the Dynasty that you are willing to do anything. You see Inferno it is not your fault that you won't ever reach the top of the PDW. It simply the face that you won't reach the top because of the Pantheon is perched atop that mountain now. We have made ourselves quite at home at the top of the PDW. You know Raide's supposed throne. And the bad thing for you is that we don't plan on stepping aside anytime soon. You see Inferno you have lost your step and can't seem to get back in to rhythm. You are always one step off just like at Speak No Evil. You were one step off from moving out of the way from Draven's finisher. You were one step off from retaining the title. Though don't think this match is going to be the match that you find your step and get back into sync. Don't think this match is where you find yourself. You see Jaxx and I are going to make an statement of you two. We are going to throw our hats in as the best tag team in this business. We are going to prove that we are the best now that Joshua Payne and Pete Ebdon are out of the picture right now. You see Inferno, you and your mentor are a lost cause. You two want to believe so much that you belong along side of us ,but then again little children believe in Santa Claus too.

Inferno, you see you have been sold an imitation line of shit by John Raide. It's just to bad that you can't get a refund on that. You have been sold down the river for a beating that you will soon not forget. You see Inferno we all make wrong choices in life, like my choice of marrying my ex-wife and we all must suffer the consequences of those choices. Inferno your choice has led you to yet another loss. Although Jaxx and I are not going to get cheap victory or steal a victory away from you like Draven did. Oh no we are going systemically beat you down with your drunken old bastard of a tag partner. You don't believe us? It doesn't really matter to us what you want to believe as you will know the truth when the big L is stamped on you two by the Platinum Stamped Sinners. You see John Raide and Inferno you want to actually believe you are better than us, yet at Disclosure you will see that believing and being are two different things entirely.

I let out a smirk at the last sentence knowing that Jaxx and I are going to prove to the world that we are the greatest tag team ever to grace the grounds of the Dynasty grounds. I then sink back down taken the pain and pressure off my ribs of sitting up as I pop two more Loratabs 10's before I drift off to sleep.

-=FADE TO BLACK=-