Post by Travis Pierce on Apr 21, 2016 6:23:20 GMT -5
The camera opens on Grey Coppi, seated on his interview set.
Coppi: Hello and welcome to Makin’ Coppis! I’m your host, Grey Coppi, and we’re elated here tonight to bring you a special guest. For years he made a name for himself by conducting fast-paced and witty interviews, and provided us with a biting commentary of the news in the world, but tonight he is the person that is being interviewed. Please welcome Travis Pierce!
Travis walks into the set and shakes Grey’s hand before taking a seat.
Coppi: Thank you for joining us, just a few days away from what I’m sure will go down as one of the biggest matches of your career, your match at No Holds Barred against Jet Somers.
Pierce: Thanks, Grey. It is important, it’s the match that is going to put me on the map.
Coppi: It’s ironic given it was against Jet Somers that you were put on the map to begin with, when you beat him for the World Heavyweight Championship at Day of Reckoning in 2011. Did you see then the potential for a later partnership?
Pierce: People comment often that I’m all talk. I’m an entertainer, they think it’s all smoke and mirrors, a lot of pomp and circumstance, full of sound and fury significant of nothing. They say I can’t compete with a fighter with the talent of a Jet Somers.
Pierce blows some bubbles out of a pipe.
Pierce: To them I agree that Jet Somers IS a fighter, and a very good one, I will give him that. And yes, I AM an entertainer, probably the best you’ve ever seen. This business that we’re in? It’s called sports entertainment. I am not just an entertainer, I am an Entertainment Professional. Jet Somers is just along for the ride, he rides on the coattails of those of us that put people in the seats.
Pierce: I think I saw Jet then for who he truly is. He’s a follower. He always has been. People forget how Jet and I ended up partnered to begin with. The Human Resources Department was running UGWC. Jet Somers couldn’t beat us, so he joined us. You fast forward a bit and he thinks he is a grand entertainer. This is after he dubbed himself the “TWiSTeD Ninja” and before he made himself a biker bitch. I’ve said this before but it bears repeating, Jet is a chameleon. He has no personality of his own, he just fades into whatever surrounds him. On his best day he’s just a cheap copy.
Coppi: The internet is abuzz about this conflict, care to respond to some trending recent comments?
Pierce: Sure, since everything on the internet is true and credible.
Grey reads from an index card.
Coppi: “Everything Travis Pierce says about Jet Somers is true.”
Pierce: Obviously.
Grey shuffles to the next card.
Coppi: “Travis Pierce finds adaptability unoriginal.”
Pierce: Of course, unoriginal would kind of be the whole point, wouldn’t it? Adaptability means variability under the influence of external conditions, the susceptibility of an organism to that variation, or the capacity of an organism to be modified by circumstances. Bottom line, it means being controlled by your environment, all of which certainly sounds like a weakness to me.
Grey shuffles to the next card.
Coppi: “Travis Pierce’s attempts to bait Jet Somers are actually starting to beocme disappointing.”
Pierce: Did Jet write these himself?
Pierce: Now please welcome, with a special musical performance, Mark Riznak, for a segment we call: Paint It, Black.
Cut to Riznak, who begins strumming with great energy on his guitar. Travis himself can be seen in the background, banging on drums.
Riznak: Paint it black!
Footage shown of Travis spilling black paint on Jet from Synergy.
Riznak: PAINT IT BLACK!!
The footage is shown again.
Riznak: PaintItBlack!!!!!
The footage is shown in slow motion.
Riznak: PAINT. IT. BLACK.
Travis, having left the drums, appears behind Riznak and smacks him in the head with a drumstick. He snatches the guitar out of Mark's hands and smashes it over his head, leaving him sprawling.
Travis stares down at him for a few moments, and turns to the camera, pointing down at Riznak.
Pierce: There is one of your precious "Stars of Tomorrow" that you saddled me with. This is what you left me for, why you broke up The Piercing Weapons. So you could go ahead and recruit trash like this idiot. This is what you valued over me, after all we had been through together. You left me, and I nearly lost myself to madness and the Chaos Championship. You nearly cost me everything.
Travis begins to approach the camera.
Pierce: But I'm better now, Jet. I see clearly again. You're a user. You use everybody. I see that now. You recognized your own weaknesses, you know why I was able to defeat you two years ago. You tried to use me to make your weakness into a strength. That's all I was, wasn't it? Not anymore.
