The scene opens up with The king of mayhem Alex Bowen sitting in his local rock station promoting Wzcw's upcoming pay per view All or Nothing. 989 The Bear adorns about every inch of the studio, it's the talk hour and Alex Bowen is setting across from local personality Drew Cage. Drew Cage is clad in Bear gear, while Alex Bowen wears a new Lamb of God shirt. Mics in front of the men, the interview is about to start. Drew pushes his mic to the side and talks to Alex beforehand.
Drew- So you know you will have to do an interview outside of the studio. We have about three hundred and fifty people waiting for you to talk. This is huge! You get that right? I understand you aren't really the lovey, warm, nice guy. But still, this is your home base. Go out and get them pumped for this show!
Alex grimaces at the last comment. He tries to pass off a fake smile to Drew, but the host just shakes his hand at him and points with his index finger.
Drew- Don't screw this up, I know what you are like. No swearing, nothing. The Fcc would just love to shut us down.
Bowen snorts as he positions his mic closer to his face. Drew laughs as Bowen blows into the mic trying to see if it's on. Alex notices it and grits his teeth.
Alex- Shut the hell up, lets start.
Drew nods his head, putting up five fingers he counts the mayhem champion down to zero.
Drew- Hello, hello, hellooooo, This is Drew Cage. I'm here with Wzcw superstar and the king of mayhem Alex Bowen! He is in a huge match very soon with Sean Cruz and Armando Paradyse for the Wzcw Mayhem titl. Very exciting news for our local boy Alex Bowen!
Alex- Why yes Drew, I was sort of shocked when they announced that Armando Paradyse was being added to the match. I mean he did beat Sean Cruz, but what does that really say for Sean himself? Beaten by a man who I destroyed minutes before he took credit for the work that four other men did! It's quite laughable Drew, what do you think?
Drew- Well I know we are all rooting back here for you. I'm not sure of your actions as of late, but I know I am proud to be a follower of the king of mayhem!
Alex puts his hands together, a wide smile crosses his lips.
Alex- GREAT! I'm so glad you are a loyal servant to the king. I've been saying for weeks the only way to live is to follow me. Why pick the underdog? Why pick the nobody? Why not bet on the sure horse? Alex Bowen is always the odds on favorite in any mayhem match.
Drew- True, but what about this past week Alex? You lost to Matt Tastic! This is only the fourth time in over a year losing a mayhem match. How do you feel about losing to him.
Alex- A loss is a loss drew, I'll spend my pay per view fighting to be the best once again. While he scratches and claws to try and get to the top. I have a match that will draw, everyone wants to see and end to the saga of Alex Bowen and Sean Cruz. I'm happy Armando Paradyse is getting added to this match. It's an fitting end to them both. I've sat back for almost fifteen years and done this. I've spent that long watching people bicker over titles. Good let them try and kill each other. I'll set back and watch them try to out due each other. I know what I have to do to beat both men. I've beaten Cruz and Armando soundly, But my fifteen years of experience in hardcore division will come into play here. They are both green, and the first mistake they make, I will pounce on it.
Drew- Wait, fifteen years? That's how long you've been wrestling?
Alex shakes his head.
Alex- Yes, I've spent the past almost fifteen years tearing up just about anything in my path. I spent some time in jail after I turned eighteen, and I've been jumping from circuit to circuit after that. Heck my first job was a sideshow act on a circus, I wrestled for filler with another guy week in and week out. Just beating the hell out of each other, I got noticed by a local promoter in Iowa, I believe. The rest is history, I've spent the better portion of my life doing just this. Hardcore all day, hardcore for life. Sure I've wrestled clean matches, but this is my home. I was just like both of my opponents when I started back in Wzcw. Thrown into a haphazard tag team just to be put on the bill. Everyone knows how that went, it was almost as bad as their team.
Drew- Some jail time, huh? If you don't mind me asking what did you do?
Alex- Well I'm not sure if I can say this on the radio, but here we go. For as long as I can remember my father beat me, my brothers, and my mother. It was about two weeks after my lackluster eighteenth birthday and I walked in on him beating the tar out of my mother. I beat him into a coma, and when I came to my mother was on the phone with the EMS. The cops took me into custody, and I spent the next four months in jail. After that I got out and just started looking for a job. No one would hire a felon at the time, so I took the job from the man under the big top.
