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Post by Omega Satyros on Sept 25, 2024 14:30:14 GMT -5
Omega is pacing backstage, clearly annoyed.Omega: Where is he, we were supposed to jump Red when they went backstage, but instead I'm here trying to figure out...
Black Cat runs in, out of breath.
Black Cat: He...walked out...
Omega: What?
Black Cat: He drove off...after his interview with Toni.
Omega: Okay. Just you and me then.
Omega turns to head to the gym, but is instead face to face with DOOM. DOOM grabs him and moves to start carrying him out of the building. Black Cat rushes after to try and get Omega out.
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Post by Red Pirate Rogers on Sept 25, 2024 15:06:09 GMT -5
Rogers makes his way through the Gorilla Position looking for Caine, who’s nowhere to be seen.
LERAY: Red Pirate Rogers is on the hunt! He’s searching the corridors backstage!
Rogers passes an open door and Caine rushes out, slamming Red into a wall: Caine flings him into the opposite wall, winding him, and then grabs him by the back of the head and forces him into another room in the corridor.
LERAY: That’s the tanning room, where Champion Duke Mongoose was attacked a few weeks ago! BEEMAN (off headset, weakly): …he slipped in baby oil… LERAY: It seems my broadcast partner is still with us, in spirit at least, as EMTs check on him. I believe our referee is on his way backstage to find the competitors!
Conor continues to soften Rogers up with punches before slamming his face down on to an open sunbed, then bringing the lid of the contraption down hard on the back of Red’s skull. He slams it another couple of times for good measure then grabs Red and flings him back into the corridor.
LERAY: Conor Caine is bringing Red Pirate Rogers further into the backstage area, he’s gone into a room… it’s the gym!
Conor dumps a rack holding a lot of Olympic weightlifting bars on to the ground.
LERAY: What does Caine have planned? Those bars weigh over 40 pounds apiece and are completely unforgiving! Oh no! He’s going to powerbomb Rogers on to that mass of steel! He gets Rogers in position but the Crimson Corsair is fighting back! Back body drop! Conor Caine is broken amid those bars! Can the referee get there in time to perform a three count and declare Rogers the winner?? Rogers looks to be in tremendous pain, but crawls over to make the cover...but Jay Fairweather hasn't arrived...after a moment of covering his opponent, he gets up and turns to the doorway. LeRay: It looks like Rogers is looking for the referee, while the ref is looking for him (Rogers does step in the hallway just as we see Fairweather step into another room...the theme from Benny Hill DOES NOT PLAY, but it could...after a few moments, Red shouts and Fairweather emerges, turns to see him only for Conor to run out of the weightroom, tackling Rogers into a fire extinguisher box, shattering glass.) LeRay: Oh, my...Caine got back up, but it looks like it clearly took a lot out of him, both men are down in the middle of the hallway! |
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Post by “The Relentless” Conor Caine on Sept 25, 2024 15:37:02 GMT -5
BEEMAN: This idiot referee! He's not around when you need him to count a pinfall and when he is here, he's trying to count both men out! Hey Jay, you moron, nobody wants a draw here!
LERAY: My broadcast partner is back with us, and he raises a valid point quite inelegantly: Jay Fairweather has no choice but to initiate a 10 count for the sake of the competitors but we both know that neither one wants a double countout! Red Pirate Rogers wants to win so he can get to the bottom of Conor Caine's medical status, and Caine wants nothing more than to make Rogers' position in the JWA untenable!
BEEMAN: Conor's gotten an arm over Red's chest! This 10 count has become a three count!
Rogers manages to roll over before Fairweather can count three, Conor roars in frustrarion but is too spent to lift his head from the floor.
LERAY: The limpest kickout I've ever seen but it keeps Rogers' in this fight!
BEEMAN: What does Conor have to do put Rogers away??
LERAY: He's asking himself the same question - that roar of frustration speaks volumes! In his more honorable days, Conor only ever managed to beat Rogers once and even then it was a close call. He's thrown every dirty trick at Red tonight and has come up short every time!
