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(As another long hard month for the Extreme Measures Federation draws to a close, another Pay Per View event is on our hands. This month EMF presents Unleahsed live from Pheonix, Arizona, and it promises to be a huge event. This time last year John Cena was involved in two huge championship matches. Firstly he took on Batista and Al Snow in a triple threat match for the Television Championship. The guys that had just come clean off opening First Blood put up a hard fight, but were eventually easily rolled up and tossed aside by the Franchise. Then John Cena lokced up with Angelus Archer in a World Tag Team Championship match, which ended with neither man scoring the fall on eachother, as Punisher pinned Rhyno to retain the titles for Angelus's team. Cena had many excuses that night, fatigue from his earlier match and the fact that it was Rhyno that took the fall and not him. But this time around, there can be no excuses. John Cena must win the match if he wishes to remain at the top of the ladder he finally climbed at First Blood one month ago. People are still re-living the glory they felt when they witnessed first hands the most recent fall of Wes Ikeda, and John Cena's climb to the very top. But now Cena has to prove that completing that climb was not a fluke, and that he deserves more so than anyone to stand on top as World Champion. There is only one man that can claim in any way that he deserves to be up there too. That man is former world champion, and John Cena's current tag team partner Angelus Archer. Archer lost the World Title after almost one year, but his opponent that night, the rookie Deamon Archaos, was handed the win by interferance from one MAtt Dragon. Archer soon silenced the demon of defeat by taking Dragon to hell and back inside the confines of the Slaughter House match, but that didn't bring back his World Championship. So with a few of the demons still lingering inside the mind of Angelus Archer, his quest to regain the World Championship reaches another level. At Unleashed, he has a one on one match with The current World Champion John Cena. The match is sure to be one for the ages, as the man who formally ran the World Division for many months takes on the man that in his absence, managed to capitilise and take over. It is a true clash of the top two atheletes in the industry today. They have had many meetings in tag matches, but never have they been involved together in the ending. Now, one of the two will have to score a pinfall or submission victory on the other to take the Title that they are willing to destroy even their good friend over. Angelus and Punisher retained the Tag Titles over Cena's Revolution on 3 occasions, but the last time the two met, it was John Cena scoring a pin fall victory over Angelus's partner Scott Hall that won him the bloody Elimination Chamber Match. Every time they've been in the ring previously it's ben off the chart, but finally the age old question will be answered, just which of them is the better athelete. John Cena is clearly full of confidence fresh off his win against Ikeda and his new found deal with Co-Owner Edge, but Archer always has the back of the likes of Paul Heyman to fall back on. However for Cena this is not a problem, because as far as he is concerned this match is only about 2 people, not The Elite, not Chris MAsters, Not Paul Heyman or Jarred Carthallion, but simply about Angelus Archer and The World Heavyweight Champion John Cena! Two great wrestling legends are going to collide, but there will only be one winner, and that man will be able to call himself the greatest there is today, the World Champion!)
||- Foreword -||
(Our scene opens. We are live in Cena's mansion. He is seen sitting on the sofa with Jackie curled up besides him. He has one arm around her and with the other is changing the channels on his state of the art television set. Having seen split seconds of a golfing tournament, an old black and white movie and some random quiz show featuring retired celebrities from 30 years ago he switches the set off and turns to Jackie.)
Cena: "God I hate the way they never show anything good on TV these days....."
Jackie: "Yea I know... always the same junk. Then again with a big match coming up like you have, maybe you shouldn't worry about that..."
Cena: "Well I don't got a lot else to worry about frankly. I've had a month off with nothing to think about other than this match with Angelus. Having watched the tapes again of him beating Dragon, it doesn't look like it's going to be too tough at all. I mean, he barely scrapped through that match in one piece.. and to be honest if you look at all our recent tag matches, he truely is the weaker link. Scott Kincaid even beat him last week... as if his record hadn't suffered enough. The man is a fucking joke at the moment and he needs to pick his game up if he is to be of any use to me in capturing the tag titles... but nothing is going to save him from a beat down this week, maybe then he'll open his eyes and realise that I'm the one that is going to lead the team to glory and not him as he so hopes."
Jackie: "But this match really isn't about the team whatsoever. I don't think he cares which of you leads the team forward to glory as long as one of you does... I mean, all he wants is to get his titles back, first the world title and then his tag title!"
Cena: "But i'm his only hope of achieving that second goal. He needs to remember that before it is all too late..."
(As he says that Cena leans forward and picks up some string and a pair of scissors that were laying on a glass table in front of him, used by one of the females of the house to knit something. Cena pulls a bit of the string out, and then opens the scissors and plces them so that they almost cut through the string, but don't quite.)
Cena: "You see this Angelus. This string represents two things. The first of those is our team, and our repect for one another. It hangs in the balence. One small slip and it could be all over, it could be totally destroyed. Now neither of us would want that now would we? After all, we both know that we are eachothers key yo success, and that as a team, when you finally get your act together... we cannot be beaten. But this title that conveniantly lays around my waist adds a new dimension to the picture... because I have it... and you want it. But you can't have it Archer... and your bitter about that. It's Like a spoilt little girl who Daddy buys only the best for and gets everything her heart wants.. until one day she asks father christmas for a pony and daddy has to say no. That girl Archer, she's never too happy is she. She always throws a hissy fit and wont talk to anyone or in fact stop crying and moaning and bitching for many weeks. She's just like you in every way. Maybe her best friend hads a pony and she gets sick with envy... until ultimately she tries to attack her best friend... but her friend is younger, quicker, fitter and stronger, and she gets her ass kicked. You see where i'm going Archer? Attacking me was not a wise move... not wise at all. You only did it out of selfishness, spite and envy. You couldn't believe someone so young and fresh had achieved everything you have to your name and more even quicker than you did. You're jealous because I have what you want, but you know you'll never have the strength to reclaim it. It wasn't hard to get hold of either Archer. You dropped it to such a reject that even the person that kicked his ass from pillar to post could not prevent me from taking it. That's how low you've sunk. You've gone from the big bad guy with the iron fist... to the little girl choking on her own screams and drowning in her own tears. A somewhat poetic justice to that I feel. It was about time you got a taste of your own medicine. To feel the suffering you have for so long inflicted upon others, and to be withdrawn from your drug that is The World Heavyweight Championship! I'm not saying i'd cut my ties with you if you were to beat me... but just think long and hard about the bigger picture Archer, because with this match, everything we've built since the night Matt Hardy bought ou to me hangs very delicately... and id's hate to slip and see it gone."
Jackie: "You said it represented two things.... what's the second?"
Cena: "The second is quite simple... it represents the health, the career... and the life of Angelus Archer. He really needs to get his priorities straight and look at things my way if he wants to retain all 3 of them. We could have had a nice friendly match and just gone out to see who was the better technical wrestler, but no, Archer has to go on about how when the World Title is involved, nothing else matters. Hate to say it man, but you're right. When it comes to MY Championship... nothing else in the world is important. What goes down in that ring is business, and keeping this title around my waist is MY business. I battled my guts out against Ikeda and yes, I kicked his ass well and truely, and you can expect to recieve a similar fate. See if you'd said you didn't wanna harm a tag partner and just wanted to find the best wrestler... i'd have respected you for that, and probably gone easy on you... but you didn't. Now it's time for you to feel pain like enver before... and to see just what John Cena can dish out. I'm a fucking Grandslam Champion... and that's something you can't say. I've been TV Champion, Intercontinental Champion, Tag Team Champion, Extreme Champion... i;ve dated not one but TWO Women's champions... and now here I am... the World Heavyweight Champion! Championships flock to me, and this federation needs me to repreent it at all those levels. Hell they'd probably put all the belts on me at the same time if it wasn't against some ancient rule. But Archer, I will give you the benefit of the doubt. But if you try anything... and I mean ANYTHING slightly dodgy or against the odds to try and walk out with my title, beleive me you will suffer. You will suffer because just like THAT *as he says it he cuts the string*, you will be placed on the God-damn injured list forever... and you will be forced to sit out the rest of your life at home, in your trailor with your wife and deformed little children... watching on your 5 inch TV as I kick the shit ot of everybody one by one as they attempt to take my championship. You hate those words don't you... everytime they pass my lips they stab you like a thousand knives right through your black heart... MY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP! But Archer.... you may not have the title, but you still have a career, an income, and the ability to walk.... quit while your ahead... or one little slip.... and that's the end of the legacy of the Slayer of Life!"
Jackie: "But what guarentee do you have that you're gonna win? What guaretee is there that this time next week you'll still be World Havyweight Champion?"
