CRADLE TO THE GRAVE
Click.
Static covers the screen as a Play ► symbol appears in the bottom right-hand corner.
The tron flickers.
Fog fills an eerie Mortuary cemetery, drifting across in front of us. Gravedigger sits on the floor, his back against a headstone. Tombstone looms over him, with Blaze, Mark Hayes and Malaka Midnight flanking him from the sides.
“For years I’ve been cursed with ferrying humanity to their final destination,” Tombstone says sternly, through gritted teeth. “Never have I enjoyed it.”
A wry smile pierces the screen.
“Until now,” he says with said smile. “You people disgust me. You disgust all of us.”
The fans watching inside the arena boo.
“Everyone wants to know what Six Feet Under stands for,” Malakai continues. “Well, my little owls, it stands for the end of humanity in Old School Wrestling as you know it. Brother Blaze, talk to them.”
The camera focuses on Blaze, who lowers his head.
“Enablers and deceivers, you people are frauds. But why Blaze? Why did you turn on your family?” He says with a scoff. “They weren’t my family. James killed my family and The Pool Boys are enabling his every move in defence of the indefensible.”
He turns and walks away, leaving the camera to focus on Tombstone once again.
“Six Feet Under is here to put you people in the ground and tonight, Gravedigger starts with Felix Foley.”
The camera pans down to the seated Gravedigger.
“As you wish it, Tombstone,” he mutters softly. “Any grave but my own.”
The camera pans out, fading back to ringside from the tron whereby Johnny Gomez and Nick Diamond look as if they’ve seen a ghost.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Uh.. welcome to uh.. NXT Level.
NICK DIAMOND: Those guys give me the creeps.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Tombstone has become a monster, folks. With Malakai Midnight, Blaze, Mark Hayes and Gravedigger by his side, he may just be unstoppable.
NICK DIAMOND: I can’t believe Blaze has been lost to this. James is his own son, damnit.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Well folks, we can’t dwell on that disturbing footage because I understand we’re heading to the Uprising… this should be interesting.
FIND THE RAT
In an unknown location, the Uprising sit around a large table, surprisingly organised. Every member except Victor Doom is there. Narcissa sits at the top of the table, her OSW World Championship before her.
“I’ve offered an arrangement to John The Revelator that I believe he’ll gratefully accept,” she says with confidence. “But that means nothing if one amongst us is a rat.”
Everyone in the room looks at one another. Harvey Escher, Haywire, Aster Gray, Dahlia Black, Nox, CJ Thorpe, Roderick Pym and Jasper Redgrave.
“Now, you know what I think of failure, don’t you?” She says, reaching down beside her and pulling out the baseball bat she killed Lucky Landucci with. It’s stained in his blood. “CJ, Jasper, I know you’re not the rat...”
Narcissa gets to her feet and starts pacing the room, walking carefully behind every member of her group.
“And you Dahlia, your alliance or love affair with Doom is perturbing to say the least,” she continues.
“I’m sorry boss,” Dahlia says with a gulp. “But it’s not me.”
JOHNNY GOMEZ: How does she run things any differently than the man she claims to despise?
NICK DIAMOND: Careful, Johnny.
Narcissa stops behind her.
“I’m not sure I can take that risk…”
WHAM!
WHAM!
WHAM!
Three powerful blows crush into skull…
The skull of RODERICK PYM!
JOHNNY GOMEZ: SHE'S SICK IN THE HEAD!
NICK DIAMOND: Yeah, but who liked Pym anyway?
Narcissa hits him so hard that he splats on the table and continues viciously to slam the bat into his head as it becomes mush. With blood everywhere, she steps away and catches her breath.
“Let that be a warning to all of you,” she hisses. “If he isn’t the rat and one of you are… you’re next.”
Narcissa tosses the bat down on the table and walks away, leaving CJ Thorpe looking worried and Jasper Redgrave smiling with glee.
Cut.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Jay Fury takes on Raven! Can the Wastelander take down Vengeance itself?
The bell rings and Fury is immediately on Raven! He connects with a running headbutt to the jaw right out of the corner and follows up with a powerful butterfly suplex! Raven is quick to his feet but Fury downs him with a clothesline! Raven once again leaps up!
JOHNNY GOMEZ: SANDSTORM STRIKE BY FURY!
NICK DIAMOND: A WHIRLWIND OF FOREARMS TO RAVEN'S CHEST!
Raven is in dire straights as he drops to a knee and gets caught with a brutal kick to the face! Jay whips him across the ring!
