||- Foreword -||

(Our scene opens. We are live at the Cena household. The date is December 28th. Christmas has passed, and even though the Cena's celebrated it fully for the sake of their British houseguest Natasha, the spirit of it all seemed to be dwindling away. Attention is slowly turning towards a huge New Years Party they are planning. However, this is only notified by a few scraps of paper containing possable gurest lists and desired foods. Other than this the scene is fairly typical of the Cena household. John Cena is sitting at one end of a long sofa, with Chris at the other. The both have beer placed on the table in front and they seem to have just finished watching a football game. Cena picks up the remote and switches it off. Jackie then walks into the room and sits down next to him. She leans into him and puts her arms around him, kissing him, before saying.)

Jackie: "Good game?"

Cena: "Ok I suppose... we should have done a lot better than that! But anyway... football isn't important is it..."

Jackie: "I never thought i'd hear the day.... what's changed your mind so suddernly..."

Cena: "Well... only the fact that i'm 4 days away from the biggest match of my entire career. Nothing else matters now but me.. and getting myself to 100% in order to accomplish the dream i've held for such a long time. To folow in the footsteps on the Punisher... and become a Grandslam Champion. But this is so much more than that. No, not only would I be a grand slam champion, and the reigning WORLD Heavyweight Champion, but i'd complete the set with the top title, and i'd do it by gaining retribution for when Wes stole my Intercontinental Title. He completed his grandslam at my expense, and took from me the biggest title i've held to date. And now, some months on, I am going to completely reverse the fates of that day, and seek complete revenge over mr Ikeda. He may have escaped our first encounter relatively unscathed and may have taken away the one title I actually ever felt did any justice to me... but it's all in the past. None of that matters. Hell I was probably too into partying and getting drunk and layed to care enough to motivate myself to beat him back then. But now everythings different. We are not worrying about just the Intercontinental Tittle.. a title that's had more champions than Hulk Hogan has vitamins in the last few months... oh hell no. We are duelling this time over something a lot more worthwhile... a lot more satisfying to rip away from someone. For you see, this is about the World Heavyweight Title. The top belt in the entire federation. It means you are the greatest this federation has to offer if you can become World Champion.. that nobody is currently better than you are. Unless of course... you win the title from a complete reject like Archaos and then refuse to defend it for 2 months. It would be stupid of me to let anything BUT the World Championship enter my mind at any time. Wes Ikeda is going to be a tough nut to crack.. even if his in ring ability is not all that great.. I know he will do whatever it takes to defy me and prevent me from fulfilling my destiny at this Pay Per View. He, like the rest of the woprld knows it is inevatably going to happen one day. But this one match could make or break my enitre life. The fame and fortune of being world champion... GOd I don't even know what it's like.. the closest i've come was being WWE Champion. Even then I didn't feel I could really obtain my true potntial. The opponents were just run of the mill garbage I could take out with one FU.... hell I even let some of them beat me right down.. before pulling it off to secure a win. Thinking about it though... what makes Ikeda any better than Angle,or Jericho, or Christian.. I guess nothing really. But I cannot afford to get sloppy. I have to train to my full potential.. ready to offload on Ikeda as soon as he gets into the ring. I need to be ready... to focus all my efforts. Ikeda, if your watching here this. I will be training 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.. well... unfortunately there aren't any weeks between us... though thinking about it, that's better, because it's not so long until I kick your ass and show you up in front of the whole world. THe facts of the matter are, John Cena is the superior athelete. At First Blood, two of the biggest names in the EMF's entire history go one on one, and the winner will win not only the world title, but eternal glory. Eternal respect of the fans, and an amazing amount of pride and joy. I don't give a fuck about any of that personally... all I want is to inflict the maximum amount of pain possable nto my dear friend Wesley Ikeda... and show him that if he takes his head out of his ass for even a few seconds, he really isn't all he cracks himself up to be. Nothing is important to John Cena right now other than surviving, training, his family and of course, getting the better of Wes Ikeda. Beating him into the ground until he can physically take no more pain and he gives up and I take the championship I was born to hold.Wes knows he'll be a lucky son of a bitch if he gets through me this week, and if he escapes with his World Title between his legs, let alone around his waist. This week is going to be the week greatness is born... the week where the whole worlds stops to stand and stare at the awesome sight in front of them. John Cena will prove to the world that he was born to compete at the highest level... the top peak of sports entertainment. No one can hold me back.. and nobody can block my way. I don't care if i have to waste every waking minute over the next few days just laying into trainers and practicing all my different moves... becuase at the end of the day, it'll all be worth it one day. One day when John Cena stands proud, and holds the World Championship high above his head, and everybody else looks up at him with a smile on their face and says 'Wow... this guy really did have a lot more talent then we ever gave him credit for'. Now i'll never care abut other peoples opinions.. but if that happens, if they look up at me and claim that i've done more than they ever expected... and i've proven everyone wrong... then i'll be happy. And just imagine these fans, when they get me as ther champion. Me representing them.. when I couldn't care less if the fans actually bought tickets or not... other than the fact I want a nice juicy pay check at the end of it. Wes Ikeda on the other hand is something totally different... and he's the type of person i'd rather not have around here. So for that reason, I shall go out of my way to ensure he is no longer the World Champion after First Blood. Then the board of directors are free to take the actions that, in my opinion need to be done. Will Wes be diciplined.. you can bet your bottom dollar he wont... but he does get away with anything he wants just because he apparantly has talent i;ve never seen. But one thing is for certain, this week \I am going to do whatever it takes to make damn sure he never gets his hands on the World Title again after he hands it to Hebner or whover our referee may be. Wes can forget about beating me right now... because everyone knows it wont happen in a million years. Since he beat me, i''ve evolved into something far superior to him.. and Wes.. it wont be me living with the name... it will be you wishing you never crossed paths with the Franchise!"

Jackie: "And you know i'm behind you all the way! Anyway, what do you have planned for today?"

Cena: "Not a great deal to be honest with you. Figures I might leave in a bit and do some training.. if you want to come with us Chris?"

Chris Masters: "Yea ok sure. We should leave now though... we have nothing better to do and you'd want to be back here later for when Bentley arrives..."

Cena: "Oh I forgot he was coming back today... alright then yea, let's get going now and we'll back in plenty of time."

JAckie: "Ok that's fine. Just be sure not to train too hard... i'd hate for you to injure yourself prior to such a big match..."

Cena: "Thanks Jackie... i'll see you a bit later."

(The scene fades out with Cena and Chris leaving for the training facility. It re-opens a while later. The training facility is pretty much the same as always. Cena and Chris walk in, and a trainer walks over to take their coats and ask them if they'd like a drink. Some other workers are hard at work clearing away the last scraps of Christmas Decoration. In the ring, a couple of trainers are practicing some holds, but they stp when they see their boss enter. The begin to argue amongst eachother.)

First Trainer: "No, I should get to train with John... you did last week..."

Second Trainer: "So what... he said I did a good job.. I should get another shot at this..."

First Trainer: "Oh yea... well how about I kick your ass and proive I deserve to train with the next World Champion..."

(It looks as though hell iwll break lose, before Cena steps in.)

Cena: "Guys... guys. It's fine. I bought Chris along to have some real competition anyway. But seeing as you want to train with me so bad... i'll tell you what. Chris you can be the referee, as I take on these two in a no disqualifications handicap match. After that... you can both hit the showers whilst the REAL superstars get to work. Ok?"

Second Trainer: "Got you loud and clear sir...."

(Chris calls for the bell and the match begins. The first trainer runs at Cena and goes for a clothesline, which Cena blocks. Cena grabs his arm, and twists it round, before whipping him against the ropes and nailing a Big Back Body Drop. The second man runs at him, and Cena takes him down too, this time with a clothesline of his own. The first is up again and charges at Cena, but is met with an uppercut and then lifted for an FU. The second, however, turns Cena round and kicks him in the gut, before nailing him with perfect Coast-to-Coast with high impact. He goes into the cover and Chris reachts quickly... but before he can even count one Cena is out of it. The trainers can't believe it, as the second one starts to stomp on Cena. Cena then grabs his foot and throws him down backwards. The first runs at him but Cena reachts quickly, grabbing a leg of him too and taking him down and into the STFU. The man looks in pain.. and struggles before submitting. Chris rings the bell again.The second man however gets out of the ring and grabs a chair. As Cena turns around the chair connects with the skull. He hooks Cena's leg, Chris doesn't count because it's over, so he counts himself, slightly fast. 1.. 2.. Cena kicks out. He can't believe it, and looks on stunned, as Cena just easily climbs up and nails him with an FU as Chris now counts 1, 2, 3! Cena gets up and slides out of the ring. The two trainers look on in awe, and then start to argue again. Cena orders they leave... and they do so. He then turns back to Chris.)

Cena: "A coast-to-coast and a chair shot... and i'm not even feeling it... God wes is screwed!"

Chris Masters: "Ha, you better believe he is. He couldn't beat you if his life depended on it. Those guys put moredamage on you than Wes legally could... and they still came off second best in a matter of seconds.. both of them. It just shows that when you are really on your game.. there is no toppling you, no matter what anyone throws t you. I mean... i've never seen anyone totally outclass you.. ever, and i've never seen anyone that can wrestle quite like you do. Your the best John... and soon the whole world will know that when that World Heavyweight Championship is placed firmly around your waist."

Cena: "Well I hope your right man.... but if we look at the way the World Titles gone recently... i'm not entirely sure that will happen. I mean, i'd like nothing more than to have people look at me and say 'That man right there, is the damn greatest wrestler that ever lived'.. but the World Title in itself cannot do that. Not now, not after the champions it's had as of late. If you take out Angelus... and look at the champons its had over the last few months... it's pitiful. Chris Benoit... cheated to win the World Championship, and then lost it straight back a week later... some champion he was. And then we had Deamon Archaos... an even bigger joke. He needed interferance from a Hall of Famer to achieve his goals... and to become the World Champion. Yes, he had the balls to step into the Hell in a Cell against Angelus Archer... something most men would run at the very mention of.. but there is no chance in hell he should have even come close to winning that match. He was gift-wrapped the title by some has been that wanted to prove he still had it because he could influence a world title match... well that's not exactly rocket science now is it Dragon? But then we come to number 3 on our list of recent champions that don't deserve to wear the belt of glory. Wesley Ikeda. An absolute disgrace.. a joke, and an insult to all I work for week in week out. The man shows no respect for this industry, for this federation... or in fact for anything that isn't stuffed up his ass. He is not fit to wear the World Title strap... and it is my duty and my destiny to strip it from his waist. I cannot believe Mike even gave him an oppertunity to have a shot... it's a disgrace really.. because Wes brings nothing but bad news to this company. All the reported bad morale backstage is caused by him. Nobody respects him as a champion. And the fact is.. he did it the easy way. He waited until Archer was out of the picture... and then beat one of the worst wrestlers we've ever had here in order to claim the title. That makes me sick... seeing a man that does not deserve the title pick up the pieces, just because the true champion is out of the match for a while. It was supposed to be Angelus Archer Vs John Cena... the match everyone wanted to see.... partners going at it for one night only for the World Championship... but that all came crashing down... and Ikeda's the man I blame. Now, no doubt you all want to see Cena Vs Ikeda part two... this time with the biggest prize in sports entertainment on the line.. but just think how much better it would be if we actually had two REAL wrestlers in that ring. Because it's just going to be like watched amateur wrestling.. because not even I can make Wes Ikeda look good. He's that damn terrable. His mic skills suck , which is why he needs to run and visit his over-sized family so often for tips.. and his in ring talent is almost non-existant. I could beat the man with my eyes closed no doubt. You saw what those two trainers did... more impact than Ikeda could even dream of.. hit his finisher AND a lethal chair shot... and yet here I am... still standing... without a shock defeat to my name! DOes anyone really beleive Wes could beat me... because if they do, they are either really stupid, or else just both blind and deaf."

