Prologue (Part I)

Bozzaholic

Pre-Show Stalwart
“A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end” – Aristotle

August 22nd 1983

*The scene opens in a wrestling ring. Two large grapplers are battling it out as the crowd are going crazy. The commentators can be heard*

Comm #1: You really have to give it to Ron “Slugger” Eric tonight after battling through 3 bouts he is finally in the final of this world championship tournament and he is matching the fresh champion with everything he has

Comm #2: Forget it! The champ is just playing with the Slugger. I give this match another 5 minutes

*Suddenly another wrestlers runs out from behind the curtain. The crowd erupts*

Comm #1: My God! That’s… That’s The Sluggers Tag partner and brother John Eric… what’s he doing here?

Comm #2: He’s gonna cheat… that’s disgusting…. And the fans are cheering as he gets closer to the ring

*Ron Eric rolls out of the ring and begins talking with his tag team partner… Suddenly both men walks away from ringside and up the isle towards the curtain as the crowd look on shocked the referee makes the 10 count*

Comm #1: Wha… What the??

Comm #2: Umm… This isn’t supposed… Oh Umm… Ah… I knew he’d bottle it… What a phoney… Champion of the people my foot

*The crowd go quiet as confusion sets in… Suddenly a ring announcer climbs in to the ring*

Ring Announcer: Ladies an Gentleman… I have had word that Ron “Slugger” Eric has forfeited the match, as his wife has about to give birth to their baby…. So your winner by count out… The Master of Disaster

*The crowd boo as the scene fades*

…..

December 3rd 1993


*The scene opens inside a car. The weather outside the vehicle is heavy snow. The windscreen wipers are going at full speed but they are having very little effect on the weather. Sitting in the front passenger seat is a woman while a young boy wearing a wrestling mask is sitting in the back playing with wrestling figures while the wrestler we saw in the previous scene, Ron Eric is driving*

Ron: Hey Yvonne, switch the radio on

*The woman in the passenger seat looks over to “The Slugger” and smiles warmly*

Yvonne: Can’t we turn back?

Ron: Not now… This match has been over 10 years in the making… finally I have another shot at the world championship… This match is what my career is all about

Boy: Dad… are you going to win?

*Ron Eric looks over to his son in the back*

Ron: Gene… Of course I’ll win… umm why are you wearing an “El hijo” mask?

Gene: Because El Hijo is the best

*Gene smiles at his dad as he, himself smiles*

Ron: Cheeky little…

Yvonne: Y’know Gene I am sorry

Ron: Sorry for what?

Yvonne: Well… The last time it was your chance

Ron: *Smiling* Hey… you sentimental old thing that was 10 years ago… and 10 years ago I got something better then a world title I got my Genie

Gene: Daaad… It’s Gene… Not Genie

*Ron smiles OUT OF NOWHERE A SPEEDING CAR SKIDS AROUND A CORNER….. SMASH!!!

The camera cuts to outside of the vechile, we see the car roll three times… SMASH!!!

The car hits another car*

*The scene fades*


…..

1 hour later


*The scene opens in a busy hospital… it is absolute mayhem as a crowd of Doctors rush what looks to be the dead body of a young child on a hospital bed through various corridors*

Doctor #1: How the hell did he survive that?

Doctor #2: His body went through the windshield at the point of the first impact

Doctor #1: So he wasn’t involved in the second RTA?

Doctor #2: No, Luckily?

Doctor #3: Will this kid survive??

Doctor #2: I doubt it… the next 2-3 hours are vital

Doctor #4: Can’t we get that mask off??

*All 4 doctors stop in the middle of the corridor. The first and second doctors slowly try to remove the mask*

Doctor #2: It… it’s stuck?

Doctor #1: where was the body found?

Doctor #2: Near the scene of the explosion

Doctor #1: So… so the mask has…

Doctor #3: Melted to his face?

*There is a brief moment of silence is suddenly thrown back in to chaos as Gene’s young body begins to fit*

Doctor #1: My God…

Doctor #2: Quick lets get him in to theatre

*Scene fades*

……..

1 Week Later


*The scene opens but we cannot see nothing but black, voices can be clearly heard*

Voice #1: How’s the kid doing?

Voice #2: He is in a deep coma. He is showing brain activity but he is still critical. The fact he is still here is a miracle

……..

2 Weeks Later


*The scene opens again but still black*

Voice #1: Is that…?

Voice #2: Yep.. The only survivor of Ron Eric’s family

Voice #1: I dare you to touch the mask

Voice #2: No way…

Voice #1: You’re such a loser

……….