NICK DIAMOND: FINAL APPROACH!
JOHNNY GOMEZ: SPEAR! SPEAR! RAVEN SWINGS THE MOMENTUM BACK HIS WAY!
Jay hits the mat in a heap and just as he tries to roll through Raven collides into him with a vicious rising knee! Jay refuses to stay down but as he stands he gets barraged with punches, kicks, and elbows by a furious Raven! The Death Walker grabs Jay by the head and slams him into the turnbuckle!
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Punch to the throat by Jay!
NICK DIAMOND: He's playing dirty, Johnny!
Raven backs out of the corner gasping for breath and a leaping front dropkick knocks him to the center of the ring! Vengeance is looking in dire straits as Jay rushes him down!
JOHNNY GOMEZ: RAVEN DUCKS A CLOTHESLINE AND GRABS JAY FROM BEHIND! INVERTED DDT!
NICK DIAMOND: THE LAST ROSE! THIS ONE IS OVER!
Raven covers!
ONE!
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TWO!
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THREE!
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Jay Fury had some impressive offense, but Raven withstood the storm with an impressive victory here tonight!
DON'T DO IT
Felix Foley stands in the middle of a cozy living room, his mother, Mrs. Foley, seated across from him at an old wooden table. Her expression is one of concern, deepened by the lines of worry etching her face.
"You haven't been home in the last week," she says, her voice thick with anxiety. "Even the nice Mr. Doom—"
"Doctor," Felix corrects with a slight giggle.
"Doctor, then," she concedes, trying to smile back at him. "He wasn’t sure where you were either."
Felix’s expression grows more serious.
"I've been at Illumination Antiques," he confesses, looking down at his fidgeting hands. "I tried to find Dad's diary. I looked everywhere, but all I found were broken promises, and... and just ashes of a family I’ll never really know."
His voice trails off.
"All I see now is Tombstone," Felix continues, his voice gaining a bit of steel. "I won’t rest until the Ferryman pays for what he did to my family."
Mrs. Foley’s face falls even further, her hands reaching out across the table, pushing something across the table towards him.
A pair of scissors.
"I was afraid you’d say that," she murmurs. "I lost your father to that monster, Felix. I can’t lose you too. Take these."
Felix looks at the scissors, something flickering in his eyes.
NICK DIAMOND: We’re all in trouble if this means what I think it means.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: I thought the Odyssey Pool took care of it?
The moment passes, and he gently pushes them back.
"One shouldn’t play with scissors," he says softly, almost to himself. Standing, he adds with a newfound determination, "I’ll handle Tombstone myself. First I have to bury his Gravedigger, since Tombstone’s found some new friends to play with."
He opens the door, stepping into the darkness outside.
"Don't do it," Mrs. Foley whispers into the empty room, her voice cracking with emotion.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Poor Mrs. Foley.
The door clicks shut.
Cut.
FIGURE IT THE FUCK OUT
We come back from a short break to see Harold Attano and Jackson Cade stood in the middle of the ring.
Their match is up next.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Harold has a microphone.
NICK DIAMOND: I’m sure he has a lot of questions.
“Last week, Jasper Redgrave and CJ Thorpe announced that Redgrave didn’t murder my daughter,” he says sternly to boos from the crowd. Jackson nods at him. “But you claim he did.”
Cade quickly retrieves a microphone.
“I went back through the files just last night and every bit of evidence we have points to the fact that Jasper Redgrave murdered her, Harold!” He confirms.
“But what mileage is there in claiming he didn’t?” Attano demands to know. “Think about it, Cade. Jasper is proud of every body he put in the ground. Why lie about her?”
Jackson shrugs.
“I wish I knew,” he says with frustration.
Harold closes in, getting in his face.
“It isn’t fuckin’ good enough, son,” he growls angrily. The temperature rises.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: These guys are due to team any minute now, but this could explode.
NICK DIAMOND: Attano isn’t happy and he has every right not to be.
“You need to figure it the fuck out!” He yells in his face. “Who the fuck killed my daughter? Who!?”
Cade tries to calm him down, easing back with his hands raised.
“I’ll find out, I swear it – next week, I’ll meet you right here with everything I know.”
“You better,” Attano demands. “Or else!”
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Stay tuned folks cause up next is Midnight & Troy versus Cade and Attano. Can they get along?
NICK DIAMOND: We’ll see!
