Post by teevee on Nov 19, 2015 17:37:40 GMT -5
The scene opens to show Tee Voland, clad in a black t-shirt, sweat pants, and running shoes, jogging along a Lake Erie beach. During warmer months there would be plenty of people here but the current breezy conditions and temperature in the fifties along the lake mean that she has the place to herself. Just the way she liked it.
A lot of people like to listen to music when they run, but Tee isn't one of them. She usually has her ipod with her and cranked up when she's hitting the gym, especially when practicing gymnastics where she times her moves to the beat, but not when running. Running was for thinking and right now she has plenty to think about.
When I first saw my booking for last Vendetta I was insulted that I'd been put in a match with that bunch of losers. Yeah, it gave me the opportunity to be in Trials and Tribulations and get right back into the race for what's about to be the NGW Unified Championship, but it still felt like a demotion to face those poseurs. So I earned my qualification in the first six seconds of the match and washed my hands of my so called "competition" for the night. That must have made an impression because less than twenty four hours later I get a call asking if I'd be willing to be booked in not one but two matches at All Roads Lead Home, back to back with the first being against Hayden Phoenix for the Five Lakes Title. Heh. Would I be willing? That word was actually used: "willing".
I've heard plenty of wrestlers, most recently Avery Miles, talk about upholding family traditions in this business. Well I've got my own family tradition in this business. It doesn't go back three generations, or even two. The Voland wrestling tradition started with my older brother, and as his manager at the time I'm a founding member of this tradition. I've since stepped out of my brother's shadow, as my performances in APW and NGW demonstrate, but we Volands have a new official tradition now, and that's competing multiple times in the same night. Michael was double booked twice while he was in ACW, both times defending multiple titles at the same show. He was booked like that because he has so much talent that it sometimes simply be contained in a single match and now the card for ALL Roads Lead Home is evidence that I'm just the same.
I'm not just "willing" to compete in back to back matches, I'm ready to run over Hayden Phoenix like a Freightliner hitting a stray chicken on the highway and stand in that ring as a Champion and dare my opponents for Trials and Tribulations to step into my ring. I wonder if I could get them to just reserve me a seat in the front row in case I'm not one of the first ones active in that match? No need to waste time doing laps up and down the ramp. And maybe I can get some popcorn. Either way I'm going to win two matches in the same night and then I'm going to go on and go after the Unified Title as Five Lakes Champion. I may have been knocked out of top billing by my last loss to Bronx, but I'm gonna be coming back with a vengeance soon enough.
The Camera fades as Tee continues jogging along the beach.
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The scene opens back up to what is apparently a view from a webcam in Tee Voland's bedroom. The tall woman is leaning forward over the desk, wet hair hanging to frame her face with a pale green towel wrapped around her body. Behind her are several dressers, a large mirror, a closet, and a king size bed with what appear to be gymnastics rings and a trapeze hanging over it.
"I guess I should address the fools that I'm facing in the Trials and Tribulations II match, but I've been pretty damn busy training for my big night when I'm gonna win one title and a shot at another, so the poseurs will have to listen while I get dressed for the balllet class I have to teach here shortly. And no, assholes, you don't get to watch. I'll let Johnny here entertain your visual senses."
Tee reaches a hand up and twists the camera to the left to face a wall adorned by a poster of the late, great Johnny Cash flipping the bird.
"Of course, I probably just lost KEG's attention right there. I wonder, KEG, has it ever occurred to you that you seem to find so many things boring the fact that you have the attention span of a goldfish? It matches your intelligence. You're seriously going to sit there and say that I lack talent and accomplishments? I've only been in NGW for a few months, but remind me just what the great KEG has accomplished recently? I mean impressive accomplishments, and not getting into curtain jerking bitchfights over the Marquee Title with the likes of Tara Blackhart and Dirk Dagger. You know, something to demonstrate how you're such an enduring force here in this company. Maybe a couple of Main Event title matches on back to back shows? Oh wait, that's what I was doing while you were busy losing your first shot at qualifying for Trials and Tribulations and then managing a glorious win against John Carter. There's a victory for your Hall of Fame induction highlight reel! You can put it right after your awesome NGW record with a 35% win rate to show how you get those clutch wins just over a third of the time.
"I'm the last person to object to getting good and hammered once in a while but you should at least sober up long enough to actually size up your competition with some accuracy. You say I lack dignity, pride, and confidence? Those last two, at least, are things I've nerer been accused of not having, and as for dignity I've been main eventing shows where you were losing the opening matches. If I'm not in the main event, then it takes two matches to contain my awesomeness, which is while I'll already be down at the ring when the Trials and Tribulations match starts and I'll be holding the Five Lakes Title. I'm the one that's going places in this company, dumbass, and you're just a has been banished to the undercard to test rookies to see if they're worth booking against the real talent. You question my dignity while you're in such a sorry, pitiful state? That's fucking rich."