Chris Masters: "Well you had a believer out of me right away champ... no problems there. I mean after all... you are the Extreme Champion of the world. Yea you beat the same man Ikeda did... but Archaos actually put up a fight against you... unlike Wes. He knew Wes would be too easy but just couldn't be asked being a world Champion nobdy respected... so he handed the title over and didn't complain about it. the sad thing is that Wes will probably view it that his acievement was greater than yours... when really it isn't. You've almost done everything Wes did in like a quarter of the time... and shamefully Wes is jealous of you man. He's gonna rant on and on about how he's better than you, but he wont be able to mean a single word of it. We know you are better than Ikeda... you have putr in better performances than him for an entire year.. week in, week out, with no exceptions. You won the biggest match of them all at Survival of the Fittest... and you proved on that night that withot a shawdow of a doubt, you can, and will out-wrestle Ikeda. So all you have to do is do it one more time... and then you will be a grnadslam champion... join some great names.. and Ikeda.. in achieving the ultimate goal.. and being the best wrrstler alive today!"

Cena: "Well as I said... I don't believe the World Title on it's own makes me the worlds greatest wrestler... and beating Ikeda barely boosts my resume at all... but being a grandslam champion will damn well earn me the respect I deserve around here. People seem to think i'm some kind of joke because I don't have all that many title defences... I say that's complete bullshit. The TV Title... I defended repeatedly.. and everyones too damn scared to challenge me for this here Extreme Title. A couple of people stepped forward... and i'd have gladly given them a title shot... but they were said to be not good enough to warrent it... and had to beat me first to get the shot.. and I wiped the floor with them. It's not my fault i'm just so damn good that nobody wants a title shot... so if anyone comes up with the argument that I cannot defend my titles I ask them to look at the facts. Nobody has challenged me to an Extreme Title shot that would be worth even the 2 breaths it would take me to beat them. Hell Wes Ikeda, if this match was for my title, would hardly be a fitting opponent worthy of my time. This match will be a white wash.. no questions asked. I will be world Champion... I could write that in concrete i'm that certain. I'd put my career on the line... but the problem with doing that is it takes too much paper work to get out of my contract... and the company would probably block it because i'm such a huge asset to them. There's no way they could allow me to leave... because their ratings just plummet every time the Franchise is not on the card. When I went throuh my phase of not wrestling for a long time... nobody even watched these damn shows, because they had no talent to look at. Who wants to watch Wes Ikeda and Scotty Kincaid going one on one... when they could be watching the international paint drying championship that was on the other channel. Wes is just so boring to watch... and not the good kind of boring where people are sick of him coz he's so good... just boring because he has no charisma... the fans can't connect to him.. not that it's a good thing when they can... but they don't exactly hate him... they just don't care wheher he lives or dies because he bores everyone. Wes Ikeda does not deserve to be the World Champion... and that is a fact. There is nothing special about him... nothing to make him a star. If it wasn't for him beating me.. the new generation of fans would not have any idea who he was... and they only knew his name because he defeated their hero... which i horrably let myself become. Wes Ikeda pisses me off to high hell every week... because he's just the same. he'll come to the ring and have a little bitch about someone.. or build himself up as some God of the comapny... then he'll run off to see the family... his brother and his wife who's so ugly we all have to vomit at the mention of her name... and he'll pretend like they too are Gods, and that being an Ikeda makes you legendarily special.But the problem is it doesn't. Being a Cena... now that's an important name in this business. But Ikeda... a name that many praise like it is God himself... should really be the lowest of the low. Some of the tacttics they pull out to win can only ever be described as dispicable... and to be honest Wes and the others shouldn't think themselvs better than anyone else.. and should thank their lucky stars they have any respect left whatsoever by these people. They should count themselves very, VERY lucky to even have any one they can consider friends at this stage. But as i touched upon last week... those people never last long. Josh Hanley for example.. was tossed aside by Wes when he was no longer of any use. People like Scott Kincaid and co will follow suit... because Ikeda doesn't know the true meaning of friends. He values family so much his friends don't get a look in... which is a big mistake. It's not like the Badd Boy can come out and help him retain the World Title... or that he'd even want to. They probably all secretely hate Wes because lets face it, who wouldn't? The guy is a complete bastard and everyone knows it. To lose to him, for me, would be a travesty, because I feel it is my duty to save this federation from having to listen to him rant on and on about being the best there is.. without the world title he'll have even less evidance of that. Wes Ikeda... best wrestler ever... far from it. He tells people they'll have to live with the name... but all i'll have to live with is the regret of beating a man to within an inch of his life, when he could do so little to prevent it."

Chris Masters: "Very true... I just feel sorry for Ikeda... having to go out against you. Your a million times greater than he was in his prime... and now he's walking back down the wrong side of the hill. He can try with all his might... but he's losing it... and he's on a downward spiral right to the lowest depths of hell. He's lost any respect I ever had for him.. I mean.. watching EMF a few years back I thought he miht amount to be ok... but he's just turned out completely wrong.. and has become a real bastard. And now everyone, including all the fans that hate your guts, want to ee you win, just because even you are the lesser of two evils... no hang on... maybe not... but you'd at least be a much more worthy and a much more entertaining champion than Wes Ikeda could even dream of becoming."

Cena: "Damn right I could! I could outshine him in every single aspect of his career. Every attribute Wes has, I can top it, and every step he takes upwards, I can take 3. Wes can't... he CAN'T SEE ME! I'm the Franchise... the Doctor of Thugonomics... and nobody will ever topple me for good. People can knock me down a little bit.. but i'll always spring up and be at the top of the mountain. Wes Ikeda can try with all his might at First Blood, but it will amount to nothing, like everything else he's ever attempted. I'm the Franchise player... the top dog.. the king of all wrestling.. and nobody, and I mean nobody will take any of this away from me. First Blood is an event where legacy's are born, and where people emerge to greatness. I'll be damned if i'm gonig to sit back and watch as Wes Ikeda gets his biggest win of his career over me.Beating Cena one-on-one, man aainst man, with no interferance or help.. is something not many people have, or will ever achieve. I can simply not be beaten on pure wrestling ability.. and Ikeda knwos it. The only thing i'm training for is to overcome any underhanded tactics he might try and employ against me. See I know Wes Ikeda all too well... and anything he tries to throw at me.. i'll be ready for it. If he tries to use weapons ilegally.. i'll have it scouted. If he tries to get someone to interfere on his behalf.. i'll just kick their ass as well as his. Hell no matter what he tries to do to me Chris... i'll be ready for him. And the great John Cena will stand tall... having overcme all hte odds, and he will be the World Champion.. Ikeda will rue his missed chances to high hell. When I defeat him... he'll live with the memories his entire life... and he will regret the day he came here and targetted me... because that was the biggest mistake of his life!"

Chris Masters: "Alright John... we had actually better get round to training... because if we don't we'll be back late... and Nat would be upset if we missed her fathers arrival..."

Cena: "Yea I suppose your right... ok first thins first... you gotta show me how that Coast-to-Coast is really done..."

(The scene fades out. We re-open later, still on the 28th. John Cena, Jackie and Natasha are sitting around at the table. Jackie has layed out a huge buffet, which nobody is eating yet. There is a knock at the door, and Natasha jumps up excitedly to answer it. She runs and Cena follows her. She opens the door and l hugs her father. Bentley Jones is stnading there, surprisingly alone. As she notices this she looks around disapointedly.. breaking apart from her father to ask..)

Natasha: "Laura's not here?"

Bentley Jones: "She prefered to spend New Years with your sister... she'll be along in a few days.."

Natasha: "Ok. Dad we have big news... Mr Cena is going to get a shot at the World Title in a few days... and we all have tickets to see him win it!"

Bentley Jones: "Yea.. I saw on the news you were going for it John... I wish you the best of luck.. but I do wish to talk to you before all of that... on a rather urgent matter"

Cena: "Well sir... the hot food wont be done for about another 20 minutes.. if you want we can go upstairs and talk before Chris and Christy arrive.."

Bentley: "Sounds like a plan my boy... lead the way!"

(Cena leads Bentley into the room which is like a study, where he normally sits to watch his old wrestling tapes. He sits down and addresses Bentley..)

Cena: "What's the problem Bentley?"

Bentley: "I recieved this email from my dear Natasha not too long ago... I wont bore you with the details... but in it she claims to have fallen in love with a wrestler and says he's the father of her child... I wanted to know more.. so I asked a friend of mine who knows all about the gossip backstage with you guys. Amazing what money can buy eh? Anyway.. he told me to take a closer look at that wedding of yours... and shall I just say what I saw on that tape answered all my questions..."

Cena: "Oh... well in that case... what can I say. I'm sorry...."

Bentley: "Sorry? Sorry you lured my daughter in... knocked her up... made her feel like she could actually be with you someday when all the time you had the intention of breaking her heart? No.. i'm afraid sorry doesn't cut it this time Cena! I'm here to see your World Title match.. she'd never let me take her before.. and then me, her and the baby shall return to England... it's the only way to spare her being hurt..."

Cena: "On the contrary Mr Jones.. I have no intention of ever hurting your daughter. You see... I get the feeling I rushed myself into married life way too soon.It's not what I want at all... at least JAckie isn't. She was.. but seeing as I am soon to have 2 children with 2 different mothers..it makes no sense to carry things further. I'm not saying anything in concrete.. but as I have told Nat.. the feelings she has are very strongly mutual between both of us."

Bentley: "Is that so? So my Natasha could realistically live out her dream of being with you? So you're guarenteeing me there's no need to take her back to England... and that you wont break her heart?"

Cena: "Yea of course... don't take Nat away... my life wouldn't be worth living without her..."

Bentley: "Fair enough... but what if you breaing her heart... was not intentional!"

Cena: "What the hell do you mean?"

Bentley: "You know what I mean! YOu have a huge World Championship match coming up in a matter of days. Now I have no idea what this Ikeda bloke is like... but by all accounts, if he's world champion... he must have something special about him no? Well what if this guy ends your career... or leaves you with nothing left. What if he beats you to within an inch of your very life... and you have nothing left to offer my daughter? What if that was the wya you broke her hear John... what if seeing you hurt in one of these, high-profile, high-risk, high-danger matches is in the end how you cause pain to her?"