Cena: "Jackie.. look at me. Do I look like a guy that's about to take a tumble and lose the one thing that matters to him? DO i look like a guy that is not going to have it in him to pull off one title defence? DO I look like a guy that is going to go down as a one-month Champion? Hell no. I'm the fucking franchise. When I came to this place nobody respected me. I was put in match after match against jobbers and made to beat them just to pull in a handful of fans. I went to pay per views only to fight the likes of Jeff Hardy in matchs with no implication to anything... just a match. People were all talknig about Angelus Archer.. but there was a man above him, Josh Hanley. Sure archer finally got to Hanley and defeated him, but Hanley was just a stand in champion anyway. Look at him now... shows up every once in a while, just to get his ass kicked by run of the mill trash. But all the time he was doing his little promos with his girlfriend Clair and her Women's Championship on one arm, and his World Title belt on the other and I said to myself "One day, that World Champion standing there... it's going to be me." And when he lost I said again "When it's my turn... things will turn out so much different." Two predictions Jackie... and look at me now. The first one has already happened... and now it's time for number two to follow suit. This time it wont be the World Champion who's dating the Women's champion who's career crashes and burns... but in a cruel reversal of fate, the Challenger from last year is going to suffer the same fate he inflicted on the former champ. This champion wont go down so easy, this champion wont hand his title over, this champion is not going to quit! Angelus can try and knock me down as much as he wants, but if the referee counts 1... 2... and my shoulders are down, you can bet that just out of pure instinct i'll wake up and fight out of it. You can bet that if i'm looking in danger.. i'll find some resolve nobody knew I had in me... and you can bet that I will not lay down no matter what you do to me. You can hit the Slain or whatever other moves you got in your arsenal... but i'll get up and carry on fighting. And then you, like so many before you, will feel the pain inflicted by the FU. I'm the fucking Franchise, the greatest wrestler alive today... and it's time that EVERYONE stopped doubting me and believed it. It's time everyone was taught I will not be beaten, and just what I am capable of. People will learn to fear my name all over again. People will learn that I can make them suffer and that I can make them feel pain that they didn't even imagine before. Until eventually... I will recieve no challenges. It will be considered a burdon to get a shot at my title, because people will fear for their lives. And then the whole world will realise once and for all that THE CHAMP IS HERE and he's here to stay!"
Jackie: "I love the fact that your so confident... and you never cease to amaze me with what you can do in that ring. You'll make a better champion than Hanley, Archer, Archaos, Wes... or anyone else... you'll be the best simply because you are the best in terms of ability! You'll keep that world championship for years and years and tyou'll show the whole world just how it's done!"
Cena: "Oh you bet. Anyway... as for the rest of the day, I gotta meet someone later... which should prove interesting. I'll fill you in when it's all happened ok?"
Jackie: "Yea, that's fine... hope it goes well, whatever it is."
Cena: "Oh i'm betting it will."
(As he says that the door opens and Natasha walks in. She looks to be worried by something.)
Natasha: "Mr Cena... can I have a minute?"
Cena: "Yea sure thing Nat... i'll be back in a second Jackie."
(Cena stands up and leaves the room. He and Nat close the door behind them.)
Cena: "What's up hun?"
(Nat grabs Cena and kisses him before speaking. Cena obviouslly does not object.)
Natasha: "I'm just so.... so worried!"
Cena: "Worried... about what? Surely not about me?"
Natasha: "I watched that fucking laughter house match... look what happened to that Dragon guy... Anelus is a fucking maniac... anything could happen out there!"
Cena: "Oh for god sake Nat... don't you go worrying about me. I can more than handle myself in the ring.. and I showed you that when I defeated Wes. Besides this match isn't no holds barred like the slaughterhouse was... if Angelus even tries anything he'll be disqualified and that's even better for me because I get to keep the title. Although obviously I don't want to retain it like that. I'd get a much higher sense of satisfaction from just kicking his ass and pinning him 1, 2, 3! And I guarentee Natasha, whether I come out of there with the title or not, nobody is going to hurt me or cause me any pain ok? I'm the World Heavyweight Champion... I did not get that by being a push over. I did not get that by fearing anyone, and I did not get that by letting people worry me. I fear nothing and nobody. And I damn right refuse to lose this title. This right here is mine and always will be, and not anybody, least of all Archer.. is gonna stop me!"
Natasha: "Well i'm glad your confident... because I for one will never stop worrying... but I guess that's because i'm a woman and that's what happens. I just don't want anybody to effect our future together... that's the last thing I want."
Cena: "Well there is no threat to it whatsoever... least of all from Angelus. There is more chance of me deciding i'm giving up sex for 2 years than Archer causing us any difficulites... and I really don't see that happening. Angelus is just not on the top of his game, as he'd have to be to beat me. In fact even on top of his game he'd probably fall short... but where he's at at the moement he has even less of a chance. It's a shame really coz i'd have liked to have a real match... a real challenge where I only just have enough to walk out with the championship held high... but regretably it wont push me to my limits. It wont make me sweat or bleed.. it'll just be an annoyance I need to overcome. Angelus is like the ant that you just can't get. No matter how many times you stamp where you think it is, it somehow survived. But when you finally hit it, it's gone. Dead without even putting up a fight. And Angelus will see the same thing happen to him. He may well fight back and keep me on my toes for a few minutes... but as soon as the FU is used... Angelus is down and out, and the championship is coming back home with the real champ! You don't have to worry about me at all... and toy certainly don't have to worry about us. Archer's not a problem, he's just a pest. But I have the poison that will remove him from my path, and his antidote supply just ran out!"
Natasha: "Well anyway... I know you gotta go and meet you know who in a few minutes... wont say in case Jackie hears... but there's something I should tell you John... I went to the doctors yesterday and well... I know the gender of our baby!"
Cena: "You wanted to know? God I don't... I want the surprise when it comes..."
Natasha: "Ok that's fine, i've got a name in mind... but we can discuss that when you eventualy crack and beg me to tell you! Anyway i'll let you go... have fun today John!"
Cena: "You bet I will hun... been ages since I caught up with him.. but I just don't want Jackie tagging along...."
(Cena kisses Nat again and then exits out of the front door. The scene fades out. We re-open later. John Cena is seen sat in his private training facility. The differance is all the trainers are not there, and the doors are locked. Cena is sitting there alone ddrinking a beer. He looks down at his watch and then returns to his drink. He looks about to give up when the door is knocked on. He goes over and opens it.)
Cena: "Bout fucking time you showed up dude... where you been all these months?"
Voice: "Ho you know... here and there... thought since we kicked Angelus's ass once... may as well wish you luck in continuing the tradition!"
(Into the room steps Dude Nick. Cena holds out a hand and Nick shakes it.)
Dude Nick: "Good to see you managed to not bring Jackie..."
Cena: "And you didn't bring Torrie... so it's just us... man to man!"
Dude Nick: "You gonna offer me a drink or I gotta get it myself...."
(Cena pours out some drinks and the two are drinking, laughing, and just ultimately catching up on old times. Then Cena turns to him and says...)
Cena: "On to business Nick... you know why I bought you here?"
Dude Nick: "You mean it wasn't to brag about how many EMF Divas you've had... now i'm interested!"
Cena: "No of course it wasn't. Nick I bought you here because, regardless of what you did or didn't do in the chamber... you were there with me the last time I beat Angelus. Infact the only time I got one up on the former champ until last week... though that was entirely an accident costing him that match. You were theere in that chamber, you witnessed it all first hand. You saw as I pinned Scott Hall to get Angelus thrown out of the chamber match and lose his half of the Tag Team Championships right there and then. You were there when the current World Champion had to admit defeat.. and watch me walk ot of the chamber with the title. Now I know I didn't score the fall on Angelus or whatever, but I still got his partner pinned before he could do anything about it. But some people have said I had more in the tank then then I do now... that I was on a better game, that I could pull more off then than now... what do you think? You think i've gone down hill at all?"
Dude Nick: "Are you fucking having a laugh? Has that drink gone to your head? You falling down since then... fuck no! You're the top of your game... your primetime John! YOu're the World Heavyweight Champion and not a fucking moment too soon. You slaved your guts out night after night for this fucking industry and for a long time you had nothing to show for it. Now you are finally getting the respect your talent not only deserves but COMMANDED! You're the best this business has to offer... and I can say that honestly coz lets be honet... i'm not back to my best just yet. But you're on top of the world... so don't doubt yourself.. and don't even think of throwing it away!"