NICK DIAMOND: We have a corker of a tag team contest here tonight. Somewhat allies fighting against the leader of Zion and the newest disciple of Tombstone. Will the established team win or can Troy and Malakai pull out the upset?
The bell sounds with Midnight and Cade as Cade rushes forward, nailing Midnight with a huge Breach and Clear Slingblade before mounting the surprised Midnight and pummeling him with heavy lefts and rights. Midnight escapes with a sly thumb to the eye before striking a blinded Cade.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: DEVIL'S ADVOCATE! Midnight hits that trademark spinning forearm, almost an uppercut version this time as Jackson Cade is rocked here.
Midnight tries to grab Cade for the Midnight Plex but Cade elbows his way out, rushing to the ropes right into a blind tag from Attano. Cade looks annoyed for a moment but just shrugs as Midnight rushes forward at an entering Attano who ducks underneath his clothesline.
NICK DIAMOND: VENOM! Brutal Scorpion Kick clocks Midnight run on the button.
It's Midnight's time to stagger back into his corner as Troy tags himself in, rushing in as he breaths in an invisible force, but Attano easily ducks underneath the Clotheslionel From Hell.
VENOM! Troy gets a Scorpion Kick of his own but Attano isn't done as he nails a Headshot flavored Superkick knocking Troy for a loop.
Nobody begins stalking Troy for that One Shot but Troy was ready as he drop toe holds Attano who staggers forward right into Cade but stops himself just time. Troy tries to sneak up behind Attano but he throws him into Cade, stunning Troy who turns around
JOHNNY GOMEZ: ONE SHOT ONE KILL! The Cutter hits out of nowhere as Attano drops down, Demi Sky starting to count the fall
ONE
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TWO
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THREE!!!!
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Attano and Cade picking up the victory here tonight but Jackson doesn't look happy at Attano throwing Troy at him Nick.
NICK DIAMOND: You've gotta win anyway you can and with these two fighting two of the very best in a few weeks, they better get on the same side and fast.
SWIMMING
The Observatory
The Odyssey Pool stands before us. Its waters have cleared, awaiting the emergence of Destructo Boy.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Last we saw, Destructo Boy was sinking beneath these waters. He knew what he must do and willingly stepped into the pool.
NICK DIAMOND: But we have no idea what will happen to him the second time he goes into the pool Johnny. People change in those waters, mostly for the worse.
Smoke billows as the waters drain. From within the pool, a doorway opens. Stepping through the smoke, the outline of Destructo Boy’s shape emerged. Kingdom Blade in hand, he steps into the light.
Gone is the blackened attire of the persona he had become. A mind twisted and warped by the waters of the pool. Gone is the dark mask that hid so much vengeance behind it. In its place, a bright mask, filled with hope anew.
NICK DIAMOND: Wow! The transformation we see through the Odyssey Pool is staggering. Destructo Boy stands before us in all his glory.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: We had grown so accustomed to seeing him as the dark figure of vengeance that we almost forgot who he was before. Faith… The hero, he’s back!
The Kingdom Blade shines as brightly as it did the day he first claimed it. The day he first took his hero’s vow. Destructo Boy stands once more, heroically puffing his chest out and breathing in his surroundings.
“Yes…” He states, his voice now more bright than it had been in some time. “Everything that had been twisting my mind in knots is gone. I can be the hero I was supposed to be.”
But in that moment, there’s a pause. The smile fades. His eyes close.
“I cannot change the past, or undo what has been done.” His eyes open once more, and there is still hope burning behind them, resolve. Determination like never before. “I can only work my ass off in the present in the hopes of changing the future.”
He holds the Kingdom Blade above his head.
“Right now, the present is stopping my dad. He must see that this is not the way.”
JOHNNY GOMEZ: The Kid is back, but he’s up against so much anger and hatred in Blaze.
NICK DIAMOND: Ugh… I hate an underdog story. I liked him better when he was bitter and pissed off at everything.
Destructo Boy walks away from the Observatory, a spring in his step and determination in his stride. He knows where he must go, and what he must do.
Cut.
BE A HERO
Ringside.
The crowd are in a frenzy, booing for the dastardly duo of Doom and Dahlia Black.
The former has a microphone.
“Victor,” he says to a deafening chorus of boos. He stops for a moment and surveys the crowd. “This game of cat and mouse must end.”
He suddenly grabs Dahlia by the throat, his gloved hands powering up to control her easily. She struggles against his grasp, falling to her knees with a wince, gasping for air.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: This is crap! Don’t fall for this, Victor.
