Roleplay By: The Jackrabbit
Date: 6/8/02
Fed: GWO
Mentioned: Talon

Have you ever realised that when you hear a story from someone, somewhere, it is only in the opinion, in the point of view, of the story�s teller? Have you ever thought, that although someone may be giving you a story, no matter how well you know them or how well you don�t, they are telling their tale through their own eyes? Every story has a second side, a point of view that is often unknown to the other side. Unless you know both sides of a story, it really is hard to understand it fully.

The scene opens up in black and white, which feels unusual to viewers of this modern day. The scene, perhaps, is meant for the impression of fear� or perhaps, more realistically, we are seeing something that happened long ago. The black and white scene is showing an urban view. It looks like it could be an outer city area, with some tall buildings and busy shops, but equally some grass banks in one or two areas and a city park not far from the camera� view. People are busying around, getting on with their own personal lives. The black and white scene moves around the city scene, focusing in on certain tall buildings, but then moving away from them and zooming in on another instead. This continues several times, before the cameras pace slows down to a minimal and its view hits against a building, blocking off all it can see. In retaliation, the camera view speeds down the side of the building, but just before the black and white scene crashes into the floor, it tilts to show two men staggering through the street, quite obviously drunk from excessive amounts of alcohol. And one of the men hands the other a beer can. The tallest man, receiving the can, has dark, braided hair, and is wearing a T-shirt and jeans. On his T-shirt is strange shaped image. No colours can be made-out because of the black and white nature of the scene. He is vaguely familiar as TALON, the former GWO Commonwealth Champion, although he looks much younger and more casual that his current self. Beside the figure of Talon, is a slightly smaller man, with light, long hair tied back in a ponytail. He is wearing a dark shirt, unbuttoned and flowing open, and jeans with a belt securing them around his waist. He is now recognisable as THE JACKRABBIT from GWO, or as he would be known back in the day and age shown by our black and white scene as Jay. Jay and Talon are supporting each other as they stagger down the road, receiving many a glare from the passers-by. And that is when the high-pitched, yet soft and soothing voice comes in, not from a visible character, but almost an overhead narrator, though he is not telling a story, but instead, speaking his thoughts.

�We were good friends. So I thought. Often we were playful, we laughed, and we joked, we drunk. I was the leader of us. I controlled what he remembers as the good times. Without me, he would have been a sad, lonely guy. In fact, I look back on it, he was a sad, lonely guy. Without me, he�d have withered away to nothing. A lonely, boring old hag! But he had some plan. A plan to get rid of me and on this night he planned to stop at absolutely nothing to get rid of me forever!�

Back to the black and white �flashback� the two men enter into a large storey of flats, one of the higher in the outer city, laughing and teasing as they crash against the walls and doors. The camera moves up the building, presumably in co-ordination with the level of it the two men are in, although they cannot be seen inside the building. The camera finally meets up with them again, as they emerge from inside the storey of flats, but this time they are on the rooftop of the building, still teasing and staggering. The larger figure, Talon, falls against Jay, shoulder barging him almost roughly to the floor. The scene freezes as the voiceover continues its thoughts out loud.

�He made the first move� he attacked me in such a blatant way. He wanted to knock me out, he started the fight. He planned to end this night by killing me. He was crazy. He was sadistic. He was a psychopathically mental lunatic, with one thought� the death of me� on his mind. His dark, empty, secluded mind.�

As the black and white flashback continues, it shows the face of Jay seem to become enraged. Perhaps he took the push personally, or perhaps, more likely, the influence of the alcohol was upon him. But either way, Jay lunges back at Talon, or as it would be at this time, Saul, and the two engage in a frantic struggle, battering each other, with Talon holding his own. The larger man that is Talon pins Jay to the ground, and tries to hold down his struggling friend. Jay struggles to his feet, brushing Talon aside, but Talon then grabs his shoulders and shoves� the scene slows down now as Jay staggers to the edge and as Talon�s body hits against his he soars up and over the edge of the building�

�He pushed me! It�s as simple as that. He started the fight on the top of the building with the single intention to push me to kill me! It was his idea to go up to the roofs� I�m sure of that. �We can look over the whole city!� he probably said! I can�t remember� the fall cleared most of my memory of that night� and probably a lot more� come to think about it, how old am I? But the basic facts are that he wanted me dead. I don�t know why� he was probably jealous of my good looks, and my bubbling personality, and my good humour, and� come to think about it, my wrestling abilities� or actually� did he know about my wrestling abilities then? Did I know about wrestling then?�

Back to our black and white scene, which shows how Jay fell from the building� down, down into the quickly enveloping darkness. What Jay didn�t see, however, was Talon fall to his knees� the alcohol�s effects draining from him, sobering his mind with a snap, as the situation hits him. On his knees, he will sit for over an hour, just staring into the darkness, his mind racing in panic at what he believes to be the murder of his best friend, Jay. The darkness envelops Saul now, as it did to Jay� and it is during this time that Talon is born� The Enigma� the Hunted Turn Hunter, though in his mind he is still-hunted and forever will be. But none of this did Jay see, as he was too busy falling, for how long nobody knows. Not even Jay.

