'The Final Showdown'

Part I

Several hours have passed after the event which changed the face of the United Wrestling Alliance forever as the UWA was invaded by several wrestlers calling themselves the 'Revolution'. The men consisted of wrestling's greatest performers who gave their lives to entertain the crowd and let everyone go home happy and knowing that the wrestler they just saw is a true legend of the sport. One of those men, after several months of being declared legally dead, finally came back in one of the most shocking moments ever witnessed on television as he nearly beat one of the wrestlers within an inch of his life for trying to kill him. UWA has nearly died as a result of the invasion which took place afterwards and Jada Fox has reported to have lost her baby because of the disgusting actions of Sean Segrada.

The group of wrestlers which invaded the show earlier have gathered in the parking lot and are celebrating. Rilo is among them, still sweating profusely from his match earlier on. Jeremy Cundiff however, is nowhere to be seen. Andy Gorgadore has jumped onto the hood of a car and has opened a champagne bottle.

AG: "TO THE GREATEST WRESTLING STABLE IN THE WORLD!

R: "Here, here!"

SS: "Fuck that shit. To the best wrestlers on the planet!"

NM: "Nah, guys.. To.. To Revolution, boys. The men with the belts."

"I'll drink to that, even though your interference wasn't needed."

"It still took Q Ball down a notch. As for Jada..."

"She deserved it, that ungrateful bitch."

Suddenly, a closed fist comes flying in the direction of Nicky Mills who has no time to prevent it and is knocked back onto a hood of a car. An angry Jeremy Cundiff attempts to hit him again but Sean Segrada and Rilo both pull him away and hurl him to the concrete floor. Jeremy bounces up and this time tries to start a fight with Rilo but the World champion is interrupted.

"WAIT!"

The others back away when they hear Mills' command except for Rilo, who stays where he is.

"What the FUCK are you doing, Jeremy?!"

"Shut up, Sean! This isn't any of your goddamn business!"

Spitfly and Andy Gorgadore stand beside Mills, who is wiping the blood away from his mouth. He finally turns to Rilo.

"Let me take care of this, man."

"Sure?"

"It's okay. I have to tell him everything anyway."

"Okay. Let's leave them to it."

The others turn to stare at an irate Cundiff before merely walking away from the parking lot towards a hallway. The two men walk away to a distant corner where nobody can overhear them. Mills is the first to speak.

"So?"

"You have some explaining to do."

"I know. That's why I was waiting to catch you alone. I don�t want to exactly go into what happened with Spit and all that."

"Okay... first of all..."

"How am I standing in front of you when I'm supposed to be in a morgue with a bullet in my brain?"

"That�s one way of putting it, yes."

"If I tell you what happened, this never leaves us. I'll tell you everything."

"I nearly went to jail because of you. Why now? Why not when my life was in a total shambles and the only friends I had were a whiskey bottle and a bong named Percy?"

"Look, let me explain my part. Now, I know me and you weren't on speaking terms but I would have died for you. There's no doubt my life was in a spinning pile of shit with everyone after me."

"Is it true what Vincent said, though? Was it Travis?"

Nicky takes a deep breath before nodding.

"Travis tried to have me killed that night, yeah. He was working behind my back, trying to make sure I never left the country to escape the shit I'd created here. A few days before, Andrea and I talked to each other."

"Wha?"

"I knew that my life was going to change. I gave her the will tape. It was never sent to her, man. We made that shit up to throw everyone else off our trail. I'd seen her in person and handed her the tape myself and told her that my life was in danger but that I didn't know who was trying to have me killed. Travis was my bodyguard and I never believed he'd stoop that low to betray me."

"Andrea... she talked to you?"

"I asked her to meet me and told her that I couldn't go to you. I couldn't put more shit on your plate. It was enough that TNT was ass raping the few talents they had who could save that damn company.. All I did was hand her the tape and tell her to look after you and make sure you'd be alright. Then, I did the one thing I thought that would never happen."

"What?"

"Rilo."

"That asshole is involved in this?!"

"He saved my life, J. Without him, I wouldn't be here talking to you and Travis would have gone untouched. His behaviour before the night it went down was totally weird. He was all edgy and shit. I didn't put it together because I assumed that he knew that Vincent was alive."

"I thought you didn't know he was alive."

"I found out a week before. I had a cop on the inside and he told me that Vincent had been seen by surveillance. He went under that stupid name 'Jason Polimari'. I was afraid for my life, man. I really was. Me whacking Colitri and blowing up his casino pissed everyone off. We stole around eighty million from those guys and then it just fucked up from there."

"So..."

"I'll get to that. Everything around me was going down pretty fast. One night, I just couldn't take it anymore. Kent was manipulating me and I was dragging your name into some petty feud with Christian. I knew I was wrong and that it all had to end. I went to the hospital where Fly was at and apologized for screwing him over. I left him some money in a bank account and then went to leave... but it didn't happen. Rilo was there that night and he pulled off my plan early. The reason why I didn't die that night was because that wasn't me at the dock..."

