The camera fades in to Ben Jordan in a darkened room, wearing a dark blue suit with a black shirt. A smile on his face as he looks down the camera.
"Alright people." Ben says with a cheery smile on his face. "Hope you're all doing fantastic today."
He fires a quick thumbs up.
"I feel like I need to say sorry to you lovely people." He says softly. "So you know how these supercards work, you get double the talk, double the effort and all that but unfortunately for me, last week, I was as sick as a parrot. I'm not even gonna lie to you lovely lot and tell you I'm one hundred percent right now cause sadly, I'm not, but I ain't one to let you all down if I can help it."
Ben looks down.
"It disappointed me that I couldn't do a couple of things for ya and talk like talking was going out of fashion." Ben says honestly. "Because I love the supercard buzz, I love the bounce of it all, I love watching people be at their very best. Sadly, I couldn't do that because I was laid up."
Ben slowly nods.
"All was good, all was cracking and I was set to leave and head off back to London on Monday morning after the show but I woke up feeling like I'd been run over by a train." Ben admits. "Roughest I've felt in a long time and here we are on Thursday and I just feel decent enough to put in the work for you lovely lot."
Ben rubs his chin.
"Now I dunno if it happens to you or if I'm just the lucky one in this situation but when I get the flu, I end up with these really weird dreams." Ben says. "Like something that has been playing on me mind tends to jump up in a very lucid dream and it feels proper real. It throws off hidden meanings and for over a week, I have had these dreams. I have had dreams with a common theme. They wasn't all the same dream and some of them was just bonkers, but they all had one little theme and that was becoming the hunter."
Ben pauses for a second.
"I had a fair few of those in different settings, but one that stands out, one that jumps out." Ben says slowly. "And that good people is the one I'm gonna tell you all about. Now while that's showing you all that madness, I'm gonna get changed, because well, you'll see."
Ben points at the camera.
"Roll that stuff we recorded earlier!" Ben says with a smile.
The sounds of waves crashing against wood can be heard. The camera switched to a bright blue sky before showing the outline of an old pirate ship. The camera moves to the wheel of the ship to see Ben Jordan, dressed as a pirate in front of the wheel. The ship docked at an old wooden dock.
"Smell that salt air." He said to himself as he inhaled.
He breathed deeply but started to cough.
"What the bloody hell is that?" He asked himself.
Sam Marlowe stepped to his side, dressed in pirate garb herself. She getting her thumb towards the shore.
"Rendering plant over there." She said to Ben.
Ben turned his head and looked at her with a frown.
"We're meant to be in the bloody Caribbean." Ben told her. "Who puts a rendering plant on the Caribbean on a pirate island?"
Sam shrugged her shoulder at Ben.
"Budget issues." She told him. "Couldn't afford the Caribbean."
Ben sighed as he looked at Sam, shaking his head.
"Thought this old parody might have scored us a nice little holiday." Ben told her. "But nope. Ah well, on with the show."
Jamie Dean rushed to Ben's side and tapped him on the shoulder, causing Ben to look at Jamie.
"Ah, first mate Mr. Dean, you have returned." Ben said in a gruff voice. "What news do you have from the local tavern?"
Jamie cleared his throat and looked at Ben.
"Well I learned captain, that this certainly isn't the Island of Sirens." He said with a serious look. "Because I spent hours in that tavern and there wasn't a looker amongst them. No matter how much I drunk, pirates are not good looking people. Don't get me started on their personal hygiene."
"And Alexander the Raven and Loopy Luna?" Ben asked.
"Alexander the Raven and Loopy Luna?" Sam repeated as she looked at Ben.
"Cooler pirate names then Alexander Raven and Luna...." Ben stuttered. "Luna whatever her name is."
"But Loopy Luna?" Sam questioned.
"I've had the flu, I'm not exactly creative when it came to being flued up and coming up with cool pirate names for a bird." Ben admitted.
"Oh yeah, that's what I was there for." Jamie said interjecting. "They're sailing west from an Island a few days from here. We should be able to intercept them."
Despayre randomly wandered across the scene, looking at Ben. On his shoulder sits Angel dressed as a pirate.
"Am I in this scene?" He asked innocently.
"You are now." Ben said with a smile.
"Nice." He replied. "Candy?"
He lifted his hand, to show a bag of candy, but Ben shook his head.
"I better pass, I don't wanna get too hyped up on sugar." Ben told him.
Despayre nodded and strolled across the deck and off camera.
