04-18-2020, 11:27 PM
OOC: Good luck Ash and J. Similar to last nights effort where it was Randy and I with a collaborative CD, tonight we have a collaborative shoot. Hope everyone enjoys!
The scene opens up inside the BlackOut Academy. This is an establishment that means a lot to the woman who is sitting on the ring apron without a care in the world, Kelsai Adamson-Mason. Dressed casually, she doesn't come across like her normal exuberant self.
“Before anything else I want to make sure that I give a shout out to Regan Street and say congratulations on winning the SCW Television Championship this past Wednesday night on Breakdown.
Now turning all of my attention to the task at hand, initially when it happened I was upset.
Maybe upset is not even the right word, because while I was certainly upset yes, it seems to me that there must be a word that is even stronger to deny what I am feeling right now.
Alright, I was angry, and if I am being completely honesty with all of you that seems to run in spurts, because sometimes I am still angry, really angry. That is not something that I like to admit to being, because it is not me, but it is what is it, and sometimes?
Sometimes I want to take my fist shove it so far down both of their throats that I be able to massage their livers for them.”
Thinking careful about how she wants to proceed with the next point, Kelsai takes a deep breath before continuing.
“By the time that we get in the ring for SCW Cold Blooded ten days will have passed since all of the garbage went down and I can tell you in no uncertain terms that I am still angry, in fact there is a good chance that I might be even more angry now. I can take a lot of things, and when I decided to go into professional wrestling I did so knowing that people were going to do things to me that I might now always like, and that is alright. But for two people to make a mockery of everything that I believe in? That is uncalled for, I am still angry, and I will still be very angry when my big brother Blake and I finally get our hands on them, and who are they, in case you have been living in a cardboard box since last Thursday and don’t know? They are the most appropriately named tag team of all time, The Jackass and The Big Ass Connection.
I know that is a not nice thing to say and honestly I am sure that I will look back on it at some point in my life and regret the fact that I am being like this, but for now I believe that The Jackass and Big Ass Connection sounds just about perfect to me. Individually they are Thomas Valentine and Kandis, but collectively they are nothing more than one unbelievable Jackass, and his partner who is what she advertises herself as, a Big Ass indeed. There is no doubt also that they are one incredibly talented tag team, as the now two time and reigning SCW World Tag Team Champions, which will be the prize that Blake and I will be challenging for when we face the two of them Sunday.
This match would have been big enough already, this is the first time that my brother and I have ever competed as a team, and we have the opportunity to become World Champions. Not only that but this event is taking place in New Orleans, my hometown so you know that my lovelies will be out in full force, the I might not be in my normal head space come Sunday night when I look across the ring and see Thomas and Kandis looking back at my Big Brother and myself.
All things considered you would think that I would be excited about this match, and believe me when I tell you that I am, though, it is another circumstance that really has me chomping at the bit for this match. Again, I can take a lot of things. I can take and give you love back in your face in return. I know that this is very frustrating for some people, and others don’t understand this at all, especially from a professional wrestler, because as we all know, professional wrestlers are prone to violent outbursts, right?
Don’t worry, it was sarcasm for those that can’t understand that.
But that is who I am and what I believe in; love.
Love is the most powerful force in the world. I am not saying that to blow smoke up someone’s rear end. I won’t even say I believe that because I know that it is true. I understand that not everyone else feels that way, and in fact I know that believing in this makes me is one of things that makes me unique in SCW. I can handle that, but you want to know what really makes me want to smack a couple of people right upside the head? When people become so narrow minded that I become the subject of mock and ridicule because I believe in love, which is why initially I became very angry about this. I mean who mocks and ridicules other people because they believe in love? I still get a little sick to my stomach when I stop and think about that sometimes.
Recently I have started to volunteer at restaurant named The Bourbon Street Diner, or The Diner for short, it’s not too far from here. The restaurant is no longer open like as it normally is due to concerns about the coronavirus in a city that has been ravaged by it. Owned and operated by Cynthia and Sam Thompson however, when they were told that their restaurant was being closed due to these concerns, did they complain about no longer able to serve the community? No, they simply asked, how can we help? Then they turned their restaurant into what it is currently, a place where healthcare and public service workers can come in and receive a free meal while they are fighting on the front lines against this disease. Cynthia and Sam do this out of nothing more than the goodness of their hearts, because that is love people, that is what I believe in, and that why I started to think about this match a little differently the last few days.
