Post by Travis Pierce on Jun 5, 2015 20:38:47 GMT -5
We see a darkened set, with silhouettes visible of a table. A voiceover is heard from Rob Cartwright.
Cartwright: Ladies and gentlemen, he is the host of The Piercing Truth, you know his name, the Icon of Entertainment, and the Creative Director of UGWC, he is...TRAVIS PIERCE!
“You Know My Name” by Chris Cornell begins to play, and the lights come on to show a chair sitting backwards behind the desk. A monitor behind the chair shows the logo for The Piercing Truth. The chair slow turns around, revealing Travis Pierce.
Pierce: Welcome to the show! I am Travis Pierce, and welcome to the Piercing Truth, where we are just a few short days away from In Your Hands, the night where YOU the fans take my job for the night and craft us an exciting and action-packed card. We’ve got a very special guest lined up, but first let’s put some top stories in your hands!
Travis switches to Camera B.
Piece: This year’s iteration of the popular basketball NBK2K video game series will be a Spike Lee joint, and the at-times controversial movie director helms and crafts a video game for the first time. In what probably shouldn’t have been the first indicator that this is a bad idea, the protagonist character in story mode has been named Frequency Vibrations, a name that is infinitely worse than Red Fusion or anything Bob Ooley has come up with, ever. Another bad idea? Zane Scott taking on the Consortium. The piercing truth is that it doesn’t matter which of the three of us Zaney takes on, he’s got a real headache coming at him. More on this story in ust a bit.
Travis switches to Camera A.
Pierce: The Oakland Athletics are calling up prospect pitcher Pat Vendetti, significant because Vendetti is a switch pitcher, who throws with both arms and comes with a reversible glove and his own set of special rules. The Synergy Live House had a switch pitcher of its own, with the Mainstreamer being one of the three final house candidates and considered by many people to be the breakout star of the event. The Mainstreamer along with Dirge and good ‘ol Crazy Opie all stand a chance to face the World Heavyweight Champion at In Your Hands, and that decision? In YOUR hands!
Travis switches to Camera B.
Piece: Recent cyber-attacks against the government have demonstrated that the new Holy Grail for hackers is not credit card information or the like, but rather medical records and personnel files. Fortunately, as far as I’ve been able to tell since I took office, our Human Resources department doesn’t keep any. Just another reason why UGWC is one of the safest places you can work.
Travis switched to Camera A.
Pierce: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome my guest, he is the Sports Entertainment Executive, and one of your candidates to face Zane Scott at In Your Hands, DEXTER VINES!!
The 8-bit synthesizer plays generic organ music as Dexter comes out and shakes hand with Travis before taking his seat on the couch.
Pierce: Welcome to the show.
Vines: Thank you, this actually reminds me of my pre-Consortium career, when I hosted my own talk show, called “This Evening with Dexter Vines.”
Pierce: With a title like that, I can’t imagine how it didn’t catch on. Let’s pierce our way right to the point, you’re one of the candidates, along with myself and Director Ooley, that the fans can pick to straighten Zane Scott out at In Your Hands. Why should the fans pick you?
Vines: They shouldn’t. I’m not a wrestler.
Pierce: You say that, but it was actually at the last In Your Hands event two years ago that you made your in-ring debut, in a championship match, no less.
Vines: A cooperative match in which my entire participation was getting beat up. By you, actually.
Pierce: You’re being modest.
Vines: You threw me over a table into Todd the Intern.
Pierce: You mean I…”Toss”ed you into him?
Travis is very amused with himself, but Dexter just shakes his head.
Pierce: Let's get back on track, it's time for a Piercing Question From the Fans! Ready?
Vines: I guess so.
Travis reads from an index card.
Pierce: Frequency Vibrations asks...if an ambulance is on its way to save someone, and it runs somebody else over, does it stop to help them?
Vines: Hopefully not if the ambulance is on the way to the arena because I got picked to face Zane.