Cena: "I guess you're right... I wouldn't have this belt if I was no good now would I? If I wasn't a hell of a lot better than I ever was before... I could not have reached the top. I'm the king of the ring.. the top of the top, the greatest athelete alive today! That's what the title represents. That's why women fall at my feet, and why i'm almost unbeaten in one on one competition at all! It;s why nobody can beat me, and why I'm the single greatest competitor alive today! It's why I was put in the Elite, the stable for the more successful superstars... where as Angelus was just dumped on his backside by Big Pun. Punisher was teaming with Angelus week in week out.. and yet it was I that recieved the invite and not him. That's gotta account for something. There must be a reason why that was the case. Why he wanted the franchise and not Angelus... but then again, the reasoning is just blatently obvious. He wanted me because I am the best... and because he knew that I would one day amount to greatness. That one day i'd be the man calling all the shots, and that everyone else would be staring up at me intently.. wishing me to crack and fall to the ground, only to be dispointed week after week.Week after week I will prove them all wrong... until they are physically sick of seeing me as champion. People will hate my reign because it will go on and on and on for many years and people wil just wish for an injection of fressness into the championship that'll never come. I'm John fucking Cena... the Doctor of Thugonomics, the Franchise, the Main Event of the EMF... The World's greatest wrestler and I have the Worlds Greastest Championship to show for it. I'm not just any champion any more... a man holding gold and kidding himself that it makes him the best... I finally have the title that can truely illustrate that I am the greatest! Finally I have a title worthy of MY name and not the other way around. It's not that i'm finally a big enough superstar to hold the title... it is finally big enough to be a target of mine. And now that I have it... People can only dream of prizing it from me. Many challengers will come and go... but only one thing will remain constant... JOhn Cena at the fucking top! I don't care if it's Angelus Archer or deamon Archaos.... Wes Ikeda or Dewey Pond.. it makes no odds whatsoever. Nobody will ever be able to dethrown me, and nobody will stop me from being the best there is. I'm not gonna proclaim i'm the best of all time... yet. Of course I haven't even got one defense yet and this could all be hype ahead of a tragedy.... but I really doubt it. I doubt that Angelus has it in him to compete at this level anymore... to stop me, or to win back the title. He may have engraves his initials into your fucking chest... but that doesn't impress me. He only managed it because he had to... or he would have lost to a rooking newbie that hadn't achieved anything in the federation yet. If he faced you now.. I don't doubt you'd be the one doing the engraving... and he's be suffering like hell. You'd embaress him so much he'd probably quit out right. Angelus is the weaker link of the two of us... my new tag partner... and I just don't get the confidence with him I had with you in my corner. He leaves me to do all the fucking work.. making me do it all. I gotta not only save his ass from being pinned until eventaully i'm distracted and I fail... but also I gotta be the one scoring all the fucking falls myself. Being the World Champion I guess that's to be expected though... being the dominant partner of the two. Angelus only wishes he can be as good as me.... it's an unrealistic dream... a target he's set himself that he can never beat... and Angelus... you know damn well you can't beat me... and when you step into that ring with me, I will just prove it all over again!"
Dude Nick: "You mention the initials... but that was a long god damn time ago. I was nothing then.... and especially nothing on what you are now... so just don't you worry about that... and just go out there and do what you always do... kick everyones fucking ass!"
Cena: "YOu're right... that is what I do fucknig best... and I will do it again and again and again until I can prove to the world that I am the single greatest wrestler ever to breathe the air of this planet. Fuck your Hulk Hogans, your Ric Flairs... your anyone else you want to mention... especially your Angelus Archer's, im the greatest... i'm the one that people know.. the one people talk about today.. the house hold name... the fucking Franchise! Nobody beats me... you hear that... NO ONE. And I don't care what Archer brings to the ring... it's not gonna help him. I don't care if he sneaks in weapons of gets someone to interfere on his behalf. I don't care if he brings out a whole army of superstars to try and steal the championship.... He will NOT be walking out of there with the World Title... you mark my words!"
(Cena gets up to get some more drinks and the conversation moves on to something else. The scene fades out.
We re-open and we edge even closer to the EMF's Pay Per View extravaganza Unleashed our scene opens again. This time John and Jackie Cena are shown sitting in the Elite locker room. They are sitting at the table and it appears Cena is teaching Jackie to play poker. Just as Cena's about to deal again the door opens and in walks The Punisher. He grins as he sees them and sits down in an empty seat.)
Punisher: "Looks like i'll have 2 Cena's to rob blind next time we play huh... how's she taking to it."
Cena: "Like a duck to water... beats me every fucking hand...."
Punisher: "Well if you're still on the form of two weeks ago... that aint too fucking difficult now is it champ. Deal me in then."
Cena: "Actually Pun... now that your here there was something I wanted to talk to you about... so why don't we forget the cards for a bit and just get come drinks and have a nice cozy chat...."
Punisher: "You going all Darter like on me champ?"
Cena: "Fuck no.... but I just want to ask you about Angelus Archer. I mean, you know the guy inside out... you two were tag champs for god-knows how long... surely you can give me some insight as to what the great Archer's weakness is?"
Punisher: "So you go to the ring and rant for many hours about how you see the guy as no threat whatsoever... but still come running to me for help like you did last month... bit repetitive isn't it?"
Cena: "No not really... it makes sense for me to go to you seeing as how you've been here a lot longer than me and know these guys so much better.... it makes sense for me to ask your advice. It's not that I need it, i'm just trying to gain as much insight as possable... but you know what if you don't wanna help me that's fine. I'll just go hit the gym and work myself up a bit more before the big match... i'll see you around i'm sure...."
Punisher: "Hold up... I didn't say I wouldn't help you champ.... I just don't want you getting stuck in the same routine for all your matches and getting extremely bored with your life like some people seem to do around here. BUt it's not a big deal.. I mean your right, I do know mot of the people round here well... a little too well on all accounts... some I wish I didn't. But the knowledge is something I may as well share as it is only building the success of my legacy and the furture of my stable, but it's making sure all the rivals I have around here have not only the Punisher, but The Franchise Player to worry about too. And God knows I was just like every other wrestling fan last year... sitting at home getting bored the hell out of by Archer being World Champion... even more reason for me to not want it to return to his hands. So whatever you want... just ask and i'll try and fill you in."
Cena: "Well I don't want you or anoyne else thinking I fear Archer or anyone around here. I don't was to go down as a weak champion who needed his stable mates help to retain the gold each week. I don't want people thinknig I can't do this on my own... so whatever pearls of wisdon you got hidden up there.. and believe me they are well hidden... you can keep them. But if you have any comments on my own game... you know like the form i've been on and if and how I can improve it... i'd gladly take them."
Punisher: "You really don't want the secret of how to slay Archer... I guess that's fine. But one thing I did notice.. I know when you faced Wes you well and truely kicked his ass... but there was one part of the match where it could have been oh so different. You slipped up.. and he nearly nailed you with that Coast-to-coast bollocks he tries to pull off. YOu may not have that title you got and it would all be down to a few seconds of madness. It's not a big problem... but it could mount to one. You gotta just brush that up a bit... work on your timing... and you should be fine."
Cena: "Your right... that is the one error I kept noticing upon reviewing the match. If I hadn't got my focus back and been able to counter it... Wes may have slipped through the hook. but i've already pin pointed it and been working on it. I've been participating in training matches with the likes of Chris MAsters for a few weeks now and just working on keeping focused on the opponent and knowing his where-abouts in the ring at all times. There is no way that Angelus Archer is going to get the oppertunity I presented Wes with. There is no way i'll slip for a second and walk flat into the Slain! Angelus can forget about getting that move in unless he 100% incompacitates me before going for it. He's have to use a sledgehammer to break both my legs and arms to have a chance... but then again it's not he that always has a Sledgehammer within his grasp. YOur weapon of choice is one that could only be used to scrape the skin of a school girl... would not even give me a scratch! Remember when I stole it from you Angelus... how powerless you felt... your despiration to come and seek it from me.. I had a good hard look at it then Angelus.... even tested it out a little... fucking useless piece of junk. I know they say anything is dangerous in the wrong hands... but not that. That wouldn't threaten me in the hands of an evil dictator... least of all you. sO you can walk around swinging your shank... or you can conceal it in your boot and try and get it past the referee... hell you can hit me square in the head with it or try to engrave me with your initials... but that wont win you a World Championship. It wont even cut me open Angelus... the things as blunt as a fucking tooth-brush, infact the brush'd probably inflict more damage and cause more pain. Your shank can't keep me down... and can't prevent me from winning. I may have my trusty Sledgehammer always ready to call upon and always ready to use.. but how many times have I actually needed it? Don't be the first Archer. Don't be the first to push me so far that I got delving under the ring and into my bag, ready to strike you and get an unfair advantage. I wouldn't put it against me if I were you though. I wouldn't live with the thought that John Cena would not be so stupid and so devious as to use an ilegal weapon to keep the championship... because I know how strong your gonna come at me... but i'm ready. OYu are the only threat I have in the EMF, and even if its not a very big one, I recognise a threat in any way. I will not be taking your threat lightly.. I will not be underestimating you, and I will not be giving you any chances to take this away from me. I wont give you the split oppertunity I stupidly handed to Wes... and although I survived that one, I wont put a risk on it again. I wont let you get anywhere near me, and I wont give you a look in. I'll simply let you come into my ring, and then the beat down begins. A few minutes of standered moves to wear you down, and then a quick FU and that'll be all she wrote, the end of the 'main event'. I hope the fans are looking forward to the Extreme Title Match, The Intercontinental Title Match... the grudge match between Flair and Edge.... because tihs match is not gonna be one to remember!"
