The scene opens at Joe Cool's home in East Rutherford, New Jersey, where he is watching over tapes of Kanich's return on WWW and laughing quietly to himself. He then takes two tapes which contain Reaper and Arkangel's promos. After watching them, he laughs again and sets them on the television. He walks over to his closet and pulls out his jet black "Coroner" jacket, and heads out the door. It's cold here in NJ, as snow has fallen all over the snow. We hear the snow crunch as Joe steps over it and makes his way to his car and steps inside, then drives off to ICW HQ.
Joe arrives quickly, then goes inside where it is closed for holidays. Joe's not ready to close yet. He unlocks the door and goes inside, then goes to his office, which is pitch black except for the lamp on his desk, which he just turned on. He sets down his jacket and keys and sits down at his desk, turning on the computer. A low hum can be heard as it boots up. Joe types something in his schedule, which lists all the dates ICW will be going to. After finishing he sits thinking, and when he can't stand the silence, he opens up the CD-ROM drive on his computer and loads in his Mushroomhead cd and turns it up. He goes to the a/v(audio/video) room and grabs a camera and blank tape, he then turns on the camera to speak.

Amazing isn't it? You tell people to fuck off, and they don't listen. This is what happens when you don't listen. What the hell was I thinking? I put myself in a match with Arkangel and Reaper, two DF guys who are going to give me one hell of a fight? And I had to go and pick KANICH of all people as a partner?! Shit I can't belive the shit I get myself into. There will be lawsuits aplenty for this. And I know one thing, WWW is sure gonna suck....

To be Reaper and Arkangel...(grins)

It Has Begun

What's the matter guys? Thought I'd give you credit? Why? You give me none. Credit is given where credit is due, and you sure as hell aren't due for any. Let's see, you cheat your way through matches, Arkangel injured himself in the process of trying to screw Orb out of the title, Reaper tried to attack a fellow ICW wrestler for the fact that he didn't have a match due to various injuries from his opponent? You think that's supposed to impress me? Oh Arkangel, when you "won" your World title, you climbed a ladder. Think about that, it's not hard to run from your opponent, run up a ladder, and steal something, now is it? Did you pin anyone to get that title? Did you make anyone submit? No. That's why you don't get any respect. You had the US title, and then vacated it because you felt it wasn't good enough! Hell it's too good for you! The BTC title is too good for you! Oh yeah, you defended it 5 times, so did two guys before you and one guy after you. You seem to be extremely cocky for no particular reason at all. And then when Raccoon beat you all those months ago, you acted like I had something to do with it? Let's watch the tape here.

Joe pulls out a tape which says "Arkangel vs Raccoon, WC", and it shows Raccoon nail the RacGore on Arkangel, and then Joe make a fair count, 1.....2.....3

See? Video proof says you suck! You take a look at my win/loss record, and you might say that I haven't won much here in ICW. My losses are to Taker, who is in the HOF for lifetime achivement, Judgement, who is now my TT partner and one of my best friends, and I jobbed some punk that I was going to have in the Pac, but when he was too stupid for his own good I fired his ass in a heartbeat. Take a look at my bio, it says plainly where I stand with titles. I've beaten the greats. Westside G-Money, Express, Taker, Fate, people that you could never even hold a jock for. You haven't heard of some of them because you're still green and wet behind the ears. You don't know about the hard knocks of the business, and when PPV rolls around on Friday, you'll learn all about them, because I'm gonna knock you down on one side of the ring, and then knock you out on the other side.

So Who Says We're Afraid?

The business man who pretends to be a wrestler? Then I guess that makes you the little bitch who pretends to be a badass, huh? I mean come on, you look like a pansy that's taken way too many steroids! And if you did take all those steriods...well let's not get into that. Too mindless to have a clue also makes me laugh. You act like, I'm supposed to be scared of you! Like you actually matter! You don't matter, you're nothing but an airbag, buddy. Stop blowing smoke up our asses because you aren't good, and you never have been. You're just being kept here for jobber fodder, a curtain jerker. Not a damn person gives a shit whether you win or lose, your matches are usually when ICW's vending carts get the most business, if you catch my drift. It's you who are too mindless, when you got you hand far away from the pulse, shoved right up your ass. You are so full of yourself, that you think any match is a clear breeze, then you underestimate your opponent and you get your ass kicked. I DARE you to underestimate Kanich and I. You don't know what you've gotten yourself into, and you won't know what hit you when it's over. You're too young, you're too cocky. And you want to know WHY I know this?

I've seen carbon copies of you. They roll in, talk big, win against a few unknowns, lose to the big names, collect their checks and roll out. There are the rare few that just haven't hit their peak yet, but I honestly don't see you as one of them. For crying out loud, who says that two hall of famers, not to mention legends aren't going to stand a chance? Reaper doesn't admit it, but you KNOW he's not taking this match lightly. At least he's got brains on his side, and you have neither common sense or intellengence, let alone the ability to put up a decent fight. I'd ramble on, but you still have lots more hot air that I need to adress.

Oh yeah, just to clarify, I do not own a blue suit, but several gray and black ones.