Coppi: Now, I’ve spoken with Jet. He knows what a master storyteller and entertainer you are. We all do. He says that what you’re doing now, what you’ve been doing, you’ve just crafted another story. You’ve made yourself the villain to his hero.
Pierce: That right there encapsulates Jet Somers. Jet can’t conceive of a reality in which people don’t like him. He is able to create a rationalization to quash anything that is contrary to whatever his idea of himself is. Jet Somers, in his own view, is an idol to all, everybody’s best friend, the perfect ally. The piercing truth that he can’t comprehend that everybody else sees, and I promise you that when he sees this, it will stun him and he won’t understand it, is that all his behavior does it make him look even more like the delusional egotist that he really is.
Coppi: Jet Somers is a delusional egotist?
Pierce: Of course he is. He loves to paint himself as the foundation of UGWC. He doesn’t think it can exist or function without him. Mind you, it has, multiple times. Jet went off to be a “talent scout” and UGWC somehow managed to endure. Last year UGWC had the most successful and dynamic year in its history, the Global Domination of UGWC, and Jet Somers was a non-factor for all of it.
Travis sits in behind his desk as the Creative Director of UGWC, sipping from a glass and watching Synergy unfold on a screen in front of him along with his fellow Consortium members, as Jet Somers meets Matt Meyhu for a debate in the ring to hype their upcoming interpromotional match-up at Horizons.
Travis sprays his drink across his desk.
Pierce: For fuck’s sake! Is he fucking stupid?
Travis flings the glass to aside, and it whizzes past the head of Dexter Vines and shatters on the wall.
Vines: Hey!
Pierce: DAMMIT!!
Ooley chuckles and shakes his head.
Pierce: He doesn’t understand how it encapsulates his year? He’s been a fucking non-factor for months! I had to go outside the company just to get an opponent for him, otherwise he wouldn’t even be on the card for Horizons! Doesn’t he fucking get that?
Ooley: This is Astro Bummers we are talking about.
Pierce: So?
Ooley: So you know better than anybody what a self-important prick he is.
Travis grumbles to himself for a moment and kicks the leg of his desk.
Pierce: I hope Chaos vomits his beer on both of them.
Coppi: Let’s focus for a bit on the stipulation of your upcoming match at No Holds Barred, the idea of Blood, Pride, Death. The first time we saw this match, it was at No Holds Barred: Down Under in Australia, a World Title match between Phrixus Deimos and ‘The Cyclone’ JK. What is this stipulation going to mean for your match?
Pierce: You’re going to see a much more personal match than you saw in Australia. Back then, yeah, it’s something of a psychological mach and I’m sure that appealed to Fear, but JK was just fighting for significance, trying to matter. This stipulation is perfect for this match, perfect for what I’m going to do to Jet. It’s going to be something of a catharsis for me. Don’t get me wrong, I’m going to enjoy beating him until he bleeds, there is years of frustration ready to get unloaded there, but it’s the Pride that engages me. Jet likes to position himself as the hero, he is proud of that, and I look forward to stripping it away from him. Death? That’s fitting too, because I’m going to put all this to rest. I have bigger and better things on my agenda than Jet Somers.
Coppi: We know that the winner of your match will be earning a title shot, is that what you’re referring to?
Pierce: Of course. It’s the focus for everybody, isn’t it? Shouldn’t it be? I didn’t come back to the ring just to beat Jet Somers again. I came back to be the World Heavyweight Champion. Again. Baal and Roberts are going to fight in the Gates of Hell, and all they are doing it keeping the belt warm for me.
Coppi: Do you have anything to say to the two of them?
Pierce: They’re going to give it their all when they face each other, and they should, but they also need to keep something on reserve in the tank. Baal has beaten a lot of former champs the past few months. Killian. Fear. Moss. Hastings. He didn’t beat me. Travis Roberts? He’s always been the Beta Travis of UGWC. So fight, boys, fight. But don’t forget what is waiting in the wings, ready to pick at your bones.
Coppi: Thank you, Travis, for your time. It’s been...enlightening.
Pierce: It might not be entertaining, but it’s the damn truth.
Coppi: Hello and welcome to Makin’ Coppis! I’m your host, Grey Coppi, and we’re elated here tonight to bring you a special guest. For years he made a name for himself by conducting fast-paced and witty interviews, and provided us with a biting commentary of the news in the world, but tonight he is the person that is being interviewed. Please welcome Travis Pierce!
