Post by Gemini Battle on Apr 15, 2016 16:19:49 GMT -5
Confusion
Grayson Pierce exits the ring after being attacked with a lead pipe by his opponent at Aftermath, the WCF World Champion Joey Flash. He nurses his abdomen and is feeling fortunate that he didn’t go for a head shot, but he knows that a head shot is the least of his worries when he finally gets to step into the ring with his arch nemesis in just a few short weeks.
Steve Orbit met him backstage gave him a congratulations and a handshake. Pierce appreciated the endorsement. He truly felt honored to step in the ring with such a decorated and accomplished superstar, and the fact that he came out victorious put a smile in his burning heart…
But he went right back to being pissed, and not because of the attack… well yea, because of the attack, but not JUST that. He went to Gorilla Position and found the guy manning the sound. He was packing up his equipment when Pierce grabbed him by the shirt.
Grayson
What the fuck was that, out there, huh?
Sound Guy
What are you talking about?
He said with a Canadian accent as he struggled to release from the vice grip Grayson had on his WCF Polo shirt, but Gray was unrelenting in his hold.
Grayson
Who told you to play “Falling Higher” instead of Rev Theory? You realize how much that threw me off out there!?!?
Sound Guy
What are you complaining about, you won!
He finally got out of the grip but Pierce’s stare was enough to keep the man still.
Sound Guy
Besides, you told me to turn it on earlier… when you helped out Rebellution.
Grayson
What are you talking about? Helped out Rebellution? They didn’t need my help earlier. I went out there with no music, remember? Then I left.
Sound Guy
No, after that… when you painted your face and shit. You gave me this CD and said to play it. I o course had it in my iPod already so I didn’t even use it, but I figured you were using that song today.
Gray simply stared at the young man with his unkempt beard and thick black glasses. He shook his head trying to make sense of the words, but only one thing does make sense. Gemini Battle was here tonight. That mother fucker showed up at the Tesla Museum last week and he fucking had the balls to show up here.
As though he was being ignored too long the Sound Guy interjected.
Sound Guy
Can… can I go now?
Gray nodded and he grabbed his case and left, leaving some important looking wires behind, but Gray payed no mind to it. He still couldn’t wrap his head around the fact that the idiots here don’t realize that he’s not Gemini Battle anymore; that they are two different people. He is going to have to make that clear next week.
He walks back towards his locker room and absentmindedly enters the room marked Rebellution. Normally he would be pumped expecting the grand arrival that came as Holmes popped a Champagne Bottle, Bonnie gave him a big hug, and even DeMarcus joined in on Face Time plugged into the flat screen TV.
Andre Holmes
Congrats, bro! You fucking did it man, Wade Moor, Steve Orbit, you beat two fucking Champions, man. You beat two of the best of all time, and now you get your chance to beat Joey Flash.
Grayson
Thanks.
He barely said as he walked over to the table, grabbed a cold one and popped the bottle. Bonnie and Andre spoke to each other giving their teammate space before Bonnie broke the uncomfortable silence.
Bonnie Blue
Sorry we didn’t make it out there. We saw the win, we ordered the room service and next thing we know Flash is standing over ya with that lead pipe o’ his.
Andre Holmes
I know you had our back earlier when we needed it, we should have returned the favor.
He didn’t have their back, he was in the gym jogging and getting a sweat on before his match. He had no idea that they had even run into trouble. He hated to say it, but he was being undeniably selfish during their match, but they said that he helped him.
He wanted to argue and tell them the truth, but they were so happy. They all were having a great time, and it’s been a hell of a few weeks for Rebellution, so why the hell not. He was willing to let it go until…
Andre Holmes
What’s with the weird face paint, though?
Bonnie Blue
Oh, that’s ‘Gemini Battle’ his alter ego. Like when Finn Balor becomes the demon…
Grayson
It’s nothing like that!
He yelled as he smashed the bottle on the table, breaking the bottom and causing the remaining liquid to flow over the table and onto the stained carpeted floor below.
Grayson
Guys… sorry. I wasn’t there for you either… that wasn’t me.
Andre Holmes
But we stood in the ring with our arms raised. We were a team.
Bonnie looked stunned, almost as though she knew something more about the situation. But Andre, a man with no experience with Gemini, and little with Jay Omega knew little about Grayson’s past other than what he saw on TV, which is truly just a small glimpse into the life of Gemini Grayson Pierce Battle.