"As to Avery Miles, you try to put on a confident front but the way you're over analyzing the strategy for this match gives away how nervous you are. As Robert Downy Jr said in a certain movie about superheroes, "I have a plan. Attack." Patience won't help in a match where waiting longer to make a move just allows more opponents to enter the fray. The best way to preserve energy is by eliminating opponents one at a time, preferably quickly enough to get yourself a breather while you wait for the next one. If you were paying attention during that qualifier match where I dropped Stone and was out of the ring with a victory before you or anybody else in that match took so much as a single step then you'd know how effective a strategy it is.
"And keep in mind, Avery, that while you're trying to build on a family tradition I'm out here making my family tradition. I've got a little brother and sister that want to become professional wrestlers someday, and between what my older brother has done and what I'm in the process of doing right damn now they will know what the Voland wrestling tradition is about. It's about being relentless in the pursuit of victory, it's about any and all setbacks being merely temporary, being in title matches more often than anybody else on the roster, about always being a contender to be reckoned with if you aren't already a champion. In Baltimore I become the second Voland to compete twice in the same major show and I'm only the second Voland to even wrestle! I'm going to plow through Hayden Phoenix, take that Five Lakes Title, then plow through you and everybody else in this match and then that's when I'm gonna kick it into metaphorical high gear. I've been a top contender since I came to NGW and my losses to Bronx were only temporary setbacks. Good luck trying to keep up, orjoin KEG in the perennial undercarders' club.
"Now Dead Eye, you're a little harder to read. Compared to the others in this match, you actually look like the toughest obstacle I'll have. That doesn't mean you're tough enough to stop me, of course, but maybe if you don't embarrass yourself the others will manage to make you look good by comparison.
"Tara Blackhart and Dirk Dagger...I can swear I've seen those names on the back covers of at least one porno. I'll have to go through my library to be sure, but even if I'm wrong I imagine you both get that a lot. Regardless, I've seen you both compete, if that's what the kids are calling it these days, and I'm not impressed. Your tag team loss to Bronx and Carmine showed what happens when you two get in the ring with top level talent, and unfortunately for you I happen to be top level talent and I'm in this match with you. I'm sure your grabasstic games will continue to earn you a place in the sideshow that is the NGW undercard, but it's time for you to go back to the kids table while the grownups handle business."
The camera suddenly twists back around to once again show Tee Voland, now wearing white tights with a black leotard.
"Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go teach a bunch of teenagers how to maintain their balance while jumping, twisting, turning, and generally making their bodies fly. You losers will get a firsthand demonstration of how that kind of thing is done soon enough at All Roads Lead Home."
There is a *click* and the screen goes blank.
A lot of people like to listen to music when they run, but Tee isn't one of them. She usually has her ipod with her and cranked up when she's hitting the gym, especially when practicing gymnastics where she times her moves to the beat, but not when running. Running was for thinking and right now she has plenty to think about.
When I first saw my booking for last Vendetta I was insulted that I'd been put in a match with that bunch of losers. Yeah, it gave me the opportunity to be in Trials and Tribulations and get right back into the race for what's about to be the NGW Unified Championship, but it still felt like a demotion to face those poseurs. So I earned my qualification in the first six seconds of the match and washed my hands of my so called "competition" for the night. That must have made an impression because less than twenty four hours later I get a call asking if I'd be willing to be booked in not one but two matches at All Roads Lead Home, back to back with the first being against Hayden Phoenix for the Five Lakes Title. Heh. Would I be willing? That word was actually used: "willing".
I've heard plenty of wrestlers, most recently Avery Miles, talk about upholding family traditions in this business. Well I've got my own family tradition in this business. It doesn't go back three generations, or even two. The Voland wrestling tradition started with my older brother, and as his manager at the time I'm a founding member of this tradition. I've since stepped out of my brother's shadow, as my performances in APW and NGW demonstrate, but we Volands have a new official tradition now, and that's competing multiple times in the same night. Michael was double booked twice while he was in ACW, both times defending multiple titles at the same show. He was booked like that because he has so much talent that it sometimes simply be contained in a single match and now the card for ALL Roads Lead Home is evidence that I'm just the same.
I'm not just "willing" to compete in back to back matches, I'm ready to run over Hayden Phoenix like a Freightliner hitting a stray chicken on the highway and stand in that ring as a Champion and dare my opponents for Trials and Tribulations to step into my ring. I wonder if I could get them to just reserve me a seat in the front row in case I'm not one of the first ones active in that match? No need to waste time doing laps up and down the ramp. And maybe I can get some popcorn. Either way I'm going to win two matches in the same night and then I'm going to go on and go after the Unified Title as Five Lakes Champion. I may have been knocked out of top billing by my last loss to Bronx, but I'm gonna be coming back with a vengeance soon enough.
The Camera fades as Tee continues jogging along the beach.
