The scene opens to the inside of Simon Terry's hotel room. A freshly cleaned room, since the maids have just left from tidying up the place. Simon is sitting on the sofa with the tv/vcr remote in his left hand. Simon's feels more relaxed now with his new clothing, he's dressed in a pair of bluejeans, an Atlanta Hawks basketball jersey and a black backwards Hurley baseball cap. He's watching a clip from the upcoming video "NEW's Greatest Matches" featuring the Wicked Clown Sea World Match, the latest with SBK versus Isaac Comelightly, and even one of his own, Simon Terry taking on Mikey for the Cruiserweight title.....
SC: Ladies and gentlemen, our next match is for the World Cruiswerweight Championship. It is cheduled for 1 fall. Coming to the ring at this time is the challenger, he is one half of The Downward Spiral, MIKEY!!!
MI: Mikey is surely no stranger to gold as he is a former Juniorweight Champion, but several think that he is simply hanging out int he shadows of his brother. Could tonight be his night to shine?
LN: Well, you know, he has a hell of a name to live up to. And that's how it goes when your big brother is in this business too and has been sucessful for so long. you have to do something to stand out.
("State Of Mind" by Killjay starts up on the PA as SST comes to the ring.)
SC: And his opponment, he is a member of the OWO and current reigning Cruiserweight Champion, Simple Simon Terry!!!
(Suddenly a man jumps the rails and attacks Simon Terry.)
MI: WHAT THE HELL???
LN: Who is that?
MI: I don't know, but HE JUST DROPPED SST ON THE RAILS FACE FIRST!!!
(The guy drags SST towards the ring, where Mikey leaps out all of a sudden with a Flying Space Tiger Dive into both men to a huge pop. Mikey pulls up SST and rolls him in the ring.)
SST v. Mikey (Cruiserweight Championship Match)
(Mikey is kicking at SST, does the "Bob On It" crotch chop to a huge pop, and kicks SST in the head.)
MI: Fans, I don't know how this man is that just attacked SST, but there must be some untold story here...
(Mikey pulls up SST and gouges his eyes and then starts to bite him in the face. The ref comes to pull Mikey off...1...2....3...4....5.... the ref pulls Mikey off of SST and the two start to argue. Suddenly, the man hops in the ring and pulls SST towards the ropes and chokes SST with the top rope and then drops off the apron and hides as SST holds his throat.)
LN: Whatever it is, there must be some deeply entrenched hatred between these two.
MI: SST is basically fighting a handicapped match here tonight, and...
(Mikey grabs SST by the hair, and SST hits Mikey with a low blow to the pop of the crowd.)
LN: WHAT?
MI: It's a shame Mikey doesn't have a voice, or else he could sing soprano right now...
(SST gets up slowly, and Mikey is still stooped over. SST goes for a DDT, and drops Mikey in the center of the ring. SST gets on top of Mikey and starts to pound away at him in the prone. SST points to the guy at ringside.)
SST: Trekker, this is for you!
(SST hits Mikey with a knee lift and hits the ropes and comes back with the guillotine kick to a pop. The man stares at SST.)
MI: Well, whoever this is, his name is apparently Trekker.
(SST goes for a pin, but the man gets on the apron and the ref goes over to get him off the apron. The fans boo as Trekker and the ref argue in the ropes. SST gets up and knocks Trekker off the apron to a huge pop and Mikey gets to his feet.)
LN: YOU BETTER TURN AROUND!!!
(SST turns around and gets a boot to the midsection from Mikey and Mikey drops him with a Michinoku Driver in the center of the ring. Mikey goes for the pin...1...2...3!!! The bell rings.)
SC: The winner of the match, and new World Cruiserweight Champion, Mikey!!!
