Post by Steve Sinclair on Jun 16, 2015 8:11:26 GMT
Inside a gym locker room somewhere is where we find Double J Joe Jones…..
After his workout for the day he stands fresh from the showers in some shorts digging through his gym bag. He’s digging down towards the bottom of his bag and it dawns on him that he hasn’t cleaned his bag out in a couple of weeks.
”Well I’ll be a son of a…”
The rest of what he says tails off as another gym goer enters the room. Yeah sure guys talk to themselves while working out but let’s face it. Joe is half naked in a locker room with another grown ass man filming him. The gym goer has this look of “What the f….” on his face. Joe looks out the corner of his eye towards the camera and smirks. The guy doesn’t stop and keeps on walking all the way through the locker room and out the other side of the room.
”Told you this was a bad idea Joe.”
“Yeah I know Timmy.” Hey look it’s cameraman Timmy! “But I don’t have a ton of time and let’s face it. It would be real awkward to ask Jessica to join me in her but….to be honest I think she would have.”[/color]
“How’s she doing anyways?” Timmy asks.
“Uhh... You know as good as anyone who was dumped on national TV or in her case on Showtime. She really really loves Billy and it killed her.” Joe shrugs. “I think it’ll take some time but she’ll be okay. I noticed she dove into her work this week.”
Joe pulls out a pair of pants from his bag and drops his drawers and aren’t we lucky this is Showtime….not that Timmy pan back and down but let’s just assume he’s naked for the 30 seconds it took him to slide his pants on. He tosses his shorts into his bag and pulls out a shirt and holds it and has a look of disappointment on his face.
“What’s wrong?” Timmy asks.
“Why do you think something is wrong Timmy?” Joe asks.
“You have this look on your face….you know, like you didn’t like what you just saw.”
“Just now?”
“Yeah?”
“Was it the same look I had when I saw that forest you call back hair on your back?”
“uhhh….”
“Just nod that it was Timmy and for the love of god man, shave that back of yours among others parts of your body. You listen to me and that pretty little thing you’re chasing will notice you.”
“How does she know I have a hairy back….”
“Oh she knows dude. Trust me she knows.”
“Really? Wait! Nevermind. Enough about my hairy back. What was that look for?”
“I have only one shirt in my bag and it’s this. I would ask you for yours but I don’t want that carpet on your back all over mine.” Joe holds the shirt up and it’s a new Team Empire shirt.
“What’s wrong with that?” Timmy asks.
“Angelo designed it and.” Joe flips the shirt around and looks at it. He doesn’t want to wear it at all. ”Well it sucks. He’s not even around anymore and yet he gets the front office, merch people to press out new shirts and expects me to wear his crap and fight his war. The other day we decided that this fight that Angelo started just isn’t worth it anymore.”
“Wait? So are you saying that Team Empire is dead?”
“Camera man Timmy with breaking news. Team Empire and its quest to do whatever the hell Angelo was trying to do is dead. The Universe should let out a sigh and breath easy tonight for the war is over with.”
“So you guys are waving the white flag then?”
“I never give up anything but….I don’t know what you want to call it. I just woke up, hugged Kenny and buried my face in his chest hair, the only kind of body hair a guy should have Timmy you f*cking ape! And I looked Kenny in the eye and asked him what the hell I was doing? He suggested a couple of things..”
“Like what?” Timmy asks.
Joe drops his arms and shakes his head. He finally shrugs and looks at Timmy. “Stuff Timmy. Stuff. We had a heart to heart about our current situation and where I stood in the UWL and asked me if I was truly happy to which I said I’ll be truly happy when…..” Joe pauses and remembers who he is talking too.
“Well we’ll leave that for another show. Then he asked me where he saw myself in the UWL in 2 weeks time? I had to think about that for a moment and I told him. Not at Pure Aggression. That is where I see myself. So this week Rayne and Billy and Nanook and I, we’ll show up for work, the four of us will go down to that ring and ask for forgiveness.”
“How come you don’t see yourself at Pure Aggression?”
“That’s how the UWL was going to win Timmy. By keeping us out of the ring. I have been sidelined for two weeks and no I wasn’t freaking hurt either. Rayne didn’t have a match last week and Billy…..you tell me when he last had a match. The UWL was simply going to make the problem and the problem childs go away and….and what can I say? I didn’t have to come back to the UWL. I didn’t have to return. I was very much happy staying at home embarking in the second part of life, dedicating myself to something I loved and to someone I love more than wrestling itself. It kills me to be on the road and away from Kenny. I’m not back for the money. I’m not coming back to be the man and be the guy to once again defeat Caleb Hart. I want to hold those tag team titles one more time. That is why I returned. I had the same goal as Angelo and that is why we formed Team Empire…...somewhere in there it….I don’t know, became something else. It just took off and before you know it, it was about this idea we somehow all decided we had to push onto everything and we were hell bent on getting our way…..Jesus….”
It hits Joe and he rolls his eyes and looks up.
“We became a cult TImmy! We became the Westboro Baptists church!”
“Huh...that is a bit of a leap…”
“You know what I mean!” Joe gives Timmy this look.
“I know. So what are you going to say?”
“Besides please don’t book me against Odyssey again? I’m not sure yet. I’m still working on it. We’ll have something by Saturday and we’ll see. Maybe we can make amends and move on from this.”
“Are you sorry for all of this?”
“I don’t know. We did change things around here. We saved the tag straps and look at what just happened. New champs and we have other teams showing up now to challenge for those belts. I want to think we pushed guys into stepping up and going after Caleb Hart. Without Team Empire I don’t know if Alan would be back in the UWL. I’m not sure if Caleb would have a list of would be challengers you know. Did we cause some heartache? You betcha ya! But I think some positives came from it as well. But I know this.”
Joe turns towards Timmy and the camera. He holds the shirt in his hand.
“I know I will have some penance to deal with with the aftermath of Team Empire. We all will. Rayne faces Craig Williams this week and I have...well Odyssey and Winterborn in a three way match. Now I didn’t realize that I pissed people off that much to get punished like that. My talents are far superior to be wasted on the likes of Winterborn and Odyssey. I should in the very least be facing the new Prestige champion EVS or the former not so great Prestige champion Slade. Maybe Billy and I should be facing the new tag team champions. Perhaps I should be facing Caleb Hart and this time I promise I’ll get in the ring against him and much like the last time, defeat him. If anyone in the UWL should be facing Hart for that UWL Triple Crown Championship it should be the only guy who holds a victory over him. But I’m being punished and I know this so this week, I will eat crow and do what I do best and that is take names, put guys on the mat and pick up the wins and as I am doing this, eating crow, wishing it was Russell that I was nibbling on. Just remember that when Team Empire gets in that ring for the last time this Saturday night, you aren’t seeing me waving a flag, giving up the fight and tossing in the towel. Rather I am just changing gears and going back to my original goal I had in the UWL when I made my return a couple of months ago. Capturing those UWL Tag Team titles and in due time, they will be mine again! Oh yes they will! The birds of Prey can step aside yet again and when I put you down on your back Winterborn, there will be no doubt in anyone’s mind who’s one half of a team is way much better. I am no longer Team Empire, but by god I am just as big and impressive as the Empire State building! Through out all of the muck, all of the storms and the attacks, I stand tall, and proud. No one is ever going to knock me down. I will stand the test of time. And you can mark my words on that! I will walk out of Saturday’s show being named the victor and everyone in the UWL, and my two opponents this week, just consider yourself warned.”
Fade out.