Which one are you going to get? Only Grayson Pierce… or so he thought.
Grayson
It sounds crazy, but I need you guys to believe me. Gemini Battle is a bad person. I’m not sure if he’s even a person, he seems to be something other worldly. But what I need you to promise me is that if you do ever see him again, you HAVE to stop him… you have to trap him.
Andre Holmes
What do you mean, trap him?
Grayson
I don’t know, tie him up or something. I have to see him face to face. I have to face this fear of mine…
Bonnie Blue
You’re scared o’ him?
Grayson
Not really, just what he is, not him in of itself. Does that make sense?
DeMarcus Jordan
Nope.
He forgot he was there watching the whole thing unfold on the Face Time.
Grayson
Just believe me. If you ever see that face painted maniac it’s not me. Don’t trust him, and don’t abide by him. He is only going to hurt you, and maybe hurt me.
Andre Holmes
I don’t…
Grayson
PLEASE! I can’t explain it, but something fucked up is happening and I need you know that you’re on my side with this… PLEASE!
Bonnie Blue
You know I got your back, bud.
DeMarcus Jordan
Yea, man. I got you. I mean, once I’m walking again… shouldn’t be too much longer now.
Holmes was the last to hold out. Grayson didn’t know what it was but Holmes was having the hardest time wrapping his head around the whole situation. He seemed almost not to believe it. Truth be told Grayson didn’t completely believe it either, but he knew it was true and that’s all he needed of his partners. Andre Holmes, seeming to finally resolve in the same realization stuck out his callused hand towards Grayson whop gladly accepted the gesture.
Andre Holmes
Viva la Rebellution, Mother Fucker. We always got your back.
Grayson nodded as Bonnie tossed him another IPA, and a rolled up joint.
Bonnie Blue
Wanna hit?
Grayson
Why the fuck not?
They rejoiced. And almost as soon as he exhaled that first hit he got the phone call that would change his life forever.
Why does shit like this always happen when I’m high?
The Phone Call
Gemini hovered over the figures sitting and sharing chocolate muffins below him. He watched as Invidia set on her quest. She was feeling weak in her state, she had taken the body of a woman who was dying of Syphilis and though she was strengthened by Invidia domesticating her, she was now feeling the effects of years of untreated disease that modern medicine would have easily cured normally. But she was not normal now, she was something else completely.
Most importantly, she needed a new vessel to overcome. She needed to escape from her vessel and enter a new one. And she was courting said vessel as we speak. She nodded as her hostess asked her if she wanted more tea. As the woman left towards her kitchen she looked up and smiled at the figure that only she could see.
Gemini smiled back and pointed as the woman came back with a tea kettle.
Woman
Vanessa, I gotta say, I’m so glad you moved into town. Since we moved here it’s been hard to make friends.
Vanessa
Well, with the little one on the way you will make friends in no time. What, with dance class, and gymnastics, and all the other wonderful activities they offer children nowadays.
Woman
Yea, but sometimes it’s good to be with a single woman on the prowl. I love the gossip of all the shit you get into.
Vanessa
Well, it’s not all fun and games for me, dear.
Woman
Better than what I go through. Be right back.
She poured the water and brought the kettle back to the kitchen. When she returned she sat down and picked up her cup.
Woman
I used to travel with Grayson, but being pregnant he’s overbearing and concerned about my health. He would rather have me home than on the road.
Oh yea, did I forget to mention that the ‘woman’ in this scene is Kat Ruiz-Pierce? Well… spoiler alert… it is.
Vanessa
Well, wrestling is a dangerous sport. You shouldn’t be travelling with him. You could get hurt, or that baby could get hurt.
Vanessa rubbed her hands on Kat’s slight bump and Kat giggled as she sipped her tea. The giggle turned into a shrug of discomfort.
Vanessa
Sorry, too personal.
Kat
No, sorry, ha, no. Not that. Rub away, I just… I guess I have indigestion. I’ll be right back, I’m sorry.
Kat walked off down the foyer and into the bathroom. Vanessa looked up and smiled a devious smile.
Gemini
Is it done?
Vanessa
Yes it is.
They waited patiently for the scream as she seductively sipped her tea.
On queue it came.
A shriek from the bathroom as Vanessa got up and slowly walked over towards the sound. She rustled her hair and opened the door with panic in her eyes.
Vanessa
What happened?