Drew- So let me get this straight, you beat the crap out of your own father? What kind of a man are you?
Alex- I was the real man in my family for years. You can only take so much abuse in life, I've toned it out for years now. But lets just say I was more angry when I was a kid. It just built up until I popped. I walked in, and he was beating her until the blood ran. So I grabbed him and the nearest object and smacked...
Drew holds up one hand stopping the mayhem champion in mid speech. He shakes his head with a weary smile.
Drew- Whoa, I don't think assault with a deadly weapon is something we can talk about live.
Alex- Well you asked.
Drew- True, but does it still bother you? Is this why you are always putting your body on the line? The king of mayhem as you put it?
Alex- He doesnt really still bother me. I've moved far away from the place I was in. I still do hate the man, but I will always respect some of the things he taught me as a kid. Well when he wasn't to drunk to talk, or walk. The one thing he said was never let people walk all over you. If you want to get noticed in the world you take the bull by the horns. I have to show everyone that I'm still the top dog here. If I don't show the kids how it's done they will start trying to take more and more from me. This is my night to leave a message to both Sean Cruz and Paradyse.
Drew- Why would you have to assert your dominance again? You are champion, and the longest reigning one in the company at the moment, and your division. Why are you on this huge warpath?
Alex- Because the Mayhem division is just like war, you never know what's going to be thrown at you Drew. Just like war I have to make examples to keep the peasants from uprising. That is what I'm going to do to two pariahs this match, I'm going to impale them and make sure everyone sees that might makes right. I'll make sure their their graves are never welcome amidst the halls of the mayhem elite.
Drew- Powerful words Alex, very powerful indeed.
Alex- I think my loss to Matt has made me stronger. I know what it takes to be a champion, but I also have to do things that will surprise them. Sure a shovel to the head will knock out anyone. But really what I'm looking to do here is to scare them out of the mayhem division. I have to take tricks out of the big bag of mess em' up and play it smart.
Drew- The question is do you have that many tricks left in your bag?
Bowen shakes his head at drew.
Alex- Are you kidding me, it's not about having new tricks. It's about spinning them in barbed wire, making sure they can't move. Watching them squirm to get out of it. This is about me throwing down the gauntlet, I will do whatever it takes. I'll do things that will make the brass in the back question why they haven't done more to take this belt off of me. But I guess when their next best choice is a junkie, what can they do?
Drew stops and looks up at the window enclosing the sound station. A man with wild hair is knocking quietly on the door. Drew stops and motions for the man to enter.
Drew- Well listeners it's time for some music. How about this? I'll play you a nice song, and after this we will go live outside to hear the rest of what Mr. Bowen has to say. Ahhh some Lamb of God sounds rather nice right now. The Faded line is it Alex?
Alex- Sounds great to me Drew.
Drew stops and pushes his mic away and kills the feed. Grabbing the mouse in the area of his hand he clicks a pre chosen song for the segment and hits play. The Mayhem champion's theme song hits the airwaves as Drew stands up and welcomes the man into the room finally.
Drew- Are they ready?
Man- For sure, more than we ever could of expected came in today Drew. At least five hundred people are here.
Bowen grimaces at the number put forth in conversation, but follows his host and the man outside of the sound room. Only going reluctantly after Drew basically pulls him by the shoulder. Walking down the hall the men talk about what Bowen is going to say.
Drew- Get them real riled up Bowen, I know you can do it.
Alex- I don't know what you are expecting of me Drew, the fans hate me. I've sort of started to like it.
Drew- These are your people, followers of the King of Mayhem. Just like I am, speak their language. Make them hate Sean Cruz and Paradyse.
Bowen nods his head as Drew opens the door and runs out. Bowen walks out through the light, and a mass of fans cheer his name. In the background his entrance music can be heard.
Drew- And your hometown boy. WZCW SUPERSTAR, AND THE KING OF MAYHEM!!! GIVE A LOUD CHEER FOR ALEX BOWENNNN!