Pierce: Don’t be such a Debbie-downer. We all fill our roles to perfection around here, all carry the weight, you could sub in for us with no problem, I’m sure. Here, do it right now.
Vines: What?
Pierce: Look at the camera and read the cue card.
Dexter looks at the camera as Travis hurries out of the shot. Dexter stammers for a moment before reading.
Vines: And now for A Quiet Moment With Travis.
Cut to Travis sitting in a comfortable chair in front of a loaded bookshelf. He has a blanket over him and a pipe in his mouth, that he blows bubbles out of.
Pierce: Thank you, Dexter. Now, we’ve had our fun here tonight, but now it’s time to have a serious moment and talk directly with the man in question, Zane himself.
Travis blows some more bubbles.
Pierce: I know you don’t like me, Zane. You’ve made that quite clear. I guess I can understand it. You took your loss last year at Battleground pretty hard. It was a traumatic loss for you. Problem with that is, the devastating moment for you was just a stepping stone for me. It’s something you did to yourself. You took the indestructible monster that dominated UGWC a year prior and made him an “Eden Morgan guy.” That wasn’t even a “THE” that we use there, it’s “AN.” You made yourself a face in the crowd, an obstacle. Kind of sad, really.
Travis blows some more bubbles.
Pierce: Then 2015 rolls around. You have a shining moment and then choke it off at Infinity. You needed somebody to blame and you blamed me. I get that. It’s the justification of the weak. Of course, just when it looks like you might be getting back on track, you pop off at us again, at me again. Maybe it’s because Eden was away in the House and you can’t maintain yourself without her to stabilize you. I don’t know. I don’t care, to be piercingly honest. Truth is I’d rather the fans not select me, not because I’m afraid or anything like that, but because I’ve put that chapter of my career behind me and I’m content to leave it there. I’ve beaten you already. I’ll be more than happy to let Ooley have a twilight moment. If the fans do see fit to vote me in however, well...I’ve always been one to make the fans happy. You’ll face the truth, and it won’t be my fault when the truth...hurts.
”You Know My Name” plays again as we fade out…
Cartwright: Ladies and gentlemen, he is the host of The Piercing Truth, you know his name, the Icon of Entertainment, and the Creative Director of UGWC, he is...TRAVIS PIERCE!
“You Know My Name” by Chris Cornell begins to play, and the lights come on to show a chair sitting backwards behind the desk. A monitor behind the chair shows the logo for The Piercing Truth. The chair slow turns around, revealing Travis Pierce.
Pierce: Welcome to the show! I am Travis Pierce, and welcome to the Piercing Truth, where we are just a few short days away from In Your Hands, the night where YOU the fans take my job for the night and craft us an exciting and action-packed card. We’ve got a very special guest lined up, but first let’s put some top stories in your hands!
Travis switches to Camera B.
Piece: This year’s iteration of the popular basketball NBK2K video game series will be a Spike Lee joint, and the at-times controversial movie director helms and crafts a video game for the first time. In what probably shouldn’t have been the first indicator that this is a bad idea, the protagonist character in story mode has been named Frequency Vibrations, a name that is infinitely worse than Red Fusion or anything Bob Ooley has come up with, ever. Another bad idea? Zane Scott taking on the Consortium. The piercing truth is that it doesn’t matter which of the three of us Zaney takes on, he’s got a real headache coming at him. More on this story in ust a bit.
Travis switches to Camera A.
Pierce: The Oakland Athletics are calling up prospect pitcher Pat Vendetti, significant because Vendetti is a switch pitcher, who throws with both arms and comes with a reversible glove and his own set of special rules. The Synergy Live House had a switch pitcher of its own, with the Mainstreamer being one of the three final house candidates and considered by many people to be the breakout star of the event. The Mainstreamer along with Dirge and good ‘ol Crazy Opie all stand a chance to face the World Heavyweight Champion at In Your Hands, and that decision? In YOUR hands!
Travis switches to Camera B.
