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Who's Up First? [18.01]
Topic Started: Jun 8 2016, 09:07 PM (19 Views)
HeartAttackKid

The lounge area just off the hotel lobby isn't extremely well lit, and that's the way the hotel likes it. For people traveling, it's meant to be a place where they can sit and relax, maybe have a drink. Soft music and not-so-bright lighting helps relax. It's science. It just naturally puts people into a more calm mood.

Unless they see someone sitting by themselves, wearing a luchador mask. That usually raises people's blood pressure, unless they know what's going on.

So that's why HAK decides to sit in the corner. Sure, there's a bit more light, given that the corner is usually one of the areas near where they have one of the wall sconces, so he's sure that in some ways, he's losing out on some of the relaxation factor of it all, but when you're a professional wrestler who is trying to maintain a bit of luchador tradition while hiding your identity so you can be judged on your own merit and not on what you've done and where you've been in the past, sometimes you give up on some of the freedoms and creature comforts that other people get.

Walking across the room towards HAK and his corner booth is a rather large man, dressed in a suit. Because of the trickeration of camera angles, we don't see his face. In his hand, we see he's got a mask. A familiar mask. When he gets to the table, he reaches up, puts it on, and sits down. It's an eagle mask.


Heart Attack Kid: Welcome.

Eagle Mask: Hey Kid.

With their brief greetings out of the way, HAK raises his hand so that the one waitress in the lounge sees him, and she acknowledges him.

Eagle Mask: You look pensive tonight. So what's on your mind?

Heart Attack Kid: Nothing.

Not buying it, Eagle Mask presses further into the topic.

Eagle Mask: No, really, what's on your mind?

Heart Attack Kid: Nothing. Why, does that surprise you?

Eagle Mask: Uh, a little bit, yeah. You're sitting here, looking like you're deep in thought, said we should get together and talk, and you're not thinking of anything?

Heart Attack Kid: No, I'm thinking about NOTHING. And Deacon Summers. You know, my opponents for the upcoming show...?

The lightbulb comes on.

Eagle Mask: Oh, right, I get it now. You're talking about competitors, one of whom is the Harbinger Of Hate.

Heart Attack Kid: Right, and Deacon Summers.

When the waitress gets there, Eagle Mask mentions a bottle of a particular type of beer, then goes back to the conversation.

Eagle Mask: You mean The Luckiest Man Alive?

Heart Attack Kid: That's what they call him.

Eagle Mask: But do they really?

Heart Attack Kid: Huh?

Eagle Mask: Nothing.

Heart Attack Kid: No, he's the Harbinger Of Hate, you're thinking of Deacon Summers.

Eagle Mask: Nevermind.

Heart Attack Kid: Hey, you're the one who got it wrong, I'm just correcting you.

Eagle Mask: I didn't get it wrong, I know who we're talking about. Just so long as you know who we're talking about, it's fine. Are you good? Do you feel ready?

Heart Attack Kid: For what? The match? Deacon Summers? Nothing?

The waitress brings the beer and puts it in front of Eagle Mask.

Eagle Mask: Well he's not nothing...

Heart Attack Kid: I meant the third competitor in the match, not that Deacon is nothing...

Eagle Mask: Of course he's not Nothing, he's the Harbinger Of Hate.

Heart Attack Kid: Which really is quite something, really.

Eagle Mask: He does run with an interesting crowd.

Heart Attack Kid: Who?

Eagle Mask: Nothing.

Heart Attack Kid: The Harbinger Of Hate?

Taking a sip of his beer, Eagle Mask takes a second and then nods before answering.

Eagle Mask: Yeah, him.

Heart Attack Kid: Who are you talking about?

Eagle Mask: Nothing.

Heart Attack Kid: Right, him, but which of his buddies are you talking about?

Eagle Mask: Well clearly that Indrid Calder guy, and Hate.

Heart Attack Kid: So both of them?

Eagle Mask: All three of them.

Heart Attack Kid: Yeah, and Deacon Summers.

When HAK goes to take a sip of his beer, Eagle Mask shakes his head, disagreeing with something.

Eagle Mask: He's not part of the team.

Heart Attack Kid: Yeah, of course he's not.

Eagle Mask: He's not Nothing.

Heart Attack Kid: Literally and figuratively.

Eagle Mask: Huh?

Heart Attack Kid: Nothing.

Eagle Mask: The guy, or your comment?

Heart Attack Kid: Both.

Eagle Mask: Right, so how do you feel about your odds against the other guy.

Now HAK is looking a bit confused.

Heart Attack Kid: Who?

Eagle Mask: Not Nothing.