Cena: "Bentley... you don't need to worry about things like that! Yea I probably will have high-profile, high-risk matches... but so what? I've been doing them my entire life. Steel Cages... Elimination Chambers.. but I always come out fighting. Now.. I respect you, and I see your logic and where you coming from and everything... but to worry about Ikeda? That really is desperate. The man is only World Champino because he got damn lucky. On the night he won the contendership... the true champion was screwed out of the belt, and dropped it to a no hoper. Wes has never deserved to be champion.. and until he beats me... he never will. Unfortunately for him... beating me is not going to happen... so he will always have to live with the fact that he was an unworthy champion that nobody actually gave a damn about. For me to fear him causing me any kind of harm... that's a joke. What makes you believe he is in anyway better than me? Last time he won.. it was by the narrowest of narrow margins. The guy poses me no threat whatsoever Ending my career.... beating tme to within an inch of my life... ha whatever you say! The guy is a soft touch. Since he beat me he's lost masses of ability, where as i'm going from strength to strength. Don't you threat about me... because I'm more the capable of surviving Ikeda. God knows i've done it enough times... he doesn't scare me. But I should scare him! He should be afraid that if he steps into the ring with John Cena... he may well not step out of it again. If I can get the FU away it will be end of story.. new champion crowned tonight! I may not have millions of holds like his partner Kincaid... but the moves I do have will anialiate that fucker, and ensure the Championship comes home to where it belong. Wes Ikeda has finally met his match, and it comes in the form of the Franchise! I've pinned him before... during the biggest match in this federations history. I nailed him with the FU and that was it... he was out.. and into the old Ikeda crying like a baby routine. "That match meant nothing.... blah blah blah just coz i lost i'll discredit it... IM A WHINING BITCH!" When will Ikeda ever shut up and face facts. He's not the best... far from it. He can't beat me... and he knows it... and he'll never successfully taste an FU and live to carry on fighting! So nobody.. least of all you or Nat.. need worry about me. I'll be out of that ring in one piece.. I can guarentee... though I can't promise anything about Ikeda. If he's smart, he'll go down as easy as he did in the Elimination chamber... if not... he'll fight his heart out... and in the end get it ripped out and his blood spewed over the floor before he lays down and I pin him. It\s not rocket science... if it was the equation would be the simplest in history... John Cena is greater than Wes Ikeda. Not greater than or equal too... certianly not less than... just BETTER THAN Ikeda! I've been consistantly above him since his return... and now is my chance to prove it, one on one, without a doubt. I will straighten out everyones opinions... and show them that John Cena is inferior to no man. They can insult me for.. being unfaithful to my wife.. which i'll openly admit to you Bentley because you knew anyway... or they can say sure Ikeda will win becaue he did before and because he's more experianced and whatever else... but when push comes to shove.. that means fuck all! What matters is the fact that I can go out there and beat anyone on any givern day... and that Ikeda will be just another name on my list. Just another person that will fall to the John Cena curse.. and will be left wondering why. Why is he not as good as Cena? Why is he no longer champion? Why does nobody give a fuck about him? So Bentley, I see your concern.. but it's misplaced worry. I will overcome Ikeda... and if either one of us needs to be making reservations at the nearest hospital... you can bet all the money you own... and I believe that's a hell of a lot... that it'll be Ikeda and not me checking in after the mantch!"

Bentley: "YOu sure do seem full of confidence.. and confidence is something you just can't buy... not even with all my money... and people really do forget just how rich I am! So I wish you good luck John... my daughter and the world champion John Cena... now that's a comforting thought...."

Cena: "Sure is Bentley... and I swear I wont be letting you down come First Blood!"

(Jackie is heard calling that the food is ready... and Bentley and John stand up. John offers a hand, which Bentley shakes, and they head off downstairs. The scene looks to be fading before Bentley says...)

Bentley: "YOu know... if you are going to be with my daughter... don't leave it too long before you tell my wife... before I was happily married... I had my share of problems.. just like you got my boy! I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.. you do seem to care for her a heck of a lot... but be warned... if you hurt her at any time... I know your greatest fear..."

Cena: "You sure do..."

(The two laugh as the scene fades out for the day. We re-open the next day, December 29th. It is 7.45am. Most of the Cena household are still asleep. However, the strange pairing of John Cena and Christy Hemme are sitting at the dining table. Cena is drinking an alcoholic beverage of some kind, whilst Hemme sips at an orange juice. Natasha is over the other side of the kitchen, with a frying pan, frying some bacon. Cena goes over and puts his arms round her, and she smiles up at him and kisses him.)

Natasha: "Go and sit down... the food will be done soon..."

(Cena does as he's told, and Hemme addresses him...)

Christy: "If you don't mind me saying so.. I think you and Nat make a much nicer couple than you and Jackie..."

Cena: "Really... and why's that?"

Christy: "Well you never argue... you make eachother laugh... you are extremely close to eachother all the time... you have this kind of bond that I just know wont be broken. It's smmething special and you can't let go of that John... not now and not ever..."

Cena: "I know I know... quiet or else she'll hear us... but seeing as your so full of opinions this morning... what's your opinion on the World Title Match coming up?"

Christy: "Oh.. you Vs Ikeda? I've been keeping an eye on both of your matches of late... and I have to say it's extremely interesting. Both of you have been on great streaks.. and I don't see either of you letting up... only this week... one of you is gonna have to. However.. i'd say the balence is slightly in your favour. You just came off a huge win in a triple threat tag team match... that's gotta do wonders for your confidence... not only did you win but you scored the fall as well... which makes it all the better. Plus, Ikeda has more on his plate. Being an undeserving Tag Champ will sure ly take out some of his energy as well as being the World Champion... and i think the two belts will be too much for him in the end. Even if the balance isn't with ytou.. which i beleive it is... you know I want you to win anyway... and I wish you the world of luck Mr Cena!"

Cena: Well thank you... but your certainly right in what you say. The advantage is with me. The triple threat tag match 2 weeks ago had some huge names in it... and I came out laughing. Josh Hanley, Dude Nick and Ric Flair's horsemen all fell at my feet... and I earned another shot at Tag Team Glory. When that shot finally comes around.. it'll be my night to win Tag Gold.. and the night that I finally take away from Wes everything he thinks is important to him.. both his titles... stoelen away by the more dominant competitor... then maybe \Wes will finally hold his hands up and admit defeat. Then maybe it will finally come the time when he admits he cannot compete with me... and allows me to call myself the better man without him harbouring this stupid dream that he can prove me wrong somehow. Then maybe Wes Ikeda will get his head out of his own ass... and admit that he's not the greatest wrestler alive. I think the gold has well and truely gone to his head... and that is not a good thing. Even when i was Extreme and Tag Champion at the same time.. I kept my feet firmly on the ground. I only now believe myself superior to them all because I have beaten everyone worth a damn.. well almost everyone, and i've proven my point time and time again. I had to work my way up from the very bottom. When I came here I was givern a whole bunch of matches that frankly, most people could have won with only a fraction more effort than I had to use. It was radiculous.. how a guy could go on streaks of eight or ten wins in a row and not be considered for a title. That's when I used my initiative, and took things into my own hands.. demanding the respect I deserved from Prez Mike and the rest. Titles and glory followed me... and I became an instant icon of this federation. If you think EMF, you think John Cena... and it will always be that way. I still feel, however, that one thing holds me back . One thing stops me from being taken seriously by the veterans and the hall of famers and whoever else matters. One thing is stopping the top guys from making me, The Doctor of Thugonomics, their recognised top talent. And that's the fact that i've never held the top one. The big title. The World Heavyweight Championship. BUt you know what they say... good things ome to those who wait. I mean look at Chris Benoit... 18 years in the industry without capturing the WWEs top title... and when he got it he went onto be EMF Champion less than a year later. Dreams can come true.. and people can climb. I've been climbing the ladder since my first day here... and now i'm ready to make the final leap towards glory. I want to be the World Champion more than anything in this world... and as long as their is air in my lungs and blood pumping through my veins, that is what I will strive to be. Some people like your boyfriend Chris may be content to only wrestle the odd match to defend his honour.. and I got no problem with that. Others may well wrestle whenever ask, but with no real drive for success. Some may be content with holding the lesser titles... like the Horse-fuckers who seem to only care about their precious little TV Title... but none of that is for me. For John Cena there was only one goal. I didn't realise it at first... but it was on the night I credit for my entire career thus far that I realised it. The night my first title reign ended. As people began to talk about Punisher as this great grandslam champion... I saw for myself that it was what I wanted.. and what one day I would have. Tv Title, IC title, Extreme Title, Tag Title... i've had them all.. and now I will avenege fully what Ikeda did to me. He used me as a stepping stone to launch himself to the higher prize... to the Grandslam of Championships... but now it's my turn to return that very favour. To beat Wes Ikeda and to take his title to complete my own personal grand slam. Even then Wes will bitch that i didn't earn the shot and that I was sprung on him.... although he's known about it for weeks so it's not an excuse... and he'lll claim there's some kind of inside conspiracy against him... which if there is he's more than asked for with all the backstage politics he causes. Things were peaceful in EMF before he showed up. And why did he... because he needed the limelight and the attention. To me that's a pretty pathetic reason for a come back... up there with running low on money or coming back to scare people by wearing a mask.. which everyonte tries at some point but oh well. But me and Ikeda...there will never be any acceptance. This is a feud that will run forever.. until he crawls back into whichever hole he came from and gives up, allowing me to move on to fry some bigger fish.. because he really is making me sick with all this crap. He goes down so easily when I manage to get him on my own in the chamber... the rest of the time he just hides behind Scotty Kincaid... in order to get someone else who's stuck so far up his ass that they think everything he does makes him god-like. I tell you... his wife must feel somewhat useless he enjoys having things up his ass so much... whether its Kincaid.. his brother... his own head... it really is a mystery how much he can fit up there. It's also a mystery why the hell he believes that he can beat the great John Cena... when it should be blatently obvious to anyone that he can't. But Wes Ikeda will always think he has one more great match in him... even when he's 102... and that's the sad, sad thing about him. He never knows when its time to call it a day.. to give in... to take his final bow. It should have been done years ago... maybe the ass kicking I give him this week will convince him now is his time to leave the wrestling world long behind him. He should have hung up his boots before he even contemplated his comeback... and i mean for good... because he's just gonig to get beaten into the ground weak after weak until he can no longer stand... and then he'll wish he took my advice. Losing the World Championship to me will be the first step of his demise... what comes next will be even worse... and for Ikeda's sake.. I really hope he does listen. Now I don't like tha guy... and i'd happily se him rot and his whole career drift away from him... but for being a wrestler myself I wish that on nobody. Ikeda.. if you have any respect at all for me... which I don't for you but still... listen to what I say because if you don't... it could quite literally be your funeral!"

Christy Hemme: "I wasn't aware you were talking to Ikeda but very well..."

Cena: "Oh god sorry Christy... I almost forgot you were sitting here.. you know what Ikeda does to me though... the very name makes me sick and angry to my ufll potential..."

Christy Hemme: "Yea I know... i'm sorry John... I just wanted to get some of your own feelings so I could understand the mind-set of a man about to become grandslam champion..."