Travis walks into the set and shakes Grey’s hand before taking a seat.
Coppi: Thank you for joining us, just a few days away from what I’m sure will go down as one of the biggest matches of your career, your match at No Holds Barred against Jet Somers.
Pierce: Thanks, Grey. It is important, it’s the match that is going to put me on the map.
Coppi: It’s ironic given it was against Jet Somers that you were put on the map to begin with, when you beat him for the World Heavyweight Championship at Day of Reckoning in 2011. Did you see then the potential for a later partnership?
Pierce: People comment often that I’m all talk. I’m an entertainer, they think it’s all smoke and mirrors, a lot of pomp and circumstance, full of sound and fury significant of nothing. They say I can’t compete with a fighter with the talent of a Jet Somers.
Pierce blows some bubbles out of a pipe.
Pierce: To them I agree that Jet Somers IS a fighter, and a very good one, I will give him that. And yes, I AM an entertainer, probably the best you’ve ever seen. This business that we’re in? It’s called sports entertainment. I am not just an entertainer, I am an Entertainment Professional. Jet Somers is just along for the ride, he rides on the coattails of those of us that put people in the seats.
Pierce: I think I saw Jet then for who he truly is. He’s a follower. He always has been. People forget how Jet and I ended up partnered to begin with. The Human Resources Department was running UGWC. Jet Somers couldn’t beat us, so he joined us. You fast forward a bit and he thinks he is a grand entertainer. This is after he dubbed himself the “TWiSTeD Ninja” and before he made himself a biker bitch. I’ve said this before but it bears repeating, Jet is a chameleon. He has no personality of his own, he just fades into whatever surrounds him. On his best day he’s just a cheap copy.
Coppi: The internet is abuzz about this conflict, care to respond to some trending recent comments?
Pierce: Sure, since everything on the internet is true and credible.
Grey reads from an index card.
Coppi: “Everything Travis Pierce says about Jet Somers is true.”
Pierce: Obviously.
Grey shuffles to the next card.
Coppi: “Travis Pierce finds adaptability unoriginal.”
Pierce: Of course, unoriginal would kind of be the whole point, wouldn’t it? Adaptability means variability under the influence of external conditions, the susceptibility of an organism to that variation, or the capacity of an organism to be modified by circumstances. Bottom line, it means being controlled by your environment, all of which certainly sounds like a weakness to me.
Grey shuffles to the next card.
Coppi: “Travis Pierce’s attempts to bait Jet Somers are actually starting to beocme disappointing.”
Pierce: Did Jet write these himself?
Pierce: Now please welcome, with a special musical performance, Mark Riznak, for a segment we call: Paint It, Black.
Cut to Riznak, who begins strumming with great energy on his guitar. Travis himself can be seen in the background, banging on drums.
Riznak: Paint it black!
Footage shown of Travis spilling black paint on Jet from Synergy.
Riznak: PAINT IT BLACK!!
The footage is shown again.
Riznak: PaintItBlack!!!!!
The footage is shown in slow motion.
Riznak: PAINT. IT. BLACK.
Travis, having left the drums, appears behind Riznak and smacks him in the head with a drumstick. He snatches the guitar out of Mark's hands and smashes it over his head, leaving him sprawling.
Travis stares down at him for a few moments, and turns to the camera, pointing down at Riznak.
Pierce: There is one of your precious "Stars of Tomorrow" that you saddled me with. This is what you left me for, why you broke up The Piercing Weapons. So you could go ahead and recruit trash like this idiot. This is what you valued over me, after all we had been through together. You left me, and I nearly lost myself to madness and the Chaos Championship. You nearly cost me everything.
Travis begins to approach the camera.
Pierce: But I'm better now, Jet. I see clearly again. You're a user. You use everybody. I see that now. You recognized your own weaknesses, you know why I was able to defeat you two years ago. You tried to use me to make your weakness into a strength. That's all I was, wasn't it? Not anymore.
Coppi: Now, I’ve spoken with Jet. He knows what a master storyteller and entertainer you are. We all do. He says that what you’re doing now, what you’ve been doing, you’ve just crafted another story. You’ve made yourself the villain to his hero.
