My greatest gift
* The First RP for PrimeTime.
(FADEIN: The First standing in under a spotlight in an empty warehouse. First's face is painted black and white in the pattern of Darth Maul. Muse stands beside him, she has her face locked in a pout. The associates stand in the shadows as normal.)
FIRST: This is where I'm supposed to sputter and sneer, to declare that my brilliant plan continues and that Mr. Entertainment has only walked further into my trap, that his defeating Cameron Cruise was long ago foreseen and counted on and that in the game of eleven dimensional chess I am playing with him and New ERA, they all move ever closer to checkmate...
But this would all be a bunch of lies, I tried my damnest, as did Cruise, and we failed, it is that simple...I had a dog in the race and he lost. But these things happen, the struggle doesn't end, it merely moves forward...
Cruise has to fight for his career in New ERA...And I...I have to break a man...A man who stands for all I hate in this company...
Jonathan Marx...You're on the wrong side of this war...Deep down you might even know what I'm saying is true...You're a leader of the enemy faction, and the problem with a person like you, is that ending your career does nothing for me, I beat you, cripple you, end your existence in New ERA...Somebody else will take your spot, the flag you wave for New ERA will just be picked up by somebody else, somebody who either honestly believes in the rules and regulations of this company, or somebody who just wants to pick a fight with me and my movement so it's handy to pretend to follow those doctrines...
No, I need to break you, to convert you, to make you see the error of your ways, to make you understand that I am right, this is a battle to win your heart and mind...
And I will do that by breaking your body...I will show you that my way, my path...Is right, and you will understand that only when one fights without rules, only when one fights without mercy, is one truly liberated, only then is one truly ready to improve one's self, to become stronger, smarter...BETTER...
And to think what a wonderful world awaits you when you do say "I Quit" oh you won't be just quitting a match, no you'll be quitting your old life, your pathetic need to do things the way New ERA tells you to do them, you'll be quitting the sad pathetic existence that has gotten you nowhere in this company and embracing a new life, a life a battle and strife, of pain and rebirth...
When I am bashing your skull into any hard object or surface I can find, when I am twisting your limbs in ways they were never meant to bend, when I am damaging your body with blows that could rupture your internal organs, it may seem that I am being quite cruel...But honestly Jonathan, I only do this because I want to help you, I want to make you understand the truth, and that I do these things only because nobody else will...Everyone else wants you to remain lost, remain a puppet in a system that uses and controls you...I want to cut those strings you cling to, I want to make you free...
And even after you scream I Quit, even after you end the pain and suffering I've inflicted on you...I know you might resist, I know you'll be in the locker room making excuses, trying to explain away what happened, for change such as this is hard...I just want you to remember what happened in the ring...
I want you to remember the horrible cruelty of the assault I put on you...I want you to relive each punch and kick, each time I grabbed a weapon and drove it into your body...I want you to think about what I did...And to ask yourself how a man, how any human being could be so violent, could be so vicious...What would drive a man to such acts?
It is the NEED to improve myself until I obtain perfection...It is the primal law of the wild...It is the ONLY truth this world has ever known...And it is what you Jonathan Marx...Must embrace if you are to ever become what you were meant to be...The beating I give to you is the greatest gift I could give to anyone...It is the perfect example of what I am talking about...
Survival of the Fittest...
Evolve or Die...
(FADEOUT)