"Bit random." Ben said. "But I did tell people to play fast and loose with the script, but anyway. Alexander The Raven, we must hunt him, he can not get away with being a pain in my jacksy any longer."
"Maybe we should address the crew and tell them the plans?" Jamie offered.
"Good idea." Ben said as he raised his hand.
Before Ben could continue, a delivery man in a brown jumpsuit appeared on camera, a clipboard in his hand.
"Hey." He said as he looked at the clipboard. "I got a delivery of mirrors for Ben Jordan and Sam Marlowe?"
Sam looked at the man and pointed off camera.
"Just leave them over there." She said. "They're for later."
The delivery guy nodded and walked off the camera as Jamie frowned at Ben.
"This is so random." Jamie said as he looked at Ben.
"Flu dreams are." Ben told him. "But ya know, would be a right giggle if people could actually see this."
Ben, Sam and Jamie turned to look in to the camera, all three smiling, before a simultaneous serious look appeared on their faces as Ben turned around to face the people on deck.
"Your attention good hunters!" Ben yelled out.
He watched as everyone continued to do whatever work they were doing, and talking amongst themselves but a sharp whistle from Sam got their attention.
"Cheers love." Ben said to her before looking amongst the faces below him.
The camera moved around to show familiar faces of Fenris, Bella Madison, Miles Kasey, HB Carter, Laura Phoenix, Despayre, Justin Smith, Bobbie Dahl and Artie.
"We all know why we're here!" Ben said loudly.
"I'm just here for Carter's booty!" Miles shouted back.
A wide smile appeared on Carter's face but Mile's reaches over and grabs a small treasure chest out of Carter's hand before strolling away.
"Cheers bruv." Miles can be heard saying off camera.
Carter looked deep in to the camera, shaking his head slowly and frowning, before letting out a sigh.
"What you do on your days off mate, completely up to you." Ben said in Miles direction. "But we are here to hunt the man who terrorizes others and his side kick bird, Alexander The Raven and Loopy Luna."
Whispers can be heard amongst the crew and Luna's name mentioned. Ben rolled his eyes.
"I know, I know." He said. "But I couldn't come up with anything better when I started writing this.... The loose script I mean."
Ben cleared his throat.
"We have word of a location of where these two scoundrels will be." Ben said. "And we are going to hunt them down! We set sail immediately! Bobbie, you are in the crows nest for this journey!"
"Where's that?" Bobbie shouted back.
Everyone pointed up to the sky at the same time, causing Bobbie to look up. A look of disbelief covers her face.
"Are you freaking kidding me?!" Bobbie said shocked as she looked up.
Ben shook his head as Bobbie turned away putting her hand on the rigging with Artie behind her, trying to push her up the crossed ropes.
"So man your posts good people, because their crimes will soon be paid for. Let's drink to the voyage and the hunting of these two criminals!" Ben said in a strong tone.
A cheer rose from the crew as Bobbie struggled to climb the ropes. Like magic, or a video cut, bottles of rum appeared in the hands of Ben, Sam and Jamie at the helm. They lifted their bottles before taking a swig. Instantly their three faces scrunch up.
"Christ!" Ben said with a shake of his head. "Why did pirates drink this stuff? It's bloody horrible! Gimme a cold pint any day of the week."
Ben, Jamie and Sam turned their backs to the crew.
"So what is the plan?" Sam asked.
"I'm thinking we play a little music, we do a little montage and we find them." Ben said to her. "We do some funny stuff, then we go to the pub."
"Sounds like a plan." Jamie said. "I got the music covered."
"Nice one." Ben replied. "Before we do that, Jamie, what's a pirates favourite letter?"
Jamie raised an eyebrow.
"C.... Sea..." Ben said with a cheesy grin. "Get it? I bet you thought I was gonna say rrrrrrrrrr."
Jamie looked at Ben with a blank face.
"Sea.... Men...." Jamie responded. "Sea... Men.... get it?"
Ben put his hands on his head.
"Just play the sailing music." Ben told a widely grinning Jamie.
Jamie turned around, reaching in to his pocket and pulling out an device. He put it on the ships wheel and tapped a few buttons before In The Navy started to play. Ben looked at Jamie and shook his head.
"Do the montage..." Ben said with a shake of his head.
And we cut to the montage.
Justin Smith can be seen arm wrestling with Fenris, their elbows pressed firmly in to a barrel as people around them can be seen throwing money down.