�You think you know someone, you think you can trust them, and they use your trust as a weapon against you. He tried, with everything he had, to kill me� It wasn�t enough� he didn�t kill me. Although I know for sure that whilst I was falling to my �death� he was atop of that building, a sadistic smile creeping up his face as �The Stigma� was born, and he laughed a cruel and sadistic laugh� with his smallest finger in his mouth as he laughed� he knew he had killed Jay. He was right. He did kill Jay! But he also made me� THE JACKRABBIT! Talon�. You are my father! Hahahahahaha!�

What we hear are not words, but thoughts straight from the mind of the one they called Jay, the one they call The Jackrabbit. This is just a preview of how his mind really works, and what is truly behind the sunglasses of the face of The Unorthodox One. Somehow, somehow is a word to be emphasized, Jay survived� or at least, The Jackrabbit did. His face became apparent to everyone when he joined the Pro Wrestling Organization (PwO) and defeated his first two opponents.

�Why? Who are you? What do you want in PWO? Why? Who are you? What do you want with the PWO? Damn it, what�s with all the questions? Well, I guess The Jackrabbit made an impact. Cause that�s what I want! That�s all I want! It seems lately that everywhere I go, everybody wants to ask me why. And what? And how? And who? Last Friday, I could walk around the towns and the cities and the supermarkets and nobody� not one person would even give me a glance� Well, except that kid who asked me how I got so big� but except that, nobody gave a damn about The Jackrabbit. But that before the �incident�� Back then I was plain, old � wait� that would be telling�. But now I�m The Jackrabbit!�

�Why did I join PwO? Why did I even wrestle at all? I knew one thing about him� he�d become a pro-wrestler� yeah, that sorta seemed weird� a sadistic, friend-murdering madman joining a wrestling organisation� but that�s what he�d done� I don�t like to remember how I found that out� it was a terrible dream� Back then, I had a weird idea that if I became a wrestler, I�d just bump into Talon somehow� I didn�t realise how big this �wrestling world� actually was�It was when PwO fell that that struck me��

The Pro Wrestling Organization could not hold itself up, and it was exterminated from the inside, by a Co-President with intentions for PwO that didn�t involve it running. But The Jackrabbit refused to give up his search for Talon, and his next stop was with Total Anarchy Wrestling (TAW.) In his first match in TAW, The Jackrabbit defeated Draco to become the first-ever TAW Canadian Champion��

�I am the beginning now. This Sunday I am the beginning. My beginning, however, is going to be a good one. The one of greatness. For when I begin, I will dominate, and I will win gold. Not many men have a beginning of gold. For as I begin, so does the Total Anarchy Wrestling. The TAW. We are talking about a sporting event now� sports entertainment� wrestling. And we are talking about The Jackrabbit� that�s me!�

�PwO didn�t last long� but in my two matches there, I realised how great wrestling was. Every opponent I wrestled was a Talon to me� and that got me wins. But I didn�t mention Talon much in my wrestling times� I didn�t want them to know my purposes there� but I liked the wrestling� the taking the anger out on others was fun� and the end of PwO wasn�t going to stop me� I found a brand new fed in TAW to work my way to the top, where I could get a high view to find Talon� he wasn�t in TAW� but by chance I wrestled Draco to win a Canadian title� didn�t mean much to me at first but I slowly grew to love it� and then, whilst I was searching, one of the guys backstage at TAW, a guy called �Mortal Torment� told me he�d heard of guy called Talon in an old fed he was in� Ultimate Outsiders� Wrestling Federation (UOWF.) Using that, I got old files form UOWF to find out everything I needed to know about Talon� except for where he was now!�

The Jackrabbit found out where Talon was, and whilst his research continued to no avail, he continued to defend his Canadian Title. The Jackrabbit was undefeated except by one man� the same man who had conveniently helped him in his search, �Mortal Torment� Marc Neilson! But The Jackrabbit never lost his title, and then it came to him in a dream, just as his first clue had�

The Jackrabbit jumps up from the three legged stool, knocking it to the floor, clutching his head in his hands. Pain surges through his head, and he bends down picking up the broken photo frame from the untidy floor. In the shattered frame, is a picture of The Jackrabbit himself, smiling widely, standing next to another, taller man. The photo is brown and crispy on the right hand side, where the other man stands, and his features cannot be seen. The Jackrabbit drops the photo to the floor with a scream, and then he freezes, deathly still. He stares into the camera, and then erupts into an unexpected fit of hysterical laughter. He then mutters these words into the camera, in an unusually high, gruff voice.

�That�s it! I see it now, all so clearly. The key is Golden!