Cena: "You know that's the only thing keeping me going... making me feel that this match will all be worth it... the thought of finally joining that elite list of names that I need to join. To feel like i've really earned my spot in the ELite stable.. and to finally be taken as a serious competitor. To look down on the world and laugh.. and be able to say that THE CHAMP IS HERE with the true meaning the phrase needs. To be called the best there is... the greatest wrestler alive today... that's a prize any man would but dream of having.. but for me it is now a reality. I can do it.. and I will do it on the grandest stage of them all! First Blood... when the referee hands me the world title... that will be the best moment of my entire life. Neither Wes... nor anybody else will ever be able to take it away from me. Even if the belt was vacated the next night... those memories would last a million years... and people would always remember the night the new generation took over the fed. Because this it what it's about! When I came here there was an established roster.. but i didn't just want to slot in and join it. Oh no... Revolution was more than a stable.. it was a generation. And as new talent passed through the doors... even if they weren't Revolution... in some way on some level, they represented what I had started. It was a new wave.. all the fresh faces that came in.. some I liked, and some I hated... but all of them representing the post-Cena generation. Look at the champions bar Ikeda... AJ Styles, Tomko.. myself.. all new blood, new talent, newcomers to a point. I have lead a strong assault on the EMF.. and this is the final hurdle. Taking the World Championship... dethrowning the man I hate so much. I've never hated anyone like I hate Ikeda.. and now I get yet another chance to vent my anger out on that son of a bitch. Another oppertunity to smash his face repeatedly until I see the site I love.. Ikeda bleeding and screaming and crying in pain. What makes it even sweater than all the other times is that it'll be me that inflicts it... and me that gets the satisfaction of witnessing it first hand!"

Christy Hemme: "But why do you hate him so much anyway. From what I remember all he did was win the Intercontinental Championship from you..."

Cena: "But it's the way in which he won the title that makes me so fucking angry and that makes me hate him so much. He only got a shot because MDK had promised one to him and I didn't want to look like a pussy and tell him he couldn't have it. I never back down from a challenge... but the least he could of done would be to go out and earn a fiar shot. YOu can't fluke two wins on the bounce... but one can be easily fluked and that's exactly what he did with his sneaky little roll up. In saying that though.. it will be no fluke when I defeat Ikeda.. you mark those words. It will be based on pure skill that I out-wrestle him and end the feud once and for all with me as World Champion. BUt the way he won the title and the way he got the shot... neither of them were like a REAL champion.. and then he never faced a test like me as long as he held the belt. He still built himself up as the immense fiure.. this great champion.. even though the only person he could beat during that reign was Dewey fucking Pond. It was a real joke... and he still is to some extent. Sure he has the World strap... but does anybody really care? People lost interest in the belt when Angelus kept dropping it to jobbers.. but now I will be the one to put that interest back into it... to make people sit up and start caring once more. People alwyas said i'd either be the one to dethrown Archer or at least his closest challenge... regretably we never got to find out. But don't you see where else this is familiar from. People billed Wes Vs MDK for months... and I got in the way and then lost. Can't you see Wes... this maps exactly onto this match. You got in the way of the match that was meant to be... and now you will lose the title to the man that was SUPPOSED to win it in the first place. It was fate for me to win the title from Angelus.. but you stepped in the way.. but people that mess with fate... always lose. Ikeda will be no exception to the rule.. he is not some kind of God that can win against fate... and his time has come. Maybe.. givern the right, and by right I mean easy... opponents then sure he might be champion for a bit longer... but John Cena is just too much for him.. and it will show when he hits the FU and scores the fall 1.. 2.. 3 to become the new Extreme Measures Federation World Heavyweight Champion!"

Christy Hemme: "Maybe that's one thing people get a bit bored of.. the FU. Ever thought of sometihng different?"

Cena: Why worry about changing the FU when Wes Ikeda is still running around using the Coast-to-Coast... a move which he STOLE from Shane McMahon. I mean, how unoriginal do you get... not only stealing the move but not even changing the name... just stealing it directly and claiming its his.. claiming he's the greatest for inventing it. At least when I emerged into WWE I had my own, original, non-stolen finisher. SUre maybe I could have changed it when I came to EMF... but why change the move that's kept down so many greats in my WWE days? ANd Ikeda knew it was a smart move to keep it when I nailed it on him and ELiminated his ass back as SUrvival of the Fittest. The Coast-to-Coast is not a feared move. Hell all Shane O'Mac was ever good for was entertaining the crowd with a cheap little dance and getting his ass kicked by opponents 5 times his size. SO people can insult the FU all they want... but it gets the job done. Using the Coast-to-Coast and trying to make it feared... you'd have more luck screaming FEAR THE CLOTHESLINE at people... It's a useless move and even if he nailed it 500 times repeatedly... i'd kick out at the end of it. Wes's whole arsenal of moves really don't scare me at all. It's like taking one move off everyone from the 'Who's who of wrestling rejects.' and trying to build a decent move set out of it. This is another thing that makes me laugh about Ikeda... I mean what move did he use to put me away last time. A fucking Small Package... yet apparantly it's still this huge achievement everyone should bow to him for. Well Ikeda can forget about me ever admiting it was a great win. Beating John Cena in anyway at all is a huge achievement for him... but for me it wasn't all that bad... because it was hit and run. He scored one EXTREMELY lucky fall and then ran for the hills... refusing to finish off what would have been me kicking his ass in a brawl to show i was the superior athelete, had the superior ring skills, and all in all, was just so much better than he could ever dream of being. He knew in his heart of heart that even though he was the new champion... i'd be able to beat him to a pulp if he carried on fighting and didn't make a quick exit.. and that fear will be playing on his mind right now.. and will no doubt lower his game just enough to allow me the inside advantage... the split second that it takes to hit the FU... and then John Cena's era will truely begin!"

(As he finishes talking Natasha brings the breakfast things over and conversation fizzles out. The scene re-opens later on. Cena is seen entering the EMF arena. There is a house show going on, and the signs outside indicate "Special Appearance of Punisher". Cena goes through some large double doors and into a locker room marked "The Elite". Not surprisingly, Punisher is seen sitting at the table. He looks up, startled to see John Cena standing in the door way. But slowly his trademark smile breaks out over his face as he realises who his visitor is. He pours out another two drinks, sending one flying across the table so it skillfully lands near the edge. Cena takes the seat nearest to it, and addresses him.)

Cena: "Well well... Punisher... long time no see!"

Punisher: "Yea you bastard... why didn't you come before... could have stopped me losing to Keneddy...."

Cena: "Didn't think you'd need it obviously... but anyway i'm not here to catch up or anything... i'm here for advice.... got the time?"

Punisher: "About 9.30....."

Cena: "Sure that's what I meant..... no i meant the time to give me advice. It's about Wes Ikeda and my match at first blood..."

Punisher: "Oh... so what makes you think I can help?"

Cena: "Well you've achieved everything. You're a former world champion... and I am determined to be the next World Champion. In fact I will let nothing stand in my way of achievin it. It's what i've wanted since day one... to be a success to be a somebody.. to have a purpose... and here I stand, just a mere few days away from the biggest oppertunity of my life. Once i step into the ring, I am one pin fall or submission away from being the World Heavyweight CHampion... a grandslam winner, and the greatest wrestler in the entire world! But what if i'm not ready? What if that one step up is the step that is just too big for me. What if Wes truely is meant to represent this federation. After all, my record is not exactly the most healthy... sure i've had a ton of success, but i've lost my fair share of matches down the line... and tihs could be just another one where I simply cannot do enough to win..."

Punisher: "Are you drunk off one sip of that or just mentally retarded? What if you can;t beat Ikeda? Man I already see you do it in the frigging chamber match... you beat him having already beaten down God knows how many people. So don't you dare start thinking you can't becuase that is utter bollocks.I've seen the people you've taken down without even batting an eyelid... and you think you can't beat Ikeda one on one..... it makes no sense... what are you worrying about?"

Cena: "Just the fact i've never been World Champion before... not even in the running... and i'm worrying the step up might be too much. I mean... before the closest i've even come was IC champ... and it was Ikeda that took that from me... and it's just all pointing to another defeat... another disapointment... and Ikeda stealing another notch on his ongoing record when I go out there and face him. He's been world champino multiple times... got about 5 times the experiance I have... and although i've expressed these doubts to numerous people they wont go away... I was hoping you could tell me what you did when you made the jump up to World Champion for the first time..."

Punisher: "John... i'll be damned if I can even remember my match last week... let alone winning the world title. Drinking as much as I do does your memries no favours mate... and that's exactly why we do it. But look at it this way. Every single world champion EVER, has won the title for a first time somewhere down the line.. i mean sure, Chris Benoit had been in the industry nearly 20 years... and people like Big Show just had massive size advantages... but not ONE of them had the build up to the world title you have John. You've been world champion in OVW and WWE. You were United States Champion countless times... for long periods of time... you had one of the longest WWE winning streaks ever seen and if that's not enough... you've dominated the Extreme MEasures Federation for a year and a half. I've never seen anything like it bro. YOu go out there week in week out and you kick some serious ass... why else do oyu think I recruited you. Why else do you think I picked you up as a rookie, and trained you, and then when you got the glory, why do you think I took it away from you? It was to teach you what this industry is all about... and prepare you for a moment like this. Sure I wanted to be a grandslam champion... but I was thinking about you in the long run kid. I wanted to teach you to win... and then teach you to lose. To see you have glory.. and to see you suffer. And then when it was all said and done.. and you'd evolved into a man, it was ALWAYS my intention to pick you up, take you as my partner, and show you the world from an un-paralleled peak. A little mole hill like Wes Ikeda will not stand in our way John... nothing will. We are the Elite... we dominate people... we don't worry about 'step ups', because at the end of the day.. you were born to hold that belt, born to represent this federation, and you were BORN to be a World Heavyweight Champion!"

Cena: "I know your right... I will beat Ikeda... i'm nearly certain of it... but it's the top of the top. Once i've beat him... i've done all he climbing I can do... and then i've got to stick there. DO you know how tough that'll be. It's like that video said when I won the Extreme TItle... the climb is one thing.. it's staying balanced at the top which is hard. I'm bound to lose the title arly... bound to fail... and show myself up, and you know what... that's one thing i reall am unprepared to do!"

Punisher: "Oh shut up! Losing the title early... showing yourself up! Losing a belt after one month is not a bad thing... it's better to have a lost than not to have at all. Do you think Randy Orton was a failure just because he lost his championship after a month? No because he damn well went out with a fight... and if and when you lose the title, I know you'll do the same. Anyway, do you have ANY idea where this little Pay Per View is taking place... because if you did... you wouldn't worry about a thing..."

Cena: "Well it's in Charlotte North Carolina.... but I fail to see...."

Punisher: "YOu fail to see.... Charlotte North Carolina is the birth place of one of the all time greats of our industry, and come January first.. a new legend will be born there. Both ways of using the word born are quite different... for your legend will begin for real when you dethrown Wes Ikeda, claim the world title, and stand strong above the rest of the world. BUt you see, it's the hometown of a legend from that crappy fed you came from. Ric 'The Nature Boy' Flair came from Charlotte John... and that man is just the evidence I need to prove to you you don't have to worry about all this staying at the top bullshit. He's a 16 time World Champion... and that means he lost the belt 16 times... and yet he still does ok for himself huh? He still won the IC title when he was considered past it and too old.. he still had millions of fans.. and still manaed to buy 50% of Vince's company... sure Naitch ended up as a manager for a bunch of low lifes here but he's had a great career. HE lost the WOrld TItle more times than any other man... and yet he still has bags of respect. The Pay Per View is also in the same arena as the FIRST EVER First Blood. It returns to its ground roots 6 years on.... you talked about leading us into a new era... well do it, as World Champion, and prove yourself an icon to all the people world wide!"

