| Backwards |
| {The door opens, Osbourne passes through and he is in 1997 Nashville, Tennessee. He knows the spot well, it is the bathroom of his penthouse level at the Nitemare Club, his downtown Nashville nightime entertainment megaplex, and known hang out of several professional wrestlers including the fabled Horsemen. Rob has a momentary flood of memories about hs old "home" in the penthouse office of his nightclub. Suddenly the sound of laughter can be heard from the owners lounge that he and his stablemates occupied. Unlike the other portals, where it was only him and his host, this time though the club is as it would be on any given night, especially so when the Horsemen were in town with Rob. Yes, the club is in its prime, when business was booming. Rob sees several "regulars" around the bar and dancing near the DJ booth. In his usual spot sits, at that time a virtual unknown in the sport, but a man that would grow to be both a nuisance and an ally, a brother even, Pledge Alligence. But for now, in this time, he was just Pledge. He was an old enemy of Blast's but Rob thought he was ok and let him run a tab at the popular club. Pledge spots Rob eyeing him, and meanders across the room slugging on his MGD en route. He walks up to Osbourne, who would normally be flogged with attention where he is right now, and shouts to him...} |
| Pledge: HEY! FOLLOW ME DUDE, AND DON'T WORRY NO ONE IN HERE CAN SEE OR HERE EITHER OF US. LET'S GO TO YOUR OFFICE. {Rob follows the younger, more muscular than he had remembered Pledge up to his office where he had just emerged from. They close the door and exchange greetings. Rob fills him in on what he has learned thus far.} Pledge: So obviously brother, this match with Maniac in the MWWF is some cosmic moment in your life. It is this weekend, and we are all supposed to fly out on the company plane first thing in the morning and be at the arena the next day at noon. When are you leaving? Rob: Well, this is my past, so i can answer that one. I leave here at 11:15 day of. You have to understand Pledge, we knew what was going to go down, on our parts at least, so why obey the rules and get there on time? What ere they gonna d, fire us? Pledge: Dually noted. I mean, I guess I can see how it changed your life. But what do I have to do with it all? Rob: Because brother, you are th eone who told me to go back to the CWF a month and a half ago. You are supposed to be putting the finishing touches on several big contracts setting up a huge return of The Russo Family. Pledge: The Russo Family? Rob: You get a manager named Don Russo and he plays the part of a mafia Don. You are his Consigniere and his personal bodyguard. It lights your career on fire. Pledge: My career? Be honest Rob, i can barely talk them into letting me curtain jerk, let alone mid card. I'm lucky to make any money in the ring. I make my living and stay in shape as part of the ring crew. I've got a long hard road in front of me Mr. Osbourne. Rob: Pledge, I'm telling you right now, you get a dude named Don Russo to be your manager and your career skyrockets on fire because of it. Wait...that wasn't all. You intensified your feud with Blast by coming to the MWWF when we left.... Rob and Pledge: After the Stayin' Alive show...... Pledge: Wow, so maybe this moment right here, right now is when I got the idea to do the Mafioso thing. And you leaving makes my quick rise possible. Wow, i guess that match changed alot of careers didn't it? Rob: You got that right. I guess I never thought about it like that. Shit. And it had to happen, just like Nitemare/Maniac 3 has to happen. Pledge: That's the ticket brother. Always in motion the future is. Rob: Word.... {The scene changes as the club disslves around him and he is in nothingness with just The Portal before him.} |