Just as that match ends, Simon gets an odd look on his face. Probably thinking of how two mortal enimies could not only become a tag team, but become the tag team champions. Now, there's almost full trust between Rhemses Trekker and himself, even to the point of letting Rhemses change Simon't style. Simon stands and pulls out his cellphone. He's getting set for a busy day. First off he has an interview and photoshoot lined up for the inaugral issue of "NEW: More Wrestling, Less Gimmick" magazine. Simon has been set to be on the cover. The producers of the magazine have decided to wait on the covers featuring Shawn Stryker, Isaac Comelightly, Hardcore Jay, or now even Wicked Clown until the magazine has had the chance to take off at the stores. Secondly Simon is going to hit the gym for a huge workout. Later tonight, he supposed to meet up with Rhemses at a local restaurant for a meal and meeting to plan out their match against Hardcore Jay and Will Storm. Simon dials a number on his cellphone......
Simon: Hey, it's Simon.
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Simon: I'm down with what we talked about. Meet me in the garage area of the TCBY building tommorrow at around 12:30.
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Simon: I've got it.
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Simon: Six months.
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Simon: Nobody will think anything. People run into each other at the TCBY building all the time. It's no big deal.
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Simon: Cool, see you tommorrow.
Simon stand ups and grabs up a duffle bag of clothes, his Unified Alliance Tag Title, his cellphone, and a white Kangol hat that's sitting on the floor beside the sofa. He makes another call on his cellphone....
Simon: This is Mr. Terry in room 104, has the rental car that I ordered showed up yet?
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Simon: Cool, where can I pick the keys up?
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Simon: I'll be down in less than five minutes. Also, could you have a couple a cans of Red Bull waiting at the desk for me too? Oh, and call room 112 and tell my friend that I'm on my way down.
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Simon: Great. Thanks.
The scene closes as Simon begins making his way out of the room. We open back up to the inside of Simon's favorite style rental car, the Jeep Liberty. Simon tends to like the way the thing handles, plus it's spacious but not overly big. Simon is sitting in the drivers seat ready to make a trip to the TCBY building for his interview and photoshoot. His passenger, the friend from room 112, is Simon's latest fling Courtney Pelt. We've only seen her a couple of times with Simon. Her and her sister Ashley are aspiring actresses that met up with Simon and Rhemses in Colorado. Aspiring meaning that they've only done a few commercials, headshots, stuff like that. Before pulling off, Simon pops his Seether CD in the console.
Simon: How's your morning been?
Courtney: Okay, the room service breakfast could have been better.
Simon: Most hotel breakfast sucks. Better get used to it if you're planning on travelling alot.
Courtney: Guess so.
Simon: So what did your sister and Rhemses have planned to do today?
Courtney: Well, Ashley wanted to go to some of the malls. All she ever wants to do is shop.
Simon: I guess that's why her and Rhem get along so well.
Courtney: Are you nervous?
Simon: About what?
Courtney: You're going to be on the cover of the the first edition of NEW magazine. Doesn't that make you nervous?
Simon: It probably would have if it would have been four years ago. I'm kinda over all that stuff now. Besides, we've got the covershot already picked out. I'm just doing some more shots for the inside and the centerfold poster.
Courtney: That's funny.
Simon: What?
Courtney: Now we'll both have done a centerfold shot.
Simon: Yeah. I've got the copy of the cover in my duffle bag back there if you wanna' see it.
Courtney begins rummaging through the duffle bag until she comes across the cover in a manilla envelope. She pulls it out and looks it over.
Courtney: So you went ahead with your new image for the shot?
Simon: I thought it over, and the magazine should be as up to date as possible. With all the internet sites and stuff, it's hard for a magazine to keep up anyway.
Courtney: Why are they just doing the article on you? Shouldn't it be on you and Rhemses both?
Simon: They said that they would put alot about Rhemses in the article, but they wanted it to be mainly about me since my record in NEW is 7-0 since my return. They were already doing an article on Shawn being the new World Champion and they felt like if they had done it on Street Wise, it would pretty much be redundant. Josh said that some of the questions would be kinda' personal, but I only had to answer the ones I wanted to. It's going to be a mix of in ring and behind the scene questions.
Courtney: So is Rhemses okay with you getting the spotlight without him?
Simon: I'm sure it's going to bother him a little, but NEW has already told him that they would do a coverstory on him sometime in the future. So he's going to be okay with it. Plus, they are going to do an entire roster insert with like bios and pics and stuff too, so he'll get to be a part of the magazine anyway.
