Very disappointing

[Kimberly Masters]

This unacceptable, just plain and simple unacceptable.

The person wo speaks out this words is nobody else as the lovely and beautiful General Manager from Lock Up!, Kimberly Masters. As it appears there is some sort of problem, the exact details are unknown yet, but that doesn’t change the fact that there is a problem. Does this problem resolve around the person to which Kim is talking to, her personal assistant Christina Gruber? Maybe it is, or maybe not … But just as the 6´7” tall woman wanted to response something she get interuped by Kimberly once again. Christina let out a loud moan and shrugs with her shoulder, there is nothing she can do to to change the nature of the problem.

Its unbelievable that the ratings from the MayheM show are higher as that from Lock Up! What are the fans thinking? How could this trash wrestling be more interesting as the pure contest of 2 world class athlethes who face each other in the ring to test their limits in a fair and square match? What are the people thinking? What is their problem that they tune in to watch MayheM but not Lock Up?

Kimberly shakes her head and let herself fall down on the couch which stands in her office. It is a very comfortable couch, black leather, very big and comfy. Just the right one to relax after a long day of work. She looks up to Christina and makes a gestue that shows her that she should say something.

What can the problem be Christina? Why are this fans more interested on this hardcore backyard wrestling that MayheM has to offer?

[Christina Gruber]

Listen, I am not sure how I should say that Kim, but the fans love it.

Christina answers, she is still leaning with her back against the wall, her arms are crossed in front of her. She let out another sigh as she looks down at her boss before she continues with her speech.

The fans love violence, that is why they tune in to see MayheM … tables, chairs, ladders, baseball bats, flaming tables … they just love it. Why do you think that I put people through tables while I was an active wrestler. Because the fans loves it, which is pretty funny as they hated me. You know, they hate me, but at the same time they loved me for that what I was doing. Viloence is the new drug … people love … so they tune in to see it.

But I think its not so much the problem of the programm, the type of wrestling that Lock Up! is offering to the people, but rather that we don’t have a very active roster … you know, most wrestlers are just losers, tend to stay away from work, no show our shows … which is not good of business. Maybe we should try to wake up our roster … Well, dunno just an idea.

[md]

Losers, huh?

Yep, none other than the man that's been going through hell the past couple of weeks just so happens to appear leaning against the now opened door of Masters' little fishbowl of an office. Miles hasn't been seen since the beating he got on MayheM a few weeks back, missing a LU! that was ironically in Miami (his hometown) and the MindGames PPV, which sucked major ass if you ask him. But he's here to set the record straight and tell these two idiots what's REALLY up with LockUp! being the B show. Still with the scars and bandages on his forehead, and looking a little more scruffy looking than he once was, he lifts his head and darts his eyes toward Triple XL-tina.

I'm like beyond upset that there isn't a mirror in this office, so YOU can see who the real loser is around here. Fact of the matter is, you haven't done a damn thing to even have the sack to call other people losers, but I'm not one to defame the transexual of this world, toots.

He picks himself off of his leaning position and walks into the office with his eyes looking over to Masters.

And you, you wanna know what's unacceptable? How 'bout the fact that it's obvious you don't know what the heck to do with the little talent you do have on your roster? I find it really funny that when Miles Divine came in here, Miles Divine was the talk of the town, that everyone was coming over to this little guy who people think has a big mouth. Frankly, I find it even MORE hilarious that once I started mentioning why I was even here to begin with, to get some gold, everyone else was walking around like their heads were cut off. The "Oh I don't want a title cuz I'm not here for that" was complete and utter bull and you know it. It wasn't until I made my claim to all the titles a LU! superstar could hope to attain that people started waking the hell up. Not only that, I had to deal with Joe and Jill nobodies coming from left to right getting shots that they didn't even want to begin with.

Was he a little bitter? Hell yeah he was. He hated the fact that he was getting destroyed by all these muscleheads, standing in his way to be where he SHOULD be, HAD to be to keep LU's sinking ship afloat. And trust him, the ratings aren't lying. Just like he knew would happen.