The mass of people in front of the king of mayhem is electric. Signs of all nature can be seen, Bowen slowly walks up to the small podium with a 989 the bear sign and Wzcw logo on it. He grabs the Mic from drew. Bowen lets a sly smile slip across his lips as he notices the support he can get.
Alex- Followers, People of my kingdom. Calm yourself, set and listen to what your king has to say. It's been a while since I've heard a pop that loud. I don't really miss it, but what I do miss is winning. Last week Mr. Matt Tastic said I've fallen out with my fans. But he's WRONG! I fell out with the fakes, I fell out with the people who just wanted to watch me bleed. I fell out with the ass kissers, now I call upon the true followers in a time of need. Follow your king into battle, follow until the last man. Not only will you follow me into keeping my title, you will stay with me until it is all done. You will stick with me until all of WZCW is a follower of the KING OF MAYHEM! Do I have your hands in battle? This is not your fight, but every king needs servants in a time of war. You will pack the front row, pack the stadium with more Bowen support than Wzcw has ever seen. Bring everything you can, walk into the show with a backpack, a sack, a box of things to throw into the ring. Big or small, bring them. Together we will show the liars Sean Cruz and Armando Paradyse what it's really like to walk the hollowed halls of this division, to live a true life of mayhem!
The crowd roars at Bowen's opening segment. King of mayhem chants reign supreme over the people.
It will be no small feat to beat two men, but I have done it before. Both men will beg for mercy at the hands of the king. No one ever survives a mayhem war like I do, I lay down the law of the king. Sean Cruz might of came out relatively unscathed, but I know Armando is still hurting after our last encounter. They might be put in the mayhem division, but that does not mean that they are a mayhem GOD!
Bowen throws his head backwards, he is staring at the clouds as if they are the floating gods. Slowly he lowers his head and begins to talk again.
This Sunday will be about reclamation, I will take back my rightful spot as the only thing talked about in mayhem. Sean Cruz will be looked at as a joke, just like his stooge. This is the final assertion of my dominance. After this match people will look at me for what I really am. I am the toughest man in Wzcw. I haven't held this title for almost a full year for nothing. Many men can lay claim to holding a title for a long time. But only one man has done it longer than I have. I will show both men why I am the mayhem champ. Nothing stops me, I will not let this division regress into nothing just like it was before I came here.
Bowen throws up one arm and the crowd goes wild again. The roar last for what seems like minutes, but after a few seconds Bowen lowers his arms and motions for the crowd to quiet down. Alex starts pacing up and down the podium, mic in hand he mulls his next statement over in his head.
Everyone wants to call Armando Paradyse the dark horse in this match. But I'm most certainly not overlooking the overlooked. He's sat back every show and wanted this title. He's hungry, but I am ready for the wolves. I will do all in my power to end both him and his former tag team partner. I will stoke the fires of mayhem as high as they will go, and open the gates of hell. All liars will burn at All or Nothing. Pretenders to my throne will kneel before me. Sean Cruz and Armando Paradyse will both appeal the me, the wretched mayhem king.
Bowen puts up a strong arm and points into the crowd.
Praise be to all of you followers, all the men and women who will follow me into battle. Together, evil will triumph this day. Together we will doom the heretics to a life bathed in fire. Infernal legion, the time grows nears when we will strike. We shall bring the hammer down together! The margins of sanity will be tested that night, I will do all in my power to put the fallacy of Sean Cruz's win over me to rest. I will be forced to cut them down just another enemy. This is the long road fought to victory. They are both nothing more than a cancerous poison, oh how the smallest violin will sing for their soul. I will be cremating all that bear their name.
Bowen throws down his mic and puts a fist into the air. Yelling with a growl of pure hate.
THAT IS THE TRUTH, AND THIS WILL BE THEIR END! FOLLOW ME TO WAR!
With his head held high the mayhem champ starts to walk down to his people. Slowly making it to the mass of fans he is engulfed, arms and hands pat every inch of his body. He turns around to the camera and makes an imaginary slit across his throat, signaling the final end to his opponents this time. As he is slowly swallowed more and more by the crowd the scene goes black.