Because I know exactly what love has given to me going into this contest. It has given me the best tag team partner I could possibly ask for in SCW, given that my husband Victor does not work for this company. You see, I still a touch green around the gills in a manner of speaking. I wont even be in SCW for a year until after this event, so yeah, I am still learning on the job, but the same cannot be said for Blake, no Blake is one of the very best in this industry whether people want to admit it or not.
Thomas did you really know what you were doing when you decided to disrespect me on multiple occasions? Did you understand what it might end up costing you Kandis when you decided to mock and ridicule me over the love that I try to spread to other people. Take a look around you in the city of New Orleans this weekend. There are people that could use hope, could use love from someone and yet when someone like me tries to break the mold of a professional wrestler and use love as my platform for how I reach people you think that this is a joke?
I am going to show you Sunday night that this is nothing for you to laugh at, and I am going to have my Big Brother to help me to do it. In the last two months, I have had some ups in my career, but quite honestly there have been a lot more downs. My resolve has changed though, rather it has gotten even stronger. After all, what does not kill you makes you stronger or so they say and I am certainly not dead yet.
Thomas, you won the SCW Television Championship from me on Breakdown not too long ago.
Congratulations.
This Sunday, I want you and Kandis to please do something for me. I want you to keep smiling and laughing at me. I want you to keep taking love as a joke. That way, when you lose the SCW World Tag Team Championships to Blake and myself just the way that I lost the SCW Television Championship to you Thomas, I can take heart in the fact that at least that the two of you will still be smiling and laughing.
Because again I believe in the power of love, and that means I like smiling and laughing to, even when it is misguided and you never know what it is that is going to hit you until it is too late.”
Done with her speech, Blake Mason comes into the scene. He sits right next to his sister. Wrapping his arm around her shoulder she opens up by saying--
“Welcome to---”
Blake stops himself from carrying on with his normal intro. Pondering how to push forward for three seconds, he continues. “Normally I would say WELCOME TO THE BLAKE-MASON-EXPERIENCE. Doesn’t feel right. I am not walking down to the ring alone this Sunday. For the first time ever, myself and Kelsai will showcase what we collectively bring to the table. B & K Experience? Blake shakes his head. Not catchy. Mason Consolidated? Hm. Saying Welcome to Mason Consolidated comes across like I am welcoming you to my family's company. Forgive me for the intro. We’ll figure something out next time.”
“With that bit of rambling out of the way, lets officially begin.”
Blake takes a deep breath.
“We can debate how we got here. Tommy, Kandis, you believe me repeatedly questioning Tommy about his disrespect of Kelsai was me getting involved in YOUR business. I can turn around and say the minute you two disrespected my family, you made it MY business. I am not going to belabor a point we are not going to find any agreement on. Why waste time. Energy. Focus. Not important who got into whose business, the end result is that Sasha took note of our interactions and thought the four of us created a recipe for a great match. Here we are, on the precipice of having one of the most unique tag team title matches in Supreme Championship Wrestling history.”
“I am not a man who is going to shy away from the obvious. You two have been a tag team since 2019. Won the tag team titles off the current World Champion, James Evans and a woman who is a Hall of Famer in multiple companies, Angelica Jones. Since you two lost the tag team titles at Rise to Greatness 2019, both of you have had to go through multiple obstacles for months on end just to get those belts back, which recently includes overcoming Infamous and holding back the challenge of a Hellcat and a Snow Queen. Safe to say you two are battle tested in ways Kelsia and I haven’t been as a team. Right. This will be our first official match as a tag team. Come to think of it, how much of a chance do we really have, especially when you factor in that Kelsai and I operate on two spectrums on the philosophical divide. I will take any short cut presented. She won’t. She loves the fans. Maybe all the years in the sport made me jaded, I could care less about the audience. The audience adored me when I did what they felt was right, boo’ed me out the building when they felt I was wrong. The fans? Meh. Kelsai has no problem letting love in. Me? Not to brag or anything, a lot of women have felt my love over the years... but that isn’t what Kelsai means. Her view of letting love in, not mine.”