First you have the audacity to put that old fart the Alzheimer's Revenger or whatever the hell his name is in the Continental Championship quali's and a bunch of other FILL-INs that had no business representing LU! to begin with. I swear, you must have been popping a few when you had the audacity to even look Miles Divine over, the ONLY superstar that was THE proponent of this crapshoot you call a brand. I was the one getting people to tune in and follow LU! using MY story and MY charisma. You didn't put two and two together, probably just let your blond Amazon over here book things. And since she's had it out for me, I can see why Miles Divine was passed over in bringing home the very title Miles Divine was making worth a damn. And we all know how that Continental tourney ended up, right?

He takes a few steps forward, and pulls out the daily newsletter that GCW superstars receive via email. Tossing it on the desk, it clearly depicts the topic story of the day. A geezer getting his ass whooped by some guy nobody knows or cares about. Yeah, couldn't be any more random.

Yep, your chump ex-champ got "decommissioned" by another guy who likes to wear make-up in the hopes of pulling off being intimidating. And it was after the fact that he lost the title to some guy who has nothing better to do but have some tv airtime featuring remotely interesting people. And I stress the word remotely if you didn't catch that hint, Masters. But I'm sure the roster was like "omgz we lost the revenger now LU! is doomed!" Toots, LockUp! was doomed way before that. Actually, when you took it upon yourself to keep me out of the airwaves to be more precise. And don't EVEN go into that whole "I don't make you, you make yourself" bull that I'm sure you're thinking about. What's in your job description? Re-read it and you'll reconsider using that as an excuse. Hell, why are you here again, if you're not here to give the people what they SHOULD be seeing? Take that door and your heffer of an assitant with you and I'll sit on that big chair and guarantee you that the people will get what they should be getting.

He takes a second, before pointing to himself.

Oh, and just sos you know, MayheM is so damn popular lately, because for one I was there, and as much as I hate to say it, the GM over there is making you look like an amateur. Hell that bitch over there threw me into the cage with some BULL-y that knocked more sense into me. What's that sense? That Miles Divine can scrap with the best of them. Took that Russian dude like twenty minutes to catch me with that spear of his. Show me someone else that'll do that and I'll gladly leave you to drive LU! further into the ground.

So yeah, it's not the violence that people are into. It's just the fact that the people who should be pushed, ARE being pushed. Guess that means Banks has one-uped you again. Sad, really.

And don't get me started on that other BS you pulled with MY other titles, LU!'s two show belts. In one corner you have some other "fear me cuz i'm skurry" 'etard representing the show I was making. How funny was it that nobody even gave him the time of day? Ha! I saw his little promo mentioning the one and only Miles Divine but I kept away to prove a point. He's not worth my time cuz I'm not that stupid than to get into another strength contest, and give him the satisfaction of possibly beating me and adding his first defense with my name as an expense. Nuh-uh, he should be handing that title to me than calling me out. But guess he's just not hype right? Since he won at both LU! and at MindGames? Who were the people who challenged him again?

He ponders that for another brief second. He shrugs.

I think that says enough. And how about that other corner? The Code Of Divinity...I mean Discipline Championship? Some Asian dude had it, who didn't even dare badmouth Miles Divine because he knows I'm that damn good, only for some guy who wears a HOODY in his damn matches to win it?! And my god, the personality in that one just makes me shiver in my boots. It's really goosebump-worthy [/sarcasm].

In a nut shell, you suck like majorly as do the people who you call champs that represent this show. Again, wake the hell up or get to steppin' Masters. Miles Divine can deliver your resignation for you so you don't have to face the higher-ups either. I'm sure they'll be thrilled to finally be rid of you.

A little TOO much to take in? Miles Divine was gonna get this off his chest one way or another. Anybody that knows him, would know that he'll do it in a way that wouldn't be considered nicely put. To hell with that.

[Kimberly Masters]

So ... bring this letter to Candi ok?

Christina nods with her head, picks up the letter and then leave the office from the GM of Lock Up! Kimberly looks at Mr. Divine and cross her hands in front of her as she takes a look at him … a very sceptical look …

You are finished?

Before Mr. Divine could response Kimberly continues to talk.