Rogers gets to his feet but Conor is gone. Red looks around, armed with the extinguisher but can't see his opponent. We hear Conor roar again and the camera turns to see Caine rushing down the corridor at Rogers, pushing a heavy equipment box.
BEEMAN: Well that oughta do it!!!
Caine shoves the box at Rogers but the Pirate leaps and lands on the box as it crashes into the wall behind him. However his quick save is shortlived as Conor follows up by jumping on the box too: he shoulders Red hard into the wall; Red rebounds off the wall into a back body drop from Conor on to the floor.
LERAY: Red Pirate Rogers must be broken inside from the maneouver, and now Conor Caine jumps off the box with an elbow drop! Conor's just as busted up as Red, he lays over Rogers! One, two, thr--! Another kickout from Rogers!!!
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Post by Thumper Moore III on Sept 25, 2024 16:07:50 GMT -5
OOC: Honestly MOTY candidate here. Great job both of you!
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Post by Red Pirate Rogers on Sept 25, 2024 16:39:17 GMT -5
Conor can't believe that Rogers escaped again. He slowly stands up while Rogers lays flat on his stomach catching his breath. Caine lays in some stomps to the flattened sea-farer, and snarls at the camera "Get out of the way!"
Caine and the camera do an embarrassing mirror of moves, Caine yells right in the camera lens, but suddenly disappears from frame.
LeRay: Rogers has rolled up Conor Caine!
Beeman: You're kidding me!
LeRay: No! Fairweather's in for the count, one...tw--OH Caine pushes him away like Chief Buffalo used to push away asparagus!
The camera crew has to scramble to get out of the way, but sees Conor enter from one side only to be greated by a spray of white foam.
LeRay: The fire extinguisher!
Beeman: That's risking our health and safety!
LeRay: What isn't in this business? OH Cutlass Kick and Caine is staggered back against the equipment box.
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Post by “The Relentless” Conor Caine on Sept 25, 2024 16:53:10 GMT -5
LERAY: Conor rolls on to the box, he's trying to clear the foam from his eyes! Now Roger's grabs the box, and he's wheeling Conor away - at speed!
Rogers rushes down the corridor as Conor screams objections but Red only runs faster. He bashes open the doors to the loading bay and Conor lets out a blood curdling yell as Rogers sends the box flying off a short staircase.
LERAY: Conor is rolling around on the ground, trying to get up already. Rogers climbs the railing at the top of those steps -- Thez Press on to Caine from the railing!
Rogers unleashes a series of punches on to Caine before Conor is able to roll and mounts Rogers with punches of his own.
LERAY: The further into the deep water this war goes, the more these men are relying on their grit and sheer derision of the other to keep them going!
Rogers manages to slip out of Caine's mount and goes for an armbar, but Conor stands up; with Rogers still wrapped around his arm, Caine swings around and smashes Rogers into a concrete pillar nearby. Red releases the armbar and Conor takes a second to catch his breath.
LERAY: We haven’t seen Conor Caine fight this competitively in months! He’s fighting like his old self, I just wish he had the same moral fortitude of “The Relentless” Conor Caine. Alas! Caine has Rogers by the back of the head now, he walks him to a parked car and flings him on to the hood!
Some forearm smashes to the chest keeps Rogers stunned long enough for Conor to climb on to the car, he brings Rogers to the roof and hoists him up in the crucifix position.
LERAY: Conor's going to Charismatomic Bomb Rogers on to the car!
Rogers wiggles and slides down Conor's back, and gets Conor in a crucifix pin.
LERAY: Conor kicks out at two and a half!
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Post by Red Pirate Rogers on Sept 25, 2024 17:49:01 GMT -5
With the kickout, Conor ends up rolling off the trunk of the car and on to the ground. Rogers gets to his feet only to have Conor pull his legs out from under him and leave him to collapse on the trunk.
LeRay: Conor yanks at Rogers and the Pirate is pulled down to the loading bay lot. Sure hope nobody in the office was hoping to sneak out early tonight...
Conor considers going for the pin then pauses and grabs Rogers ankles, and lifts them up to position him for a catapult. He looks around the loading bay and finds a suitable target...
