Once in a while life takes a 360° turn. You won’t see it coming most of the time either. You can sit back and speculate and make guesses like Ms. Cleo, but you’ll never truly know. One day you’re living, breathing flesh and the next you’re being pulled out of a car wreck…dead. I’ve seen it before and you may have too. And if you think you never will see the rich man fall flat on his ass…broke, I feel pity for you. That’s why you’ve got to live day to day. Treat it like the last time you’re going to see the light of day; because you never know when it could be your last. That’s why you have to tell people how you really feel. If you love them, tell them. If you hate them, don’t bother cause they might kill you. Got a nice joke to tell? Don’t put it off. Don’t ever put off telling someone you love them especially. Yes, the four letter word that seems like it’ll kill but it won’t. The only thing that’ll kill you, if you really don’t tell them, is the fact that your time ran out. You’ll kick your own ass for years because you blew the chance. That’s the 360° of life. Living, breathing to dead, decaying. There’s always that 360° turn in the road of life. Yes, you may crash and burn while making it but that doesn’t matter. It’s what you take with you that does.
-[ They remain silent as they walk up towards the podium. As the flash photography begins hearts begin to sink. The Butcher takes off his gfwa OMEGA blazer jacket and the perspiration is evident. He’s never done this before and he hopes he never has to do it again. The world already knows but he has to make it official. Over walks a doctor in his coat and scrubs. The scrubs are clean and show no signs of blood even though he was just operating on a dying man. He held the man’s heart as it made the last contraction and the soul left the body. He couldn’t do a damn thing for the man was dead at the scene. He just brought him back to life for a mere second, only for the man to die again. A couple other gfwa OMEGA men make their way into the scene but don’t say a word. Flash photography quickly becomes more violent as James Miller, also known as Grunge to the wrestling world, stands behind Commissioner Butcher. His face is emotionless as if still in shock that any of this happened. Cody and Tomorrow Man follow him onto the stage, GHC Tag Team Titles no where to be found. They pat him on the back and say a few kind words to Miller, but he remains emotionless. Commissioner Butcher places his jacket back on as he gathers his thoughts at the podium. ]-
The Butcher: As you may have heard, yesterday afternoon at around 2:13 PM, Steven Evans, better known as T-Dogg here in the GFWA, passed away due to an accident in Tacoma, Washington. As you already may know, he was hit by a Honda Accord which ran a red light. Evans was killed on the scene immediately but, like the born fighter he is, was resuscitated for a brief moment in the emergency room but passed away moments later. We here in the gfwa OMEGA are at a great loss of anything to really say. We lost an honorable man the other day that was bound to return to the federation that he helped build. Our hearts and prayers go out to the Evans’ family and friends. There is little I can say or do to ease the pain and suffering of this loss. I think it would be better for those that worked closely with him to say how they feel towards this horrific tragedy.
-[ Commissioner Butcher ignores the flash photography and looks behind him at James Miller who was T-Dogg’s tag team partner for many years. Together they won the GFWA Tag Team Titles but now they will never grace the wrestling ring together again. As Commissioner Butcher backs away from the podium, Grunge moves close to it. As he stands at the podium to say a few words on the passing of his best friend, emotion finally comes over him. He looks out at the mass of people but mutters no words. ]-
Grunge: ……
-[ As the great mass awaits his words, anger becomes the expression on his face. He shakes his head and looks around him. As more flash photography goes off, Grunge runs away, angered. Cody and Tomorrow Man just look at each other but say nothing. Their looks just says it all and they know what they must do. Tomorrow Man takes off in pursuit of Grunge to make sure he’s all right while Cody steps up towards the podium. ]-
Cody: The wrestling world lost a legend yesterday. He was a great friend of mine and his presence in the ring was greatly missed. But there was always that hope that the greatest tag team in the world would one day return to the ring and now that hope is gone. T-Dogg cannot be replaced for he brought honor and dignity to a profession that seems to lack it.
-[ A reporter from the Wrestling Globe stands up and interrupts Cody with a question. ]-
Reporter: Excuse me, but didn’t you at the end of 2 Days of Hell say that Seattle Sound was NOT the greatest tag team in the world? And didn’t you also say that Seattle Sound should not be considered legends because they always had the Elite Players backing them up?
-[ Cody gets sour faced because he wasn’t supposed to be asked questions. He was just supposed to give his peace and not have to back up his words. ]-
Cody: Yeah I said it but it was the heat of the moment that brought those words out of me. If you go back to the time when Seattle Sound was around you’d see that they did have the Elite Players backing them up. Never did the Elite Players interfere in a Seattle Sound match-up though. They just watched each other backstage. That’s what I said but you must have twisted the words around.
-[ Another reporter from the National Inquirer stands up and throws a question at Cody. ]-
Reporter 2: Is it true that you don’t even like Steven Evans and that you’re doing this right now to get public approval?
Cody: What is this?
Reporter 3: Is it true that you fear the Manhattan Project and that is why you hired someone to help you in your match?
Cody: No we don’t fear them. We’re the ones that asked for a re-match!
Reporter 2: Are you afraid of Ricky Hunter and his stable?
