Mick Overlast is walking down the hallway leading to the locker room, muttering obscenities under his breath, his face red with anger. As he turns a corner, he runs into an unsuspecting Leon Kensworth, who nearly falls down from the contact. Overlast goes to walk by without looking back when Kensworth calls out to him.
Kensworth: What the hell was that for?
Overlast stops dead in his tracks, his head snapping around to glare at Kensworth as he stands in the middle of the hallway.
Overlast: Don't talk to me, Kensworth. I'm pretty pissed off right now.
Kensworth: Where are you going?
Overlast: To find Bateman and Myles and beat the hell out of them.
Kensworth: For what?
Overlast fully turns around and walks up to Kensworth, a scowl still on his face.
Overlast: For what, you ask? For what?!? Have you seen the card for After Shock?
Kensworth: Yeah, I have, actually...should be a good show.
Overlast: Not for me, it isn't. You look like a smart guy, so maybe you can do the math with me.
Kensworth: Go ahead...
Overlast: A couple weeks ago at Ascension, I was in a tag match with Justin Cooper, correct?
Kensworth: Yes.
Overlast: And Cooper and I lost the match, right?
Kensworth: Right...
Overlast: And who took the fall in the match?
Kensworth: Cooper did.
Overlast: So Cooper is FULLY responsible for our loss, yet it is HE that gets the No. 1 Contender match for the Mayhem Title while I'm stuck beating the hell out of some jobber that named himself after a pumpkin or something?
Kensworth: I see your point.
Overlast: So if you run into Cooper, you can tell him he better watch his back at After Shock. Not only did he cost me my first TV match, but his no-talent ass could also get a title shot a shot I SHOULD be receiving because I'm better than him, something I clearly proved at Ascension by carrying the team on my back.
Kensworth: I'll be sure to deliver the message...
Kensworth turns to walk away, but Overlast stops him.
Overlast: I'm not done.
Kensworth: Go on...
Overlast: Since I joined WZCW, I've been in two matches. The first was a triple-threat match with Cooper and a kid living off of his invalid father's name. The second was my teaming with Cooper against a C3PO knockoff and the comic relief of WZCW television, Jack Skinner. I lost both of those matches, but the results were out of my control.
Overlast briefly looks down at the floor while Kensworth rolls his eyes. Overlast then looks Kensworth in the eye, unaware of the eye roll.
Overlast: I'm sure you'll be running into Jack O'Lantern to do some kind of introductory interview or something along those lines, so you can pass along this message on your way to find Cooper.
At After Shock, I will be competing in my first WZCW singles match. For the first time, there will be no one else in the ring besides me, the referee, and my opponent. Therefore, nothing is going to stop me from beating the living hell out of Jack O'Lantern. All the frustration that is building inside of me from losing joke match after joke match to these hacks will be unleashed, and it won't be pretty. I want kids to cry, I want women to scream in horror and I want grown men to hide their eyes. If I have to leave this guy in a bloody mess to get this organization to take me seriously, then that's what I have to do.
Overlast grabs Kensworth's shirt collar forcefully and pulls him closer.
Overlast: You can tell Jack O'Lantern that he can bring Jason, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin to the ring with him at After Shock, but it won't mean a damn thing because I'll dismantle them all. Got it?
Kensworth: I got it, I got it!
Overlast lets him go and chuckles a little bit while fixing Kensworth's collar.
Overlast: You know, Kensworth...Myles and Bateman should give you a raise or a promotion or something. You just saved them from the biggest beatdowns they'll ever get.
Overlast walks off while Kensworth stands there, still a bit shaken from the incident.