On that the scene fade out agains leaving us with nothing but the sound of "Broken" by Seether being played until we lose audio.
We open again this time in one of the many offices of the TCBY building in Little Rock. This is one of the newly renovated offices: new desk, freshly painted walls and cieling. Simon is sitting in a leather chair pushed in the corner, and there are two men sitting behind the two very tight desks in front of a large window. The younger of the two is Josh Mews, aka Loser Josh. He was given the job of executive producer of NEW: More Wrestling Less Gimmick Magazine. The older man's name is Jim Sheffield, his official title is Executive Editor.
Josh: Welcome to our office, Mr. Terry. I don't know if you've been introduced, but this is my collegue Jim Sheffield.
Jim: I was hired on by CEO AJ to be Executive Editor of MWLC Magazine. AJ saw me running an internet rumor site about wrestling. He enjoyed my work.
Simon: Glad one of us did.
Jim: I'm sorry you feel that way.
Simon: No, I'm sorry, I've never seen your work so I shouldn't critisize.
Jim: It's okay, I know internet reporters have a bad name in wrestling, but now I'm that I'm with NEW, I plan on working hard towards making this magazine work.
Josh: Simon, first off, we would like to get the bio section stuff out of the way. These are going to be some basic questions.
Simon: It's cool with me. Shoot.
Josh: Okay, first off what's your height?
Simon: Five feet, ten and one half inches.
Josh: Would it be okay if we bumped that up to 5'11"?
Simon: Fine by me.
Josh: Okay, weight?
Simon: Currenty two hundred twenty seven pounds, but I'm on a workout plan and I'm actually trying to put on about fifteen pounds.
Josh: Then 227 it is....for now...and where is it exactly that your consider your hometown?
Simon: That's a tough one, I've got three homes. One in Memphis Tennessee, one in Tupelo Mississippi, and one in Honolulu Hawaii. I guess I would call Tupelo actual home though.
Josh: Tupelo, Mississippi.
Simon: That's fine.
Josh: Okay, we know that your trademark finishers are the Simplesplash and The Laid Back. Okay if we print that?
Simon: I don't see what the problem is.
Jim: We just want to make sure everthing is running smoothly. We don't want any messups on the first issue.
Simon: I gotcha.
Josh: Okay, one more thing. We've written out a brief bio, I'm going to go over it and you tell me what's okay and not okay with it.
Simon: Cool.
Josh: "When Simon Terry returned to NEW after a four month period of fighting alcoholism and depression, many wondered if he would be on top of his game. Within mere weeks of his return, the fans realized that Simon wasn't only back to his old self, but even better than before. The former Major League World champion, and NEW Cruiserweight Champion has lightened up his serious side inside and outside the ring to find something that works not only for him, but the fans as well. A strange alliance with former enemy Rhemses Trekker has boosted Simon not only as singles star, but back to his tag team roots. He and Rhemses are the current Unified Alliance Tag Team Champions, and the future looks even more promising for Simple Simon Terry." How's that?
Simon: One problem.
Josh: Just say it.
Simon: I'm planning on dropping the "Simple" from my name. Instead of saying Simple Simon Terry in that last sentence, I'd rather you just say SST.
Josh: Fine with me. Does AJ know about this plan?
Simon: I haven't gotten a chance to talk to him personally but I've left him a voice-mail. I'm sure he doesn't have a problem with it.
Josh: We've got to run everything by him before it goes to print anyway.
Simon: I'll have talked to him before then anyway.
Josh: That's about it on the basic bio stuff. We're planning on doing that with everyone in NEW. I'm going to have my secretary round up some coffee for us before we go on the coverstory interview. Janet's all set up in the promotional room to do the photoshoot. If you'd like to go ahead and get that out of the way first, I'll see if my secretary can have us some lunch set up during the interview.
Simon: Sounds fine, I've got until around 3:00 to get all this finished before I hit the gym for a workout.
Josh: We'll be finished in plenty of time for you to get there.
On that the scene fades once again.