Punisher: "Well I don't think any of those matches are going to be entertainement enough to give the fans their money worth.... but I know what you mean... you could probably finish off archer in about a minute and a half if you put your mind to it. Two minutes tops. But don't you realise how successful Archer has been. I mean, keeping the World Title for a whole year almost is not any mean feet. It's not something just anybody can achieve."
Cena: "Yea I realise that. That's why I rank Archer as the biggest threat, obviously dis-counting you because I don't think you'd want to take the title off your team mate. There is so little comppetition here... but I do recognise the great achievements of the man. I realise he's been World Champion a couple of times, he was Tag Champion for many months... he's got a very very experianced manager who also is held in high regard by this company. But none of these things put any pressure on me. I am the World Champion and MY TIME IS NOW! I thought so many times I could make the jump... and I never tried... but now that i've gone for it and achieved exactly what I wanted and always said I would, I will not go against it all now by being a joke champion who lets the belt go without a sinlge defence. BUt i'd rather do that than defend the title against run of the mill shit like Dewey Pond and then kid myself that i'm doing well. This is the World Championship... and only world quality wrestlers will challenge me for it. Had hell frozen over and Pond defeated Monty Brown to earn any match of his choice... i'd have hated to defend the world title against him. Of course not becasue i'd see him as a threat... of course not... I mean don't kid yourself Dewey... I beat you more times than i've had hot dinners... but simply because I only want to face people that deserve it. And that says a lot for Archer, that I don't question his credentials. I don't doubt that he is more than worthy of the shot... but come on get real. Does anybody other than Archer himself want to see him as World Champion. The morale backstage lifted when they saw a fresh World Champion come through. Finally a person that had never been champion before. Finally the new generation had the hope and the signs that they could break through and take the title away from the same old champions... the Archer's and Ikeda's.. finally to breathe some fresh life into things. Finally to let them see a new side of things, and finally to allow them to see that new people can climb the mountain and we are not stuck in a deep depression of the same thing again and again and again. The World Title has been rescued... and is anyone in this federation has any sense whatsoever, they will so what they can to ensure it stays that way. Not that it is neede in anyway... just a point."
Punisher: "Dude... if by that your asking me to watch your back.... you know I got it... I want to keep that belt in the Elite probably as much as you do..."
Cena: "No of course i'm not. All i'm saying is that it is the best interest of everyone that I retain the Championship this week. Not only because I think Angelus would bore us, but because it seems to me if he got it, only I could ever dethrown him unless you went after it. The belt would constantly be being swapped between Angelus and the Elite and people would just hate it. I'd hate having to beat random people to earn the shots at Archer and i'd hate seeing him walknig round with my belt EVER. But the confidnence he'd get off one win would give him a slightly improved chance of beating me in the other matches and it would just get ugly. I want Angelus out of the world title and into the Tag Division with me. I want him to give up and let new champions have a chance to shine. If he continuesly wants to rre-try and re-try and get his ass kicked it's fine.. I'll do my best to do it... but it's a waste of my breathe and a waste of my time. I hate doing things that waste my time so i'm gonna kick your ass this once Archer and that is it! Then you can go for some other lower title, the IC belt or whatever floats your boat, and you can cut your losses and admit your defeat to me. I'm sick of getting in the ring with the same people again and again. It get tedious and boring. I've been in this ring with you more times than I can keep count, and although I wish to carry on teaming with you... i'll give you one ass kicking to show you that I can and to get the message through to your sadistic brain, and then you can stay the fuck out of my way and let me have my time to shine!"
Punisher: "I know what you mean... I seem to always face the same shit around here and it pissess me off. But that's the life of a Champ. There are only so many people that can make the grade. Angelus just got lucky and beat Matt Dragon... but if it was Dragon you were facing would you be any happier? Sure you've never faced him before... and he's probably somewhat a lighter touch.. but beating him would not have proved as much as you beating Archer will do. I mean even AJ Styles has beaten Matt Dragon recently... it's not that hard. If i were you i'd be slightly more optimistic about facing Archer... as beating him is gonna send your career into orbit champ! You'll be the man that well and truely put an end to Archer's reign, and the man that beat both of his top rivals over the World Championship!"
Cena: "I only wish that he was a rival.. then I could get somewhat satisfaction from beating him. However he's not... it's my fucking tag partner... and it's not like I even hate the guy. I don't hate him and i wont get great amounts of pleasure from beating him. What I will get is a higher self belief, a higher self esteem and more confidence as champion. That'll be enough to push me even further forward and continue my great reign. Which will one day be my reign of terror as people look back on it and see just how long it stretched and just how many people fell in my path. It wont be tough to see them off one at a time, one after the other, and continue to be World Champion for a good long time. People will look back on these days in years to come and think "Why did Cena ever worry about winning his matches.. when in reality he could beat anyone and everyone repeatedly and keep that belt for months on end", or even years on end. Who the hell cares how long i've got it, as long as it's more than one fucking month. Losing the title that quick would be down-right degrading and de-moralising. I couldn't bear to think of myself as a failure champion, and I wont let Archer make that so. Hell what about his reign after losing to Benoit, that was pretty poor as he dropped the belt straight back to Archaos... and I bet thats lived on his mind for so long. I bet he can't bear to live with himself for throwing away the title so quickly, and I wont let him inflict his own pains on me. That's all he wants to do, all he wants to achieve. He has so much pain building up inside of him that he is determined to let it out by inflicting it on ever poor soul that comes his way. Well Angelus.. i'm not someone you can do that on. Go find yourself another toy.. someone more in your own league... like Ikeda. You can take Ikeda to a chainsaw outlet and hack eachothers heads off and no one will bat an eyelid... but if you think you can take anything out on me you are sadly mistaken. You may have nearly crucified Matt Dragon.. and most people would be so fucking scared to go up against you fter that... but bare in mind you also suffered a loss to Scott Kincaid. You'll brush it off... say he's a champion... it don't matter... but remember Angelus.. I'M A CHAMPION TOO! You can try and water that down... make it seem like it's not a big deal or whatever you want... but at the end of the day... unlike any bullshit you will come out with... it's a fact. This belt held right here says on it, John Cena! See it, right there on the name plate. Not Angelus Archer... not Wes Ikeda... not Deamon Archaos... but JOHN CENA! World Champion... greatest wrestler alive at this moment. When people get within an inch of the franchise they can sense success. It radiates off of me.. and people get inspiration from it. People aspire to be as great as me, and will always try and better themselves in order to try and catch me... but they can't. The belt right here says it all... I will not be moved, I will not be dethrownd.. I will NOT be beaten. Yuo can worry about any of your other little life problems... like where are you gonna get your next cow to suck blood out of not that Farmer Giles down the road ran out... but worrying about what you're gonna do when you're World Champ... you can take that right off your mind now... becuase ANgelus you will NOT have to worry about it your mark my words. I'm keeping this title, even though i'm gonna have to kick your ass to do so! Word Life!"
(Cena stands up and walks out of the room. Jackie follows suit. Bad, Bad Man Blasts out as John Cena hits the ring. He is greeted by a chorus of boos as he parades the World Heavyweight Championship around, showing it off to everyone for a long time. He then motions back to the ramp and out comes Jackie Cena, holding her Womens Title. Cena then walks down the ramp and gets into the ring, grabbing a microphone for the pair. The boos are deafening, but as Cena motinos for quiet they seem to oblige, though some are unwilling.)
Cena: "Will you shut up.... THE CHAMP IS HERE! I'm the biggest name in this god damn federation so you all better listen to what I have to say. One Month as EMF Champion... One Whole Month you guys have listened to me, looked up to me, and aspired to me. And yet you all persist to boo me, to claim I suck, and to whole heartedly hate me as much as you can. But you know what that doesn't matter because I don't need yuor respect, your love, or your sympathy. I'm the World Heavyweight Champion... the greatest wrestler alive today... I'm better than all of you... and nothing and nobody can ever change that. That's why, when i look down at this World Championship in my arms, I feel disgraced. This Championship does not do justice to the greatness that is John Cena! I mean... it's been severely down-graded by the fact people like Chris Benoit and Deamon Archaos have got their hands on it. So it leaves me with no option but to correct the problem, to sort it out so the belt does justice to the champion that holds it. So ladies and gentlemen... I present to you, the belt of a TRUE champion... will someone please come out here and bring my MY Championship!"
