RE: Conviction???
(Cue up "The Purpose Of Existence" by Ray Manzarek)
(Fade into the great hall of the American's estate, in black and white where he sits doing a jig saw puzzle. The huge puzzle lays scattered across the table as he slowly puts it together.)
The American: Psycho broken hero of the old republics, the ancient dictatorships, the fallen kingdoms, and the surreal.
It's amusing how pathetically stupid you are Psycho, a pathetic mass clinging to only what he knows, unaccepting of anything that may have surprised him. The old order fell and yet you hold on to it for dear life. Now you see that I will face you in this bout and yet cling to your metaphors for a match with the glorious leader Rat Fink.
The past you knew is lost, yet it seems to be all you can think of. Be it your opponent, your allegience, or your entire persona you cannot change. You are frozen in ice, stubborn, refusing to change. And why should someone like yourself feel he must change? You have had some modest accomplishments in your career and you feel that you may become set in your ways.
Sadly for such a minor talent you have grown such an ego to think you may stop the world at will and return to the past that no longer exists. Let me remind you that the future ain't what it used to be Psycho, the N.A.R. has changed the surreal back to reality and given the picture such a clear picture of what the world is, and what you old tricksters made them think it was.
Or perhaps you let yourself be fooled by the utopian view they gave you to trick the world into believing. Did you fall for your masters magic? Isn't it so easy to fall for the dream of a utopia only to realize that you are only supporting facism? To see yourself gain so much influence only to have it wane away until the only newsworthy thing you can do is die? It cannot be a pleasent thought Psycho, yet it is now all that you have.
The thing is, we already have the bait that you claim to have. The world title is in our hands, the precious symbol of the surreal system has fallen into the hands of those who will build the evil utopia.
We realize you are mentally instable, yet totally stable in the way that your handlers desire you to be. They want you to appear as this puzzle does, impossible to solve, yet with such a clear pattern if you just study it. Look at you, you have such a deliberate pattern to your service to your masters.
Of course you are ignorant of how your strings are pulled, and possibly rightfully so. They have let you think you are crazy, so you think you have no one to answer to for your actions. You think you are unstoppable. They have let you convince yourself of all of this, when it is all so painfully pathetically untrue.
This match will be the first chance you have for the wool to be pulled from your eyes. Finally the light of a new day may come unto you, and you may finally be given over to reality, to be taken from slavery.
Or will you just continue living the lie. For some reason i feel it will be the latter. No matter how badly you are beaten you can find such comfort in the lies of your masters, where you can hide and believe that you serve no one. You can feel you are second to no man despite your crippling losses, your failures, your short comings, your lacking.
Sad.
But we will be there, to retain ownership of your ruler's symbol, so that their surreal empire may not make a return. Until the people have all rallied behind the new world this symbol still has its uses to us, and it must not be relinquished.
Not to you Psycho, not to a second rate contender like Diablo, to no one the old empires can throw at us. This is the property of the people now, and they will not be destroyed by your masters any longer.
(Fade out)