Post by Teo Blaze on Jul 31, 2016 16:07:40 GMT -5
“If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s going to break…”
What is the meaning of life?
A question that has been asked, re-asked, contemplated, dissected and reassembled time and again.
There is no real answer.
No magic key to turn.
No secret.
Life is a collection of moments.
A collection of instances that you can’t get back,
No matter how hard you may want.
Because once you take that step.
Once you make that mistake.
The one you never thought you would make.
Once you cross that line…
There is no going back.
I don’t know why I did it.
I don’t know what possessed me to pick up that belt.
But I know one thing is for sure.
I am not the People’s Champion anymore.
How could I be?
A title reign like that.
Eight months carrying the hopes.
The dreams of every person.
Every Thought and every High.
Every low.
It adds up.
It weighs down.
When I looked into his eyes, I saw the hunger.
When he kicked out, I knew that he wouldn’t let it end.
That there was no way he would let me walk into showdown.
He was too determined.
Too driven.
Now..?
I’m standing outside the medical office.
They fear the worst.
They think a broken jaw.
I…
I thought you were invulnerable Spencer.
I thought it was the only way.
Were you as scared as me?
Did you see the same fire in my eyes..?
The same determination?
Or did you only see a friend?
The funny thing is, I will probably never know.
If you even get to speak again…
It probably won’t be to me.
I’m sorry it had to end this way, old friend.
A yearlong friendship snapped in an instant of fury.
From one poor choice.
From one bad move.
But if this is the path that I am on…
If there truly is no redemption for me.
Then I accept it.
If the people want to boo me.
To be angry at me.
To turn against me after everything.
Then so be it.
On one level, I don’t blame them.
On another, I have to ask…
What did they expect?
Spencer Adams is a hero, unbeatable.
Me? I’m just a guy in a mask.
And now, I don’t even have that.
Forgive me antidote, I knew not what I did.
But I’m not going to run from it.
I betrayed you, and I will carry that with me until I die.
But there is no way to undo that past.
Once you take that leap…
You have to keep on.
Keep pressing forward.
Or you’ll crash and burn.
Today is the last day of my People’s Title reign.
But it is the start of something new.
Forgive me antidote.
…Cause I don’t know if I’ll ever forgive myself.
The scene fades in from blackness to reveal the inside of Seth Lerch’s office, where the blood stained People’s Championship has been left on his desk, to be decided at showdown once and for all.
“When the levee breaks, we’ll have no place to stay…”