Let's See What I'm Made Of

Anyway, you don't realize that I too have been training. I train every day! I don't have any matches half the time, but I train anyway. I've developed more moves to my moveset, and I've become better at landing the ones I got suddenly and swiftly, and let's not forget, that leg of yours has a huge bullseye on it, and I am going to tear into it. Ask Kanich what happened when I injured his shoulder and we had a match? He could barely move his arm when the match was over. And that's a gignatic arm, with huge muscles that I ended up momentarily crippling, and he still won the match! Using that weakened, injured arm, he took the rest of his strength to pull me into a shortarm clothesline, then he passed out of the cage door. Have you ever done this? We battled for almost 40 minutes in that 3 stages of hell match. Time is my friend, as my body is conditioned to fight, and fight for long periods of time. I don't quit, I don't submit, and unless I have no breath in my body, or I am knocked completely unconsious, you are not getting a pinfall on me.

Now you say I hide behind my desk, and I don't control my fate? Who the hell talks about stupid topics like "controlling fate"? Oh yeah, Fate. Ripping off lines from someone isn't a good way to get brownie points Arky. As far as hiding behind my desk goes, you're not exactly the all mighty giant killer yourself, you tried to hit Orb with a sledgehammer, nailed Reaper, and Orb threw you outside on your ass, injuring your leg. You know what I heard Reaper saying? "That dumbass Arkangel, he fucking sucks". That's right, even your own partner noticed your stupidity. That's just plain sad. Oh yeah, you don't believe me?

Joe plays a tape which has Reaper coming backstage pissed off, cussing out Arkangel even though the ambulance has already left

Maybe he was pissed because he lost the title, maybe he just really doesn't like you..who knows?

Flawless Victory

You got your next guess right on the money, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't you who figured it out. You're not smart enough for one thing, but yes, Kanich wanted to fight the both of you, so I set up a plan which would change various single matches between the 4 of us, into one giant tag match. I told him to retire Judgement, as that character is hated by the fans, and the fans want to cheer him. He agreed, and we put up those promos and went wild with it. Kanich came back, destroyed Reaper's former TT Big Dawg, and sent Dragon Ray into early retirement. He attacked Reaper the following week, almost breaking his neck. Then there was this past Thursday, when everything came together. Man your head left a huge dent in the video wall Arky.

Yeah you're right about another thing, I do try to give jobbers pushes. Maybe, just maybe, it's because I try to get them over. But it's far from the truth about JJ and Kanich. Kanich has won more titles than you could ever dream of winning, and he's beaten guys who you could never even dream of beating. The jobbers that I've tried to give pushes to are: Arkangel, Orb, Raccoon, Skwerl. When you all first got here you were jobbers. I gave Skwerl the first push, he's not WC material yet, but he's one of ICW's most popular wrestlers in ICW, and is currently the best in his division, the crusierweight division. I gave you the next push, and sorry to say, you won the WC and ratings sucked that entire month. I mean we were barely at 2.0 and were being threatened to be kicked off the network. Something had to be done, so I gave Raccoon and Orb the next pushes as fans were starting to get into them. Raccoon did very good in the beginning, and beat you for the WC. Orb then went rigth up there and beat him. Now I'm giving other people the oppurtunities, because that's what ICW is all about. Jobbers will always be jobbers if they aren't pushed and given time to develop their abilities. Some of the biggest stars in the business today wouldn't be where they are if they didn't get the chance. As far as you go, I gave you the chance and you blew it, now I'm just gonna kick your ass and be done with the whole issue.

You look like fifth grade sissies after a cat fight!

Stop it with the jokes! "Suffer, hell, pain, misery" Damnit I can't take this funny shit. Do you honestly believe you're going to breeze through this thing and win in about 10 minutes? If you do, I suggest joining the Bed Time Warriors fed that Max always talks about. A guy with a gignatic ego but no talent can get a WC title there, that's what those guys are all about.

You are such a fucking narrow-minded fool, so you think that you're the best thing since the DVD player. If you were such a hard-working talent, you explain to me why our ratings tanked and our sales went low while you were world champ. No one wanted to see you on their TV! Your matches would be about the time every TV in America changed to Ripley's Believe It Or Not, except for a small few who were hoping you'd lose the title that night. You explain to me why your title reign was considered the second worst in ICW history, next to that of Firestarter's, and why the fans today are indifferent to you. They don't like you, they don't hate you, they just plain don't care. You get no fan reaction. Had you gotten at least booed, our TV ratings wouldn't have gone low for that month, and more fans would want to see you lose, instead of just not wanting to see you at all. The day you signed the contract wasn't the first day of hell, it was the day all the guys backstage groaned when you walked out and we realized we should have started a development fed instead of signing you right then and there.

Joe presses pause when he sees his brother GI.

You lose something?

Nope, just doing a promo. Shouldn't you be out doing the same?

Well I, like you, needed a camera. I'm just grabbing it and going. I CAN do that, can't I?

Sure whatever. Just don't let that damn monkey of your mess it up.

Hey! He didn't mean to throw that at Taker and knock his wig off! I wish you'd let up about it, I think he shouldn't use a wig anyway, maybe some Rogaine.

