((FADEIN: MICHAEL MANSON, in black "Normal Reality Will Be Resumed" t-shirt and black jeans at a glass coffee table. In front of him, several opened sheets of rolling paper. In a small glass nearby, several grams of grinded blue pez. He carefully places the powder on the paper in proper increments and then folds them over, licking the sides properly to seal them. He sits back and takes out a black zippo lighter and lights, then takes a hit of pez.))
MANSON: So you see there was this guy named Milton and he was a very christian man in many respects, but also a writer. And as shown time and time again in literature, hell and fire is much more interesting than heaven and angels. So he wrote about the Devil, but made him a flawed protagonist so as not to offend his faith.
And of course the Devil became the serpent in the garden and we had Paradise Lost, inspiring centuries of depressed teenagers and wrestling promoters to constantly make references to it because it is so well-known, despite having never read a page of it.
Rather than accuse our beloved league president of ignorance, I'll assume he's trying to make an allusion between Milton's Lucifer and myself. And flawed I am, if only because of the knee I'm still recovering from. And of course there's the fact that I should have peeled Eian's skin off him.
When I was a younger and more impulsive lad, I would hae, right after that fireball, since it would have been much easier than using my nails anyway. Now of course, I have to think things through, see the wider and broader horizon and all that.
And here hence, Eian is my tag partner for some reason I really can't decipher, maybe it's one of those international traditions, but anyway here we are.
I imagine, Eian, you might be upset at what transpired at our last WFW event. While you might be swearing revenge at me and/or Diablo, I just feel the need to tell you to get used it, because the screwjob is the one constant between all specks of life in the industry. And really, you wouldn't have won anyway, you can argue differently, but we're never going to find out now.
If you do think of betraying me as a tag partner, go ahead if you really feel like it. It's already a handicap match, 3 on 1 really doesn't differ much from 3 on 2. Then if you do, you help Diablo whom you should be upset with anyway. I would prefer if you did do something about him since he's always trying to leave me phone messages and send me holiday cards. Followers are nice, stalkers are annoying.
I don't really have that much to say to the other two. I suppose I could be bitter that its Hart against Silver at the ppv and not me, me who was actually in NGEN, but there's no point in that. Patience is important, and while I wouldn't really want to do something to help Doc out, I suppose I might have burn or bleed Hart, if only to get down from my pez high.
As for Gideon, he was already a lackey to Doc a few times, and now to Hart. All you're doing is trading one pair of kneepads for another. And one way or another, whatever I do to you, it wouldn't affect Doc in any way. Of course, that doesn't mean I won't do anything.
It's a like a book, you know, a page at a time, leading into chapters, all toward the end. Except in this one, the devil wins.