Don’t say a word Mr. Divine … not one single word before I allow you to do that, or I gonna fire you. I will send you back to this second rate wrestling promotions you have worked before … send you back to the unknown … your name will disappear as fast as you got yourself in the spotlight with your big mouth.

But this big mouth of yours will not help you … not now. You like to run your mouth about Christina? Run your mouth about me? … AHHHH … Mistake … big mistake. I am sitting in this chair because I am who I am … the best at that what I am doing. You think I am doing a bad job as General Manager? Why should I care? … Can you answer me that?

I don’t think so … as a matter of fact your future is in my hands … and if you want to talk trash to me again, you can be sure that your job will turn into a living hell here. As a matter of a fact I gave you the opportunity to compete for the Lock Up Championship … but you screwed up. You disappointed me … I had planned that you should win the title as you had everything that was needed to win it … but no … you had to screw up. You had to lose …

And then what did you had to do? Instead of challenging the champion you had to travel to MayheM to screw up there as well. You made Banks angry … you suffered at the hands of her big dog … and believe me when I say that … he just played with you … 20 minutes? You think you lasted so long in the match? … Wrong … he played with you for 20 minutes … and then he finished you off … so badly that you had to miss LU and the PPV. He destroyed you and because of that … you missed the show … which leads to the problem that the ratings are low …

The fans loves to see you getting beating up … quite strange right? You consider yourself as the best … but in the end you are just that what Christina was talking about, a loser. Yes, you heard right a loser … a big time loser … BUT … yes I said but … I might give you another chance … another opportunity to become somebody.

This month, at the PPV 1 person will get the opportunity to get a spot for the main event of the final PPV of this season. It’s a big chance for anybody to make history … a chance that I might give you … but this chance doesn’t come for free. You have to do something … you need to qualify yourself for this match … so at the next Lock Up! Show you got the chance to do that. Find yourself an opponent who deserve it as much as you do to be in this PPV … if not you have wasted this chance to become somebody …

Or … this is the second opportunity you can get … go out in the ring and challenge one of the champions … the decision is up to you … but chose carefully if you are not fast enough you might lose both of this chances … So do we understand each other?

[md]

Miles looks over to the door, acknowledging how much Masters has seemingly tamed that fugly giant she calls an assitant. It's amusing to him how she's letting Masters treat her like the lap dog she is. After taking in all that Masters had to say, especially after Masters had the audacity to cut him off, he crosses his arms and cocks an eyebrow. Wait wait wait! Did she just say she'd FIRE Miles Divine?! He chuckles to himself.

You know, Miles Divine knows desperation when Miles Divine sees it. I'll take that BLUFF of yours and raise you the very fact that if by the SMALLEST unlikelihood you do fire Miles Divine, you'd be kissing YOUR job goodbye. Why's that? Your show is already hanging on by a thread and there's NO ONE else that can save you your job than the man you're trying to outdo with your petty threats.

Miles then reaches into his pockets and pulls out a imaginary hand of the game poker and slams it face down on her desk. He gives her a "whatta ya got?" look and he quickly eyes the imaginary hand right in front of her. Picking up her hand, to see her cards, he frowns.

Damn, you have a straight flush. The 8, 9, 10, Jack and Queen of clubs.

He looks defeated, until he turns that frown upside down.

But not so fast.

Tossing the imaginary hand in her face, he picks up his and turns them over, leaving them on the desk.

A Royal Flush, Masters. The Ace, King, Queen, Jack and 10, of hearts! Miles Divine wins with the highest ranking hand in poker and he bbbb-breaks anotha heartbeat!

He adds that little arcappella/beatbox arrangement at the end there for just another reason why he's one of a kind. An up and coming recording artist? A wrestler that sings his OWN entrance music. He'd like to see someone else do that.

K, now that I called you on your obvious bluff, you're "I'm gonna fire you if you don't shut up" is null and void.

So since it's obvious that poker isn't your thing, general managing is the same issue. And you SHOULD care what I have to say cuz in a way I'm the voice of the LU! brand. If you don't have the cooperation of your brand, you've got nothing. Might as well make you something that's expendable, not needed. There IS that saying about the inmates running the asylum you know. So don't hold your breath, toots.