Cena: "You know your right... if he can lose the belt 16 times and still be respected why the hell am i worrying. It doesn't matter if I stay on top for long or not... jsut as long as I actually get there... and you know what.. I guarentee you all that I will do just that, this week, I will come out on top and be the World Champion. I don't care what it takes... and whether or not it;s the last thing I do for this fed... I will put my body and soul on the line and reach dep inside and pull out the World Title. That's my goal. My one aim. The thing I want more than anything right now. What did i ask for for Christmas... The World Title.. and it looks like Santa's made his list... checked it twice... and then again because i'm a special case... and delayed his delievery a few weeks because he doesn't want to be too overwhelmed by the awe of stnading in my presence.. but come January 1st he will finally have plucked up the courage to bring me what is MINE! The World Title is not just my destiny... it is not just what I was born to have... but it's what I deserve. I should be world champion... I need to be world champion... and these people and this fed NEED me to be world champion. Sure they may hate my guts... I may only have 0.5% of the fans I once did... but i'm the lesser of two evils... the devil they know... and the one that is best for this federation. I urge them all... not to get behind me, because it wont help a damn bit and i don't want to say thank you to a single one of them... but to think about who NEEDS t win this match... and to decide that deep down, even though they can't show it, they are all Thugomaniacs still at heart!"

Punisher: "Touching stuff... and i'm sure you'll get support from those assholes anyway. But you know what... anyone can shock anyone these days Cena... did you see Keneddy beat me. You have to be careful. NOt let your guard down for a second. If he somehow forces your shoulders up, do whatever you can to break out of it.. and NEVER let him nail his finisher. Although it may only tickle you.. it will do wonders for his confidence.. and could ultimately put him over. I warn you of this only from experiance. Wes Ikeda is slippery... let him get away with something and he'll milk it all the way... just don't let him get away with anything, you hear?"

Cena: "Loud and clear... after all... FIrst Blood really is Cena's night huh? I mean.. it's decked in wrestling history.. whether it's X-Cold winning his first World Title or Angelus putting the lid on his feud with Hanley... next week it will just be another chapter... another title run just beginning. And we all know what I did at First blood before. Not only did i successfully ensure my girlfriend became Women's Champion, but i defeated a hall of famer... and last time I checked... that was one thing Wes Ikeda wasn't.. so it was actually, in terms of who I beat, a bigger achievement that year than beating Wes would be. It's onlyy the fact it's a much bigger belt that makes the achievement slighlty overthrow it. But I don't intend to EVER lose at First blood. I want to have a run like the Undertaker... always winning on the big stage. The man is a legend for all the right reasons... because he got it done on the stage where it counted... and that's exactly what I am going to do starting next week.. when I take my record to 2-0. It may take a lot of effort, and I may shed a lot of blood to get through it, but when I lift the World Title up high... and you and all my other believers are made pround.. i'll know, somewhere deep inside, that all the pain and suffering was worth it. That no matter what... the worst was over.. the hurdle was clear and now I was just on the straight run to glory. Whether it takes one FU of five, 5 minutes of 60... I will be the world champion, I will be the worlds best known wrestler, and I will claim my championship. I could have had it all. I could have walked away from wrestling after my WWE contract ran down and I decided it had bored me long enough... taken my milions, settled down with Jackie and had countless children and lived a long, content, lazy, retired life. But that wouldn'r be me would it? I liked to fight. I liekd the competition. I liked the pain... the taste of my own blood in my mouth... the torture.. the victories.. the gratitude and the respect, and that's what lead me here. That's what made me want to join the EMF so badly. The board had a real tough time deciding whether to take me on... but I guess it was becuas ethey though i'd outshine all their other superstars so badly people would get bored of them much too quickly. Eventually they gave me the go ahead... and unleashed me... and I didn't prove them wrong. I am the franchise.. I have dominated this federation, and now the only thing left for me to do is grasp it, take their top title, and show the world that.. THE CHAMP IS HERE!"

Punisher: "He is indeed... but don;t forget your here too... and this week is really about you isn't it. I mean sure... i'm going out there at some lousy house show to entertain the fuckers who bothered to buy tickets for all of fifteen minutes... but your the one really flying The Elite flag... and the one i''m trusting to bring the World TItle home. The Elite really needs to get off the ground.. and imagine how capturing the world title would help us to achieve that. We'd be worldly recognised as the stable that has the World Heavyweight Championship... like Evolution were a few years back when they absolutely dominated WWE... we'll bring in some more fresh faces and slowly take over all the championships... and show the world we aren't done and finished like no doubt many of them think. They probably all beleive that we were just trying to get the big names... and that we'll never function as a unit... but we will show that's bullshit by all pulling togetherwith one goal, to take over the EMF roster. And our first target is going to be Wes Ikeda. The man's pissed me off for much too long, and it's high time we did sometihng about it. I'm not gonna get involed and risk handing him a cheap DQ win... so i'm relying on you to do it for the both of us. I hate him almost as much as you do... but I know the passion you have to bveat him will lead you to great things.. and will lead you to achieve it. I've never once doubted you.. but now i doubt you even less. You may have lost a World Tag Match thanks to my useless ex-partner Angelus... but you srpung back and dominated not one but TWO top teams... that takes guts, that takes strength... you showed both of those John... and you proved yourself to be a winner... no doubt about it!"

Cena: "That's all i've ever been and all i'll continue to be. I've never lost a one-on-one title shot, and i've never lost a title match on Pay Per View... if Ikeda thinks he can fight these statistics he's horrably mistaken. I'm the main event around here... the one people pay to see.... love me or hate me the Franchise keeps this company going with his unique wrestling ability. I'm head and shoulders above everyone else... and it's about fucking time this company stopped holding me back and gave me a shot at the World TItle I deserve. Hell this match is Champion Vs Champion... and just you all remember that... it's not like he ahs this major advantage over me becuase he's endruigng a championship reign because so am I... one which began exactly as his did... and one which is only slightly less unproven than his.. and so what excuses does he have for saying he can beat me? It'll probably be the same shit Kincaid and him always seem to dig up on me... yawn... makes you want to sleep it really does... but no you mustn't sleep because it's the precious Wes Ikeda who everyone loves.... god it would be funny if he didn't ACTUALY believe it to be true!"

Punisher: "God I know... the mans an asshole if ever I saw one... anyone that wont give him anything he doesn't find interesting is not worth a damn. He'll turn on a friend in the blink of an eye... just to get what he wants. Hell i may be no different... but at least I do it with style and can back it up in the ring... all Ikeda's good for is falling pray to the FU in the most imporant match ever and then bitching about how it didn't mean a damn thing.. lying through his teeth once more. Hell if you, Angelus and Dragon don;t get the job done between you... I may just step up and take the strap from him myself... simple becuase it makes me sick to see him carrying it round all the time. Wes Ikeda is the loest of the low... this company is, although i hate to admit it... worth more than to have him as a champion.. and that's why John it needs to be your NUMBER ONE priority to go out there and take that belt whatever the cost!"

Cena: "DOn;t you think I know that already... god i've sacrificed everything for this business... and soon my marraige will be added to the list of sacrifices if i'm not careful... but it's worth it to even get the oppertunity to be as close to the world title as i'll be when the first ring bells. And when the 2nd one goes, and it's all said and done, and the belt is placed around my waist and the show goes off the air... you can bet i'm gonna thorw the biggest party of my entire life.. and the World Title strap will be the guest of honour. Being Extreme Champion will be entirely forgotten about.. and the new era will begin.. with Cena as world champ, leading the EMF into what will be an eventful and amazing 2006, and ending a fantastc 2005 with a huge bang and a celebration like no other. Sure... JBL may have celebrated excellence and whatever else has been done over the years... but it will be NOTHING on John Cena unvailing the World Heavyweight Championship to the people that really matter... his true friends and family. the fans can forget their little celebration night with confetti and other bog-standered crap... i'm only celebrating with those i really care about. But with those images in mind.... they will drive me to not only take down Ikeda and remove his title from him, but to stop him EVER coming back. To make him fear to tread into the ring with John Cena again.. and to make him know just how great the Doctor of Thugonomics is."

Punisher: "What is it with that nickname... The Doctor of Thuonomics... does it mean you can pescribe me something to help me cut down on the old cigerettes..."

Cena: "A little common sense would clear that... though i'm hardly one to talk. But there is one thing that's not cureable.. and that's the consistant inflation of Ikeda's ego. He really needed to keep his feet on the ground... to respect the oppertunities he was recieving rather than taking them as if he was entitled to them... and he should have respected the people that were handing them to him. Instead, he got the idea into his head that he was bigger and better than anyone else... and he just started to get up his own ass. Unfortunately there's no surgical procedure to dislodge it now.. it's too far up... though there is one thing that might work... so we'll give it a try shall we Wesley? My diagnosis is a good ass-kicking curtosy of the Franchise... lets just see if we can't help your head find a way out of there by kicking it enough..."

Punisher: "Can you pescribe one of those for the HOrsemen as well.... only let me be the one to hand it out... i'd be ever so pleased to do just that..."

Cena: "As if yopu'd need a reason to beat the shit out of the horse-fuckers.... pescription or not you'd hand it to them!"

Punisher: "True.. and it's exactly what you're going to do to Ikeda... you mark my words John... he wont know what's hit him by the time you are done with him! But anyway... better go out to those fans... give them what the came to see.. me slagging them off yet again. Next tiem I see you... you'll be the World Champion... if you know what's good for you at least! See you around John..." (Punisher leaves and heads to the ring. Cena heads out of the room too, and is once again walking through the corridors before the big house show. As he walks he looks at all the names on the locker rooms.. and one takes his interest. The camera swings round and he is standing outside the locker room of AJ Styles. This gets a nice pop from the crowd. Cena steps forwards and knocks on the door. He waits for a moment of two, and then AJ opens the door. He looks shocked to see the Extreme Champion standing in his presence.)

John Cena: "Well if it isn't the Intercontinental Champion of the world... mind if I come in and have a quick word with you... i'm a good friend of Chris as i''m sure you know..."

AJ Styles: Then I'm pretty sure you'd know that he isn't here. And forgive me for asking, but what the hell are you doing here? After all, we've never really been best of friends

Cena: True... but you do know who you're talking too right? I'm this feds top superstar... the worlds greatest wrestler... and in a matter of days i'll have the World Heavyweight Championship to prove it. I'm facing Wes Ikeda you see... and a big part of our feud revolves around the championship which conveniantly now lies around your waist... so no doubt now that you hold it you know all there is to know about the Intercontinental Championship and its history... right?"

AJ Styles: Wow, I don't understand how people call YOU big headed... And I know enough about the Intercontinental Championship to know that its reputation has been ruined by people like Ikeda. Worst thing is, I seem to remember you losing the title to him... Or don't you like being reminded of the truth?"

Cena: "Unfortunately i'm still haunted with the ghosts of that match... which is really why I am here... I mean I lost to Ikeda, and with that handed over the Intercontinental title. But he's lost it now.. and it resides with you. Me, you, and Ikeda... we are the 3 main champions of this federation... if anyone can take a neutral stand point on the big world title match, but still have a clear idea who will win it it's you... so i've just come to get some opinins... get the thoughts of the only major champion who wont be out there competring for the World TItle at First Blood!"

AJ Styles: Well, as nice as that entire statement was, I think calling Ikeda a major champion is a bit exaggerated. I mean, sure, he's the World Champion, but beating Archaos for the title? That's a new low. Thats almost as bad as you beating Michael De Kreek for the Intercontinental Championship.