Heart Attack Kid: You mean Deacon Summers?

Eagle Mask: The Luckiest Guy In The World.

Heart Attack Kid: I don't know that I'd call him that.

Eagle Mask: Why not?

Heart Attack Kid: It just takes quite a bit to say.

Eagle Mask: What are you talking about?

Heart Attack Kid: Nothing, nevermind.

Eagle Mask: I thought we were talking about Deacon Summers.

Heart Attack Kid: Who?

Seeing that HAK is obviously just playing around, making a joke of things, Eagle Mask clearly doesn't look thrilled.

Eagle Mask: Your other opponent in this match, which also features The Harbinger Of Hate, the man they call NOTHING.

Heart Attack Kid: Yeah, well, joke around all you want, but Deacon Summers held the Atlantic Coast Championship, and probably only lost it because he was in that triple threat match.

Eagle Mask: Yeah, and who did he defeat for it?

Heart Attack Kid: Indrid Calder.

Eagle Mask: And who was there when he lost it to Johan Dietrich in that triple threat match?

Heart Attack Kid: Indrid Calder.

Eagle Mask: And who is Indrid Calder friends with?

Heart Attack Kid: Nothing.

Eagle Mask: Uh, I think you mean "No one", and that's the wrong answer.

Sighing, HAK knows that Eagle Mask is playing the word game too.

Heart Attack Kid: I meant the wrestler.

Eagle Mask: I know you did. I'm doing that thing.

HAK pretends not to know.

Heart Attack Kid: What thing?

Eagle Mask: Who's on first?

Heart Attack Kid: Huh?

Eagle Mask: Nothing, nevermind.

Heart Attack Kid: Nothing's on first?

Eagle Mask: No, who.

Heart Attack Kid: I thought you just said Nothing?

Eagle Mask: I did, but I meant nevermind.

Heart Attack Kid: Okay, well, going back to Indrid Calder, he's a member of that Hate group.

Eagle Mask: I thought hate groups were discouraged?

Heart Attack Kid: You mean hate speech?

Eagle Mask: Nope, I'm just messing around with you again. This is too fun.

Heart Attack Kid: You know what's not going to be fun?

Eagle Mask: Nothing.

Heart Attack Kid: Exactly.

Eagle Mask: And you know what he's already got scheduled for Night 2 of Path Of The Warrior?

Heart Attack Kid: No, I didn't pay attention to that. Who?

Eagle Mask: Nothing.

Heart Attack Kid: Right, who's he facing?

Eagle Mask: Grace Goeren and Martin Robertson for the Network Title.

HAK shrugs and takes another sip.

Heart Attack Kid: So that's supposed to make me angry, want to fight him, that the idea?

Eagle Mask: Oh, no, of course not.

Heart Attack Kid: Right, because I'm sure I'll have something interesting at the event, too. Have you looked through the bookings? What's my match.

Eagle Mask: Nothing.

Heart Attack Kid: You just said he's facing...

Eagle Mask: I meant "no one".

Heart Attack Kid: Ah, well, there's still time to change all that.

Eagle Mask: Not if no one thinks this "Nothing" bit is funny.

Heart Attack Kid: Huh?

Eagle Mask: Nothing.

Heart Attack Kid: Oh, you mean if our Nothing joke flops, I'll get nothing at the pay per view?

Eagle Mask: So long as you're talking about having no match, and you're not talking about the Harbinger Of Hate, I think that's accurate.

Heart Attack Kid: Ok, so, wait, Deacon Summers HAD the Atlantic Coast Championship... and lost it. And then he got in a Battle Royal for a shot at the EWA Network Championship...

Eagle Mask: A Battle Royal you weren't in because you were in a Path Of The Warrior Second Round Match...

Heart Attack Kid: And he didn't win that Battle Royal either...

Eagle Mask: And he also didn't win his Path Of The Warrior First Round Match, which was against Martin Robertson.

Heart Attack Kid: Wasn't he still the ACC title holder at that point?

Eagle Mask: Yep, he was.

Heart Attack Kid: So you're telling me that Deacon Summers not only went through ALL those other things we mentioned, but that in this tournament, even as a champion who should've had a good ranking at the time, had to face another champion in his FIRST round match?

Eagle Mask: He did.

Heart Attack Kid: You know what?

Eagle Mask: What?

Heart Attack Kid: Doesn't sound like a very lucky guy to me.

In response, Eagle Mask lifts his beer and tips it slightly forward in HAK's direction, as if to say they're like-minded on the topic, and then he goes back to drinking his beverage.




Seated on his balcony, all alone, HAK reflects on the day, the week, and the near future.

