Post by Gemini Battle on Aug 26, 2016 18:00:56 GMT -5
The Hour of Malcontent
Gemini Battle awoke to the bright sunlight shining through the small crack in the window shade of his penthouse apartment atop the spinning ‘G’ of Gemco Tower in Manhattan, New York.
Gemini: What in the blue hell…
Because apparently that’s a thing people these days are saying…
But his concern was justified. According to his lead meteorologist, Dr. Patel, the sun was not supposed to rise for another 2 days. He could hear the screams of hundreds of vampires turning to dust from the sun outside his windows in the streets and the worst part of this was the backlash that was going to follow.
He prepared himself for the inevitable phone call from whoever is in control of the Vampire’s Union at the moment having to explain himself on why his forecast was incorrect, but the fact of the matter was he hated those vile creatures and was happy to be rid of them. He would still have to feed Dr. Patel to them, but the good doctor was nothing if not replaceable.
So he turned on the coffee machine and sat in the living room of his apartment in his underwear, trying to act as human as possible. It wasn’t hard since he started his medication. He felt the other side of himself quelling up. He felt Gula beginning to take over. Grayson was weak, Gula was strong. He needed to keep Gula at bay in order to maintain this life and to achieve the prophecy.
It wasn’t as hard for Invidia to keep up appearances. He looked at her, completely forgiving him for allowing the Brotherhood to throw her out a window last week leading up to Gemini finally discovering the whereabouts of two of the others. That teamwork and camaraderie was what helped them defeat the seemingly unstoppable team of Zero Tolerance.
But there would be no time for teamwork this week as he stepped into the ring with Thomas Bates and Brent Alpine and as the timer went off for his pot of coffee he poured a cup and added milk and sugar while he thought about what he had to do to prepare for this upcoming adventure.
He had fought side by side with Thomas Bates more times than he could count, and if he were to say that his success at War had nothing to do with Bates he would be lying. Thomas Bates took out BioWalker and allowed Gemini to pick up the double pin. And then Gemini did nothing as Thomas Bates got pinned…
But Bates has said nothing of this. He’s so engrossed in his own shortcomings that he’s incapable of seeing Gemini’s. Fortunately for Gemini it’s all that he sees in himself. He sees everything that can make him vulnerable and everything that can make him lose, but then he tries to fix them, and turn those weaknesses into strengths like a shitty interviewer.
On the other side he’s got the controversial and conspiracy ridden Brent Alpine who might be the most dangerous men he’s ever stepped into the ring with. This is a man who doesn’t fully understand the scope of things and instead of accepting the fact that the world is a dangerous place he decides to believe that it is just portrayed as a dangerous place.
This puts him in the unique position of being able to confront enemies in a manner that is unbecoming to most. He seems brave to those not in the know, but to Gemini he sees the ignorance in his soul. He sees that Alpine is simply trying to figure out why things are the way they are and does not fully comprehend the fact that they are the way they are for the very reasons that he fears. Assumed ignorance is just as bad as actual ignorance.
He took his medicine and sat down as Invidia entered with their beautiful 7 foot tall bearded beauty of a son Teddy.
Invidia: You’re gonna want to sit down for this one…
He was sitting down already as Invidia brought their Battlepad… the Gemco version of an iPad of course, and sat on his lap, being sure to land directly atop the nocturnal penile tumescence that plagued him each morning and I he didn’t know any better she was feeling more envy than normal with Lucedia in the room down the hall.
Teddy walked over and sat behind the Battle-Boy reclining chair and put his hands atop the top pillow and leaned it back almost taking his two parents to the ground with him. He was still young in spirit and didn’t know his own strength.
Invidia turned on the Battlepad and switched to the disgusting, vile and wretched face of Thomas Bates standing at Great Kills Park spouting some nonsense…
Teddy: I’m not dead…
He says as Bates begins talking about the death of Teddy Pierce those months ago…
Gemini: This mother fucker just can’t let it go… I’m gonna fucking take care of this…
Invidia: Don’t do anything rash…
Gemini: Do I ever? Teddy…
Gemini begins to write something down on a Post Card and hands it to Teddy.
Gemini: Go to this place and get this thing. Then bring it back here. Then contact our lead mechanic… Dr. Patel… and tell him to give it the special treatment.
Teddy: Got it dad.
Gemini: Invidia, do me a favor and prepare the white room… two can play at this game. He comes so close to MY home and thinks he can speak like that. He’s got another fucking thing coming…
Invidia: Gawd, not the white room…
Yes... the white room!