Cena: "Yes.. and that's exactly why I feel i ned to defeat Ikeda. Not only is he not as capable a wrestler as me... but he does nothing for anybody. He is not a good representative.. and he's not a good champion. Hell if there was any wya for him to get out of facing me this week I know he would do just that... run with his tail between his legs and cry that his title could ever be threatend. He had no interest in winning that title and putting on good matches... challenging himself... he just wants to break records and get his name into the Hall of Fame.. and he doesn't care who he has to refuse to wrestle to get there."

AJ Styles: Of course You're not just beating Ikeda to win the World Title and become a Grand Slam champ

Cena: "Of course i'm not. I'm beating him because i'm sick of guys I could beat in my sleep representing us as World Champion. SInce Angelus's blip we got stuck with a whole host of bullshit champions... and I think it's high time this federation had a champion worth a damn... and a champion that was good enough to deserve it. Being W|orld Champion makes a bold statement... and the world champion is the one thing a fed is judged on... and i'm sick of people laying into the EMF just because Ikeda is such a bad champion.. at least if anyone bad mouthed me, i'd have the balls to shut them up!"

AJ Styles: The only thing Wes Ikeda has balls for is Scotty Kincaid

Cena: "Oh dont even get me started on that.... the two fuck eachother more than the Hardy Boyz used to fuck Terri.. and that's saying something. I hope that pays in my favour though... maybe Wes will be too tired out to be 100%.. not that I need any kind of advantage in order to defeat him.. it's all too easy to do it without them, though i'm not saying no if Wes wants to wear himself out with questionable activities..."

AJ Styles: More like in-human activities God I'm going to have a hard time getting to sleep tonight But, here's an idea, how about we get off that, and get onto something alot cleaner. If you beat Wes Ikeda, who are you going to go after first?

Cena: "A good question... and one i've put a great deal of thought into... but i've come to the decision thta it really doesn't matter either way... because whoever I face will have to have earnt it. Sure I may hand pick a few people to step up and face the Franchise.. but it looks like Dragon and Archer are going to destroy eachother for the right to face me.. and that's fine, because I don't want to be taking on shit like Dewey Pond when i'm World Champion. So whatever comes knocking on my door... I shall take it.. and I shall destroy it.. and whenn all's said and done, John Cena will still be the world champion after many, MANY successful title defences."

AJ Styles: Sure, ok. But what you gonna do brother, when Angulus Archer comes knocking at your door Brother.

Cena: "Hey... if anyoe gets to rip off the legendary Hogan around he it's me ok? And anyway... me and Archer... that match was meant to be coming up in a few nights time. Sure we are tag partners... but we would still put on one hell of a match for the World Championship, and we shall one day do just that. After I beat Ikeda.. we will have the match we were meant to have... and hell brother.. I may have to say a few prayers and take a few vitamins... but you know that the great John Cena doesn't back down from anyone or anything... and i'll fight Angelus to the very end.. and just like in the god-damn Elimination Chamber... i'll come out on top.. and i'll keep what is rightfully mine. I mean AJ.. back in TNA you were hot property... everyone knew you'd end up here in the major leagues... and now that you have, rather than feeling excited about it all.. I can bet your just relieved to have actually achieved what was expected of you. When I came hereeveryone said i'd get my grandslam... i'd be world champion.. and it's time i proved them all right and finally achieved the feet they all tipped me for."

AJ Styles: This is the major leagues? Then why the hell is Wes Ikeda still World Champion? How comes he's a Grand Slam champion? If this is the major league, I hope I brought a return ticket from TNA. Because I'm sick of guys like Ikeda thinking they own this damn company!

Cena: "And that's just why guys like us need to go out there and show they don't. Ikeda doesn't have the talent to be a world champion... and I need to prove that to the world. I said exactly the same thing about JBL and look what I did to him at Wrestlemania... and tihs match is similar to that in so many ways... and it will have a similar outcome. THe scene we saw inside the Chamber, that many people have replayed time and time again on their DVDs that they bought for $20 from and good video store... they've seen me FU and pin Wes 20, 30 times.. some probably even more.. but this week... i'll show it to everyone one more time.. when i act it out again in the ring to get the World Championship."

AJ Styles: Well, good for you man. But you know, if you do lose the title, I'm going to come after you myself for disgracing this company. Oh, and if you do win, maybe you and I will rip it up sooner or later for the World Championship... Maybe...

Cena: Ha.. don't get too ahead of yourself kid.... stick with your IC title for now and see where it takes you. I would have killed to have a longer IC reign that i did... so don't let the world title distract you and make you lost it to some rooking like Dewey Pond that I could beat with so much ease... because distractions can cost anyone any match. BUt sticking with Ikeda... it is a disgrace to see him running around with my championship.. and the sooner I can change that the better. Just like you bought gold to Revolution.. I want to bring even more gold to the Elite.. and get our name on the map as the dominant stable around these parts!"

AJ Styles: "DOminant stable my ass.... Revolution is the solution... surely you know that John... I mean... Revolution was a big part of your life once... was it not?"

Cena: "Of course it was... the very biggest part of all. I was once all about Reolvution... nothing else mattered to me... but that, in turn, is what i think ended up costing me the IC TItle. I was too much about Revolution and not enough about myself. I was cost the IC TItle by partying way too hard and being all about the stable. Losing the title not only hit me hard.. but hit them hard.. and that's what made me see I needed to bail. That's why I picked up Rhyno and hit him with the FU, and cost him the Tag Team Titles we were about to win. Revolution got in the way of my singles career... and that's another reason why losing to Ikeda last time means nothing. I don't have numerous handicaps pulling me back like Revolution was... i'm not saying you should get out.. because I believe it'll do someone like you the world of good... but i'm bigger than all that now... hopefuly you understand that..."

AJ Styles: "Well you are one of the biggest superstars... but i'd argue nobody is bigger than the name of Revolution! Anyway, after defeating Wes Ikeda and Angelus... if you can indeed get through the pair of them, what kind of champion do you intend to be? Do you intend to bring around your own downfall like MDK did and throw open open challenges every week... or do you intend to just go out there and wrestle when you have to?"

Cena: "GOd... why can't MAria ask questions like this... well if i get through those 2 big guns you just names.. I will of course be a fighting champion. I of course do not want to be wrestling week in week out when I don't have to... but I will never back down from a challenge, you can bet on that! I'm the franchise for God sake... why do I need to back down? THere is nobody that can beat me...but I need to go all out and prove it this week. I need to go out and defeat Wes Ikeda... and show the whole god damn world that the Ikeda's do not own this fed like they like to claim. They like to walk around as if everyone is below them... and as if they can dominate the world without even lifting a finger. Well if they ever could before... it's high time I showed them that they can't now. That I showed them just how good I am.. and that if ever they could dominate the EMF.. that is no longer true. I am the great John Cena... people seem to have forgotten what I have achieved. When i first came i was on the single longest winning streak any new superstar has ever seen... I went on to become one of the fastest new comers to grab a title... and I was on top of any division I entered so quickly it was untrue. The octor of Thugonomics will rule the world of wrestling very very soon... and I willshow everyone that Wes Ikeda is not only a poor wrestler... but he is also a complete bastard as well. I will enlighten you all to just how much people should hate him.. and turn everyone against him. I don't care if people hate me.. but Ikeda thrives on people's opinion of him, and needs to be told he's the best there is.. but will people still tell him it when I prove to them all he's not? Will they still stroke his ego in order to try and get some browny points with him despite the fact he has as much loaylty as a whore? Will anybody really care about Wes Ikeda when all of this is said and done... because to me the obvious answer to that is hell no they wont. Why would anyone want to anyway... when its proven that the man is a liar, a cheater and just no good for anyone at all. If i could, i'd end his career outright... but as it goes, i'll probably wind up just beating him and taking away the one thing he cares about.. his World Championship!"

AJ Styles: "BUt being World Champion isn't that big a deal. I mean look at the people that have achieved it... Archaos, Benoit... IKEDA tops the lot. I mean not only does he have the worst name ever.. but he is the worst world champion... BAR NONE. I mean, at least i defeated a hall of famer for my championship... so nobody can question me deserving it..."

Cena: "True... you are a deserving champion... but so will I be. Where would this fed have got to in the last year and a half if it wasn't for me... absolutely no where. I have carried this fed ofr the last year... been in more main events than I can count... headlined countless shows... I keep the people coming in where other EMF superstars bore them rigid. I am the single greatest athelete ever to, not only grace the wrestling ring.. but to compete in any sport. My FU will keep anyone down and out for the time required.. and nobody will ever stand in my way long enough for me to take any notice of them being there. Not Ikeda... nor anyone else... will ever be able to defeat the great Doctor of Thugonomics... the amazing athelete, the icon... John Cena is the damn greatest thing this industry has to offer... and one day soon he will show the world just how good he is."

AJ Styles: "Well I think you have been doing that for a long time... which is why people already have bags of respect for you. ANyway, do you really think beating Ikeda is that much of an achievement?"

Cena: "It's an achievement in terms of what I have provided the federation with... but really it is nothing if it's just beating Ikeda. BUt providing them with a fresh start, a fresh era, and an amazing new champion really is one hell of an achievement for anyone. I want to make the Hall of Fame one day... to be recognised forever more within the halls where legends are hosted. I want to achieve my full potential because if i don't, well really that's a failure isn't it? I want JOhn Cena to still be a name people talk about long after i'm gone. I want people to remember John Cena when he's retired and sitting in a chair somewhere lapping up the sun on a beach... I want them to come up to me and ask... are you THE John Cena. I don't want to spread happiness throughout them.. but I want the recognition I suppose... to be famous even when i'm not working.. even if it's for being nearly as big an asshole as Ikeda when I dethrowned him. The man needs to be taught a stern lesson... and who better to teach him than someone with a first class degree in How to kick serious ass!"

AJ Styles: "Well if you want me to teach him a lesson before you beat him... you know I got no problems beting him and DeKreek on one night...."

Cena: "Thank you AJ but that will not be necersary. I can beat him without you or anyone else sofetening him up... people seem to think i'm out of my league with this one... but I will prove to the world i'm not. I didn't notch up all the wins I have for notihng. I didn't defeat Wes, Archer and a whole list of other superstars inside the confines of the demonic Elimination Chamber for nothing! It was no easy feet.. but I did it.. and i'm going to prove to the world that I deserved it. Wes Ikeda was claiming I was out of the running before the match even took place... and then afterwards started claiming it meant nothing and he wasn't interested... the man is lying to himself more than he's lying to everyone else. He knows damn well he's passed it... he knows damn well he can't compete with the likes of me and you.. the younger generation of champion... and he knows he's ever so slowly losing it. He knows he can't remain top for long.. even if he manages to slide past me... and that.. that's the thought that scares him more than any in the world. That's the thought he can't cope with... the fact that he doesn't have much time left to dominate. The fact that he knows that at any time he could fall.. that makes him sick.. and he hates himself for it. But then.. he can't hate himself because his ego is too big.. so it confuses him.. and he'll wind up going mentally insane as a result of his own messed up situation. Once Katrina leaves him as well... things will spiral down and go from bad to worse.. and the Ikeda we all know and hate... will be NO MORE!"