Piece: Recent cyber-attacks against the government have demonstrated that the new Holy Grail for hackers is not credit card information or the like, but rather medical records and personnel files. Fortunately, as far as I’ve been able to tell since I took office, our Human Resources department doesn’t keep any. Just another reason why UGWC is one of the safest places you can work.
Travis switched to Camera A.
Pierce: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome my guest, he is the Sports Entertainment Executive, and one of your candidates to face Zane Scott at In Your Hands, DEXTER VINES!!
The 8-bit synthesizer plays generic organ music as Dexter comes out and shakes hand with Travis before taking his seat on the couch.
Pierce: Welcome to the show.
Vines: Thank you, this actually reminds me of my pre-Consortium career, when I hosted my own talk show, called “This Evening with Dexter Vines.”
Pierce: With a title like that, I can’t imagine how it didn’t catch on. Let’s pierce our way right to the point, you’re one of the candidates, along with myself and Director Ooley, that the fans can pick to straighten Zane Scott out at In Your Hands. Why should the fans pick you?
Vines: They shouldn’t. I’m not a wrestler.
Pierce: You say that, but it was actually at the last In Your Hands event two years ago that you made your in-ring debut, in a championship match, no less.
Vines: A cooperative match in which my entire participation was getting beat up. By you, actually.
Pierce: You’re being modest.
Vines: You threw me over a table into Todd the Intern.
Pierce: You mean I…”Toss”ed you into him?
Travis is very amused with himself, but Dexter just shakes his head.
Pierce: Let's get back on track, it's time for a Piercing Question From the Fans! Ready?
Vines: I guess so.
Travis reads from an index card.
Pierce: Frequency Vibrations asks...if an ambulance is on its way to save someone, and it runs somebody else over, does it stop to help them?
Vines: Hopefully not if the ambulance is on the way to the arena because I got picked to face Zane.
Pierce: Don’t be such a Debbie-downer. We all fill our roles to perfection around here, all carry the weight, you could sub in for us with no problem, I’m sure. Here, do it right now.
Vines: What?
Pierce: Look at the camera and read the cue card.
Dexter looks at the camera as Travis hurries out of the shot. Dexter stammers for a moment before reading.
Vines: And now for A Quiet Moment With Travis.
Cut to Travis sitting in a comfortable chair in front of a loaded bookshelf. He has a blanket over him and a pipe in his mouth, that he blows bubbles out of.
Pierce: Thank you, Dexter. Now, we’ve had our fun here tonight, but now it’s time to have a serious moment and talk directly with the man in question, Zane himself.
Travis blows some more bubbles.
Pierce: I know you don’t like me, Zane. You’ve made that quite clear. I guess I can understand it. You took your loss last year at Battleground pretty hard. It was a traumatic loss for you. Problem with that is, the devastating moment for you was just a stepping stone for me. It’s something you did to yourself. You took the indestructible monster that dominated UGWC a year prior and made him an “Eden Morgan guy.” That wasn’t even a “THE” that we use there, it’s “AN.” You made yourself a face in the crowd, an obstacle. Kind of sad, really.
Travis blows some more bubbles.
Pierce: Then 2015 rolls around. You have a shining moment and then choke it off at Infinity. You needed somebody to blame and you blamed me. I get that. It’s the justification of the weak. Of course, just when it looks like you might be getting back on track, you pop off at us again, at me again. Maybe it’s because Eden was away in the House and you can’t maintain yourself without her to stabilize you. I don’t know. I don’t care, to be piercingly honest. Truth is I’d rather the fans not select me, not because I’m afraid or anything like that, but because I’ve put that chapter of my career behind me and I’m content to leave it there. I’ve beaten you already. I’ll be more than happy to let Ooley have a twilight moment. If the fans do see fit to vote me in however, well...I’ve always been one to make the fans happy. You’ll face the truth, and it won’t be my fault when the truth...hurts.
”You Know My Name” plays again as we fade out…