Gemini: You think you know hell, Bates?
Gemini raged towards the standing camera in the white room of the Battle Station. His eyes were filled with fury and rage, his heart beat to the rhythm of a fucking marching band as he tried his best to keep in within his chest. He paced a hole into the ground and his words flew from his mouth before his brain could fully form them.
Gemini: I was stepping into the ring with a monster and before I could I had to run upstairs and find a dead infant in his crib and a wife on the verge of suicide. I did what I had to do to save the lives of those involved. Teddy was gone, but I was still here. I was watching the whole time. I savored in those moments but now that I’m in this wretched body I feel those moments oh so much more than you could ever, Bates.
So you pretend that you give a shit, you pretend that this bothers you half as much as it bothers me and how I wish that was true. If I could purge myself from these horrid emotions I would in a heartbeat. It makes me weak, it makes me vulnerable. And at times it even makes me powerless.
In this world, in this place we call Earth the only thing certain in uncertainty. I wake up every morning with the best of intentions to know and predict what my day will be like but then I wake up and have to fucking see that goddamned monstrosity that you posted on the interweb. I’m not much for responding to what people have to say because the fact of the matter is I don’t fucking give a shit most of the time, but you crossed the line, buddy. You have stepped over that already fragile and broken line that I created for us.
I’ve let you live this long, Thomas Bates. The only reason that your legs are still intact is because I say they can be. The only reason that it’s not your head resting on the pillars of my throne behind me is because I say it shouldn’t be. I like watching you suffer, Bates. I love the agony that you’re putting yourself through. It’s weakness, and it’s shallow. It’s horrible and you deserve every fucking second of remorse.
But for you to think that you dwell in the same hell that I do is not only ludicrous it’s fucking ignorant. And I’ve called you a lot of terrible things in our day, Bates. As a friend and as an enemy the one thing I always had for you was respect. But never until now did I think you were ignorant and ignorance removes respect.
Watching you grovel as you lie like all politicians do and claim that you did your best to reach out…
Gemini reaches into his pocket and retrieves a cell phone. He dials a number and brings it to his ear…
Gemini: Hello…
He hangs up immediately. and begins again in a sarcastic tone.
Gemini: Nothing… Bates… I wanted to apologize for the way I’ve acted. Maybe I’m just acting out because I’m grieving. Maybe I don’t mean the horrible things that I’m saying. I’m deflecting my aggression on you and that’s why our friendship is broken… but maybe it can be fixed. If only you picked up your phone…
He puts his phone back in his pocket and brushes is matted green hair out of his face revealing the scars that makes children scream at the sight of him and reminds Bates of the times that used to be.
Gemini: You have the fucking audacity to fucking blame ME for you being a fucking bitch of a friend. You have the gall and the nerves to try to swing this around on me to try and quell that deep ceded guilt that you have in you... what kind of coward did I used to team with?
Gemini paces the room, in and out of frame of the camera. Every time he passes the camera is fists get clenched tighter and the whites of his knuckles begin to blend in with the white floor and white walls while the crimson read throne of bones stands out like a sore thumb in the background.
Gemini: I’ve always given you the benefit of the doubt. Kat told me to reach out to you and I said that you would reach out. If this was 6 months ago all of those things would be true. All of those horrible and empathetic thoughts I faked would have been true sorrow and remorse for my actions. 6 months ago you wouldn’t have had to beg for my forgiveness because I would have simply given it to you.
But it’s not all about Teddy, don’t you see that. This is about so much more than that. My son passed away, and it took me a long time to get over it, but you know what. I’m a fucking human being, albeit only halfway, and we fucking persevere, man. We fucking fight through adversity and we don’t cry and whine like little bitches.
I don’t want to talk about a dead baby anymore, man. I want to go past it but you keep bringing it up. Do you think that it will give you a mental edge over me to bring up callous memories of my past? Do you think that that loss of my child has made me weaker, because the only reason I can think of why you would keep bringing it up is because you think that it makes you look stronger.
Or maybe, just maybe you are as heart stricken as you claim you are about it. And if that’s the case… THEN WHY DIDN’T YOU FUCKING DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT 6 MONTHS AGO WHEN IT FUCKING MATTERED!
Too little too late is a fucking thing, Batesy boy. Your apologies are too little and it’s too late for us. We are done and this week at Revenge, it’s not about Revenge, it’s about taking your head out of your ass and showing that that the world don’t spin around your own ass. When I’m done with you you’ll finally understand how the world works.
He knocks over the camera and walks off. You hear a door close and the lights shut off.