(Cena leaves AJ and heads out to the ring. Bad, Bad Man blasts out around the arena at the house show as Cena walks out down the ramp. The fans are booing loudly as he grabs a microphone off an EMF worker and climbs into the ring. The fans quiet down a bit to hear what he has to say.)

Cena: "Well look who it is... you guys are REALLY getting value for your money tnight huh. First you get Punisher and now you got the franchise... John Cena! But neither of us are exactly going to be bringing you good news and crowd rallying antics are we. No, in fact the only thing stopping me from spending all my time talking about how I think all of you are nothing more than scum is the fact I have some things to get off my chest about my upcoming match with Wes Ikeda. You see... this is the biggest match of my wrestling career since my step up from the WWE. However i'm not exactly a stranger to winning World Titles at the first attempt, and hopefully all the signs are pointing the right way when I face Ikeda. The fact that the roles have reversed since last time I faced him... the fact i'm unbeaton at First Blood... i'm hoping these are not just coincedences.. and I'm right in thinknig it is fate that when the smoke clears and the dust settles at First Blood... i'll be the new World Heavyweight Champion! And...."

(Suddernly John Cena is interuped by a well known theme. It is the theme of JBL.. and his famous white limo drives out with cow horns on the front. JBL climbs out of the car and makes his way down the ramp and into the ring to a mixed reaction from the crowd.)

Finkle: "Please welcome.. John "Brandshaw" Layfield!" (OOC- typo deliberate so as it's not THE JBL, who is already a HOFer)

(JBL grabs a mic and climbs into the ring with John Cena.)

JBL: "Well John... aren't you pleased to see your good old friend JBL here in the EMF...."

Cena: "What the hell are you doing here Brandshaw... I thought the ass-kicking I gave you back in WWE would mean you wouldn't want to come anywhere near me again... unless your looknig for a repeat..."

JBL: "No no John... quite the opposite in fact.... no I was just in the neighbourhood and I thought you could use a little help from a true WRESTLING GOD in your preperation to take on Wes Ikeda for the big one... the EMF World Championship.The night when we battled at Wrestlemania 21 was the biggest night of my life John... the biggest match i've ever been involved in... and on that night you made me look stupid John... that's the only wording for it. I mean.. I bought my A-game to that ring... and thought I was going to DESTROY you for my WWE Championship like i'd destroyed everyone else... but you were something else! Like the Homer Simpson of wrestling, you took all the punishment I could deal out.. and when I tired out.. you picked your spot and took my championship away! THen again... after you traded to RAW... your entire reign became much like that. We joked about it all the time backstage... how John Cena was rapidly turning into the cartoon legend... you even started piling on the pounds a bit... but the one thing that seperated you from the 2nd greatest American ever to live... behind myself of course... was you weren't stupid John. You knew what you wanted and how to get it... and that's why you wound up here... in the major leagues. Of course i've been there and done all that... but John... now you have a chance to win the title right at the top of everyones christmas list. It might be a few weeks late... but this is an oppertunity you can't turn down. This is the chance of a life time. You are one win away from achieving the goals that very few ever get the oppertunity to taste John... and i'm begging you... man to man, please don't waste the oppertunity like I did. Because if I have one regret... it's losing to you at Wrestlemania... and although we've never exactly been friends... for my sake John... don't put yourself through what I'm still going through to this day!"

Cena: "And why would you care JBL? Why would you care what happens to me? I have no intentions of going out there and losing the championship... I have no intentions of not walking out as World Champion... of letting myself down... of letting my friends and family down... you know i'll go out there and win.. but not for YOU! I wouldn't do anything for you... not if you were the last other person on earth. When we were in WWE... I hated you... and you think just because I escape you for a year it makes us best friends? You think just because you show up here i'm going to forgive everything you did to everyone in WWE? I'll beat Ikeda my own way.. on my own time.. and it wont be anything to do with you. I don't even know why you care Brandshaw... but I know it'll be for some selfish reason. Besides I don't need help to beat Ikeda... I could do it with my hands tied behind my back... or blindfolded... I don't NEED any help from anyone.. least of all a gutless bastard like you!"

JBL: "Woah.... slow down there Cena! You're right.. I do have selfish reasons for wanting you to defeat Ikeda so badly.. and i'm not going to pretend I don't. YOu want to know why... because I want to excuse myself. I want to be able to say "I lost my championship to the greatest there is", because until you hold the EMF World Title... you cannot even claim that's true. I'm sick of having to realise I lost my title to some wannabe rap star.. and hating myself for letting you slip away at Mania. If you beat Ikeda... it makes my defeat that little bit more bearable... so that's why. Besides... being in WWE without you is great... and if you're world champion it makes the likelyhood of your return less too... so you're right... i'm not your number one fan... and I sure as hell don't like you... but don't worry John... you WILL be world Champion if good old JBL can have any say in it... so I guess we are united in our goal.. and as the old saying goes... the enemy of my enemy is my friend... I don't hate Ikeda... hell I don't even know the guy... but he's standing between me and what I want... so that's why i'm offering, just until after this match... to bury the hatchet and get on the same page John!"

Cena: "Yack yack yack... do you ever shut up Layfield? I don't care that your doing in my ring... all I care about is that your in it... and when people come uninvited down to my ring... and interupt me... i'm not very happy about it. YOu can shove your stupid little offer right up your ass.. because I trust you about as far as I can throw you... actually no... because remembering Mania that's probably a bit too far to be trusting you!"

JBL: "Will you calm down a bit and hear me out... sure I want to put the ghosts of my past to rest... but think about what you'll be getting out of it... The World Heavyweight Championship! Sure you may not need my help... but imagine the advantages. What happens if you set Ikeda up for the FU, and then Kincaid or Badd Boy or someone gets involved.. kicks you down.. the bell rings... a disqualification is called... you've lost the golden oppertunity to become the World Champion. What i'm asking is John... put me in your corner... let me watch the match... trust me and we will deliver the gold to you... you'll be World Champion... I can go back to WWE and become World Champion... and who knows... maybe one day we can repeat out little match to determine who the TRUE greatest wrestler alive is.... what do you say?"

Cena: "Well when you put it like that Brandshaw... maybe we can come to an arrangement. God knows having someone like you in my corner would be a huge benefit.. and tip the scales in order for me to win the World Championship... so if your offer is serious.. put it there.. and me and you will be, for one night only... on the same page!"

(JBL takes Cena's hand and they shake, but as he does Cena pulls him in and up onto his shoulders and nails a big FU on the former WWE Champion. Orlando Jordan is seen jumping over the barricade with a stell chair in hand, but as he slides into the ring Cena kicks it against his skull. Orlando goes down, and Cena locks the STFU in on JBL... who taps quickly, and then Cena throws him and Jordan out of the ring. They are crawling up the ramp in pain when a smirk crawls across JBLs face. Cena looks down and realises his Extreme Title went missing in the chaos. JBL and Orlando stand up and hold the title aloft... but suddernly the crowd start a loud mixed reaction.. and JBL and Orlando turn round to see Chris Masters, AJ Styles and Angelus Archer standing at the top of the ramp. They throw the title down towards Cena and then scamper through the crowd and away from the backup. Revolution give Cena a 'don't mention it' kinda look and then disappear. Angelus stands on the ramp for a bit longer, fixing Cena with a stare. He then lifts the microphone to his mouth and says)

Angelus Archer: "Good luck Cena... not that you'll need it with Wes... but this federation needs a worthy World Champion... and either one of us is better than an Ikeda... so all i'll say is do what you have to do... but bring the title home!"

(Archer departs as well, leaving Cena alone in the ring again.)

Cena: "You see Ikeda... i'm offered the services of a former WWE Champion and I turn them down.. instead chosing to absolutely kick the shit out of BOTH a former WWE Champion AND a former United States Champion at the same time! And I made it look totally easy. Look at you Ikeda... your nothing compared to me. I'm in the best shape of my life.... kicking ass just because I can... and it's about time you gave in and gave me the world title. Hell i\d hate to kick your ass.... i'd probably kill Scotty Kincaid, your family... yourself and a bunch of random nobodies in the process... but whatever needs to be done must be done to get the World Title. I'm a confident man Ikeda... the confidence just oozes out of the Franchise... and I know i'll be able to hand you a complete ass kicking if you show even the smallest sign of resistance towards me taking the Championship. Sure you'll probably still beleive you can defeat me... but really... you are kidding yourself. I'm the greatest wrestler alive today.. and the next Grandslam Champion... and beating you will ust be textbook to me. It will be routine.. just like every other ass-kicking i've ever handed out. I've ended careers and handed out long term injuries... i've won titles and ended streaks... hell I shut up your lover Kincaid did I not... some long ass unbeaton run ended by the Franchise. If that didn't impress you.. what about when I pinned you in the chamber... ending any run you had going on... being one of the few men to pin you in recent history... showing you up after all your promises to win... and then you embaressing yourself even more by bitching about it afterwards. JBL may have calimed I was a joke in WWE... but i've come a long way since then. I've over come all the obstacles... beaten all hte names... and proven to myself and millions of people world wide I have what it takes to survive here. People said when I came from WWE that i was all mouth and that my bark was worse than my bite... well look at me now... The current Extreme Champion... a former IC, Tag and TV Champion... and just about to enter the long list of the Grandslam Champions. And it hasn't really taken me all that long to complete either has it... I mean... just over a year aint bad. And Wes can whine and bitch all he wants... and tell me it wont happen... that he's good enough to beat me and whatever else... but it's all lies and nobody knows that better than him. Wes and me have been in the ring many times... but only twice has the ending involved both of us! It's one:one, and this is the final chance for us to prove our worth. The FU or the Coast to Coast... the Franchise or the king of the ass-kissers... the greatest wrestler alive... or the lucky son of a bitch... all the questions will be answered come First Blood... and the world will finally know once and for all who the better wrestler is. Until then... I got a new year to celebrate... so I hope you all get pissed and do something that messes up your pathetic little lives.. and the next time you see me.. i'll be your world champion! Word Life!"

(The scene fades out again. Due to the writer being whisked away on a last minute trip and not having writing time... which makes him angry enough to challenge someone to a... NO COUNT OUTS MATCH!!! We advance to New Years Eve, and the Cena's big party. It is 6.45pm, with guests due to arrive at 7. Cena, Jackie, Chris, Christy and Nat are shown making last minute preperations for the event. Suddernly there's a knock at the door. Jackie lets out a yell of panick... suggesting things are not quite perfect. Cena looks down at the guest list to try and get an idea of who it could be... but he knew in his heart of hearts who it would be. His secret guest that he'd hoped to smuggle in withot being noticed... had arrived early. Jackie motions for Christy to go to the door whilst she finishes off a bit of polishing on one of the kitchen units. Christy obliges, and Chris Masters follows her. She opens the door, and lets out a gasp, confirming Cena's fears. The camera's spin round, and Trish Stratus is standing there, with a pushchair in front of her. Christy starts conversation, somewhat uncomfortaby...)

Christy: "Err.... Trish... I wasn't expecting to see you here... Chris... was she on the list?"

Chris Masters: "How the hell should I know.... get Jackie.. she sent out the invites..."

Trish: Hello to you too... Don't worry, I was invited, well if none of you want to own up to who invited me, I'm pretty sure it was the rug...

(Jackie comes towards the door to see what the problem is..)

Jackie: "What's all this about... who is... oh! Trish... what a pleasant surprise... you should be warned we have high security against gate-crashers... I don't know how you got past the gate but I can assure you...."