(THe EMF Shockwave Theme plays as an EMF worker hits the ring. He is carrying a briefcase not unlike the one Cena carried the Extreme Championship in when announcing his tournament. He climbs into the ring and sets the briefcase down. He then takes the World Championship belt from Cena's shoulder and sets it down next to the case. He unclips it one side at a time and opens it. The camera's cannot see the inside until he takes the belt out and places it on John Cena's shoulder. Cena smiles and takes the championship, which is the old WCW and then World Heavyweight Title from WWE. He watches as the worken places the other belt in the case and goes to leave, but then he steps in the way. The worker seems to be arguing that he is under orders to take the belt from him, but Cena's having none of it. He knocks him down with one right hand and takes the case, handing it over to Jackie.He then picks up the worker and throws him from the ring before taking the microphone again.)
Cena: "I don't give a fuck what those no good workers told you to do... i'm the World Champion and i'll call the shots! Jackie take my belt back... frame it and stick it on the wall or something... you think i'm giving that belt back to tihs company you got another thought coming! (Jackie departs). But that's not why i'm here now is it! I'm here to talk to you about my upcoming World Championship match with my Tag Team partner... Angelus Archer! Unfortunately my interviewer just left me.. so looks like I gotta call these things by myself! But that's not too hard. Angelus Archer is a name feared by many throughout the world. He's a man that was World Heavyweight Champion for almost a year... until tragedy struck him. He went from one of the most feared names... a main eventer and a great champion... to a laughing stock. He lost the title firstly to Chris Benoit, although it was shrouded in controversy, and then secondly to Deamon Archaos inside his OWN stipulation... the Hell in a Cell match. But even those two great losses would not keep down Mr Archer... oh hell no. Would I have taken a complete no-hoper on as my Tag Partner when trying to defeat Wes Ikeda and scott Kincaid.. hell no! John Cena only teams with the best and the people he thinks can help him. The difference is that in this federation.. there is nobody that even comes close to the Franchise! Not Archer, not Ikeda, not anyone! So when picking my tag partner.. I took the 2nd best guy I could find... and Angelus Archer was still that name... but there days where he dominates the fed and is the top dog are long over. The days where people look up to Angelus Archer and see him as an unbeaten tower of evil and darkness... but now the name Archer is no longer feared. The new name that people tremble at when told they will face him... the new name that people cannot bare to hear... the name that people will run for miles just to avoid... is JOHN CENA! I came to this federation ONe Year and a Half ago, almost to the day now... and when I did i told you all that one day i'd be looking down on you as the World Heavyweight Champion! That day is upon us now... but the man I should have beaten for it, the man that I should have taken down and ended his reign of terror slipped through my clasping hands. Angelus lost the title to Archaos. There are two ways of looking at it... firstly that he was screwed over by Matt Dragon... but to me that makes no difference... because Angelus Archer should have been able to beat Archaos, even with Dragon looming. So the World Title was looknig for a big name superstar to come knocking and claim it... and now I am here... and my first defence is against the great Archer. But you know what, it doesn't make a blind bit of difference! It should have been you Angelus that went up against Wes Ikeda, and you would easily have come out with the title. That would take us to First Blood... and it would have been your blood I spilt as opposed to Ikeda's, and I would have slayed you to complete my grandslam. The fact that you bought yourself and extra month is neither here nor there... I will still be coming out, ready to secure the World Championship win over you I should have had last month. You bought yourself some time... but you can't ever buy yourself a win. You may be my tag partner, and a man I have a mutual respect for... but i'm not stupid Angelus. I heard your little conversation with Heyman. You told him that when it came down to it for the World Heavyweight Championship, you'd do anything and everything in your power to ensure a victory. You wouldn't even blink at the thought of causing your tag team partner to bleed... of even putting your tag team partner out of action... well believe me Mr Archer... you made a big mistake with just that one statement. Because come EMF Unleashed, I would have done whatever it took to beat you... but I would not have tried to hurt you any more than was needed... but now I will not regret it if I put you on the shelf for the next few years. Maybe your my best chance at the Tag Titles... but whoever Kincaid takes on as a partner.. I can beat the two of them on my own... so the partner makes no odds whatsoever. I could have my wife as my partner and still win the titles... or even have Dewey Pond as my partner and walk out as Champion. No matter what you think Archer... I don't need you. I don't need your experiance or your skills to secure the championships that were stolen by me when that bastard Carlito interferedand distracted me. Bu that's a long way in the past. That was John Cena before he won the World Heavyweight Championship.. before he was the icon that everyone wanted to be like. I'm the greatest World Champion of all time... only nobody will believe that unless I force them to. Unless I give them no excuse and no reason to question me at all. They say to be a great champion you need to defend the belts frequently and you need a long run... but i'm not going to let Archer end it after one month. I will not let Angelus Archer slipt through the net again, and I wont let him get back the World Championship. He claims it is his rightful possesssion... but he's wrong! He had a good long run... but it was ended by someone that no matter what, would never EVER be able to defeat the Franchise. Hell he could have had 5 men interfere and I would not have lost the World Championship... but you did! And that is exactly what is going to set me apart Archer. That is what is going to make me a better champion than you ever were, or ever could be. YOu may have had it for a year almost, but I only need to have it half that long to bypass you and to be seen as the greatest champion ever to grace this federation. One of the quickest grandslam champions of all time... and one of the best damn wrestlers to ever hit the EMF. Archer is only kidding himself if he thinks he can beat me. He might have his shanks and hit CEO that is shoved up his ass.... but I'm John Cena... the FRANCHISE PLAYER and the World Champion! Nobody comes close to me... they all fall flat on their face when they step through the rops and begin breathing the Champs air. John Cena cannot be beaten... and I damn sure wont lose to someone like Angelus Archer! When I was Extreme Champion of the world, nobody had the balls to come near me. Nobody challenged me for the title becuase they knew that with no holds barred, i'd kill them! Sure a couple of people challenged me to matches where they could earn a shot by beating me... but they didn't... because I refused to let myself be beaten by those son of a bitches! But now look at me... forfeiting the Extreme Title to take the world by storm. I'm the World Heavyweight Champion... the top of the top, and not nobody is gonna beat me for it. I will beat everyone that crosses me... everyone that gets in the ring, and I will show the world that I, John Cena, am the greatest athelete in the world today. People have always questioned my ability... questioned the fact that I was the best.. but here I am now, and there can be no arguemnts. No other opinions. And Archer... hell I got bags of respect for the man, but he's just second best. Maybe he'll be more of a threat than Ikeda, or Dragon, or just about anyone else... and you can bet I wont be taking him lightly, but John Cena is head and shoulders above anybody else and it hands him the advantage. ANYONE going into a match with Cena is the under-dog.. and anyone going into the match will have to seriously consider the fact that they could lose it badly. Even Angelus, World Champion for nearly the whole of 2005... wont fancy his chances against the New Generation! John Cena guarenteed to get it done against Wes and I did. But now face a whole new challenge. A fucking murderer, a legend, and a great geat champion. But I don't fear it, and the reason for that is simple. I've been in the ring with him countless times before, whether to face him or team with him... and not once has my career been thrown into any danger whatsoever. Not once has Archer looked like beating me, and not once have I felt threatened by his presence. But then again, i've never gone one on one with him before. Some people have told me that its something I want to avoid... but I really fail to see how. Sure he may have ended the lives of a couple of Hobos or Dogs in his time... but that's not exactly something to fear. All he was doing was slaying the lives of those so far below him that they probably could not bare life anyway... but with me he can't do that. He can't do it because compared to me... he's the low life that needs his suffering ended. He's the hobo, the Dog... the scum.. and i'm the Champion of the world that he fears. He may have claimed some lives.. but he failed to do the one thing that really was important to him... keep the World Title. He proclaimed himself to be something that in reality he never was. He continuessly threatened to end peoples lives not just their careers, and he kept on making himself out to be the greatest wrestler alive anywhere. In reality he was a soft touch, and it didn't take a lot to see him lose the World Championship. Deamon Archaos managed to beat him in a World Title Match... and hell if he can do it so can I! Anything Archaos can do Cena can do a million times in a row... so why Angelus would even begin to think he has a chance is a big mystery to me! He can come out to that ring, he can bring Paul Heyman and all his over little minions and he can attempt to dethrown John Cena... but it will not happen. John Cena did not win the World Championship only to lose it one month down the line. I made that mistake with the Intercontienetal Title... but the fact that I could turn round and defeat Wes Ikeda at First Blood in a somewhat rematch just shows how I have improved. I have imporved behond what even I expected I could achieve.. and here I am now, the single greatest living wrestler. I'm not just a Grandslam Champion and World Champion... but I am, as my good friend JBL will tell you after his appearance last month... a WRESTLING GOD! That's right... i've heard the term thrown round so many times... but this belt sitting right here on my shoulders shows that of all the self-proclaimed God's out there... I have climbed the highest, and I have achieved the most. In fact, seeing as how many people have thrown it around.. I don't think the term God even sums me up. But I could stand here all day deciding what to call myself... but that would not be getting down to business now would it! You all saw last week on Shockwave the great Angelus archer losing to Scot Kincaid... and yet he still beleives he can come to Unleashed and defeat me. He think he can come to the Pay Per View where last year I defeated both the Animal Batista and the man who trained my wife to dominate Al Snow to keep the TV Title. Unleashed is a legacy for myself... and if Angelus fucking Archer or anyone else think he can stop me... he's got a sharp awakening on the horizon.When he tastes the FU once more.. he will see his dreams of getting his hands on the title and getting back to the number one spot vanish! Just like I beat him in the chamber... I will do so again, only this time for the biggest prize in this or any other industry! This time it's not about the fucking Tag Titles... they can be put on hold and driven completely from our minds... because this time it's about the World Heavyweight Championship, the belt that makes you an institution. Archer had his run... and it lasted a long-ass time... but the fans got sick of him. Holding the title for too damn long and just incompasitating anyone that he came up against. Then again it was rare that he was givern a real challenge. But unlike his runs with the title... to get his hands on it he's got a real tough match, against a guy that will not quit until he ses Archer laying down beaten. I will not quit until the referee is handing me back my championship and raising my hand in victory. Only then can I truely say i've made a good achievement Only then can I say i did not fail my mission at Unleashed. Even if I out-wrestle him and get screwed over and lose the title I have failed, and I'll allow anyone to quote me on that! But it wont happen. The whole fucking contencts of the locker room can hit the arena and all try and attack me... and i'll fight them off one by one and finish the job. No matter what happenes out there, there is only one foregone conclusion. John Cena is, and coming out of Unleashed still will be... THE WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION! And another thing....