NICK DIAMOND: Surely he won’t. This is such a ploy.
“If you have any love left in that lifeless heart of yours, be a hero, Victor,” he beckons. “Because this one has outgrown her usefulness to me.”
'Vivaldi Storm' plays through Olympus as darkness fills the arena for a moment. It comes back on in a single spotlight on the towering behemoth on the stage.
“Cut that music,” Doom demands – his wish obliged immediately. “You’re soft, aren’t you boy?”
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Oh Zeus damnit. This isn’t good. Their dirty tactic is working. Don’t go down there, Victor.
Victor reveals a microphone.
“From the moment of my creation, no-one has shown me any semblance of love, until her…” he mutters angrily. His eyes welling up with tears. “She may have betrayed me. She may have been working with you, but without her love, I wouldn’t have survived.”
Dahlia smirks, tapping Doom on the wrist to let her go.
“Don’t harm her,” Victor pleads. “I’ll come with you.”
Snap!
JOHNNY GOMEZ: OH MY ZEUS! OH MY ZEUS!
NICK DIAMOND: WHAT THE HELL DID HE JUST DO!?
Abruptly and suddenly, Doom snaps her neck. She falls limply from his grasp, falling into the canvas with a thud. Victor roars with rage, his screams echoing throughout a now dead silent Olympus.
“Ring of Dreams,” the emotionless Doom says into his microphone, Dahlia’s prone and lifeless body on the canvas. “This ends.”
Victor runs down the ramp as fast as he can, sliding into the ring just as Doom activates his hover boots and flies out of there. He drops to the canvas, cradling Dahlia Black in his arms as the crowd look on in horror.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Tonight we have music vs mayhem as El Mariachi Muerte faces Jasper Redgrave!
NICK DIAMOND: We find out who will hit the right notes now!
DING! DING! They lock up and it looks like Redgrave has the advantage! He shoves Muerte into the corner!
He throws right hand after right hand until Muerte falls into a seated position! Redgrave backs into the opposite corner and charges! Muerte pops up and hits a beautiful dropkick to stop the artist!
Muerte goes to the top rope and he is waiting for Redgrave to get up! Redgrave pulls himself up! Muerte leaps and nails a flipping neckbreaker! What a maneuver as Muerte pulls Redgrave up to his feet! He spikes Redgrave with a DDT!
Muerte goes to the top rope and leaps! Moonsault, no! Redgrave gets the knees up and Muerte crashes hard!
Redgrave pulls Muerte up and he's going for the pedigree! No! Muerte counters with a back body drop! Bad landing for Redgrave as he gets spiked and Muerte pulls him up and damages the head even further with FADE TO BLACK!
NICK DIAMOND: He nails the package piledriver and he makes the cover!
ONE! . . . TWO! . . . THREE!
JOHNNY GOMEZ: What a win for Muerte! A victory over the most recent number one contender could get him back to the top!
PARADISE
"TROY! COME OUT HERE TROY!"
The sounds of rabid, unhinged shouting come from outside of the Church of Zion. Lionel Troy looks up from his pulpit, his sermon not even underway when the screaming erupts. He steps back, motioning to his congregation. "Go and lock the doors! His blasphemy has lead him to violence! Hurry!" Troy visibly sweats, clearly still reeling from last week.
"Reverend! Help!" A second voice pipes up, causing the Children of Zion to pause. Troy looks from the door to his followers, taking a deep breath as he approaches the door, motioning for two of his worshippers to flank him as he flings it open, the church letting out a collective gasp at what they see.
NICK DIAMOND: It's Colt!
JOHNNY GOMEZ: By Zeus, he has one of Lionel's followers hostage!
A knife held to the woman's throat, eyes crazed, practically foaming at the mouth, Colt stares Troy down with murderous intent. The Journo's eye twitches as he presses the blade into the follower's skin. "Cure. Give. Give me cure." Ramsey spits the words, the Liontamer clearly leaving a lasting mark on his psyche.
Lionel grits his teeth, pulling the cannister from his jacket and holding it towards Colt. "You want a cure, Colt? I want that blasphemous article! How dare you besmirch the name of Zion?"
"Shut up! I'll kill her. You wouldn't want your precious children to see how little you fucking care, do you?" The woman lets out a yelp, the knife drawing the slightest bit of blood from her skin.
NICK DIAMOND: Lionel's stuck between a rock and a hard place, Johnny.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Well I pray to Zeus that he makes the right choice.