A Little Surprise
Gemini leaves the white room and heads down the hallway as Invidia stands out there waiting for him already wearing torn denim jeans and a baseball NY Yankees Jersey of the most Evil Yankee of all time… Alex Rodriguez.
Invidia: I went to see Lucedia and Alex Richards…
Gemini: Alex Richards?
Invidia: Sloth… you know… Acedia.
Gemini: Oh, God… you’re calling him Alex Richards… he’s not even in the fed anymore. That’s harsh, babe. I dig it, but it’s harsh.
Invidia: Yea, you know me.
Gemini smiles at his blushing bride knowing that having a supermodel in Lucedia with a sex drive that can’t be beat is really feeding her a lot. It was weakening her and forcing her to do and say things that she normally wouldn’t.
This was a strategic move by Gemini to bring the Brotherhood to the Caverns of Gronkulus and find Lucedia and Acedia last week, knowing that she would be pissed that he went off and this would keep her in check. As strong as he was there was no Capuan stronger than Invidia and he had to do what he had to do to keep her in check as she refused to take the medication, nor did she have to.
Invidia: Well I went to go see them and gave them their doses. Lucedia has clothes on now at least and Acedia has already lost some weight… and they gave me their names that they prefer… you know... their human names. Heidi and Hans.
Gemini: Awesome.
He said as he headed down towards the shop where he was hoping Teddy would have completed the task at hand. He swings open the doors and sees Dr. Patel and Teddy standing in front of the majestic machine.
A technical masterpiece, the Harley Davidson XLH Sportster 1200 was just as beautiful as he hoped complete with a comfortable stepped seat for a passenger riding pinion and a luxurious blue and diamond ice finish. Brought to an ethereal sheen the bike delights the eye; from its powder coated engine and bullet-style turn signals to its chrome staggered exhaust glistening in the fluorescent light distorting all that reflects both reminding you of its beauty and it’s danger as well as the triviality of it all.
The outstretched front tire seems eager for the ride and in all honesty Gemini too craved to park his feet on the controls, grasp the buckhorn handlebars and be off somewhere… ANYWHERE really as he did when he was a member of the famed DRG just 9 months earlier, with the wind rushing through his greasy green hair, and his bitch on the back and that engine barking like fucking man’s best friend.
Gemini runs his fingers down the seats and around the engine, admiring the beauty and complexity of the machine. He lifts a leg over the seat and a warm chill runs through his body and he sighs with the sensation.
A sinister smile crosses his crimson lips as Invidia stands looking dreamily at her husband and lover when Gemini pulls a switchblade out and tears open the seat. He steps off and runs the blade in what seems like a manic manner all throughout the formerly perfectly pristine vehicle.
The Mechanic, Dr. Patel, cringed watching the beautiful masterpiece be defiled in such a way as Gemini would have done if watching a Dali painting mistreated in this manner. He knew that Thomas Bates would feel the same way as he finished his crude drawing and stepped back.
Invidia stepped forward shocked at the cacophony she had just experienced and looked closely at the bike.
Invidia: You wrote on it.
Gemini: A note for Bates.
She read it aloud.
Invidia: Dear Bates, here is a gift from me to you. I know how much you love working on bikes and thought you would have a good time getting the sheen back on this bad boy. This time it’s a new bike, but next time you cross my path it will be your bike, and then if there’s a third strike it will be you!
Gemini: Send that to Thomas Bates… and give him this…
Back to Business
After Teddy went off on the bike to the hotel where he heard Bates was staying he headed back to his office with Invidia in tow. She seemed to be racing to keep up with him and he was actually starting to feel bad for her. She was feeding off her own envy and it was weakening her more than strengthening her.
Gemini: Lucedia has nothing on you.
He said without thinking and she stopped breathing heavy and now it was he who had a hard time keeping up with her.
Invidia: They want to see you.
Gemini: Not now, I have matters to attend to. There’s a pissed off Vampire in my office that I need to slay.
Invidia: Should I call Buffy?
Gemini: Idiot, she was killed years ago, Gretchen is the current slayer and no, I got this one.
They walked through the hall of Champions where Gemini kept his achievements in this and past feds. He walked past his TV, International, Tag Team, and Universal Title belt replicas from the same place that he met Zero Tolerance as well as the plaque he had commissioned naming him the fastest and only ever Simultaneous Triple Crown Champion in that fed but the only thing he truly cherished was the pissed off face of the former champ that he defeated in his coronation ceremony and her husband clenching his fist in the background of the picture.