As for giving me opportunities and me screwing them up? Stop right there. I'm not the one who made that tired goth act number 10 in the LU! battle royal. And you as much as everyone else knew, someone like that who's fresh, with his tired powerhouse game, has a distinct advantage. Not only that Miles Divine sure as hell doesn't know where the heck he came from, cuz the only one that came out when I made my case concerning all the belts, only your now ex-chump showed up. Frankly, you have a convenience as the champion of your brand. If you like mediocre, that's your thing. Miles Divine looks for and IS quality.

He takes a deep breath, before lifting his sunglasses on his head.

Guess you don't here squat either huh? Miles Divine went to MayheM to win YOU some points in this ratings war. Nobody else dared to set foot on the rival brand and hell even open up an open challenge. And don't forget, it was YOUR champion that mentioned MILES DIVINE in his bore of a promo on LU! and I did what I had to do to show him how BORING he is the guy who supposedly represents LU!. He should take his hocus pocus crock over to MayheM, cuz he's like the most unpolished wrestler I've ever seen. No way am I risking my career against some guy who can injury me. I'm not stupid. So I wanted and made the impact I needed to make. I went on MayheM and got the bull-y Banks has turned into a domestic pet. I gotta say though, that was ONE HELL of a fight. You could say I never felt more alive after that match.

The tape's in the archives, Masters. Do yourself a first and pay attention. You say he toyed with me for twenty minutes? HA! Show me someone who made him leave even remotely hunched over. Miles Divine got through to him. And next time, when he least expects it, I'm gonna hand him his first loss. He'll be eating some good ol' F.I.N.E.

Don't mistake the simple fact that I'm gonna be on air with "people wanting me to lose." Simply put, they are still watching. Hell, wanna try again and guess why the LU! before the PPV sucked majorly? Cuz I wasn't there, toots!

He makes sure that it sinks in, and makes perfect sense. Cuz frankly, it does.

You're hilarious that Triple XL-tina's opinion matters when she's nothing but an assitant. He-she's not an active wrestler on the roster. So her opinion is as much as I can throw her. Which isn't much at all. I don't benchpress cows.

He's then given another choice. Masters sure likes those doesn't she? He wonders why she doesn't CHOOSE to get her ass off that chair and actually interact in her damn show.

PPV opportunity? Someone that deserves it as much as Miles Divine does? Who the hell are you kidding? There's no one who does, so I guess that presents a problem.

Challenge a champ? Doesn't sound too bad. How about you give me THE champs? COD, LU!, and the Continental Champ all in one night. Titles on the line. Let's see how many I can collect in a gold rush style match-series. My ASCENSION has already happened WAY before I came into your office. Titles would be the cherries on top. I don't care if you need to put other people in the damn matches. Miles Divine will seize what's his when they least expect it.

Wait what? Talk about being bold. He gives her a smirk.

[Kimberly Masters]

So I should give you a match? A match against all champions? Which each title on the line because you are so F.I.N.E??

Kimberly just shake her head.

You are not cocky, you are stupid if you think that this will happen. I got wrestlers on my roster who deserve a title shot, an opportunity to become a champion a lot more as you do. The only thing I said was that you have the choice at LU … to either go out there, challenge a champion for a match and hope that the champ will answer your challenge … the 2nd choice would be to go out there and challenge somebody who is in the rankings on the same place as you are or higher, to fight them for a spot in the MIL match at the PPV … which would give you the chance to be in the main event of the final PPV …

But as you don’t seam to be interested in that … do what you want … miss a few more shows and you are fired … its simple as that or get up from your lazy ass and finally show that you are not just talk … but also to back up your words with actions …

Speaking of actions … this month at the house show … we will have a nice power match. You will have the chance to play a bit poker live in the ring … and it should be interesting to see if you will have an Royal Flush up on your sleeve … which I highly doubt.