“So you are probably asking yourselves, with the odds so clearly against us, how the hell are Blake and Kelsia going to become the brand spanking new Tag-Team-Champions... of the World.”
“Simple. We’re Mason’s. What is the one characteristic that defines us all? Stubbornness.”
Blake smirks with pride. “My history for being a stubborn asshole is legendary. It sounds redundant repeating history. You two might be served with this friendly reminder. Years ago when I got myself exiled from the Perfect World, the wrestling audience believed I was done. There were days where I felt that way, I lost out on an Elimination Chamber match to become #1 contender for the World Championship, everyone wrote me off. I didn’t. I rebounded from personal and career difficulty to beat Katie Steward, Greg Cherry and I believe Thirteen for the SCW Adradline Championship, know what else happened that year besides me being on the outs with Kelcey? My father passed away. No one would blame me if I didn’t come back to work. He wouldn’t allow me to quit, even beyond the grave. If that flashback doesn’t work for you, as everyone knows I walked away from this sport over a year ago due to reasons. I wasn’t going to come back, I thought I was done. That voice inside me kept nagging. Blake, you need to go back. I told that voice no, I’m done. But the itch to come back wouldn’t go away. Here we are.”
“Us Mason’s no matter the circumstances, are not the type to go away when the odds aren’t in our favor.”
“Take Kelsai for example. Andrew Raynes tried to bully her. Me, my brother, Amy tried to caution Kelsai against picking a fight with Raynes. But she did. And she came out on top. Kelsai has this innate talent for not exactly listening to what isn’t possible. Jerks like you two keep mocking her beliefs. Her way of doing things has led to her becoming a two time SCW Television Champion, where is your singles title reign Kandis... Kelsai has had several show stealing performances in her Supreme Championship Wrestling career, if that isn’t impressive enough, she eventually won me over. No secret I threw a fit when she married into the family. I thought by pure force of will, I would make her think twice about having me as a Big Brother. I lost count of how many people I have pushed away. Kelsai didn’t budge, she saw something in me worth weathering the storm for. I was a bastard for not dropping the non-compete in Trios. Despite all that, she still views teaming with me as special... that makes me want to cry. I’ll save that for when the camera fades to black. I have to protect what little is left of my reputation.”
“There you go, we’re stubborn.”
Blake strokes his chin.
“So what this is our first tag team match together.”
“So what, you have been a tag team longer.”
“So what you overcame Hall of Fame talent recently to get the tag team championships back.”
“To that I say, GOOD. We have no problem being the underdogs. What pushes men and women forward to achieve greatness is taking on challenges head on. What is the point is being prideful in an achievement if you can walk over it. Climbing the mountains in life is what pushes up to become great. To struggle. To rise above your paygrade. To scratch. To claw. To beat the very best the world throws at you. To grow because of it. That is the marking of true greatness. There are a lot of men and women in this sport who are content in their station, they will rest on their laurels, to leech off the past, to believe every advantage they have is enough to carry them through the day. What a year away has put into perspective for me is to always stay hungry. Kelsia shares that same hunger. She is not content by a long shot. If we are being honest I have no reason to be content due to my resume. The older one gets the more settled into their station they become. I am not going to allow myself to settle for anything, not anymore, this could be very well by my last run in pro wrestling.”
“Don’t worry, I am not retiring within the next six months, come on, I have been in this sport since the age of eighteen. So many times I have started. Stopped. Failed to win World Titles. The grind can become a burden. I go into every match I have knowing the next time I stop will be the end. I am not content knowing that if we lose it would be one and done. Nope. I am expecting one thousand percent that me and Kelsai are going to achieve the impossible on the very first try.”
“I won’t allow us to fail.”
Blake wags his finger. He places his hand over his heart.
“We can, and we will become the brand new tag team champions of the world.”
“Tommy. You brought this on yourself. All you had to do was respect my sister. You already lost the Television Championship. The only thing you’ll leave New Orleans with is Kandis big ass; as big of an ass as it is, knowing you failed her by crossing my path, that’s going to suck. Don’t worry, Drake will take good care of her...