Then the real shit came in. He stepped by the Trio’s Title, the US Title, and Tag Team titles and ultimately the World Title that he currently held. These titles, the Trios that he won as the first ever Trio’s Championship team… the US Title where he coined the phrase #GreatestUSChampEver (#toolongofahashtag) and catapulted his career to where it is now, as well as the tag team titles that he has never lost, only had stripped of him… these titles, all of them, he held in such higher esteem than any other wrestling accomplishments and it gave him a sense of pride and confidence to walk down this otherwise innocuous hallway.
And he needed that confidence as he stepped into his office, telling Invidia to stay back, knowing that he was going to have to lay waste to another one. His plan was simple; he was simply going to remove the UV blocker from the windows and watched as he burned. HE had done it dozens of times before, but when he stared at the withered old face of this demon standing in front of him something told him it wouldn’t be so easy.
Gemini: And you are?
He said impatiently.
Grover: My name is Grover Quinn.
Gemini giggled, can’t helping but to think of Sesame Street.
Gemini: Let me guess why you are here.
Grover: We both know why I’m here, and I don’t have time for trivialities, Mr. Battle.
This vampire was much better spoken than the others he had dealt with, and much older. The older a vampire gets the stronger they get and as Gemini removed the UV blocker from his windows to no effect his fears of the moment were realized. This Vampire was immune to sunlight.
Gemini: Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit….
He repeated it knowing that he made a folly. He couldn’t let this Vampire leave but the old tale of ‘He must have gone out in the sun’ wasn’t going to work this time and he would be called to task. He walked over to the weapon cabinet repeating his mantra of ‘shit’ over and over again aloud as the Vampire spoke.
Grover: Sunlight cannot kill me, Mr. Battle…
No shit.
Grover: You have conspired against me and my kind. Only the Uber ones survived the holocaust that you set upon us by unleashing the sun before you promised it would be raised…
Gemini: Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit…
He repeated as he grabbed a wooden stake from his cabinet and walked over to the vampire.
Grover: I have not come here for a fight, Mr. Battle and I fear that you may be barking up the wrong tree with that weapon.
Gemini struck down with a venomous growl unleashing the strength of a Capuan with the strike and the stake did nothing but break on the demon’s ribcage. Gemini’s mantra changed as he walked back to the weapons cabinet.
Gemini: Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
Grover: Wooden stakes are of no use either, Mr. Battle, and if I came here for a fight I would have killed you already. No, I have come here to…
Like lightning he rushed over and grabbed Gemini by the throat as Gemini struggled for breath and reached his hand in his cabinet.
Grover: Mr. Battle, you have conspired against my kind but it has worked out for the two of us equally. You see there were an abundance of Vampires as many of them decided to turn the humans rather than simply destroy them leading to overpopulation of our kind. When you released the sun you destroyed nearly all of the unworthy ones, and my Uber Ones destroyed the rest. I have not come here to kill you…
He said as he released his grip on Gemini’s throat…
Grover: I have come here to start a truce…
Gemini: We already have a truce…
Gemini spat at his assailant.
Grover: Not with the Uber ones, I’m afraid, and as you can see we can be a bit more trouble for you than the weak ones. I suggest that you agree to this or there may be grave consequences… a war you cannot win may be waged.
Gemini: have you met Bailey?
Gemini asked with a smile.
Grover: I’m afraid I have not.
And with one precise swing Gemini took the diamond bladed broadsword and swung it stripping the Vampire’s head clear from his shoulders, and landing at his feet. The body slumped then fell down in front of him and Gemini looked at the non-dusted remains of his adversary.
Gemini: Well, that’s a first.
There were so few things he had not seen and this was one of them. To see the remains of a Vampire, the black blood that flowed from its shoulders so much slower than a humans as its heart beat so much slower and then stopped completely. Invidia walked in and looked stunned at the sight she had never seen before.
Invidia: Well, that’s a first.
She repeated as Gemini laughed tossing the head from one hand to another. He handed the sword to Invidia for cleaning and then paged his cleanup crew. A short, chubby man wearing a luchador mask seemingly stolen from Teo del Sol showed up.
Gemini: Uncle Egg, please dispose of and clean up this body and send this head back to the Vampire’s lair and tell them that we can indeed talk about that truce, but it will be under my terms. You can Fed Ex it, COD.
It’s Real to Me, Dammit!
The portly man nodded and took care of business as Gemini headed back up to the penthouse where the chosen ones waited their instructions. Gemini walked slowly thinking about what the Vampire had said about how he conspired against him.