Cena: "She got past because I invited her tonight!"

(JAckie turns and is looking extremely angry. She motions for Cena to follow her, and leads him into a room towards the back of the house. Trish is shown stepping inside, with no arguments from anyone as she in an official guest. The cameras follow the Cena's.)

Jackie: "WHAT THE HELL WHERE YOU THINKING!!! BRINGING HER........"

Cena: "Calm down JAckie please... I can explain..."

Jackie: "Well it better be a bloody good...."

Cena: "It is! Look... last time I faced Ikeda... I lost. That's the facts of the situation. But during that time.. I was with Trish as i'm sure you know. I've watched the tape again and again.. and I can't fault my performance. She's here for one simple reason... I want to know what I have to do differently this year if i'm going to be able to overcome the odds. Yes im confident.. but I was last time too. I want to know where I went wrong and how to overcome it. Also.. I would like the oppertunity to see my sons first new year in with him. I know I should have told you... but I knew how you'd reacht... but it really was this or go to one of her mother-father-son days out... I figured you'd prefer it this way hun..."

Jackie: "I suppose... ok she can stay. And if you guys need some space to talk... we'll keep the bar room out of bounds... after all, we got the other bar set up in the kitchen... the three of you can go in there and talk about what you need to... just don't keep me waiting too long..."

Cena: "YOu know I wont... and when this helps me beat Ikeda... it will all be worth it!

(The scene closes, and re-opens later. We are still at the party. It is now 11.26pm, the new year is getting closer. Cena tells Jackie he'll be with Trish for half an hour tops... and be back with her in time for the fireworks. He walks across the huge dance floor, which is littered with guests, and across to Trish who is talking to Joy. Trish beams as she sees him coming and follows him, with Eddie in her arms. They enter the bar room, famous for being the place where Cena and Natasha had their first affair. Cena closes and locks the door before flicking the lights on. He offers Trish a drink and she takes one, before he pours one out himself, and sits down on THAT sofa.. and Trish sits besides him, with Eddie still in her arms.)

Cena: "Trish.. I have to admit.. i had a motive for bringing you here tonight.. and it has to do with my big World Title Match tomorrow..."

Trish: "What about it?"

Cena: "Well.. you remember last time I faced Ikeda. I wanted the win so badly.. to add a big name to the list of people that John Cena had destroyed.. and I wanted desperately to start another winning streak like the one Punisher had ended. But despite it being the most I ever wanted to win.. and despite me being 100% sure of myself.. I came off second best. This time i'm getting mucht eh same feelings.. and I really want to avoid having any chance of losing this time around. But despite my best efforts... I can't find any faults in what I did. We were close back then... any idea what cost me the Intercontinental Championship?"

Trish: John, you had a lot of stress on your mind, and by the looks of it, you have stress hanging over you now. I mean, you're sexy ex-girlfriend coming back into your life, with your baby, and then you're secret love Natasha, is carrying baby number 2! If you want John, I can get rid of all that stress, in a way I'm you're you'll find very pleasurable...

Cena: Trish as interested as I might be... I need to stay focused. This man is a complete bastard. He cares for nobody and notihng but himself... not even this federtion. Whilst I may hate the fans like hell.. this place gave me a chance and a challenge when WWE could no longer satisfy my needs. I need to be in the right mind set to beat the World Champion... I'm just looknig for advice... not whatever you have on your mind... please Trish, can you give me anything , anything at all?"

Trish: All I can say John, is you need to focus. Just put me, Eddie, Jackie and Nat all to the back of your mind and just focus on Ikeda. Even if this guy is tough, he's not as tough as you are when you're fired up.

Cena: "I know that... and I know deep down that I can destory Ikeda on any givern day. But last time everything was going my way... and then he pulled off one sneaky little roll up and that was it... 1... 2... 3! Title reign ended. The IC belt was the only thing I ever had that made me feel like a big name in this company... not even this Extreme Title can fill the void... but the World Title can. That needs to be my focus... just getting past him and holding that championship aloft. Ikeda knows he can't beat the franchise one-on-one... but remember, Ikeda has a large family... all of them have been involved in this industry.. and he has friends with great technical skill such as Kincaid... he could easily tip the scales away from me. That's my one concern... my one doubt.. and something I can't get out of my mind."

Trish: I'm sure you'll think of something, I mean, you are the great John Cena...

Cena: "Yea... you're right! The great John Cena does not fear defeat.. because he does not know of defeat. When he loses in the record books, it's almost always an unjust defeat... caused by interferance or a lazy tag team partner. When i lost to Wes the first time... I suppose you're right... down to personal stress and just being unable to achieve my personal best... but I can't think that stress alone could make that much of an impact... there must be something else which preventred me from topping Ikeda.. a feet which even then I should have found possable, and now should be all too easy. Mistakes are not allowed... they are not in the Cena code... and I must stamp them all out of my system. My match must be 100% perfect if I'm to claim the World Title I know i deserve. Trish, if you rack your brains a little.. and think back to the match... is their anything else that may have meant is was unprepared, or not at 100% going into my match with Ikeda last time?"

Trish: Just make sure Jackie, or Natasha don't were you out the night before, you remember us at the Revolution Party...

Cena: "Ha! God I was so tired after that night... i'd never drunk so much coffee before a match before... but I don't think there's any danger this time. Nat's hot and cold with those kind of activities at the moment.. and right now she's hating it... and Jackie will probably be too plastered after tonight to care much for it either. Maybe that rewally didn't help me back then... and if I can cut the tiredness and stress factors out.. I might just be able to finally beat Ikeda one-on-one and stand top of the mountain like I have deserved to be for so long. When I beat MDK.. I could probably have topped Angelus and become world champion that night... and often during his feud with Hanley I felt I could take out both of them and be the World Champion... but now I have my first official shot... my first official chance to be the champion I know this company and the entire wrestling industry needs. And you know what... when that bell sounds.. and the World Title is handed over to me.. that moment is going to be all for Eddie.. he's gonna be the inspiration I need... I will win this belt for you son... and when you see your father, standing in the ring as the best wrestler alive.. you can think to yourself that one day... that's gonna be you achieving that goal for yourself!"

Trish: Look Eddie, Daddy's gonna win the title just for you.

(Little Eddie makes a soft noise, and Cena asks to hold him.. to which Trish obliges. Cena takes the baby in his arms and smiles. He then addresses Trish again..)

Cena: "Trish, you've been a great help tonight.. and for that I thank you. I felt for a long time as though I had this problem.. be it physical or mental.. that prevented me from beating Ikeda and it was something I was going to have to come up with a magic answer to, a solution that I knew was there but where.. I didn'tt have a clue. You've shown me that the problem of the last time I faced Wes are compltely superficial.. things which are easy to overcome, and for that I thank you. You've givern me a huge confidence boost, and shown me that whatever the problem is.. the answer is always easy. Now I no longer have to worry about being cost the title in the same method as last year.. and I can fosuc fully on defeating Ikeda in that ring and doing what is important. I will make little Eddie proud.. you don't have to worry about that. Ikeda may have children... but how often does he see them? At least i'm going to stick to the routine with mine... see him every one of my weekends and whenever else I can also. I'm always going to love this kid, even more than i love the wrestling industy. But tomorrow night.. all of my great loves will be united as they get behind me and urge me towards the championship that makes dreams, builds legends, and creates Gods. Tomorrow night, the biggest night of my life.. and I will make sure every second counts. Wes Ikeda can only dream of defeating John Cena... but for me, winning is reality. It has been my destiny ever since i set foot in this ring.. and the fact that it's Ikeda between me and the gold will make it all the sweeter when I claim the pinfall and grasp the belt firmly in my hands. Wes Ikeda and myself have been in the ring more times than I can count.. and yea, unfortunately my record against him sucks.. but what can I say.. he has had the luck of the draw when it comes down to tag team partners... where as I get the same ones that allow him victory every time. But one on one there's only one match that matters.. and that's the one coming up. HE may have got the bragging rights before now... but this is the time when I cancel it out. When I even the score, and when he falls at my feet and begs for my mercy. Many things have changed since you last stepped in the ring with the franchise one-on-one.. I have a son, a wife.. and a whole new perspective on life. For me.. this is about more than wrestling. IT's about proving a point. Proving that the people that backed me well before I was TV Champion were right to say one day i'd stand top of the world. Proving that all the fans I once had were backing the right horse... and proving that I truely am above them all. I've got so many people closer to me as well that I want to win for. For my son Eddie... for JAckie and Nat, for all my good friends... I want to prove to you all that I'm all the things I claim to be! I want to prove that the Franchise is worth every bit as much as anyone else.. and then some. I want to show that he's not all about women, booze and fast cars.. and that when push comes to shove, i'm the damn greatest wrestler out there. I know this is a lot to prove in one match.. but when you see the way I demolish Ikeda.. it will all become crystal clear that everything i've just said is the God's honest truth, and that.. THE CHAMP IS HERE!"

Trish: Ha.. your still throwing that line around... though I guess you need to be seeing as your are just hours away from claiming your rightful spot as the World Champion. Then you truely will be THE champ.. and nobody will take it from you. I know how it feels to be top of your league.. I was women's champion for long enough..and its a feeling like no other.. and when you are world champion.. even though me and you are, lets face it, not on the greatest of terms right now.. i'll be cheering for you.. wishing I could be in your corner still to celebrate with you... and I wish you the very best of luck John!"

Cena: "I don't really need luck in any great quantities.. I have the skill and determination to beat Wes down in my sleep... but I thank you anyway. I also thank you for not reapeating last weeks offer at any great length.. which i'm sure is all part of you trying to keep me de-stressed... This is going to be one of the greatest moments in wrestling history... when John Cena walks out.. demolishes the man everyone wants to demolish... and becomes the World Heavyweight Champion! Nobody can stop it... nobody can help him... nobody can have a say in it all... it's just stonecold fact. Cena will be the World Champion.. that's as certain as the fact that i'm sitting here with Trish right now... or that fact that Wes is extremely self-centered.. or anything else that is just pure fact, no arguments. And very soon... people will witness as I deliever all my promises... capture the gold.. and let them see exactly what is coming to them all! Thank you Trish.. this chat has really helped..."

Trish: "Yea.. now about that de-stressing..."

Cena: "Trish... I don't think it's so..."

Trish: "Come on John... what could make more sense then being with the mother of your child... we can forget the last 6 months... and be one happy family. I kbow you rejected the idea before but just think..."

Cena: "You're right Trish.... definately right!"

Trish: "Really? So you mean...."

Cena: "I MEAN i should be with the mother of my child... that doesn't mean you... i'm sorry.."

Trish: "But... but i'm... oh..."

(She realises what he means when she follows his gaze. He is staring out of the window, at Natasha as she walks past holding a drink. He has a huge grin on his face. Trish realises her oppertunity is slipping away and goes for one final shot at what shes been pushing for. She leans in a kisses Cena... to which he kisses her back. He continues for a few minutes... before pushing her away...)

Cena: "Trish look... you helped me make my mind up... i'm not gambling it for a few minutes of pleasure that'd probably stop me winning the word title anyway... you've convinced me of a lot tonight... now if you don't mind.. I told my wife i'd be back in time for the new year. Here... take Eddie... and enjoy the party... and thank you.."

(The scene fades for one final time.)