Post by Lord Hastings on Sept 26, 2013 16:01:59 GMT -5
Then…
Instructor: Use two fingers and press right in the spot, and then give a breath.
Six years.
Six years of struggles, successes, scratching, and all for what?
Four world championships. Headlining event after event. A legacy built on the blood of others.
Taken away in a single night of violence. A dream shattered in an evening. A ride into the sunset, driven off a cliff.
His arrogance, his gall. How dare he?
An epic six year tale, the rise of a legend, the ending scrapped by a pompous fool.
He took my ending from me.
I will be the cause of his.
Hastings: ZAAAAAAAAANNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
Donovan drives his elbow deep into the chest of the doll.
Instruction: Goodness!
Donovan glances around the small room, inside the hospital. Four pairs of parents and eight eyes stare at him in shock, along with the stunned instructor, and next to him, a very, very, angry woman.
Calypso: What is wrong with you?
Hastings: Sorry. Listen, you said to press hard. I’m just trying to help the baby.
She slaps him in the chest.
Calypso: I’m sorry, just ignore him.
After all these conspiracies against me, all the people who have tried and failed to hold me down, destroy me.
Arelas. Fear. Big Time. Fusion. Phoenix. Dredd. Edwards. Raenius. Prescott. Somers. Tyvola. Kiseragi. Stein. Pax.
None of them could break me. I endured them all.
All to be broken by Zane Scott.
Zane Scott.
It hasn’t all been for this. It can’t be over now.
Not because of Zane Fucking Scott.
Not because of him.
Now…
Stagehand: Hey! Watch it!
He pushes people out of his way left and right as he charges through the backstage area. It has been longer than he can remember since he got a major scoop, scored a big interview. He’s been abused, mocked, and forgotten.
Not this time.
Reeves: Lord Hastings! Lord Hastings! Can we get a word?
Donovan looks back over his shoulder, pausing a moment before turning around.
Hastings: Jason Reeves. Nice to see that some things will never change.
Reeves: Lord Hastings, you made your shocking return just moments ago at the end of Synergy, when it was announced that you are not only back, but that you will be facing Zane Scott at Battleground for his new World Heavyweight Championship. We thought you had been forced to retire, how did this happen?
Hastings: It isn’t a how, so much as a when, and the when is the moment that Zane tried to cripple me at In Your Hands. It wasn’t all that long ago that I thought I was ready to put UGWC, to put this phase of my life, permanently in my rear view mirror. I was ready to move on in my life. Then came In Your Hands, and everybody know what happened then, what Zane Scott tried to do to me. That’s when I knew, this would never be over.
Reeves: I think it’s pretty safe to say that nobody expected to ever see you back here again.
Hastings: You think so? I can think of somebody who probably did. I think Zane did. He must have known that it couldn’t be over, must have wondered if there would be consequences to leaving me still able to take a breath. It wouldn’t shock me if he expected to see me here tonight. I’m sure he’s proud of himself, wandering around back here somewhere crowing about how he knew I was on my way, and how he thinks he has this situation fully under control. I say to that...let him. Let him think that, let him know that. I could have easily paid for this title shot at Outlast, faced him in the moments after he won the title, at his weakest point. I didn’t. I didn’t do it because I want Zane to see me coming, know that I’m coming, and soon, know that he can’t do anything to stop it, he can’t do anything to stop me. I’m not just coming for him. I’m coming for all of them.
Reeves: All of who?
Hastings: I watched Zane stand in the ring earlier tonight and thank all of the people who “supported” him in his march to the championship, people like Cypress Morgan and Chaos, people like Raenius. They played a role in his rise, it is only fitting that they have a role to play in his fall. I want Zane to watch me, watch what I do to these people, watch what is soon going to be his own fate, and I’m going to start with the one they call Vain.
Reeves: I’m actually just seeing now, it’s just been tweeted out from the official UGWC twitter feed that you will be making your in-ring return next week in the main event of Synergy against ‘Vain’ Alan Wallace. He made his debut in the month after you went out with your injury, so you might not be familiar with him, but this guy is the real deal.
Hastings: Despite Zane’s best efforts over three months ago, I’m not dead, and I’ve been watching while I was gone. They call him “Vain” for good reason. This guy thinks he is the second coming. Problem with that is, I’m still here. Travis Roberts is still here. Everybody wants to bury us and forget, but our time isn’t over yet, and that makes a second coming nothing more than a cheap knock-off. So I hope Zane is taking notes come Synergy. I hope he’s watching closely. I hope he sees this all for what it is, that I’m coming for him, that there is nothing he can do to stop me, and that his fate is nothing...but inevitable.