�Whilst I was cutting a promo in TAW, something took over my mind. And I saw Talon�s face� it seemed different to how I had known it� sadistic, mad� and I saw him flying and I saw lead piping and a title belt� and I heard and saw the word �GOLDEN� spinning around in my head and I heard the words �GO THERE!� and �WRESTLING!� in my head. And I saw myself entering a ring� and there was The Last Laugh� and I heard a scream� I now recognise it as Talon�s agonising scream� and I saw myself, again� up on that building, and I was falling� but an arm grabbed me and pulled me up� and always the words �GOLDEN� spun around my head� �GOLDEN� �GOLDEN� �GOLDEN.�

I awoke from the vision knowing that wherever Talon was� it was connected with Golden��

The Jackrabbit had gotten a clue from a day-dream like vision, that had forced it�s way into his head. And during a feud with Marc Neilson, The Jackrabbit took time out to find Talon�s federation� and he defeated Marc Neilson for the first time, which also ended Marc�s wrestling career forever� but he also achieved something far more important to him whilst searching through wrestling federation listings�

The Jackrabbit flicks the pages back to the �Go� pages he was on earlier, and continues his search for whatever he may be searching for. He picks up the Canadian title, thrusting it onto his shoulder, as he reads aloud.

�Golden Assault Wrestling� Err�. No� Golden Allied Federation�. Err� No� Golden Fighting Company� Err� No� Golden Superstar Wrestling�. Err� No� Golden Wrestling Mayhem�. Err�. No�. Golden Wr�.�

The Jackrabbit smiles sadistically, and he looks up into the camera, his voice changing dramatically to a much deeper sound.

�Yes! That�s it! I have found you now, and the retribution can finally begin!�

�I found it whilst looking through the listings� a federation called GWO, the Golden Wrestling Organisation� and under the roster listings there was one man that stood out from all the rest: it said �Commonwealth Champion� TALON.� I�d found him, and one week later, TAW and my Canadian Title were history to me��

The Jackrabbit left TAW and vacated his own Canadian Title after drawing in a match with a guy called Jebus� and one week after his departure, unknown to him, the Total Anarchy Wrestling closed down forever�

�The real reason I am out here, believe it or not, is to announce my retirement from Total Anarchy Wrestling.�

At this, the crowd burst out into a chorus of boos. The Jackrabbit just sighs.

�I�m sorry loyal �Rabbit Fans, but you ain�t changing my mind.�

One week later, The Jackrabbit made his debut in GWO by interrupting a World Title match between the champion, Titan 3, and none other than Talon. Talon had become paranoid about Jay and his �death� since he had been receiving haunting dreams for many weeks before the match, and as Talon was ready to finish off his opponent and become the GWO World Champion with his finisher, the Death From Above, he looked down to notice Jay laid out on the mat. Talon was horrified as The Jackrabbit leapt up to give him The Last Laugh and cost Talon his World Title shot. One week later, The Jackrabbit also lost Talon�s Commonwealth title to Kirk James by interference!

�I finally felt good again. My seemingly endless searches for Talon were over and I�d gotten my revenge on Talon for trying to kill me� Old friend?! Not any more� now I look on that psycho as an arch nemesis. But I got the revenge I have being hoping for for so long! Talon didn�t get anyway with it. And he learned that for messing with The Jackrabbit he will pay� this time it was the price of his Commonwealth Title and the shot at the GWO World Title. Not to mention his pet peregrine falcon, which I set on fire! Man, that felt good, too.�

The Goldentron bursts into life, showing a river running through a town. The camera shot pans up from the river to a bridge going over it. The Jackrabbit is sitting on the bridge, swinging his legs and laughing.

The Jackrabbit: �Hey Talon it�s me again, the Jackrabbit. Good match mate, I enjoyed it. Just wanted to say look what I got!�

The camera zooms into the hands of the Jackrabbit, which can be seen to be holding Talon�s prized possession, his peregrine falcon.

The Jackrabbit: �Just a little something to show you, once again, that the Jackrabbit always gets the Last Laugh!!�

Jackrabbit uses a lighter to set the bird on fire, which flutters away in a panicked, blazing inferno.

The Jackrabbit: �Oh, by the way, enjoy the rest of your night.�

Since that day when he cost Talon the World Title shot, The Jackrabbit has entered the GWO events to torment Talon both physically and mentally. He has stopped at nothing to make Talon �pay for what he did� over 5 years ago. He has cost him the World and Commonwealth titles in consecutive weeks, he has set Talon�s pet on fire and he has trashed Talon�s home, the Dark Tower. Although Talon got his revenge in recent weeks, kidnapping him and physically tormenting him, before threatening to toss The Jackrabbit off the very same building he did five years ago. But all this resentment, all this hate, anger, lust for retribution� will explode in a BLAZE OF GLORY!

�But remember� when you hear a story, you are only hearing one side of it, from one point of view. Don�t judge what hear from that point of view alone� hear the others� Read Talon�s promo

And decide for yourself which story is true, and which is a disillusion� or if it is a mixture of both.