There's a very long pause, reverend Troy clearly thinking intently before cracking that devious smirk of his. "Ring of Dreams. At Ring of Dreams you and I will have a Stairway to Paradise match. You put your findings above the ring, I put the cure. If you kill her I'll waste this whole can right now. Take the deal, blasphemer."
Colt looks at the can, then back to his hostage before throwing her towards the door of the church, pointing at Troy. "Ring of Dreams. At Ring of Dreams I'm gonna end you, and this whole bullshit religion." Without another word Colt absconds, running wildly away from the church, leaving Troy and his ilk to tend to Ramsey's former hostage.
Cut.
WHAT WAS STARTED
Rubble and ash. We've seen this place before. Blaze stands in the burnt out wreckage of his family dwelling. It is long since abandoned, with the site never having been cleared, cleaned, nor refurbished. Blaze paces the floor of what was once his home.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Blaze is back where it all began. The memories contained in the ash of this place must be flooding through him right now.
NICK DIAMOND: The arson case was never solved, so the scene was never cleared. The APD could never find evidence of what happened.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: The truth is buried deep within the memories of the only two survivors of that night. Blaze and Destructo Boy.
Blaze is muttering to himself, fumbling in the ash.
“Here is where she greeted me when I came home.” He moves a few paces. “And here, where I called out for the boy. I thought it was a little strange he never answered. He always was so happy when I arrived home. It's then that the memory always went black, when flames took us.”
Blaze stops, freezing. He pulls from the ashes a metal box.
“I remember…” He stands, holding the box. “The box of things we took away from the boy. Things we hid from him, up high on the mantle.”
Blaze opens the box, fumbling around inside for a few moments before pulling out a box of matches.
“He was so angry that day.” Blaze holds up the box of matches. “But I never thought he would…” His voice trails off.
NICK DIAMOND: Everything Blaze has uncovered in his search has helped build the missing pieces of his memory.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Is that the very same box of matches Maxwell had once confiscated off a young James? He kept it all these years without realising.
Blaze puts the matchbox in his pocket. A shuffling of feet behind him captures his attention. Blaze turns to see a figure standing in what used to be the doorway of his family dwelling.
“Dad.” Destructo Boy speaks, softly. “We need to talk.”
To Be Continued…
Nick Diamond: Roll up, roll up! Tonight, we have Arcadia’s Purveyor of Freaks and Oddities, Klaus Way taking on the Horseman of War Drewitt.
Demi Sky calls for the bell and Klaus bolts at War with a scintillating Knife-Edge Chop to the chest of Drewitt. Followed by an Overhand Chop taking the big man off guard with the bold opening barrage. The Ringmaster hits the ropes and, on the rebound...
*KA-FUCKING-RAK!*
DREWITT SMASHES KLAUS ACROSS THE NOSE WITH A DOUBLE AXEHANDLE SMASH POLISH HAMMER STYLE!
Johnny Gomez: The Fabled drops THE WAR HAMMER leveling The Ringmaster General!
The Pilgrim picks up The Warden of the Weird looking for the Gory Special, but Way slips out, Sweeping the Leg into the Gannosuke Clutch!
Nick Diamond: ROLL UP! ROLL UP! CATCHING WAR OFF GUARD!
Sky slides into position making the count!
ONE!
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TW-DREWITT POWERS OUT!
The Pilgrim quickly gets back to his feet as Way quickly hooks both of Drewitt’s arms So Much Unprettier!
BIZARRO!
*BA-BAM!*
THE WARDEN OF WEIRD DRIVES THE EXPLORER’S FACE DIRECTLY INTO THE CANVAS BEFORE ROLLING HIM OVER INTO THE COVER! DEMI MOVES SLIDES INTO POSITION FOR THE COUNT!
ONE!
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TWO!
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THREE!
Nick Diamond: And with a snap decision by Klaus the Sideshow Master picks up a victory over the Horseman of War!
DECISIONS, DECISIONS
The crowd buzzes with excitement as Klaus Way stands in the ring, having just faced Drewitt.
NICK DIAMOND: Wait, is that…
JOHNNY GOMEZ: I knew I smelled trash.
Jackdaw is walking down the aisle, a happy gait guiding his steps. He’s holding the envelopes from last week. Klaus’s eyes light up with smug satisfaction.
NICK DIAMOND: Has Jackdaw made his decision?
JOHNNY GOMEZ: I hope his decision to leave and never come back!
NICK DIAMOND: What is up with you…
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Here comes Jash Khan!