Donovan walks away.
Instructor: Use two fingers and press right in the spot, and then give a breath.
Six years.
Six years of struggles, successes, scratching, and all for what?
Four world championships. Headlining event after event. A legacy built on the blood of others.
Taken away in a single night of violence. A dream shattered in an evening. A ride into the sunset, driven off a cliff.
His arrogance, his gall. How dare he?
An epic six year tale, the rise of a legend, the ending scrapped by a pompous fool.
He took my ending from me.
I will be the cause of his.
Hastings: ZAAAAAAAAANNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
Donovan drives his elbow deep into the chest of the doll.
Instruction: Goodness!
Donovan glances around the small room, inside the hospital. Four pairs of parents and eight eyes stare at him in shock, along with the stunned instructor, and next to him, a very, very, angry woman.
Calypso: What is wrong with you?
Hastings: Sorry. Listen, you said to press hard. I’m just trying to help the baby.
She slaps him in the chest.
Calypso: I’m sorry, just ignore him.
After all these conspiracies against me, all the people who have tried and failed to hold me down, destroy me.
Arelas. Fear. Big Time. Fusion. Phoenix. Dredd. Edwards. Raenius. Prescott. Somers. Tyvola. Kiseragi. Stein. Pax.
None of them could break me. I endured them all.
All to be broken by Zane Scott.
Zane Scott.
It hasn’t all been for this. It can’t be over now.
Not because of Zane Fucking Scott.
Not because of him.
~
Now…
Stagehand: Hey! Watch it!
He pushes people out of his way left and right as he charges through the backstage area. It has been longer than he can remember since he got a major scoop, scored a big interview. He’s been abused, mocked, and forgotten.
Not this time.
Reeves: Lord Hastings! Lord Hastings! Can we get a word?
Donovan looks back over his shoulder, pausing a moment before turning around.
Hastings: Jason Reeves. Nice to see that some things will never change.
Reeves: Lord Hastings, you made your shocking return just moments ago at the end of Synergy, when it was announced that you are not only back, but that you will be facing Zane Scott at Battleground for his new World Heavyweight Championship. We thought you had been forced to retire, how did this happen?
Hastings: It isn’t a how, so much as a when, and the when is the moment that Zane tried to cripple me at In Your Hands. It wasn’t all that long ago that I thought I was ready to put UGWC, to put this phase of my life, permanently in my rear view mirror. I was ready to move on in my life. Then came In Your Hands, and everybody know what happened then, what Zane Scott tried to do to me. That’s when I knew, this would never be over.
Reeves: I think it’s pretty safe to say that nobody expected to ever see you back here again.
Hastings: You think so? I can think of somebody who probably did. I think Zane did. He must have known that it couldn’t be over, must have wondered if there would be consequences to leaving me still able to take a breath. It wouldn’t shock me if he expected to see me here tonight. I’m sure he’s proud of himself, wandering around back here somewhere crowing about how he knew I was on my way, and how he thinks he has this situation fully under control. I say to that...let him. Let him think that, let him know that. I could have easily paid for this title shot at Outlast, faced him in the moments after he won the title, at his weakest point. I didn’t. I didn’t do it because I want Zane to see me coming, know that I’m coming, and soon, know that he can’t do anything to stop it, he can’t do anything to stop me. I’m not just coming for him. I’m coming for all of them.
Reeves: All of who?
Hastings: I watched Zane stand in the ring earlier tonight and thank all of the people who “supported” him in his march to the championship, people like Cypress Morgan and Chaos, people like Raenius. They played a role in his rise, it is only fitting that they have a role to play in his fall. I want Zane to watch me, watch what I do to these people, watch what is soon going to be his own fate, and I’m going to start with the one they call Vain.
Reeves: I’m actually just seeing now, it’s just been tweeted out from the official UGWC twitter feed that you will be making your in-ring return next week in the main event of Synergy against ‘Vain’ Alan Wallace. He made his debut in the month after you went out with your injury, so you might not be familiar with him, but this guy is the real deal.
Hastings: Despite Zane’s best efforts over three months ago, I’m not dead, and I’ve been watching while I was gone. They call him “Vain” for good reason. This guy thinks he is the second coming. Problem with that is, I’m still here. Travis Roberts is still here. Everybody wants to bury us and forget, but our time isn’t over yet, and that makes a second coming nothing more than a cheap knock-off. So I hope Zane is taking notes come Synergy. I hope he’s watching closely. I hope he sees this all for what it is, that I’m coming for him, that there is nothing he can do to stop me, and that his fate is nothing...but inevitable.
Donovan walks away.
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