(Fade in: Backstage of one of the many International Wrestling Alliance shows in upstate Washington. We can see many superstars from other federations walking about such as Robbie Stevens, the Electric Company and others-but we're shown the locker room of the so called "Hellfire Express". Inside the locker room set aside for major singles and tag team wrestlers is both members of the IWA Television Tag Team champions in the form of the "Taskmaster" Eddie Maim and The "Messiah" Zell Hunter. Both men are getting ready for their match of the night against whoever the company decides to. Maim is wearing his signature ring gear composed of black work pants, a Deftones t-shirt and his signature black leather gloves. Zell on the other hand has exchanges his old ring gear for blue and black cargo pants with one of the new Triple-H black tank tops. Zell's hair is also no longer sticking straight up but instead is hanging loosly over his face as he sits in a corner near Maim and their manager Miss Tara.)
Tara: Alright you two, tonight it's titles against titles when you two go up against those two punks in the Weapons of Last Resort. My only question are the two of you ready for this?
Maim: Yeah, but I'm not too sure about Zell though. He seems to be distracted about something...
(Suddenly, there is a knock on the door and a IWA road agent comes into the room.)
Agent: Maim and Hunter, you've got three minutes before your match. Also, Zell?
(the former Maverick raises his head up to look at the agent)
Agent: The GXW Woman's Champino Trynyty Wang retained after her match with Miso. However, Jennifer Rowe attacked her after the match-so you won the betting pool.
(with that, the agent leaves the room and Zell moves to sit up from where he was sitting and moves over to where his boots are sitting and starts to put them on.)
Maim: Is that what you've been brooding over for the past few hours, Zell? I mean she's a grown woman, why can't you tell her how you feel about her already?
Zell: It's not that easy, Ed. She and Yeh Shen Li are friends and besides, I don't think that Li doesn't like me that much at any rate because of one simple fact.
Maim: Which is?
Zell: I'm an American I guess and I think she views people from this country as soft or something like that. But you've got a point, Eddie, the moment I step back into a GXW arena-I'm going to finally do the deed I guess...both of them.
(Maim and Tara look at each other as Zell finishes lacing up his boots then grabs and puts on his signature priest's jacket and his half of the IWA TV Tag belts.)
Tara: Which is Zell?
Zell: I'm going to take the GXW Crusierweight title from that two mined fluke and show him one properly defends a title like that, but what I'm really going to do is ask Wang out on a date. But now I think that there is a team out there that needs to be introduced to the Expressway don't you?
(The threesome leaves the room and walks down the entrance way for the wrestlers as "Take It" by Staind starts to play as the Hellfire Express makes their way to the ring as the screen fades to a be continued)
Tara: Alright you two, tonight it's titles against titles when you two go up against those two punks in the Weapons of Last Resort. My only question are the two of you ready for this?
Maim: Yeah, but I'm not too sure about Zell though. He seems to be distracted about something...
(Suddenly, there is a knock on the door and a IWA road agent comes into the room.)
Agent: Maim and Hunter, you've got three minutes before your match. Also, Zell?
(the former Maverick raises his head up to look at the agent)
Agent: The GXW Woman's Champino Trynyty Wang retained after her match with Miso. However, Jennifer Rowe attacked her after the match-so you won the betting pool.
(with that, the agent leaves the room and Zell moves to sit up from where he was sitting and moves over to where his boots are sitting and starts to put them on.)
Maim: Is that what you've been brooding over for the past few hours, Zell? I mean she's a grown woman, why can't you tell her how you feel about her already?
Zell: It's not that easy, Ed. She and Yeh Shen Li are friends and besides, I don't think that Li doesn't like me that much at any rate because of one simple fact.
Maim: Which is?
Zell: I'm an American I guess and I think she views people from this country as soft or something like that. But you've got a point, Eddie, the moment I step back into a GXW arena-I'm going to finally do the deed I guess...both of them.
(Maim and Tara look at each other as Zell finishes lacing up his boots then grabs and puts on his signature priest's jacket and his half of the IWA TV Tag belts.)
Tara: Which is Zell?
Zell: I'm going to take the GXW Crusierweight title from that two mined fluke and show him one properly defends a title like that, but what I'm really going to do is ask Wang out on a date. But now I think that there is a team out there that needs to be introduced to the Expressway don't you?
(The threesome leaves the room and walks down the entrance way for the wrestlers as "Take It" by Staind starts to play as the Hellfire Express makes their way to the ring as the screen fades to a be continued)