Indeed, Khan is charging down the ramp as Jackdaw gets in the ring. He joins Way and Jackdaw there, taking a mic to address Khan.
“Jackdaw, bout time you made a decision, innit?” He calls out.
Jackdaw tilts his head, taking the microphone from Khan.
But before he can respond, a bright figure appears in the ring.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Aurora is here!
She leaps onto the ropes with incredible agility and launches herself at Jackdaw, catching him off guard.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Northern Lights Out hits flush! Finish him off, girl!
Klaus and Khan both move to intercept her, but in their haste, they collide. They stop, glaring at one another.
Right from Khan!
Right from Way!
NICK DIAMOND: It’s a donnybrook!
In the chaos, Aurora slips away, while Jackdaw rises.
Happy time’s over.
With a furious roar, he lays out both Klaus and Khan, leaving them sprawled on the mat.
Ignoring the fallen men, Jackdaw storms out of the ring, heading towards the direction Aurora disappeared, his eyes burning with a vengeful determination.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: That bastard better not get his hands on Aurora.
NICK DIAMOND: These four are headed on a collision course, Gomez. It’s going to be ugly.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: It already is.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: The World Champ takes on Pestilence herself! Can the leader of the Uprising defeat team OSW's Queen of Shadows?
Both women circle one another slowly, neither wanting to make the first move! Suddenly both hit the ropes! Gemini ducks a clothesline and springboards off the ropes for a flying knee that Narcissa sidesteps! Gemini ducks a roundhouse and Narcissa leaps over a leg sweep!
THEY BOTH SPRINGBOARD! NERGAL AND HERA COLLIDE WITH A DOUBLE CROSSBODY IN MIDAIR!
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Look at the athleticism!
NICK DIAMOND: Neither one can get an inch!
The crowd cheers as both Titans lie on the ground only for a double kip to bring them to their feet!
JOHNNY GOMEZ: SWARM!
NICK DIAMOND: GEMINI SPEWS INSECTS FROM HER MOUTH! NARCISSA IS GETTING BIT UP!
The champ swats at the locusts before getting laid out with a powerful bulldog! Gemini rolls through and forces her up for a nasty hurricanrana to push her advantage! Narcissa is in the middle of the ring as Gemini goes for the springboard moonsault!
JOHNNY GOMEZ: RIGHT INTO THE UPRISING!
NICK DIAMOND: THAT BICYCLE KNEE JUST DEMOLISHED GEMINI!
Gemini is left in a heap and Narcissa capitalizes with a nasty springboard knee drop right to the spine of Nergal! Narcissa grabs an arm and monkey flips Gemini to the far side of the ring! She's calling for the end!
JOHNNY GOMEZ: TRENDSETTER- NO! GEMINI IS UNLEASHED!
NICK DIAMOND: SPRINGBOARD TORNADO DDT! GEMINI JUST PLANTED THE CHAMP!
Gemini covers!
ONE!
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TWO!
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THREE!
JOHNNY GOMEZ: These two were evenly matched, but Gemini's offense was just too much for Narcissa to handle!
FLOCK TOGETHER
Backstage.
Raven is seen in the locker room looking over a photograph of him and Sarah, reminiscing the times they were together. He sighs deeply before putting the picture in his pocket and heading to the door. Just before he can leave, however, the room is swarmed with a large influx of people.
Johnny Gomez: Uh-oh Nicky! It’s Malakai and his Midnight Owls!
Nick Diamond: There’s got to be at least twenty of them in that group of people, Johnny! I hope they aren’t here for revenge!
The Lord of Darkness positions himself in front of a flabbergasted Raven, who takes up a fighting stance to prepare himself for a brawl.
“Do you really think you’d stand a chance against all of us, little owl?” Malakai says with a smirk. “Besides, we didn’t come here to fight.”
“Then why come at all?” Raven asks, not lowering his fists. Midnight scoffs at his foe’s tenacity before answering.
“We’re here to give you a chance to reconsider my offer,” the Midnight Man begins. “You were quite hasty to reject it the last couple times, so I decided to make sure you listen to what I have to say this time around.”
Knowing that he stands no chance against such a large group, Raven drops the stance. This causes Malakai to smile before he continues.
“You see, I want to make the journey to the Underworld to meet the Devil himself. When I meet him, I can force him to fulfill my Owl’s dreams. Join me, and I’ll make sure he helps you see your beloved again.”
“Bullshit!” Raven yells. “What makes you think I’d join you after all that you did to me?” Malakai, however, keeps his smile as he and his goons back out of the room.