Heart Attack Kid: It's always fun to compete against two guys I've never competed against before. Gives me a rush.

Not that I don't like facing someone for a second time, because that involves a lot of "game" theory, which can be really fun and really challenging and there's lots of stuff I can do differently to prepare for those... but this isn't one of those, so I'm not talking about those, I'm talking about these.

Specifically, these, I'm talking about first time matches. And topping it off, it's a triple threat match, which is super fun, right?

A bit of sarcasm there, I'm sure you might've picked up on it.

Triple threat matches make things a bit more all about luck. I'm not going to say that skill can't play into it, because the man who is most on-his-toes and uses the best judgment definitely has the advantage, so, yeah, I plan to be that guy, but I'm sure you've seen it, right?

WHAM!!!

Suddenly the guy who should get his hand raised just got clobbered by a guy who you thought was all-but dead, and that zombie-dude ends up rollin' in and getting the pinfall based on someone else's hard work.

I've lobbied the international wrestling commission a few times in the past to start handing out points for "assists" in that sort of situation, but they hung up on me. Something about hating hockey or whatever.

Digression!

So, Deacon Summers, I'll start with you. Why? Because I flipped a coin and made Nothing be tails, because, well, why not.

Heads it is!

It was a fun time getting to know you a little better this week. I feel like we know a few of the same people, been a few of the same places, but honestly, I don't know that our paths ever crossed.

And no, I'm not talking about Sesame Street.

Again, doesn't matter, I want to say that this is probably our first time in the ring together. If not, doesn't really matter, because you can't go back and watch those tapes to find out what you did to lose to me before, because you don't know who I am, and like I said, you probably would've lost to me before, so, yeah, no luck there.

Nice Rocky reference, by the way. And it fits, because I do love the thrill of the fight. I do rise up to the challenge of my rivals. So it fits, it really does! You've got me pegged that way...

...and no, I'm not into pegging...

Digress!

In another way, you don't have me pegged at all. "The Fight" isn't all that matters. If I had to narrow it down to something, it would probably be "entertaining" the fans, but you do realize that I'm trying to move up the ladder here, right? Because, aside from the Network Championship, my goal here is to prove that I'm one of the best. And that doesn't have much of anything to do with fighting just to fight, just to feel my fists against another man's face and to feel the same in return... I actually do have a purpose.

And if you think I've lost a step, just because I've been a little quiet since my loss to Sinclair, and just because I exited a tournament in the SECOND ROUND (which is one round later than you lasted, just sayin'), I've been quiet... and you're worried... but, and you'll want to listen up, because I think I need to introduce you to a concept here...

VACATION.

This mask? I wear it so that my identity stays hidden, so my enemies don't target my friends and family and hunt them down throughout Gotham City just to take me out when I'm...

Wait, no, I'm not Batman...

I wear this mask so I can forge a new legacy, so when I'm around the tour, when I'm in public, which isn't too frequently, a lot of times I'll wear the mask.

But when I go on vacation, I leave it in the bag. And, in case you didn't notice, there was a holiday the other weekend, and I went out of town.

Out of country, in fact.

Not that I'll tell you where, because that doesn't matter, but I took a vacation. So.... yeah, I didn't take cameras with me when I was out on the golf course or hanging out in the pool or in the night clubs or wind surfing... Because I was on VA-CA-TION.

But thanks for being worried about me. My step's are all in place, thanks. But you'll find that out at the show.

And then there's Nothing.

Or should I capitalize that? I've known a few guys and groups who have certain ways they like things capitalized, whether it's the full name or a letter in the middle of the name. Some freaks even do a lower-case first letter and then capitalize other letters later in the word like a weird Apple product...

Digress!

Nothing, I don't know much about you. Honestly, I was a little surprised when I started doing my homework while I was on vacation.

Oh, just in case you muted the other part until your name came up, which must be really hard since your name is an actual word that people might use even when they're not talking about you, I went on vacation.

So my research, your association with Corey Collins, the fact that you're friendly with Indrid Calder, these are all things that certainly made me take you a bit more seriously than my words earlier might have you guess. In honest? I might be drunk on water, because if there's one thing that won't happen when I get to this triple threat match of danger, it's dehydration. I won't lose to Nothing because of a lack of water.

As I look at the upcoming match, I can't say that NOTHING will stand in my way, because I don't intend to let anything or anyone stand in my way.

Looking into the camera, smiling, HAK gets up and walks off screen, and the scene fades to pink and the scene is replaced by HAK's logo where he's wearing the mask that he typically wrestles wearing.
Edited by HeartAttackKid, Jun 8 2016, 09:13 PM.
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