As if she didn’t know. She looked as Kat stood with her pants down at her ankles and tears filled her eyes looking down at the crimson filled toilet.
Kat
I think I lost the baby.
Taking Flight
He took a private jet from Philly to Stony Brook NY. He got a call from the hospital saying that his wife was admitted, but she was ok. He had to get there because why the fuck would she be in the hospital if everything was ok. He was going fucking nuts, the flight could not go faster.
He feared the worst, and that was a miscarriage. He didn’t think that she would be able to recover from this. He knew she would blame herself, and he would blame himself for not being there for her even though it was a freak of nature and there would be nothing either of them could have done about it.
He had to distract himself. There was only 45 minutes left in the flight that was set to land just 20 miles from the hospital where a private helicopter was set to air lift him to the hospital. Thank you Omega.
He distracted himself the only way he could. He looked at his phone and watched the WCF Network, keyword Kyle Kemp.
Grayson
Quite the competitor. I remember when he started, and he was the Jobber to Spencer Adams, helping get that guy over as he failed to truly make a name for himself in the process. But what did he do? He kept on going. He eventually got his one over Spencer by taking that coveted People’s Title.
Quite the feat, considering how popular Spencer Adams was. What I can say about Kemp is that the mother fucker is consistent. His personality has not changed since he started. It merely has exacerbated. He started off a cocky douche, and he’s now… a cocky douche, but he flaunts it more.
To be fair, he has gotten so much better in the ring since he started. Last year no one would have thought that he would have been able to be a successful tag team champion, and ultimately in the finals of the Trilogy Cup. Think of the people who have been in the finals of this tournament. Jay Omega- Former World Champion, Dune- former World Champion.
Even now, he’s in there with his partner Jared Holmes, one of the best Television Champions in recent history and the man who tied my War elimination record, and is so obsessed with it that he named himself after it. This is not a joke of a tournament. Kemp defeated Dune and he defeated Chance von Crank to get where he is.
He embarrassed Chance so bad that he never came back in fact. Kemp has been living up to the hype that he set for himself, and I’m sure he’s coming into this match this week with the same passion, and the same drive that led him to this point in his career. And this match too is a career defining match.
Because let’s face it, I’m no slouch myself. I was a US Champion, I eliminated more people than anyone else in the history of War, and I headlined One. Now I’m on my way to Aftermath to go for the gold once more.
He sipped his beer as the flight attendant asked him if he wanted anything else. He shook his head and smiled in her direction as she blushed and went off back to her seat. It was just the two of them, and she sat in her seat, crossed her abnormally long legs and pulled out her phone.
Grayson
This match is not a warm up for me. Because facing Kyle Kemp is not a warm up, it’s a fight. It’s a battle to the death. It’s a match that he needs to win just as much as I need to win. I do NOT consider this match easy in any stretch of the imagination. But to say that the odds are not in my favor would be a lie.
The good money is on me winning this match, and it’s rare that Kemp finds himself in a situation where he is the lesser competitor. But please, don’t think that the fact that I’m saying that he’s a lesser competitor means that he is a poor competitor because that’s not true, and I know it.
Kemp is going to bring everything he has to this match. He has something to prove. This is his first singles Main event on Slam or any other wrestling program. He is young, he has been in this game for much less that I have. I have a pedigree. I was born into this business, and I nearly died in this business.
I was out, in a coma for a week. I got up and I beat Steve Orbit and Papa Wade in a triple threat match. I got my redemption from One and took out Wade with God’s Paradox. It wasn’t a roll up victory. I didn’t steal anything, I took Orbit out of the equation and I got my nemesis one on one and took him out.
And where is Wade now? Where is your fearless leader now? Joey Flash took credit for him not returning, but the fact is that he couldn’t bear taking a defeat from me, a guy that he considered a jobber. A fighter that he beat at One, cementing his legacy as World Champion. But I’m not an easy man to keep down.
I’m a fighter, Kyle. And I’m coming for you at Slam. I’m going to be coming at you with the fiery vengeance of a thousand suns. Don’t you dare think for a second that I’m not going to come at you with everything I have! Because when I look at you I’m going to look into the eyes of Joey Flash, my opponent at Aftermath, and the man that I will ultimately take the World Title from.