LeRay: Oh no...no! (Yes. Conor launches Red up and into a fork lift. Rogers connects and wobbles, but stays on his feet.) I have no idea what's keeping Rogers on his feet right now.
Beeman: Spite!
Conor runs in to finish the job, but Rogers darts around and Conor collides as well, both men look spent and stare at one another exhausted but preparing for one final assault
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Post by ariel67 on Sept 25, 2024 17:49:25 GMT -5
a promotional video is shown on stage
A king always thinks about his people, I think about games, it doesn't matter what game it is, I always win and in the fight I will win, long life to the king of games.
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Post by Red Pirate Rogers on Sept 25, 2024 21:21:41 GMT -5
LeRay: You have to think that these two men would be willing to fight forever...
Beeman: They wouldn't come back here would they?
LeRay: I think you're safe Sean...
(The stare down is tense, and we can see Conor snarling and Rogers grimacing...then suddenly they run at eachother one more time and tie up again)
LeRay: We're back where we started! Conor has the strength, but Rogers has the technique.
Beeman: After everything they've been through tonight, I'd be shocked if Conor still has the strength, but Rogers' technique isn't going anywhere.
LeRay: I'm going to have our research team check on it, but I think that might be the first time Sean Beeman has said something positive about Red Pirate Rogers.
(Conor kicks Rogers and takes another attempt at lifting him up into the crucifix position)
Beeman: I didn't mean it! I didn't mean it!
(Conor struggles to keep Rogers up...and again Rogers slips out and sends an off balance Conor back into the forklift...which starts to rise up...with Conor on it.)
Beeman: I didn't mean that!
(Rogers moves over and climbs up behind Conor and turns off the forklift...he takes a beat to carefully position things...and then launches)
LeRay: Swashbuckler! And truly a first of it's kind Swashbuckler! Jay Fairweather is there, 1...2....3!!! Red Pirate Rogers is the winner!!
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Post by “The Relentless” Conor Caine on Sept 26, 2024 0:06:31 GMT -5
Red Pirate Rogers stumbles through the curtain and back into the arena where he’s met by a standing ovation from his adoring fans.
LERAY: An amazing reception for a true warrior, Red Pirate Rogers went through hell tonight but he made a stand for honesty and morality and he won the day!
BEEMAN: Oh, please! Morality?? The man assaulted me!
LERAY: Your ‘hero’ used you as a human shield!
Rogers’ celebration with the crowd is cut short by a commotion. Everyone looks to the Jerkatron to see Conor backstage in the loading bay, fending off a bunch of officials and security guards; Dr Aubrey St Clair - the physician elected to carry out Conor’s independent wellness test - is also there.
CAINE: Get the hell away from me you sonsabitches! OMEGA!!! MACK!!! The first one that steps to me is getting dropped, and you keep that quack away from me too! MACK!!! OMEGA!!!
The fans boo Conor and start up the “Cheater” chant again. Rogers is incensed, he hops out of the ring and makes his way backstage to cheers from the crowd.
In the loading bay, Conor now has a steel pipe and he’s swinging it wildly at the officials - keeping them back as he maneouvers his way toward an open shutter. Rogers makes his way through the sea of bodies and comes face to face with Conor. He doesn’t say anything. Conor raises the bar, his face twisted in a mask of hate and rage… and then something happens. It’s like a fog lifts from his mind: his body softens, and his eyes do too, but only a little. Rogers sees the change and it hits him, he’s looking at a different man - a man he’s not seen in a long time. Caine lowers the bar and mutters…
CAINE: You’ve ruined this, Red.
Rogers looks a little shocked as Conor drops the bar and waits for the officials to take him. No sooner has one taken his arm that Conor changes back, all vitriolic bravado again as he struggles - albeit weakly - against them while they lead him back into the building. Red watches him go, a slightly perplexed look on his face.
LERAY: Conor Caine is being taken away to receive medical treatment and a series of tests that’ll finally reveal just what medications Conor has been on these past few months. We expect to have those results for you live next week on Glory! Goodnight!
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