“Think about it,” Malakai says. “I wouldn’t be making this offer if I can’t make it come true.” With that, he leaves Raven to ponder.
Nick Diamond: Raven looks… torn.
Johnny Gomez: Malakai seems sincere with his offer, but is he actually telling the truth, or is this just another mind game?
Cut.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: We have a brutal main event here, one week after the reveal of Six Feet Under and the brutal beating of Felix Foley, he has to survive his own burial and put another in the ground. But can the good natured Foley do such a thing?
NICK DIAMOND: He'll have to tonight Johnny because he's fighting the apprentice of Tombstone himself Gravedigger. If he hopes to stand a chance to get to Tombstone and avenge his brother, Foley's going to have to play executioner tonight.
'You've Got a Friend In Me' begins to play through the sold out crowd. The green flashing lights adorning the entrance but Felix doesn't come bounding out. Foley staggers out of the entrance, wrapped heavily in bandages from the brutal beating last week but beyond that...he looks pensive.
Foley soaks in the cheers, trying to put on a smile but looking over at the pile of dirt and the open grave...he just can't. Foley closes his eyes as he doesn't see the figure standing behind him.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Oh no, shades of last week as Foley is about to get shoveled by Gravedigger once more...FOLEY DODGES IT!
Felix was ready for Gravedigger this time as he dodges the shovel shot, nailing Gravedigger with a brutal uppercut that sends him staggering back before Foley rushes forward
THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR BOOTING! Big Boot sending Gravedigger flying into the entrance wall!
Gravedigger is stunned on the concrete wall as Foley rushes up, drilling him with a hard knee to the stomach before beginning to stomp him into the concrete as he shows him any corner
IS FELIX FOLEY'S CORNER!
Gravedigger is limp, flopped down onto the concrete wall as Foley backs up, shaking his head before rushing forward
NICK DIAMOND: FOLEY'S FUNHOUSE! Gravedigger isn't feeling fun though as that brutal dropkick cracked the concrete itself from the sheer force. Gravedigger may be allready done.
Foley gets up, holding his ribs as he may well have hurt himself in the process but he sucks up the pain, picking up Gravedigger as he throws him down onto the dirt next to the stage. Foley climbs down, slowly walking forward as Gravedigger tries to get to his feet but Foley lifts him up
DIRT IN THE FACE!
Gravedigger out of nowhere blinding Foley as Felix staggers back. Gravedigger getting to his feet as he leaps high
DROP DEAD JAWBREAKER! Brutal Leaping Knee knocks Foley down to one of his knee from the sheer force.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Just like his mentor, Gravedigger has that supernatural strength to him that can even take someone like Foley down with a single shot.
Gravedigger pulls Foley to his feet as he begins pummeling him with lefts and rights, Foley trying to fight back but a looping hook to the temple rocks Foley as Gravedigger begins to pull the bandages off Foley's head, revealing the raw and barely healed wounds beneath.
Gravedigger begins pounding down with hard strikes, trying to open the flesh of the Puppetmaster once more but Foley begins to fight back, a hard right to the throat staggering Gravedigger back.
NICK DIAMOND: Foley is on his feet as he rushes forward, SPEAR...NO! Gravedigger dodges as Foley nearly spears himself right into the open grave.
Felix just stops himself right on the edge, turning around into a kick to the gut
NEVERMORE! Brutal DDT right onto the cold, hard ground as Felix might well be busted open but if he wasn't, he soon shall be as Gravedigger kneels down, gripping Foley by the back of the of the throat and pounding him down into the thick ground with hard forearms to the back of the head
GRAVEL POUNDER! Foleys blood begins to mix with the soil as Gravedigger is beating him senseless.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Foley looks completely out of it here Nick, this may well be the beginning of the end for Mrs Foleys Baby Boy here.
Gravedigger pulls Foley up to his feet, gripping him by the back of the neck as he rushes forward
THROWING FOLEY INTO THE GRAVE!
NICK DIAMOND: He's nearly done it Johnny, all Gravedigger has to do is bury Foley and he's won this main event here.
Gravedigger turns, looking for a shovel. He finally finds one on the far end of the dirt but by the time he turns around, Felix is already beginning to climb out of his grave. Gravedigger rushes forward, trying to knock him back down but Foley catches the hand and with his other, staggers Gravedigger back with a brutal right of his own.