3 Months Later


*The scene opens… blank screen… only this time things are different. Instead of voices there is a loud cheering and chanting can be heard*

Voice #1: What is this?

Voice #2: it’s a ladder match… there are two belts above the ring and the winner is the first to use a ladder and reach the belts

Voice #1: Who’s that guy?

Voice #2: That’s that guys Body guard

Voice #1: ohhh…. Umm… Why are you watching that in here?

Voice #2: I’ve heard that the sound of familier things can help people get out of a coma, This kid is the son of a wrestling legend and the biggest wrestling event of the year is on so… it makes sense

Voice #1: ohh…

***1 hour Later***

*The crowd noises can still be heard, as can the two voices from earlier cheering loudly at what we now know is a wrestling event on the television, suddenly a door can be heard opening, a woman’s voice is heard*

Woman: WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?

Voice 1: We’re watching…

Woman: I don’t care what you’re watching… turn it off and get out!

*Footsteps can be heard leaving the room as the men leave. The sound of high heels can be heard walking across the hard floor towards the sound of where the sound of the TV is coming from*

Woman: And this can go off as well

*As the woman switches the TV off Gene’s body starts violently convulsing, panicking the woman sounds the alarm as the sound of a whole lot of feet can now be heard. The doctors begin pressing their cold stethoscope’s touching his skin as the Doctors begin tests one of them accidentally knocks the television back on to the wrestling channel and Gene’s Body immediately settles back in to it’s comatose state. A confused silence fills the Room*

Doctor #1: hey John, Switch off that TV

*The TV shuts off and Gene starts convulsing again*

Doctor #1: Switch it back on again

*The TV comes back on and the convulsing stops*

Doctor #1: Change the channel

*The channel is changed and Gene starts convulsing again*

Doctor #1: Change it back…. CHANGE IT BACK NOW

*The channel goes back to wrestling and Gene stops*

Doctor #1: That’s amazing… his sub-conscious is searching for a connection through the wrestling. We must leave this on… if this channel gets changed or if this TV now goes off Gene Eric will go in to a state of convulsions. Wrestling… is this boy’s life support

*Scene fades*

……………………..

*6 months later*

*The scene opens; this time the camera is showing the room in the third person. We can see Gene Eric lying motionless on the bed as the wrestling is on, on the TV in the background. The TV has had it’s power button removed along with all of the channel buttons. Gene’s room is the wrestling room*


…………………….

*Approximately 2 years later*

*The scene opens and we’re back to first person. Nothing can be seen but black but we can hear the television*

Television: You sit there, and you thump your bible and say your prayers and didn't get you anywhere! Talk about your Psalms, talk about John 3:16. Austin 3:16 says I just whipped your ass!

…………………….

*A few months later*

Television: The rock is going to show everybody that he’s the best intercontinential champion there is. If you smel what the rock is cookin’… go back to those jabroni’s at ringside

………………………

*A Few months later*

Television: Suck It!

………………………...

*A Couple of years later*

Television: That’s right… I’ve brought my own competition…

…………………………

*Soon after that*

Television: Welcome to WZCW Meltdown!

………………………….

*Years later…*

Voice #1: And this Dr. Spence is Gene Eric. Gene has been here for a number of years and is in a deep coma. He’s a strange case as there is brain activity but no body functions. It’s like the lights are on but no-one is home

Dr. Spence: Why have you not switched off life support?

Voice #1: We can’t. His care is being paid for by the Ron Eric estate which leaves us in a legal grey area as there is no-one who can give permission for the plug to be pulled

Dr. Spence: Why not?

Voice #1: All legal guardians are dead. This man is being kept alive by a legal document

Dr. Spence: What is that loud noise?

Voice #1: Oh that’s the television. It must be left on…. Watch

*The noise of the TV stops…. SUDDENLY Gene Eric’s stats go wild*

Voice #1: I… I can’t get the Television plugged back in, it… it’s not working

*Macinery can be heard screeching all kinds of alarms*

Dr. Spence: Staff Nurse Chilvers, Leave it….. Do not turn that television back on!

Staff Nurse Chilvers: But…

Dr. Spence: It’s not the life support, it’s a television. The stats are just a co-incidence

*Suddenly all of the alarms stop and the stats go back to normal*

Dr. Spence: See

*Suddenly the screen goes from pitch black and only voices to sight*

…. There is a sudden pause ……

Staff Nurse Chilvers: Did he just??

Dr. Spence: I… I think he just….

Gene Eric: Eugh… Wh-Where am I?

*Scene fades*
 

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