(Suddernly John Cena is interupted by a theme blasting out. It's not instantly recognisable, but the fans cheer when Maria comes out and walks down the ramp. Cena looks a mixture between pissed off and confused... but he allows Maria into the ring and hands her a microphone, now standing with a look of amusement on his face to see what she wants.)
Maria: "I'm so sorry Mr Cena.... but all the advertisements for this show said you were gonna be interviewd about your match with Archer... and seeing as how you sent Jackie off to the back... I was told i'd have to come out here and do it..."
Cena: "Oh God help me.... well these fans were probably bored of me ranting on and on anyway... so I may as well take your questions. But let me remind you of some facts... i'm facing Angelus Archer... it's for this World Championship on my shoulder... and it's at Unleashed... ok shoot."
Maria: "At what? A target? Some ducks... Shoot at what Mr Cena?"
Cena: "And for those of you without your official Maria translators... only 19.99 plus shipping from EMF Shopzone.. she is asking why don't I, like everyone else, fear Angelus Archer. And I feel that is a very reasonable question indeed. But you see people fear Archer for all the wrong reasons. They hear he has claimed lives... but they never listen for more detail. Instead they cower in fear and presume he is this great wrestler that you shouldn't dare compete with. That is pure bullshit. Archer may have claimed lives, but it doesn't strike fear into my heart. I could do it.. if I thought i'd want to inflit that kind of pain and suffering on my own family... My Children grwoing up with a murderer father... that I certainly do not want. You go round engraving initials onto people using that god-damn shank of yours... but how did it feel when I had that shank Archer. You were so god damn jealous... enfuriated in fact. You'd have done anything to get it back... and you broke into my locker room just to claim it. But all that doesn't matter... because you can have all the shanks in the world. You can have all the equalisers you want and try and tip the scales in anyway you can find... but you wont beat me. Come Unleashed you will see just why you can't.... YOU CAN'T SEE ME! And that will be even more obvious when you suffer defeat at my hands. When your blood stains my hands and even worse for you... when MY Championship is returned to my hands! Because Archer, I know that it's your worst pain. Being away from this championship to you is like being withdrawn from a drug... you become desperate... and you NEED to try and reclaim it. You need it so bad that every second you are without it is like a knife through your heart.... but you know, deep down in your black heart, that you will NEVER see it again. You know that it's John Cena's possession.... John Cena's property... and nothing you say or do will influence that in any way. You wish so much that you could wrestle half as well as the franchise... so that maybe you'd have a chance of reclaiming the gold.. but what are the chances? Almost zero. You'd need all hte luck in the world just to survive the first 5 minutes... and to be quite honest when we get further and further into our match, your chances of getting a win are slowly dwindling away. Sure you could try and jump me... get a quick sneaky pin fall and run off with the title... but it wont happen. As you saw last month when JBL tried to blindside me... I have more than enough support to stop that happening, not that i'm going to need it. Hell Archer... after your displays in our tag matches I could probably beat you without even putting in any effort... you seem washed up. You lost us the tag match with DTC... you lost to Kincaid... and it was me that earnt this shot we got coming up. Now im not gonna turn on you or pretend like I could have won that match entirely by myself... but Archer i'm the dominant force behind this team.. and that's exactly why i'm the World Heavyweight Champion! So you can kid yourself... you can look in the mirror before you go to bed at night and claim that you still got it... you still got one more run in you... you can claim you got it to walk out as World Champion but you know what.... your not just lying to yourself and anyone you consider a friend... your not just lying to these fans... your lying to me Archer. I know the truth... I know you can't beat me no matter what happens. I know I can beat you in any match at any time of year in any arena in the whole fucking world! But it's gonna take more than just my words to get that into your head. It's gonna take more than me standing here running my mouth to strike fear into your almost lifeless body. It's gonna take more than beating JBL and Orlando Jordan down like I did last month... more than winning the chamber... more than being a grandslam champion and you know why Archer? Because you can't see past the end of your nose. You were so blind you missed this great talent rising up along side you. This great champion in the making... and the man you just can't beat no matter how hard you try. Now the EMF has had a great list of champions.... but all of them beside me have one thing in common. They all fell from grace. They all reached the top and then fell back down. Some like Chaos only lasted a month... others like yourself had a year in them... but not one of them could compare to John Cena! Not one of them can call themselves world champion right now... and not one of them can claim to have givern as much to this business as I have. Sure you may have shead more blood and cried more tears... but for one year and a half i've been the greatest talent in this industry. Even when you were struttin around with your world title belt... I was outshining you. I was proving to the world that I was the top gun, even without this title. You put in performances agaisnt the likes on Hanley where you were damn lucky to walk out with that belt... where as I was always consistant. I always believed that givern the oppertunity I could have and would have dethrowned you... but I was never givern that final push... until last month. And on that night, the biggest night of the year, I proved to you all that every single word to ever pass my lips was the stonecold truth. I have never lied to these fans as much as I don't respect them... and i've ever lied to myself. I am the grandslam champion I promised I would be, I am the World's best, just like I promised... but hell here's another promise Archer. It's not written in stone and it aint no fucking gospel... because the amount of gospel's you've broken is absolutely frightning... but it's a promise, and i've never broken one of those. I WILL beat you.. I WILL retain this world title and I WILL show everyone just how damn good I am. The Doctor of Thugonomics did not climb the mountain for nothing. I did not go to the biggest event on the calender and fight one of the EMF's most successful names just to lose the prize after one month... and I am not afraid of you taking it! So Maria here asked why I wasn't afraid... and with her and everyone else as my witness.... Angelus Archer... it's time for you to look into the eyes of the next generation. It's time for you to suffer the pain that you've only suffered a coupld of times before. It's time for you to reaise your not the top dog and that you can't cut it at the very top, and it's time for you to very gracefully walk away from the World Title picture and concetrate on getting that tag title around my waist. It's time for you to be a man... and to finally acknowledge that there is one better than you... and to look me in the eye, shake my hand, and pass the torch. You had your time... but MY TIME IS NOW, and if you wont pass me the torch like a good sport and a big man... looks like i'll have to lay you out and wrench it from your hands!"
Maria: "Ok one more question Mr Cena... i've been watching Archer for many years... but i've never seen him with a torch. Where is this torch and why do you want it so bad?"
(Cena rolls his eyes and smiles at Maria, who blushes and smiles back, thinking she's doing a good job...)