Blake offers Kandis a friendly wink and the scene fades to black.
The scene opens up inside the BlackOut Academy. This is an establishment that means a lot to the woman who is sitting on the ring apron without a care in the world, Kelsai Adamson-Mason. Dressed casually, she doesn't come across like her normal exuberant self.
“Before anything else I want to make sure that I give a shout out to Regan Street and say congratulations on winning the SCW Television Championship this past Wednesday night on Breakdown.
Now turning all of my attention to the task at hand, initially when it happened I was upset.
Maybe upset is not even the right word, because while I was certainly upset yes, it seems to me that there must be a word that is even stronger to deny what I am feeling right now.
Alright, I was angry, and if I am being completely honesty with all of you that seems to run in spurts, because sometimes I am still angry, really angry. That is not something that I like to admit to being, because it is not me, but it is what is it, and sometimes?
Sometimes I want to take my fist shove it so far down both of their throats that I be able to massage their livers for them.”
Thinking careful about how she wants to proceed with the next point, Kelsai takes a deep breath before continuing.
“By the time that we get in the ring for SCW Cold Blooded ten days will have passed since all of the garbage went down and I can tell you in no uncertain terms that I am still angry, in fact there is a good chance that I might be even more angry now. I can take a lot of things, and when I decided to go into professional wrestling I did so knowing that people were going to do things to me that I might now always like, and that is alright. But for two people to make a mockery of everything that I believe in? That is uncalled for, I am still angry, and I will still be very angry when my big brother Blake and I finally get our hands on them, and who are they, in case you have been living in a cardboard box since last Thursday and don’t know? They are the most appropriately named tag team of all time, The Jackass and The Big Ass Connection.
I know that is a not nice thing to say and honestly I am sure that I will look back on it at some point in my life and regret the fact that I am being like this, but for now I believe that The Jackass and Big Ass Connection sounds just about perfect to me. Individually they are Thomas Valentine and Kandis, but collectively they are nothing more than one unbelievable Jackass, and his partner who is what she advertises herself as, a Big Ass indeed. There is no doubt also that they are one incredibly talented tag team, as the now two time and reigning SCW World Tag Team Champions, which will be the prize that Blake and I will be challenging for when we face the two of them Sunday.
This match would have been big enough already, this is the first time that my brother and I have ever competed as a team, and we have the opportunity to become World Champions. Not only that but this event is taking place in New Orleans, my hometown so you know that my lovelies will be out in full force, the I might not be in my normal head space come Sunday night when I look across the ring and see Thomas and Kandis looking back at my Big Brother and myself.
All things considered you would think that I would be excited about this match, and believe me when I tell you that I am, though, it is another circumstance that really has me chomping at the bit for this match. Again, I can take a lot of things. I can take and give you love back in your face in return. I know that this is very frustrating for some people, and others don’t understand this at all, especially from a professional wrestler, because as we all know, professional wrestlers are prone to violent outbursts, right?
Don’t worry, it was sarcasm for those that can’t understand that.
But that is who I am and what I believe in; love.
Love is the most powerful force in the world. I am not saying that to blow smoke up someone’s rear end. I won’t even say I believe that because I know that it is true. I understand that not everyone else feels that way, and in fact I know that believing in this makes me is one of things that makes me unique in SCW. I can handle that, but you want to know what really makes me want to smack a couple of people right upside the head? When people become so narrow minded that I become the subject of mock and ridicule because I believe in love, which is why initially I became very angry about this. I mean who mocks and ridicules other people because they believe in love? I still get a little sick to my stomach when I stop and think about that sometimes.
Recently I have started to volunteer at restaurant named The Bourbon Street Diner, or The Diner for short, it’s not too far from here. The restaurant is no longer open like as it normally is due to concerns about the coronavirus in a city that has been ravaged by it. Owned and operated by Cynthia and Sam Thompson however, when they were told that their restaurant was being closed due to these concerns, did they complain about no longer able to serve the community? No, they simply asked, how can we help? Then they turned their restaurant into what it is currently, a place where healthcare and public service workers can come in and receive a free meal while they are fighting on the front lines against this disease. Cynthia and Sam do this out of nothing more than the goodness of their hearts, because that is love people, that is what I believe in, and that why I started to think about this match a little differently the last few days.