Just don't let him touch the camera, last thing I need is to pay for another one. I have most of them insured ever since DOS went into a destructive phase a few months ago.

GI leaves

This is fight night and I am the king

Now where was I? Oh yeah, Reaper. Now unlike Arkangel, I do respect Reaper. I do appreciate the fact Reaper has talent. It takes a helluva wrestler to hold the ICW HaRdCoRe Title from July 31st all the way until the present. Something I can't say for Arkangel, whose title reigns lasted for less than a month each. Reaper, I knew full well what I was getting myself into when I signed a singles match against you, but when I made the tag title match and you picked Arkangel, I started to question your sanity and/or lack thereof. Why in the hell would you pick a talentless nobody like that? You've teamed with the best, Big Dawg, AOD, and now you pick him. I would have loved to face AOD in a match again. I need people that challenge my skills and Arkangel isn't one of them. Then again, while you have talent you're not exactly known for your quick wit and cognitive abilities.

I noticed that you showed a clip of Joe and Kanich making a quote, unquote, "hasty retreat". Let's look at that again.

Joe plays a tape which shows Joe and Kanich having to be held back by referees and Reaper and Arkangel running like hell, then it shows what was done with a video editor, as Joe, Kanich, and the referees are all airbrushed out, and the reel is edited to make them look like they have sledgehammers and are pissed off.

I'm amazed you can actually work a video editing program. Anyway, with that behind me, let's get into the plan I made, and how you brought all of this shit on yourself. I actually had good intentions when I was helping you win and putting you against Arkangel. The fans were into your character you were very close to getting a World title shot. But then you aligned with some guy the fans vaguely recognized, but didn't see as a threat to anyone, and your ratings lowered. But at least you have the fans hating you thing going for you. You are right about one thing, you do put asses in the seats, they come to see you lose, and if you don't, they come to the next shows until you do. So as far as firing you goes, I won't do that as you're not expendable right now. You do draw money and ratings. But let's see another thing here. When you aligned with Arkangel, you didn't piss me off, I just thought you were making a career-threatening mistake. So I decided to try and help you change your mind, but hey, it didn't work. That pissed me off. I wondered how you could deny multiple title shots and a multi-million dollar contract to stay with Arkangel and DF, with your petty 50,000 dollar contract and all of those guys who will never headline, with the exception of Taker and AOD. So when it pissed me off, I developed this plan. I called up Kanich, who wanted to kick your ass, and set this all up. There you have it.

Reaper, I know why you want to kick my ass just like you know I want to kick your ass. What makes us want to fight each other is one plain and simple ambition to be the best. You think you are the best of ICW, and in a lot of people's eyes you may very well be, but what drives you in this match is the fact that you've never fought me, you've never beaten me, and that eats you up inside. I'll give you a lot of credit Reaper, you have a hunger to achieve perfection, but that's the same hunger I see in myself when I enter a fight. As far as I'm concerned this fight is going to be one of the toughest ones I've been in. You, having the huge ego and the blinded fury, think you're going to run right through me when that is hardly the case.

You say I'm talentless and weak, when you know that is untrue. You KNOW that I could just as easy give you a beating. It took me exactly 10 seconds to lay you out with two of my signature moves after you tried to hit me with a single clothesline two weeks ago. You know that I am going to be the biggest fight you've ever had, and you talk down to me so you can keep your ego up, so you don't start to doubt yourself. A weak man will believe he is strong if he is told so every day. I'm not saying you're weak, but I'm saying that you tell yourself you have no weaknesses in order to cover up for the ones you do have. I'm not expecting to hide behind anyone..once that bell rings there is nowhere to run or hide and I am going to go at it until I am crippled, or dead. Face it Reaper, you've seen me fight and you KNOW that's the only way you're going to beat me. Crippled..or dead.

It's impossible to know someone better than they know themselves, you're not a fucking god. There is only one God, and I got him with me, Reaper. As far as you taking credit for anything, you are shit. You are a good wrestler in the ring, and nothing more. I don't remember being trained by Reaper, I don't remember being in brutal Japanese death matches with Reaper, I don't remember moving from shit fed to shit fed, finally breaking into BTW as a star, with Reaper right there helping me. The pride and ego of you goes way too big in this case, and I'd suggest making yourself calm down and think a little bit. Blind agression is just going to get you hurt in this match.

It seems that your precious title reign since July makes you cocky. You forget Reaper, while you may have beaten Kanich, which makes you someone what sure of yourself to beat him again, you have NEVER beaten me. You can spill your insults, you remarks, or you can leave them at home, and come to the ring and fight, because when that bell rings, there will be no words said, there will be punches thrown and bodies flying, and there is no room for a big-ass egomaniac trying to play to the crowd. You can't act cocky when you have no right to be. Do you see me acting cocky towards you? No, because I know what I am up against. I only act cocky when I am 100% sure that I will beat my opponent with no trouble at all. I am not acting cocky here. I may not win this match, but I sure as hell won't be losing it. Why? Oh hell I'm not even using my catchphrase, you know what it is...once again, I'll see you in hell at PPV Reaper.

Joe turns off the camera and heads outside to catch a cab as the scene fades....

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