Pierce: That right there encapsulates Jet Somers. Jet can’t conceive of a reality in which people don’t like him. He is able to create a rationalization to quash anything that is contrary to whatever his idea of himself is. Jet Somers, in his own view, is an idol to all, everybody’s best friend, the perfect ally. The piercing truth that he can’t comprehend that everybody else sees, and I promise you that when he sees this, it will stun him and he won’t understand it, is that all his behavior does it make him look even more like the delusional egotist that he really is.
Coppi: Jet Somers is a delusional egotist?
Pierce: Of course he is. He loves to paint himself as the foundation of UGWC. He doesn’t think it can exist or function without him. Mind you, it has, multiple times. Jet went off to be a “talent scout” and UGWC somehow managed to endure. Last year UGWC had the most successful and dynamic year in its history, the Global Domination of UGWC, and Jet Somers was a non-factor for all of it.
Travis sits in behind his desk as the Creative Director of UGWC, sipping from a glass and watching Synergy unfold on a screen in front of him along with his fellow Consortium members, as Jet Somers meets Matt Meyhu for a debate in the ring to hype their upcoming interpromotional match-up at Horizons.
Coppi: Thank you for joining us, Jet, and we'll start with you. Last week was when this man Matt Meyhu made a shocking appearance here and made the challenge to you for Horizons. The match has already been made official, but take us back to last week, what were you thinking when it was first laid out?
Somers: My first instinct was to wonder what the point was. Horizons has always been a culmination of all the drama and action that has unfolded over the year here in UGWC, and I didn't understand how a one off grudge match with a man I've never spoken to could encapsulate 2015.
Somers: My first instinct was to wonder what the point was. Horizons has always been a culmination of all the drama and action that has unfolded over the year here in UGWC, and I didn't understand how a one off grudge match with a man I've never spoken to could encapsulate 2015.
Pierce: For fuck’s sake! Is he fucking stupid?
Travis flings the glass to aside, and it whizzes past the head of Dexter Vines and shatters on the wall.
Vines: Hey!
Pierce: DAMMIT!!
Ooley chuckles and shakes his head.
Pierce: He doesn’t understand how it encapsulates his year? He’s been a fucking non-factor for months! I had to go outside the company just to get an opponent for him, otherwise he wouldn’t even be on the card for Horizons! Doesn’t he fucking get that?
Ooley: This is Astro Bummers we are talking about.
Pierce: So?
Ooley: So you know better than anybody what a self-important prick he is.
Travis grumbles to himself for a moment and kicks the leg of his desk.
Pierce: I hope Chaos vomits his beer on both of them.
Coppi: Let’s focus for a bit on the stipulation of your upcoming match at No Holds Barred, the idea of Blood, Pride, Death. The first time we saw this match, it was at No Holds Barred: Down Under in Australia, a World Title match between Phrixus Deimos and ‘The Cyclone’ JK. What is this stipulation going to mean for your match?
Pierce: You’re going to see a much more personal match than you saw in Australia. Back then, yeah, it’s something of a psychological mach and I’m sure that appealed to Fear, but JK was just fighting for significance, trying to matter. This stipulation is perfect for this match, perfect for what I’m going to do to Jet. It’s going to be something of a catharsis for me. Don’t get me wrong, I’m going to enjoy beating him until he bleeds, there is years of frustration ready to get unloaded there, but it’s the Pride that engages me. Jet likes to position himself as the hero, he is proud of that, and I look forward to stripping it away from him. Death? That’s fitting too, because I’m going to put all this to rest. I have bigger and better things on my agenda than Jet Somers.
Coppi: We know that the winner of your match will be earning a title shot, is that what you’re referring to?
Pierce: Of course. It’s the focus for everybody, isn’t it? Shouldn’t it be? I didn’t come back to the ring just to beat Jet Somers again. I came back to be the World Heavyweight Champion. Again. Baal and Roberts are going to fight in the Gates of Hell, and all they are doing it keeping the belt warm for me.
Coppi: Do you have anything to say to the two of them?
Pierce: They’re going to give it their all when they face each other, and they should, but they also need to keep something on reserve in the tank. Baal has beaten a lot of former champs the past few months. Killian. Fear. Moss. Hastings. He didn’t beat me. Travis Roberts? He’s always been the Beta Travis of UGWC. So fight, boys, fight. But don’t forget what is waiting in the wings, ready to pick at your bones.
Coppi: Thank you, Travis, for your time. It’s been...enlightening.
Pierce: It might not be entertaining, but it’s the damn truth.