Cena: "Err well.... that's not of great importance... but as for your other question yes of course i'm confident of victory! I always am, and I always will remian so. After all, as far as one on one matches go... i'm almost undefeated entirely. Archer seems to lose them for fun... I mean there's Benoit, Archaos, Kincaid right off the bat... that's more than i've lost in my entire career of one on ones! But history does not matter when you lock eyes in that ring. Wes Ikeda once asked me why did I go to a grave yard and lock eyes with a cold-blooded killer... well the answer Wesley is quite simple. I have no fear. I do not fear Angelus and it will show when I kick his ass from pillar to post and keep this title. He can't intimidate me and he can't make me any less confident. I don't play mind games... I just do my job. I come out here and talk my ass off because that is what i'm payed to do.... because that is what the company want me to do to promote their crappy little shows. I mean look at the card... we got a Hall of Famer match for the Extreme Championship.... we got 2 complete nobodies completing a series for the IC Belt... we got the co-president taking on an old man... this show needs promoting and it's needs it bad. That's why they beg me to come out here and run my mouth about how good it will be. In reality it'll probably be a load of bollocks... but i'm not sure i'm allowed to say that on air... but since when did I give a fuck. The reason it'll be so bad is because the only match with any potential whatsoever is mine.... and that is going to prove to be a complete whitewash when i'm through with it. The World Title division is going to become boring... simply because I shall never lose! I'm the Franchise... the fans buy tickets to see someone as good as me go out there and fight.. not to see B-list talent like the rest of this federation. I'm sick of the fact that there is nobody to give me a real challenge... but then again i suppose its the price you pay for getting as good as me. When you train as much as me and kick as much ass as me, you can be forgivern for being head and shoulders above the competition. So i'm sorry if you fans get bored during my title reign... but it really is tough shit. I'm sorry if you guys get sick of me wiping the floor with every single individual that steps through those ropes to face me... but I could not give a fuck. The reason for this is simple... i'm the fucking World Champion because I deserve to be it. I payed my dues just like everyone else... and I worked my way from the bottom upwards. I held all the other fucking titles that meant nothing to nobody... and here I am now. When I won the Intercontinental Title... defeating one of the biggest names at that time in Michael De Kreek... nobody gave a damn. The reason... becaused Jarred Carthallion stuck his nose in and took out MDK. People never considered me a good IC Champ, and that's why I had no problem moving aside and allowing Wes Ikeda to take the belt. It was a burden... and one I was sick of having. Maybe one day i'll attempt to take it back and prove I can be a good champion for every division... but why bother when I can just dominate the world as The top gun, the World Heavyweight Champion! This is my oppertunity to put those ghosts away, and to prove i'm not a failure when it comes to the top titles. Nobody handed me the world title, and nobody contributed to my win. Therefore I earnt this, and I deserve it. Angelus Archer may have had the belt taken away from him by Matt Dragon, but the problem is... he got himself into the situation in the first place. He threw away his advantage when he took out the Disqualification's and count outs and made it a Cell match... you should only do that if you know for damn sure you can handle interferance from anyone that may well crop up. You couldn't.. and you payed the price. What shocks me is the fact you were able to defeat Dragon to get to me... after he basically beat you for the world title. I mean, Archaos hardly contributed anything. But credit where credit's due you took your revenge in the Slaughter House, and you did a good job. You are more than worthy or a shot at the EMF World Championship, but to hold it again... never. Your days at the top were always numbered and now they are god damn finished. You will never again sit a top the mountain like I do, and you will never again taste glory like I recently have. Like so many before you you need to realise that the Franchise has leapfrogged you, and that he is the superior athelete. You will never beleive me until I am putting my words into actions and kicking your ass all over that ring. The FU is devestating... and you like all those that have been in the ring before you will learn the fate of feeling it. Not one person has survived it, and you wil not be the exception. Because you see Archer, i've grown quite accustomed to this championship I hold... I like it very much... and I will not see you or anybody else wrench it from my grasp. Archer, you can come and do your very worst, but it just wont happen for you. You simply will not be able to keep me down long enough to steal away my championship. And when i connect with the FU, your dreams will vanish in the blink of an eye. I don't give a damn if you think you can stop me, or whatever you plan you have to try and beat me. I don't give a fuck if you have Heyman come out and attempt to steal my title from me by stacking the deck... I had plenty of practice with that in the WWE and I always came out on top. And sure maybe I like everyone else eventually ws beaten, but in the EMF my reign will not end EVER. I will be world champion until such a point that I get bored and decide to take a break... and give the belt back to the poor suckers to try and fill the void left by me. The company will then plummit through the floor and whoever the champion is will not be able to enjoy it as the company will need to sell it to pay off it's debts. But before i let that happen I pln on being World Champion for a good few years and showing you all how it's really done. Every challenger that comes my way will fall, and every person that even dreams of taking my title will be bought back down to earth with a bang. There is no way that anyone, be they a former champ or a newcomer to the top division, will be able to dethrown me and take what is mine. I worked my ass off here for one year and a half and I did not do it to give up the belt as soon as I got it. So archer can think what he wants, he can go visiting graveyards and cutting up animal carcusses and screwing Paul Heyman up the backside, but it wont pay off. Hopefully when I kick his ass he wont be so bitter so as to abandon me as his partner.. but either way... all that matters in this match is me retaining my title and sending a message to anyone that has ever doubted me, i'm here to stay.. and nobody is going to stop me now i'm there! Word Life!"
(Bad, Bad Man blasts out again as John Cena takes Maria by the hand and helps her out of the ring. She then walks behind him up the ramp and out of the arena.)
(The scene re-opens later on. John Cena is shown sitting at home. It is the night before the big EMF Pay Per View event, Unleashed. He is sitting up in his study room, which he only uses for watching tapes, and he is watching a tape of ANgelus Archer taking on Matt Dragon in the SLaughter House match. He seems to flinch a little at something on the screen, but then a smile cracks out over his face. He rewinds the DVD a littlre and re-watches the last few seconds before Dragon is counted down and Angelus is announced the winner. This was the moment Cena had learnt his fate for if he managed to defeat Ikeda, a goal he subsequently had achieved. This was what had lead them to where they were today. John Cena, victorius at First Blood, against Angelus Archer, bloodied, battered, but also victorious at First Blood. Cena laughs to himself as he sees Matt Dragon counted down and the referee raising the hand of Angelus.)
Cena: "Angelus... I know you can hear me. Well hear me clearly and take in every word I say. Our battle draws closer and closer by the minute... and every minute your fear and self-doubt are growing too. You think to yourself... "If I can't beat Kincaid... what hope do I have against Cena..." And that's exactly the right thing to be thinking. How did it feel when the title belt your nurtured for months on end came and hit you round the face? A mistake on my part yes... but do I regret it? Hardly. I know you may noit be the brightest bulb in the box, nut the man who's backside your lodged in has a great wrestling brain. He is a master of tihs industry and has achieved so much. I have world of respect for Heyman, and I don't even question his choice in you.. at least I didn't before now. But Angelus when oyu lose to me you will see everything i've told you is the truth. YOu will see that you are the weakest link of the pair, and when you leave Unleashed with nothing but a hell of a lot of pain, you will see a new era truely has come into existance. I'm not here to let you off lightly... but i'm not going to lie to a man who I need to be on the same page as. YHOur man Paul Heyman has great business sense and for that reason.. he will not allow you to severe ties with me. He will not allow you to do anything to me to ruin your chances of getting the Tag Team Titles when we recieve MY shot at them. He knows I earnt it.. he knows you didn;t, and probably he'd much rather have me on his books than you... just he couldn't afford me.But yet he'll still go out there and tell oyu to bring the World Title back.. to which you'll have to reply "FOrgive me Mr Heyman... but I cannot. I am not worthy of such a championship and neither can I beat someone as great as John Cena." You know these words to be true. YOu were once the mighty... but oh how the mighty have fallen now. YOu left an open space at the top, and it needed somebody to reach up and take it. That person was me Archer... and I have done it. I have climbed the long and rugged path to the top, and I have taken this World Championship. It looks a lot better than the one you had doesn't it? This one is too good for the likes of you. You're a fucking sadistic son of a bitch and it's an absolute tragedy to have you representing us at any level. If you do need a belt to compenate for your lack of just about everything else... why don't you win the Extreme Title. You have about as much quality and skill as people in that division... other than Punisher who doesn't belong there, and it might satisfy your need to spill blood. The World Title is not the right belt for you. It is not right to have you at the top. People from other federations laugh at the EMF when they see it being represented by a psychotic maniac with no talent. It'd be like the WWE giving their world title to Gene Snitsky or Heidenreich... it just would not happen. It's not good for business having you on top. Look how sales have risen under my reign... how there were no empty seats in the arena for any Shockwave's anmoyre, unlike when you were the champ. When I was only in the middle of the cards... people could not be bothered to stay until the main event. They came to watch me and then vacated their seats when you came out... you bore people Angelus, and not for good reaons. It's not because you win your matches quickly like me... but simply because you have no wrestling skill. OYu might have brute strngth... but wrestling ability is low. You have success but it's not due to technical skill or ability. You might be good, but I am better. You might have held a few World Titles... but i'm a fucking Grandslam Champion. Whatever you've achieved... I can beat it, and this week come Unleashed... i'll beat you again just for good measure. The FU will put you down and keep you down, and you will realise just what it takes to defeat me. YOu will realise it's something far behond what you have, and that it's a hell of a lot more that you've givern me credit for. Underestimate me at your peril Archer. Even get it wrong by 1% and you will suffer sagnificantly. I'm hte World HEavyweight Champion.. I don't make things easy for you... and you will see that soon enough.