[md]

Miles Divine knew that you'd be the two-faced individual you've always been, Masters. First you praise the hell out of me and then you say I'm stupid for even thinking of something that'll make EVERYONE tune in to this month's LockUp! show. You said it yourself, people apparently watch only to see Miles Divine get beaten to a bloody pulp, so why deny that three times over? Three times MORE than what last month's show drew in. The lackluster ratings are on that table so be sure to remind yourself of it. Anyways, I love how ignorant YOU are for even calling me out as some looney when you know deep down that featuring all your champions in such a specialty series of matches would be BIG, if not blow the roof off the joint.

What's the matter? Thinking that Miles Divine will fine sweep the competition and capture three titles in one night? I don't blame you for being worried about that, but try to remain consistent with what you say and what you believe. You say I'd get my behind handed to me, so that makes me not even the slightest threatening to any of those wrestlers you call champions. But that's not what you believe right? You know that there's that chance that I can come out of nowhere, do whatever it takes to get what I know is mine.

But I can't blame you I guess. It's not everyone that takes a great idea and makes something out of it, and not backing out like a coward. Makes you human, right? Do damn bad I'm a superstar. Now and F-O-R-E-V-E-R.

He turns around and partakes his dull surroundings. He responds to her "suggestion" about just sitting on his ass.

Once again, Miles Divine lets you on a little secret. Think before you speak, cuz your suggestion can't be any more ironic.

Wait...poker in the ring?

He cocks an eyebrow and turns back around.

Finally putting that brain of yours to good use? Please tell me...more?

He rolls his eyes, as the dry sarcasm of his last statement fills the room.

[Kimberly Masters]

Nope ... you will have to wait and see it for yourself at the house show what I mean with playing poker ... but you will notice that it I am better in this card game as you are. So Mr. Divine is this talk the talk over and you have decided what you will do at the coming Lock Up! Show? Will you take the opportunity and step up … becoming a champion or sit back once again claiming I haven’t giving you a chance like you did just a couple of seconds ago. Cause in the end it is not me who makes a champion but rather the wrestler who decided to step up … hell why do you think that Nick Jones is CoD champion? He was not sitting on his ass, he walked to the champ, made a challenge and took that what he wanted. Something that you are non then less missing.

Finally step up Mr. Divine, show that you don’t need to came to me after every lose, after a crushing defeat, the fact is that you are too fine to be wasted at jobber, the only problem is that your ego is bigger as the whole world and if you can’t shrink that down you will always have a problem to be who you are. Don’t forget that overconfidence is that what has cost many people their top spot in the business, just look at this Orton guy … he could have been the top star of his promotion for years, but no he always screwed up … till he finally put himself together, left his ego behind him and took his spot on the top … I want to see that from you as well … so step up

[md]

Kim's words continued to strike the same nerve over and over again. He hated people telling him to step up, that his confidence is his own demise.

Don't tell me to do ANYTHING, toots. Miles Divine is his own man! You don't have a clue where the hell I come from and what I've been through.

What does he mean by that? All those walls he has around him seem to be showing a few cracks.

I'm the best thing anyone could ever ask for. I'm young, handsome, charasmatic, a second generation superstar, the one the people love, the one the people hate, and Mister F-I-N-E! I'm what this business has overlooked, passed on, the answer to all of this 'roid controversay that's crippling this business to its knees. But noooooo, it's all the same everywhere and anywhere. I have to deal with management telling me that I'm too much, to ego-driven, too snobby, too over the top, BUT that's what makes for great TV! People are drawn to those that stand out in the crowd and goddamnit Miles Divine has, is and will continue to stand out!! This meeting is over, Masters. You toss whatever trump card you have for Miles Divine his way, stack the odds against me anyway you see fit! Just remember one thing, when it's all said and done, when whoever you throw my way to complete decimate me, people are tuning it to see ME, and ONLY me!!! I'm the secret weapon, the weapon that when you least suspect it WILL become the weapon of mass destruction. But not in the way that's it's been tiredly done over and over again in this business. And when that time comes, I'm going to be untouchable both in and out of the ring!!!

He storms out of the room before covering his leering eyes with his sunglasses. How much he hated to be told he wasn't good enough, that he wouldn't live up to...

The door slams shut. Masters is left with her own thoughts of what just happened.