Because I know exactly what love has given to me going into this contest. It has given me the best tag team partner I could possibly ask for in SCW, given that my husband Victor does not work for this company. You see, I still a touch green around the gills in a manner of speaking. I wont even be in SCW for a year until after this event, so yeah, I am still learning on the job, but the same cannot be said for Blake, no Blake is one of the very best in this industry whether people want to admit it or not.
Thomas did you really know what you were doing when you decided to disrespect me on multiple occasions? Did you understand what it might end up costing you Kandis when you decided to mock and ridicule me over the love that I try to spread to other people. Take a look around you in the city of New Orleans this weekend. There are people that could use hope, could use love from someone and yet when someone like me tries to break the mold of a professional wrestler and use love as my platform for how I reach people you think that this is a joke?
I am going to show you Sunday night that this is nothing for you to laugh at, and I am going to have my Big Brother to help me to do it. In the last two months, I have had some ups in my career, but quite honestly there have been a lot more downs. My resolve has changed though, rather it has gotten even stronger. After all, what does not kill you makes you stronger or so they say and I am certainly not dead yet.
Thomas, you won the SCW Television Championship from me on Breakdown not too long ago.
Congratulations.
This Sunday, I want you and Kandis to please do something for me. I want you to keep smiling and laughing at me. I want you to keep taking love as a joke. That way, when you lose the SCW World Tag Team Championships to Blake and myself just the way that I lost the SCW Television Championship to you Thomas, I can take heart in the fact that at least that the two of you will still be smiling and laughing.
Because again I believe in the power of love, and that means I like smiling and laughing to, even when it is misguided and you never know what it is that is going to hit you until it is too late.”
Done with her speech, Blake Mason comes into the scene. He sits right next to his sister. Wrapping his arm around her shoulder she opens up by saying--
“Welcome to---”
Blake stops himself from carrying on with his normal intro. Pondering how to push forward for three seconds, he continues. “Normally I would say WELCOME TO THE BLAKE-MASON-EXPERIENCE. Doesn’t feel right. I am not walking down to the ring alone this Sunday. For the first time ever, myself and Kelsai will showcase what we collectively bring to the table. B & K Experience? Blake shakes his head. Not catchy. Mason Consolidated? Hm. Saying Welcome to Mason Consolidated comes across like I am welcoming you to my family's company. Forgive me for the intro. We’ll figure something out next time.”
“With that bit of rambling out of the way, lets officially begin.”
Blake takes a deep breath.
“We can debate how we got here. Tommy, Kandis, you believe me repeatedly questioning Tommy about his disrespect of Kelsai was me getting involved in YOUR business. I can turn around and say the minute you two disrespected my family, you made it MY business. I am not going to belabor a point we are not going to find any agreement on. Why waste time. Energy. Focus. Not important who got into whose business, the end result is that Sasha took note of our interactions and thought the four of us created a recipe for a great match. Here we are, on the precipice of having one of the most unique tag team title matches in Supreme Championship Wrestling history.”
“I am not a man who is going to shy away from the obvious. You two have been a tag team since 2019. Won the tag team titles off the current World Champion, James Evans and a woman who is a Hall of Famer in multiple companies, Angelica Jones. Since you two lost the tag team titles at Rise to Greatness 2019, both of you have had to go through multiple obstacles for months on end just to get those belts back, which recently includes overcoming Infamous and holding back the challenge of a Hellcat and a Snow Queen. Safe to say you two are battle tested in ways Kelsia and I haven’t been as a team. Right. This will be our first official match as a tag team. Come to think of it, how much of a chance do we really have, especially when you factor in that Kelsai and I operate on two spectrums on the philosophical divide. I will take any short cut presented. She won’t. She loves the fans. Maybe all the years in the sport made me jaded, I could care less about the audience. The audience adored me when I did what they felt was right, boo’ed me out the building when they felt I was wrong. The fans? Meh. Kelsai has no problem letting love in. Me? Not to brag or anything, a lot of women have felt my love over the years... but that isn’t what Kelsai means. Her view of letting love in, not mine.”