He was right. Gemini had conspired against them, and certainly would conspire again in the future. And then it made him wonder; how many other conspiracy theories were true. Gemini knew the answers to most of them.
- The JFK AssassinationReally happened, planned by the Illuminati. So Alpine might be right about that one
- 9/11 Cover-UpLegit, bullshit terrorist attack that could have been stopped if just fucking somebody stood up instead of accepting death
- Area 51 and the AliensAliens are real… he’s one after all.
- Paul Is DeadNot true. Unfortunately.
- Secret Societies Control the WorldTrue.
- The Moon Landings Were FakedNot True. But aliens helped them do it so it’s a little off. I mean honestly, the most advanced computer was about as advanced as a Scientific America Calculator. Our phones could beat the shit out of a computer from the 60s.
- Jesus and Mary MagdaleneFucked daily and nightly and ever so rightly
- Holocaust Didn't HappenDid happen and perpetrated by a crazy relative of the Artist Formerly Known as the Baron… or not really a relative but just a friend of a friend
- The CIA and AIDSA Man fucked a monkey and got AIDS… short and sweet… and sexy. That was a hot monkey!
- The Reptilian EliteThey are out there, and Osama bin Laden was the head of them. And another little known fact, the President’s Vampire eliminated him shortly after 9/11 but it was covered up to build up suspense for when they could send Seal Team 6 in to ‘finish the job.’
Then he thought of Brent Alpine’s most current conspiracy. Bates and Gemini were trying to get Alpine out of the World Title match. This was perhaps the most ridiculous conspiracy of them all. The fact of the matter was that Gemini didn’t even want Bates in the match. He had done nothing to earn it other than come in second at Ultimate Showdown 2 years in a row. He lost the opportunity he earned from there and will lose this opportunity.
Brent Alpine on the other hand certainly deserved it. He had been in the WCF for some time and has never gotten the chance to hold this gold. He earned this through years of being in the fed, and even though he came and went he was always revered as a passionate and esteemed member of the roster.
That’s why it felt so hard for Gemini to have to rough him up so much. 3 weeks ago when it was determined that he would be named the number one contender Gemini had intended on going out and explaining how he was going to defeat him, blah, blah, blah, then Bates came out and asserted his will into the situation. So Gemini laid waste to both of them.
And as pleased as he was to lay waste to Bates he felt a little bad about alpine knowing that he would spin this around into some wild theory about people being out to get him. And without disappointment he did. It’s unfortunate because he was starting to become this crazy talented and skilled fighter with not only what it takes to win but the confidence to bring it.
And then his manager turned his back on him, and slowly but surely his confidence from there dwindled. It was this terrible and horrible experience for him and Gemini watched as this once powerful adversary turned into a pitiful nothing, and this week at Revenge it would almost certainly be him who gets pinned.
And not because he doesn’t want to get in there and scrap with the big boys. He’s not going to sit back and watch as Gemini and Bates fight each other; he’s going to simply going to go in there over confident in his lack of confidence.
What that means is that he doesn’t understand that he’s not confident. A man who comes up with theory on top of theory on why bad shit is happening rather than taking it on himself and trying to fix it is a man who lacks confidence. But it is also a man who is over confident. And in this irony is found a man willing to fight even the strongest fire breathing dragon but thinking that it’s nothing but a kitten.
Well, one thing is for certain, Gemini was no kitten, and Bates no cat. These two men he was stepping into the ring with at Revenge are two of the strongest and most vile men in WCF history. These are men who should be feared and most of all punish anyone who gets in their way towards victory.
Invidia showed back up through an adjacent hallway, back up to full strength and back to her old self. He was actually joyed to see her come out of the funk as he headed to Heidi and Hans’ room.
Invidia: The way you handled yourself with the motorcycle and with the vampire. I’m proud of you, and I’m gonna give you a little bit of a surprise later.
She said seductively and out of character. And Gemini’s qualms were realized when he opened the door to the room and saw a beautiful naked woman riding atop the blob of fat and sweat that was Hans. Their medicine had worn off and Lust was taking over which was why Invidia said those things.
Invidia pressed a button and a mist of the formula to quell the Capuan within them all filled the room and all four of them slumped down. Heidi immediately felt humility and reached for clothes and Hans seemed to lose about 200 lbs as he was able to sit up in the seat, but still lacked humility which was of no concern as his fat rolls covered his junk. Invidia simply had a look of disdain on her face as she stared at the amatory exposed form of Heidi.
But Gemini felt different…
Gemini felt the human side of him boil up from within…
Gemini: I’ll be right back.
He lied.
TBC…