Cundiff stares at Mills who takes a look around the parking lot once more before turning back to his partner.

"Was because it wasn't me who was killed at that dock."

"I don't get it. The cops identified the body and everything. They said it was you."

"Rilo's clone was that good. He had my fingerprints, my face, my hair... but not my DNA. They would have fallen onto a huge discovery because the DNA wouldn't have been like a normal person's."

"Whaddya mean?"

"Rilo took a prisoner from Pan and cloned him into me. He was told to co-operate and that his life would be saved if he did what he was told. Obviously, it didn't happen and he died instead of me. Rilo lied to him. See, Rilo had everyone think he was dead and he pulled off the same thing, pretty much. He can do that."

"So, Where were you?"

"Me and him watched it all go down. I found out that Travis was a no good lying piece of shit who was about to kill me because of you. He gave a monologue before he managed to pull it off. Vincent hired him as his goon to get rid of a few loose ends I hadn't tied up and then Travis and him went their separate ways."

Cundiff is silent and doesn't know how to acknowledge what he is hearing. Nicky see's the expression on his face and lights up a cigar and offers it to him. Jeremy smiles and takes the cigar from him, taking a large puff of it before hanging it back to him.

"What can I say? Then, I got told that I pretty much had no choice but to hide in Pan and build up an army. Jesus... I spent months trying to prove myself to those sick bastards. These scars and shit are all thanks to those bastards. And I had to watch you see your whole life fall apart. Andrea... that was hard for me to take."

"Huh... you mean... you were there?"

"I broke away from Pan and managed to get to Earth but I was too late to save her. I arrived like minutes after he killed her. I walked in and saw her dead..."

Nicky stops and looks upset remembering the night that Andrea Williams was murdered. Taking a puff of the cigar, he continues.

"Rilo nearly died for that one. I went back to Pan and killed a few of the generals before I got restrained. One of them made some comment about how it was funny how she died so I tore out his throat. Rilo... man, he never liked me much after that. But he finally let me come back to Earth but not to let anybody see me. So I laid flowers at Andrea's grave."

"I... you were at the funeral?"

"Yeah. The funny thing is, I saw you just sitting at her graveside when everyone left and I was inches from you. I couldn't do anything but I'm sorry, J. Watching you suffer like that wasn't good. And the cops pinning you for my murder was a travesty. That was all based on the fact that they had the tape of us arguing. Andrea's death... it couldn't have been prevented."

"She died because she found out Travis wanted you dead."

"Yeah. He caught her. But when Rilo finally laid out this 'invasion', I went to take care of the one thing that I knew had to be taken care of. Vincent Lunacchio."

Cundiff's eyes widen as he realizes that Nicky Mills was the man who entered the shop several minutes after Jeremy had been there.

"You beat the shit out of him good. I finished it off and made sure he was dead for real this time. Now... now the situation is over. Lawrence Williamson is pressing charges against Travis for attempted murder. Travis is done, Jeremy."

"I want him dead. He has to die for what he did to Andrea."

"They're probably out of the country by now. Christian.. he believes he's doing the right thing."

"No. I know Travis. He won't leave."

Cundiff and Mills exchange odd glances. Cundiff's cell phone is ringing, with "Smoke Two Joints" as his ringtone. Cundiff flips the phone up and answers the call.

"Cundiff."

???: "I know who it is, shithead."

Cundiff looks up at Mills with a shocked look on his face before turning the phone onto speaker. The voice belongs to Travis Williams.

TW: "We end this once and for all. There's a construction site for a high rise on the outskirts of the city. We're waiting for you there."

"We'll be there."

"I hope so, because I have something of yours, Jeremy."

The phone hangs up as we hear a female scream.

"He's got Ariel."

"Ariel? Who the fuck is Ariel?"

"Come on! We have to go over there!"

Nicky Mills and Jeremy Cundiff look around the parking lot.

"We need a car."

"Yes, we do."

Nicky and Jeremy look at opposite sides of the parking lot and both their eyes stop at one car. They stop at a very nice looking Jaguar.

"This'll do."

"Don't we need..."

Nicky kicks in the back window, and reaches through to unlock the doors.

"Never mind."

Nicky gets into the driver's side and Jeremy into the passenger's. Which are reversed, if you remember. In Britain, the driver sits on the right side of the car and drives on the left side of the road.

"So how do we start..."

Nicky jams a small knife into the ignition and turns the key.

"Damn, you're one step ahead of me today."

The car flares to life withut any signs of a carjacking. Nicky slams on the gas, and peels the car out as he almost clips an SUV on the way out of the parking garage towards the construction site.