Not only that Archer.. but I am in the best shape of my life. Having climbed to the top of the mountain I am training even more hard, I have put my entire body into training for many hours on end. It has been hectic and yet I do not feel the strain, and I do not feel tired. I've been putting myself through hell in order to just improve my chances by a little bit more... even though i'm probably 99% likely to win anyway... I might as well push it up. There is no margin for error with the World Championship. There is no way I can alow myself to sit back and take any punishment... because if you catch me with a good strong move then my chances start to lower slightly. I'm not pretending it wont take a fucking miracle for you to beat me, but if you up your own chances even by 1% then that means you can have that many more oppertunities to shock me. Anyone can beat anyone on any givern day, but I will not be the one being shell shocked. I will not allow myself to slip up and let you walk out with the title. I don't care what you try and pull or how many people you pay to run out... i'll beat them all down and i'll keep my championship. I'm not going to lose it to anyone, least of all someone that persistantly puts in performances inferior to my own. I won this title with a combination of training, dedication, loyalty, and a hell of a lot of hard work. ANd when it finally came, everyone knows I damn well deserved this.Not like that joke of a champion that proceded me... but we can all think back to that and laugh now can't we. Laugh at how pathetic Ikeda was if he believed he could make people respect him just by beating Archaos.. and at how he really never deserved his championship and yet still insisted he did. Wes was a joke.. just like Angelus would be if he got the belt. I'm not prepared to let MY federation fall even lower. To let the federation I single handidly uided through the closing stages of last year be forced to go back to what it was 12 months ago. I'm the Champion for a reason... becaue they God damn need me to be. They need me to pull in the ratings, to keep any form of a female audience and most of the male audience who come in just to watch my great ability and be jealous of me. Archer can't believe the rate at which I have shot to stardom... the rate at which I have grown into a true champion. He knows in his heart of hearts that I deserve this, and that I do justice to the title that he could never do. Maybe once upon a time he was a good champion... a great champion even... but those days have passed him like they pass us all at one stage of our lives. Mine is no where near, my reign is just beginning. I'm only just beginning to dominate the world and show you all what it's about. People can't stop me... nobody can. Nobody can claim to be better than me, or can claim that they can put an end to my reign. Nobody will ever take away what is mine and that's the God's honest truth. I pride myself in the championship. Without it I do not know where i'd be. I spoke a lot about fear earlier... but not even this SLaughterhouse match... the most bloody match you could dream up strikes fear into my heart. Nothing you do will make me fear you Angelus. I'm the world champion for a reason... because I fear nobody and can beat anybody! I'm not going to be a one hit wonder like so many champions we've had recently... i'm going to be long reigning and unbeatable like you once were. I will show the world why I am the most superiror of all atheletes, and why I deserve more than anyone to be the greatest champion of all time! I deserve to retain this title for months, and be remembered as an illustrious champion... and Archer... if you take away form me what I deserve and what I am owned... I will make sure you spend the rest of your ugly little existance regretting it!"
(As Cena stops talknig there is a knock at the door. Chris Masters enters the room)
Chris: "Hey John... running ANOTHER promo?"
Cena: "Well the cameras were running and I was watching Archer's petty attempt to seem great in the Slaughter House... so I thought why not. Sorry I probably got a bit carried away with all of that...."
Chris Masters: "Nah I know how seriously you take that championship... and how much you really want to win this thing. Beating Archer is important... but it's nothing less than you deserve. You work your ass off week in week out and for a good long time you had very little to show for it... and now you have the World Championship just as you deserve. I told you when you faced Wes, your are big enough to do this... a big enough name to rule this federation with an iron fist. You deserve everything you get... there's no such thing as luck... you make all your own breaks in this or any other industry... you climbed that mountain because you were good enough to do so, and it's my firm belief you will be good enough to remain there even after Archer comes calling."
Cena: "Thanks Chris... always good to have someone believe in you... even when people are trying to over shadow you and water down everything you achieve. Winning the chamber, winning the world title.. i've done everything and it's time people started opening their eyes and welcoming in John Cena as the main eventer, the icon, and the legend that he is for this company. It's about time that people started to refer to me with a bit more respect... and started to value what I give to this company. I get nothing from anybody for free Chris... I need to work for everytihng i've ever got. There is nobody to hand me free title shots, I need to impress for months before people are convinced to give me them. I got nobody I can manipulate into giving me my every wish... I have to do it all from scratch. But I don't bitch and complain... get on with things, and that's why I finally got my hands on the World Championship, and why I finally stand top of the world. People have more respect for me now... simply because I can say I am THE champion, but it's still not a lot. It's still over-shadowed by certain power hungry inderviduals that wont give anyone else a spotlight no matter what they give this industry to deserve it. Angelus is rapidly becoming one of them. He has held the torch for so long, but he doesn't realise he cannot physically do it anymore. He doesn't realise he doesn't deserve it anymore.. and that he's being quickly discredited for constantly trying to achieve what he can no longer achieve. He wants anther run with this title... but he doesn't know how far out of his reach it really is. He thinks it's close enough for him to smell like the blood of his last victim.. but in reality, if he lifts his head out of his ass to look up... i'm so far above him that he can't... excuse the cliche... but he CAN'T SEE ME. I'm so far above him I get dizzy looking down on him... and come the Pay Per View... my anger and my hatred i've been buildin up for certain inderviduals over the last month will al be UNLEASHED and i'll STILL be the Extreme Measures Federation World Champion!"
Chris Masters: "John I gotta ask you.... what's happening with Amy Dumas. I mean.. can you be sure she's not gonna tell Jackie tomorrow, just to throw you off your game when you are facing Angelus?"
Cena: "Oh God Chris... you worry about some weird things. I'm about to go one on one with a murdered and all you worry about is Amy. But i'll tell you how I know she wont... because she's not stupid. She's not stupid enough to go out against the man that made her the most scared she's ever been in her life.. just to try and cost him the World Title and hand it to someone whos no better. It's better the devil you know Amy... just remember that. Then again, Angelus wasn't that bad to her now was he? He may have killed her fucking dog... but I did a much better job on her with my sledgehammer.I get things done... I don't piss about like he did... and the same story will hold true at Unleashed. He may mess about with thelittle things that don't worry.. but in the end i'll get the job done, i'll pin his shoulders down, and i'll retain the World Championship! And if Amy does try anything... it'll have no effect. Jackie could file for divorce tomorrow and it would not stop me going all out against Angelus. My focus is 100% and will not be switched to anything else, no matter what happens. I guaren-fucking-tee that I will beat Angelus, that i'll walk out of Phoenix with my World Championship held high, and no anybody, not Paul HEyman, Angelus Archer or Amy Jericho are going to do ANYTHING about it when it comes down to it tomorrow. It might be a titanic battle, but when all is said and done, i'll be walking uot with another win under my belt!"
Chris Masters: " Of course you will... you'll always be the World Champion as long as you want it John. I've never seen an aythelete pack a punch like you. Hell even when I trained out in Japan, you could have cleared the ring with 50 of those guys... yet Archer could'nt handle even one. There is an enourmous gap in the talent at the top of this federation... you are way superior to all of those that fight it out beneath you. No matter what they do to earn the shot... it's a nothing achievement compared to beating you. Nobody will ever top you John... nobody will make you give that title up... and that's the God's honest truth. Angelus may have thought he's gone to hell in the past... but this week, you'll show him the true meaning of the word!"
Cena: "I'll send Angelus to hell and back and expect a postcard... that's for damn sure. If Angelus think he can waltz out with my title he's having a fucking laugh. The title is mine and I have no intention of losing it any time, whether it's soon or in the distant future. If I was going to lose it, it would not be to someone who's wrestlingstlye is anything like Archer. Every single tihng he stands for and every thing about his reaction is absolutely disgusting to me. He doesn't exist to wrestle like I do... he exists to cause pain. It's radiculous therefore that he wants the World Title so much. What does he care about wrestling? All he wants is to cause pain... why doesn't he just become a hitman... or just take out random people on the street. Why try and be a wrestling champion... when you actually don't care. It's absolutely retarded and he is a fucking joke. I live and breathe for this industry, and for this championship. If people think they can drive it out of me... they are dead wrong. You can't take Cena out of this industry because witohut him it would crumble and die. And as the World Champion... they need me even more. There is no way i'm gonig to give up everything I have dedicated myself to for the last 2 years in the EMF, but have been working towards for my entire life. Even as a young boy i dreamed of becoming a wrestling champion, and when the EMF opened up, I knew that was where I wanted to make my name. Even when I was top of the ladder in WWE... it bored me, and I knew I could do more. Now here I am.. and i'm finally making a name for myself like I truely deserve. But Chris man... i'm really getting tired... so to Angelus I leave you with one message. Your greatest weapon... the fear you inflict on others, has gone. Now you will suffer, now you will be made to pay... and I Angelus, I will still be able to scream THE CHAMP IS HERE! Word Life!"
(The scene fades out here ahead of the PPV.)
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