This isn’t a warm up match for either of us. But this match will certainly help my momentum going into the main event at Aftermath. I’m hyped for this match, Kyle. I’m excited to face you in the ring. It won’t be the first time we’ve faced… after all I did take the Tag Titles from you, but it’s the first time that we get to step face to face in a singles match. Many of my victories have come with controversy, people didn’t think that I deserved to win, but this match won’t be like that.
After the smoke clears and the dust settles from this match it will be me standing tall atop the heap of humanity that used to be Kyle Kemp and there won’t be a doubt in anyone’s mind that I deserve to be the number one contender for the World Title, and there will be even less of a doubt that the world Title will be coming home with me after Aftermath.
Flight Attendant
Make sure your seat belt is on, we’re gonna be landing shortly.
She interrupted Grayson as he shut his laptop and packed it away.
Grayson
Thanks.
His mind went back to something more important as he put his seat in an upright position. He was escorted from the plane, and brought on the helicopter. It was a brief flight to Stony Brook hospital. It was a brief walk to the hospital room, but the whole thing felt like it took forever… and he saw her… his wife sitting up with a tray of food in front of her.
She seemed in surprisingly good spirits. She greeted him with a mouth full of orange Jello.
Kat
Hey babe.
Grayson slowly started in on her. She gleefully ate her Jello hardly realizing that he was in the room. The phone call he got from some woman claiming to be her new friend terrified him. He had paid out his asshole to get here from Philly in the amount of time that he did and here she was, naked from the waist down eating fucking gelatin with a plastic spoon, watching the Real Housewives of fucking wherever and totally no-selling a hospital visit.
Grayson
What happened, babe?
He said reluctantly.
Kat
Heartburn.
Grayson
So you’re at the hospital for heartburn?
Kat
Turns out.
He didn’t know how to broach the subject. He was almost certain that she had a miscarriage. He felt it inside of him. If it wasn’t that it couldn’t have been hearburn that brought her here. She hated the hospital. He remembered one time when she fainted out of nowhere and she refused to go to the doctor.
Grayson
Who was that who called me to tell me to come here so urgently?
Kat
The doctor.
Grayson
She said she was your friend.
Kat
Yea, we’ve become friendly.
Grayson stalled again. He wasn’t sure what the fuck was going on but he didn’t like it. She was acting differently. She was acting wrong.
He spoke to the doctor and they confirmed her situation. They said that she came in complaining of stomach problems, and she was concerned about her baby. The doctors confirmed that it was heartburn, indigestion or whatever they said. He looked in the room and watched as she had her eyes fixated on the television.
She hated TV.
*****
Meanwhile
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Gemini hovered in front of the TV smiling at Invidia who had done what he thought was impossible. He watched as the beautiful scales inhabited the disgusting human body of Kat Ruiz-Pierce. She needed to work on her humanity or she was going to be found out but she had assumed her form to perfection.
His mind flashed through the situation, at the bathroom at the Pierce household in Setauket NY where Kat screamed in agony from the bathroom. When the woman began to scream Invidia came over, in her human form to help.
Vanessa
What happened?
Kat
I think I lost the baby.
Vanessa
Let me see.
She walked over as though she could help. She put her hand on Kat’s stomach who looked distastefully at her new acquaintance.
Kat
What are you doing?
Vanessa
He’s dying inside of you.
Kat
What?!?
The shock of the words made her forget that there was no humanly possible way that she could know this.
Vanessa
I can help.
Kat
Anything.
Vanessa
Just say that you accept me as your salvation.
Kat
What!?!?
Vanessa
I can save your baby… just say that you accept that I can save you!
Kat
I don’t understand…
Panic filled the room and Gemini’s gluttony was momentarily satiated as the pain and suffering filled the entire space. He salivated watching Invidia manipulate this pitiful human into doing exactly what she wanted her to do and finally, it happened…
Vanessa
He’s DYING! Just say it!
Kat
I ACCEPT THAT YOU CAN SAVE ME!
Vanessa collapsed and the hauntingly beautiful form of Invidia expelled itself from the lifeless ebony form on the ground. And Just as quickly as it appeared it disappeared into Kat, and fit right in.
Invidia felt the life growing inside of her, knowing that it was going to change the world, and also knowing that it was perfectly fine. She had only put a Raspberry laxative in her tea. But the stomach issues needed immediate attention.
And that’s what led her here, Kat Ruiz-Pierce is gone… there is now only Invidia. And she felt at ease knowing that Gemini was watching over her, and she knew that it was only a matter of time before Gemini would become whole, and the two could truly be reunited once more.