-[ Commissioner Butcher taps Cody on the shoulder and shakes his head to him. More reporters start throwing bizarre questions at Cody as he slams the podium with his fist. ]-
Cody: I can’t believe this! You people are really pathetic. A man dies and you disgrace his name by twisting words around and bringing up false stories. This has nothing to do with the T2SF / Seattle Sound rivalry. We have great respect for them and always will because they gave us the hardest matches in our career. You people make me sick with your dumb ass questions. I would give up all of the titles we’ve ever won to have Steve back. You people just can’t deal with the fact that we all got along. You just want to glorify our feud with false information about us not having respect for each other. The only people we don’t respect is the media and the hype it tries to create…
-[ Commissioner Butcher pushes Cody out of the way before he says something he can’t take back. Cody turns his back to the mass who again start attacking Cody with more questions. The Butcher tries to calm the mass down with the doctor. ]-
The Butcher: All right, calm down, folks. If you have any questions regarding Steve Evans’ death, please direct them towards Dr. Hewitt.
-[ The Butcher moves to the side as Doctor Hewitt takes his turn to shed some more light on the incident. Cody walks off stage to go find Tomorrow Man and Grunge. He walks in the direction where they went and finds the back door of the gfwa OMEGA Headquarters. As he opens the door, an arctic chill hits his body because, remember, the press conference in going on in cold Augusta, Maine. He looks out into the back lot and only hears Tomorrow Man’s voice from afar. He makes his way towards it and finds Tomorrow Man talking to Grunge. Grunge is on his motorcycle and has his helmet on, ready to go. He turns the key and revs up the engine. As Tomorrow Man makes one last plea, Grunge drives off without a single word ever being said. Tomorrow Man makes his way toward Cody and then they begin to walk back to the warm gfwa OMEGA Headquarters. ]-
Cody: How is he?
Tomorrow Man: Doesn’t look good, man.
Cody: What did he say?
Tomorrow Man: Nothing. Not a single word. I think he’s being totally driven by emotion now. It’s not good.
-[ Cody opens the back door and walks in with Tomorrow Man. ]-
Cody: Speaking of being driven by emotion, you should have seen me back there. I almost lost it. Those damn reporters were asking me everything but questions about T-Dogg. They even wanted me to say that we fear the Manhattan Project and Ricky Hunter’s goons.
Tomorrow Man: Well wrestling is the last thing on my mind right now. Damn, man, I don’t even feel like showing up at our match this week. I feel sick cause one of our good friends has died.
Cody: I know what you mean.
Tomorrow Man: No…you don’t. I really…feel sick…
-[ Tomorrow Man opens up the back door in a hurry a pukes whatever he had to eat earlier today. Looks like green eggs and ham. Cody leans over and pats Tomorrow Man on the back as he remains bent over and halfway out the door, coughing. ]-
Cody: Life just gave us a 360, bro. Things will never be the same again in this business but we have to move on. Steve would want us to. That’s why we’re going to wrestle that match this weekend and we’re going to win it for Steve. It doesn’t matter if we have to break Hunter, Bronx or even Payne. It doesn’t matter who we have to beat, we will do it. All right there, Champ?
Tomorrow Man: Not yet.
Cody: Anything I can do for you?
Tomorrow Man: Yeah. Get off my shoulder.
-[ Cody laughs as he notices he’s holding Tomorrow Man down. He quickly lays off and Tomorrow Man jumps to his feet. ]-
Tomorrow Man: Yeah, I can’t believe Payne, a former GHC Champion, would go as low as to align with Hunter. It just kind of shows what kind of guy he really is in this business. He was a great GHC Champion but it surprises me that he would actually throw away all he’s done just so he could keep that title.
Cody: And on top of that, Frostie still won! Talk about plans going wrong! I mean, Payne did a complete 360° turn. He went from a great, upstanding guy in this business to a normal man just trying to hold onto something he didn’t think he could of done alone. He became weak and cracked under the pressure. Now he’s stuck with Hunter and Devilz Darkside. Payne’s turn alone screws with the mind, but add Devilz D? They gave in that easily to the challenges ahead of them? And they actually think that Ricky Hunter and Payne are going to help them to the top!
-[ Cody laughs. ]-
Cody: Amazing, isn’t it? Here I thought they were growing into the sport and becoming smarter. I guess they proved us wrong! Still, it just amazes me how people change so quickly because one retard comes back. Hunter has got to be in the running for being one of the dumbest wrestlers ever to enter the GFWA ring and now he thinks he can win it all? Yeah right.
Tomorrow Man: Oh but you have to remember, we are the dumb ones around here.
Cody: Yes, I remember. We asked for a re-match so we must be dumb. Just goes to show how the old winning ways have gone away. It does matter how you win, well to us anyway. We try to win the clean fair way without interference so it shuts those damn critics up. We are the real deal and while those others out there claim to be, we show it in the ring. We go out and perform to the best of our abilities each and every week, and that’s why people stay away from us. I see the fear in Bronx and Brooklyn’s eyes. They don’t want to face us again. No one seems to give a damn anymore or even want to step up to a challenge. Seattle Sound did and now they’re gone for good. So fine, we’ll take on these dumb stables alone and if we get beat down, so be it. We’ll just come back even stronger, faster and better. We’ve done it time and time again and this time it won’t be any different.
Tomorrow Man: Come on, lets get out of here before I throw up again.
Cody: Sure.
-[ Cody and Tomorrow Man go to fetch their jackets to leave the gfwa OMEGA Headquarters as Commissioner Butcher wraps up the press conference. ]-