“So you are probably asking yourselves, with the odds so clearly against us, how the hell are Blake and Kelsia going to become the brand spanking new Tag-Team-Champions... of the World.”
“Simple. We’re Mason’s. What is the one characteristic that defines us all? Stubbornness.”
Blake smirks with pride. “My history for being a stubborn asshole is legendary. It sounds redundant repeating history. You two might be served with this friendly reminder. Years ago when I got myself exiled from the Perfect World, the wrestling audience believed I was done. There were days where I felt that way, I lost out on an Elimination Chamber match to become #1 contender for the World Championship, everyone wrote me off. I didn’t. I rebounded from personal and career difficulty to beat Katie Steward, Greg Cherry and I believe Thirteen for the SCW Adradline Championship, know what else happened that year besides me being on the outs with Kelcey? My father passed away. No one would blame me if I didn’t come back to work. He wouldn’t allow me to quit, even beyond the grave. If that flashback doesn’t work for you, as everyone knows I walked away from this sport over a year ago due to reasons. I wasn’t going to come back, I thought I was done. That voice inside me kept nagging. Blake, you need to go back. I told that voice no, I’m done. But the itch to come back wouldn’t go away. Here we are.”
“Us Mason’s no matter the circumstances, are not the type to go away when the odds aren’t in our favor.”
“Take Kelsai for example. Andrew Raynes tried to bully her. Me, my brother, Amy tried to caution Kelsai against picking a fight with Raynes. But she did. And she came out on top. Kelsai has this innate talent for not exactly listening to what isn’t possible. Jerks like you two keep mocking her beliefs. Her way of doing things has led to her becoming a two time SCW Television Champion, where is your singles title reign Kandis... Kelsai has had several show stealing performances in her Supreme Championship Wrestling career, if that isn’t impressive enough, she eventually won me over. No secret I threw a fit when she married into the family. I thought by pure force of will, I would make her think twice about having me as a Big Brother. I lost count of how many people I have pushed away. Kelsai didn’t budge, she saw something in me worth weathering the storm for. I was a bastard for not dropping the non-compete in Trios. Despite all that, she still views teaming with me as special... that makes me want to cry. I’ll save that for when the camera fades to black. I have to protect what little is left of my reputation.”
“There you go, we’re stubborn.”
Blake strokes his chin.
“So what this is our first tag team match together.”
“So what, you have been a tag team longer.”
“So what you overcame Hall of Fame talent recently to get the tag team championships back.”
“To that I say, GOOD. We have no problem being the underdogs. What pushes men and women forward to achieve greatness is taking on challenges head on. What is the point is being prideful in an achievement if you can walk over it. Climbing the mountains in life is what pushes up to become great. To struggle. To rise above your paygrade. To scratch. To claw. To beat the very best the world throws at you. To grow because of it. That is the marking of true greatness. There are a lot of men and women in this sport who are content in their station, they will rest on their laurels, to leech off the past, to believe every advantage they have is enough to carry them through the day. What a year away has put into perspective for me is to always stay hungry. Kelsia shares that same hunger. She is not content by a long shot. If we are being honest I have no reason to be content due to my resume. The older one gets the more settled into their station they become. I am not going to allow myself to settle for anything, not anymore, this could be very well by my last run in pro wrestling.”
“Don’t worry, I am not retiring within the next six months, come on, I have been in this sport since the age of eighteen. So many times I have started. Stopped. Failed to win World Titles. The grind can become a burden. I go into every match I have knowing the next time I stop will be the end. I am not content knowing that if we lose it would be one and done. Nope. I am expecting one thousand percent that me and Kelsai are going to achieve the impossible on the very first try.”
“I won’t allow us to fail.”
Blake wags his finger. He places his hand over his heart.
“We can, and we will become the brand new tag team champions of the world.”
“Tommy. You brought this on yourself. All you had to do was respect my sister. You already lost the Television Championship. The only thing you’ll leave New Orleans with is Kandis big ass; as big of an ass as it is, knowing you failed her by crossing my path, that’s going to suck. Don’t worry, Drake will take good care of her...
Blake offers Kandis a friendly wink and the scene fades to black.