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The scene opens back up to what is apparently a view from a webcam in Tee Voland's bedroom. The tall woman is leaning forward over the desk, wet hair hanging to frame her face with a pale green towel wrapped around her body. Behind her are several dressers, a large mirror, a closet, and a king size bed with what appear to be gymnastics rings and a trapeze hanging over it.
"I guess I should address the fools that I'm facing in the Trials and Tribulations II match, but I've been pretty damn busy training for my big night when I'm gonna win one title and a shot at another, so the poseurs will have to listen while I get dressed for the balllet class I have to teach here shortly. And no, assholes, you don't get to watch. I'll let Johnny here entertain your visual senses."
Tee reaches a hand up and twists the camera to the left to face a wall adorned by a poster of the late, great Johnny Cash flipping the bird.
"Of course, I probably just lost KEG's attention right there. I wonder, KEG, has it ever occurred to you that you seem to find so many things boring the fact that you have the attention span of a goldfish? It matches your intelligence. You're seriously going to sit there and say that I lack talent and accomplishments? I've only been in NGW for a few months, but remind me just what the great KEG has accomplished recently? I mean impressive accomplishments, and not getting into curtain jerking bitchfights over the Marquee Title with the likes of Tara Blackhart and Dirk Dagger. You know, something to demonstrate how you're such an enduring force here in this company. Maybe a couple of Main Event title matches on back to back shows? Oh wait, that's what I was doing while you were busy losing your first shot at qualifying for Trials and Tribulations and then managing a glorious win against John Carter. There's a victory for your Hall of Fame induction highlight reel! You can put it right after your awesome NGW record with a 35% win rate to show how you get those clutch wins just over a third of the time.
"I'm the last person to object to getting good and hammered once in a while but you should at least sober up long enough to actually size up your competition with some accuracy. You say I lack dignity, pride, and confidence? Those last two, at least, are things I've nerer been accused of not having, and as for dignity I've been main eventing shows where you were losing the opening matches. If I'm not in the main event, then it takes two matches to contain my awesomeness, which is while I'll already be down at the ring when the Trials and Tribulations match starts and I'll be holding the Five Lakes Title. I'm the one that's going places in this company, dumbass, and you're just a has been banished to the undercard to test rookies to see if they're worth booking against the real talent. You question my dignity while you're in such a sorry, pitiful state? That's fucking rich."
"As to Avery Miles, you try to put on a confident front but the way you're over analyzing the strategy for this match gives away how nervous you are. As Robert Downy Jr said in a certain movie about superheroes, "I have a plan. Attack." Patience won't help in a match where waiting longer to make a move just allows more opponents to enter the fray. The best way to preserve energy is by eliminating opponents one at a time, preferably quickly enough to get yourself a breather while you wait for the next one. If you were paying attention during that qualifier match where I dropped Stone and was out of the ring with a victory before you or anybody else in that match took so much as a single step then you'd know how effective a strategy it is.
"And keep in mind, Avery, that while you're trying to build on a family tradition I'm out here making my family tradition. I've got a little brother and sister that want to become professional wrestlers someday, and between what my older brother has done and what I'm in the process of doing right damn now they will know what the Voland wrestling tradition is about. It's about being relentless in the pursuit of victory, it's about any and all setbacks being merely temporary, being in title matches more often than anybody else on the roster, about always being a contender to be reckoned with if you aren't already a champion. In Baltimore I become the second Voland to compete twice in the same major show and I'm only the second Voland to even wrestle! I'm going to plow through Hayden Phoenix, take that Five Lakes Title, then plow through you and everybody else in this match and then that's when I'm gonna kick it into metaphorical high gear. I've been a top contender since I came to NGW and my losses to Bronx were only temporary setbacks. Good luck trying to keep up, orjoin KEG in the perennial undercarders' club.
"Now Dead Eye, you're a little harder to read. Compared to the others in this match, you actually look like the toughest obstacle I'll have. That doesn't mean you're tough enough to stop me, of course, but maybe if you don't embarrass yourself the others will manage to make you look good by comparison.
"Tara Blackhart and Dirk Dagger...I can swear I've seen those names on the back covers of at least one porno. I'll have to go through my library to be sure, but even if I'm wrong I imagine you both get that a lot. Regardless, I've seen you both compete, if that's what the kids are calling it these days, and I'm not impressed. Your tag team loss to Bronx and Carmine showed what happens when you two get in the ring with top level talent, and unfortunately for you I happen to be top level talent and I'm in this match with you. I'm sure your grabasstic games will continue to earn you a place in the sideshow that is the NGW undercard, but it's time for you to go back to the kids table while the grownups handle business."
The camera suddenly twists back around to once again show Tee Voland, now wearing white tights with a black leotard.
"Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go teach a bunch of teenagers how to maintain their balance while jumping, twisting, turning, and generally making their bodies fly. You losers will get a firsthand demonstration of how that kind of thing is done soon enough at All Roads Lead Home."
There is a *click* and the screen goes blank.