******
Meanwhile
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Grayson watched his wife in disgust. He didn’t know what was happening, but he knew that something was wrong. She was off… she was different. She was… well, she wasn’t herself. He feared that Gemini was behind this. He feared that Gemini may have possessed her or something. He didn’t know why, but after his most recent encounter with the demon he felt unease about it. He knew he had to do something about it
AAAANNNNNNDDDDD…
You’re Fucked!
Grayson
Kyle Kemp. You’ve got me at the wrong fucking time, bro. When I found out about this match I was fucking pumped to face another hot young superstar with his entire career ahead of him. A dude that has made a name for himself and earned this shot rightfully so. You’ve improved by leaps and bounds in the past year and for you to find yourself in the position you’re in is truly earned and justified and I believe that.
But, fuck man, if you’re not in a shitty situation this week by steeping into the ring with me…
He stares around and the cheering fans at WCF House Show in Montreal, Canada. The Canadian fans are the most die-hard fans and they respect hard work, so much so that some of them even cheer for the name of Kyle Kemp who is generally disliked in the States. He looks around at the cheering fans with a look of disgust on his face, not at them, but at his current predicament. But they can’t tell the difference.
Grayson
That’s fucking right. That guy has walked into a pile of shit when he got booked against me. As it was I was going to put everything I had into the match, but now it’s so much worse for him, because when shit gets hairy at home, shit gets hairy for my opponents in the ring. And without getting into too much detail and boring you with semantics let’s just say that I’ve got some frustrations to take out, and Kyle Kemp is going to be the unlucky recipient of said devastation.
Sometimes in life you get thrown a curveball. Sometimes you knock it out of the park, and sometimes you swing and miss. But sometimes you hit it foul. And that’s what seems to have happened to me. It’s not the worst thing that could happen. I can recover, it’s not the end of my at bat, but I’m fucking pissed that these curveballs keep getting thrown my way.
Baseball analogy. Kyle Kemp. Get it?
Crowd
Laughs uncontrollably at the hilarious joke
(too much?)
Grayson
Just when things finally start going my way here in the WCF, I win the Tag Titles, I defend them, I get put in a number one’s contender match with two of the best in the WCF and I fucking WIN! Right now, I’m the fucking man and this World Title shot that I’ve earned is just that, it’s fucking earned. After 15 long months with this company I finally get the recognition that I deserve after being mistreated in the mid card scene for so long.
Cream really does rise to the top. And I know I sound conceded but I’m fucking pumped and I’m fucking confident… and I’m fucking PISSED because I can’t stop saying the word ‘Fucking’! I sound like Joey fucking Flash.
Just as things start going my way here… I break the War elimination record, and I earn a headlining shot at One… then it happens. As you all know my son passed away form SIDs, like a shot through the heart I fight, and I compete, but I was in no shape to do so. I was a broken man, and just now I finally built myself up to where I am now.
Things were just getting better and now… shit hits the fan again. And now Shit’s going to hit Kyle Kemp. Because it’s time for me to get what’s coming to me. And if it’s not going to be given to me, I’m going to fucking take it. I’m going to step into the ring with Kyle Kemp and I’m going to destroy him. I’m going to make him wish he never joined BeachKrew and I’m going to make him rue the day when he dusted himself off after losing to Spencer Adams and trying to make himself better.
And before you say it, because they always do, let me beat you to it.
Yes, I lost to Wade Moor, but I fucked him up this week, so find something else to talk about.
Yes, I lost to Spencer Adams in a People’s Title Contenders match. And I’m fucking proud to have done so, and if we ever meet again I’ll make sure that it goes the other way that time.
Yes I’ve lost to Joey Flash like a dozen times, but this coming Aftermath is going to be the only time that matters. I’m over it, I’ve learned from it, it’s time for you to get over it too.
Oh yea, and that one last thing that always gets me…
Who’s going to come, Gemini or Grayson or who the fuck ever I am today?
Well listen close because I’m only going to say this once…I’m Grayson, Fucking Pierce. The Livewire. I’m high flying, electrifying, death defying and awe inspiring. I’ll make you laugh, make you cry, make you kiss your ass goodbye, and this weekend at Slam there’s going to be Thunder in Paradise when I hit you with some high voltage, because you’re going to be hit with by a Livewire, Bitch!