Foley manages to pull himself out as Gravedigger rushes forward, shovel in hand right into THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR BOOTING! Big Boot knocks the shovel right back into Gravediggers face as the Shovel is dazed and confused. Out on his feet, he staggers right into a kick to the gut
CUT THE STRINGS! DOUBLE ARM DDT RIGHT ONTO THE HARD GROUND!
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Foley could do it here, all he has to do is throw Gravedigger into the grave and he can survive here tonight.
Foley pulls the limp, groggy Gravedigger up, gripping him by the back of the throat and goes to throw him in...but he stops. He can't do it. He can't bury another man alive, no matter who he is.
NICK DIAMOND: No, come on Felix. You can't have doubts now, you have to do this.
Felix lets go of Gravedigger, trying to summon the resolve to do what he needs to do but that momentary lapse may well cost him as he goes to pick Gravedigger up and the Shovel rocks him with a brutal Shovel Ready Bullhammer Elbow.
Felix is out on his feet as Gravedigger picks him up onto his shoulders, looking to deliver that brutal GTS that debuted against Foley last week.
CRADLE TO THE...NO!
Foley slips out, hard headbutt before lifting Gravedigger up
POWERBOMB!
Foley lifts him up once more, A SECOND POWERBOMB!
Foley lifts Gravedigger up once again, looking to Powerbomb him into the grave but Gravedigger grabs something as he goes up
SHOVEL BLADE TO THE OPEN WOUND! SHADES OF HIS ENTRANCE LAST WEEK!
Foley is out on his feet as Gravedigger lifts him up onto his feet,
JOHNNY GOMEZ: CRADLE TO THE GRAVE! GTS HITS FLUSH but Foley is still on his feet!
SHOVEL READY! Bullhammer staggers Foley back, he's TETETETEEETERING on the very edge of the grave.
NICK DIAMOND: RUNNING SHOVEL SHOT KNOCKS FOLEY INTO THE GRAVE! HE IS OUT COLD!
Gravedigger looks down with a scowl before beginning to shovel the dirt onto Foleys grave, burying him alive.
NICK DIAMOND: He did it. Gravedigger buried Felix Foley alive in his very first match, what does this mean for Ring of Dreams? What does this mean for Felix Foley?
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Foley may never recover from this but if he can, his uphill battle to avenge his father and brother against Tombstone, it's gotten a whole lot steeper.
SEE YOU SOON
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Felix Foley has been buried by the Gravedigger!
NICK DIAMOND: What a war, Gomez! The Gravedigger is a force!
Darkness.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Oh no…
The horns of O'Death sound loudly into the arena.
Purple lights flash wildly as the crowd turns to gasps of anticipation and fear.
As the lights stabilize, Tombstone appears like a specter beside the burial mound.
"Dig him up," Tombstone commands Gravedigger.
Gravedigger begins to dig, his movements methodical under Tombstone’s cold gaze.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Somebody get out here and help Felix!
Suddenly, a hand bursts through the dirt!
NICK DIAMOND: He’s alive!
It grips the shovel with desperate strength. Felix Foley pulls himself out, throwing Gravedigger to the side, along with the shovel. The crowd explodes as Foley stands, dirt-caked and furious, facing Tombstone.
“FOLEY, FOLEY, FOLEY!”
JOHNNY GOMEZ: Listen to this crowd, Nicky. They want to see Felix Foley get his hands on Tombstone!
NICK DIAMOND: I can’t hear you, Gomez!
Instead of attacking, Tombstone laughs—a harsh, mocking sound that cuts through the noise.
"I’ve learned so much about you through your daddy’s diary," Tombstone taunts, his smirk venomous. "I might even hate you more than he did. You should run away, little boy, lest you suffer the fate of your father and brother."
Tombstone nods behind Felix.
CLANG!
GRAVEDIGGER TOOK HIS GODDAMNED HEAD OFF!
Gravedigger looks down at Felix with death in his eyes. He raises the shovel up one more time.
"Stop," Tombstone commands coldly. Gravedigger freezes, waiting for further command.
Tombstone kneels over the fallen Foley, his voice a menacing whisper, "See you soon."
Darkness.
When the lights come back up, Felix Foley is laying in the middle of the ring holding the back of his head.
JOHNNY GOMEZ: At Ring of Dreams, Felix Foley gets his hands on Tombstone.
NICK DIAMOND: I’d be more worried about what happens when Tombstone gets his hands on Felix Foley.
A Stop ■ symbol appears in the bottom right hand corner of the screen.
Static.
Click.