We switch to Bobbie Dahl and Artie parasailing behind the ship, high in the sky with a look of fear on their faces.
Another switch shows us, Bella Madison and Laura Phoenix casually sunbathing in bikinis on modern sun loungers, both ladies holding a tanning mirror under their chins.
Another shows Ben and Sam holding a limbo stick, with Despayre and Angel working their way underneath it. In the background, Artie can once again be seen pushing Bobbie Dahl up the rigging again to the crows nest.
We cut again to Carter and Miles water skiing behind the ship as Jamie Dean snaps pictures of them as they sail along.
Finally the montage ends and returns to Ben leaning of the wheel. Sam to his left, Jamie to his right.
"Ah that was fun." Ben said with a grin.
"I thought you had more planned?" Jamie replied.
"I did, then I saw how long it was running and there's only so much you can do." Ben said.
A shout could be heard from up high and the three look towards Bobbie Dahl, who is clearly shouting down at them. The trio looked at each other and up at Bobbie but Ben cups his ear.
"What?" Ben shouts up. "Can't hear ya love."
Bobbie tries to yell again but once more, Ben shook his head,
"Can't hear a word of it?" Ben shouted up. "Can you guys?"
Jamie and Sam shook their heads, but Ben's phone starts to ring. Ben reaches in to his pocket and pulls out his phone.
"Hello?" He said in to the set. "Oh hi Bobbie, we was just talking about you. Nah, I couldn't hear a word you was banging on about. Oh really? Where? Over there, got it. Is it them? What do you mean you left your telescope down here? Well come down and get it. I know it took you two days to get up there, but ya know? Pirates need a scope. Ok, ok. I'll use my own.... Yeah, toodles."
Ben picks up his telescope and looks in the direction Bobbie told him and a smile appeared on his face.
"Ship ahoy!" Ben shouted out, getting the crews attention. "Over there!"
Ben pointed to where a ship can be seen in the distance. Ben looked through the telescope again.
"It's them!" Ben shouted as he jumped up and down. "Full sails! Load grape shot, I want their sails taken down, I don't want it sunk or we've come all this bloody way for nothing, even if your tans look fantastic."
The crew sprung in to action and the sails were dropped, cannons were loaded with grape shot and Ben navigated the ship towards the ship of Alexander The Raven and Loopy Luna.
"We're gonna get in tight from behind and hit them hard. Then we're gonna board her." Ben said before looking at Jamie. "No dirty jokes please."
"You didn't think that one through, did ya?" Jamie said with a grin.
"Not even for a second." Ben replied.
Everything went to plan as Ben sailed the ship behind Alexander The Raven's vessel and grape shot was deployed, expertly damaging the sails and slowing it down to a stop. Ben sailed his ship close to The Raven's, close enough that cannon fire would damage his own ship.
"Time to board!" Ben yelled out.
Grappling hooks were quickly thrown, pulling the two ships closer together, allowing Ben's crew to get ready to board and forcing their men away from their cannons and preparing to fight.
"Time for the big entrance." Ben said to Jamie and Sam.
He moved away from the wheel with Sam and Jamie following, and hastily made his way to the rigging, climbing up with them behind him. He looked down uncomfortably.
"I bloody hate heights but grand entrance and all." He said to them.
Ben grabbed a hanging rope and looked across as the ships got closer and with a huge leap, jumped with the rope between his fingers, but his hand slipped and Ben went crashing in to the side of the boat. The crew face palmed as Ben slid down, landing on a cannon.
"Ohhhhh, me crackers." Ben said with a wince.
Jamie looked towards Sam and shrugged.
"George of the jungle, eat your heart out." He said with a grin before he and Sam safely swung across.
Ben pulled himself up the side of the ship, being helped on by Jamie and Sam. The two dusted him off.
"I'm good, but we should probably get to the fight scene now, cause time restraints." Ben said with a shrug.
The three reached for swords from their waistband and were instantly surrounded. The sounds of metal against metal could be heard through the ship as they paired off. Ben swung his sword, but his opponent stepped back and swung towards Ben, slicing his sleeve.
"Oi!" Ben yelled at him. "This ain't none of your Primark stuff, this is good clobber, be careful where you swing that thing!"
"Sorry dude!" The man replied, but Ben quickly kicked him out of the way.
"Alexander The Raven, Loopy Luna! Show yourselves." Ben demanded. "We haven't got all day."
The door swung open from a cabin below, and there stood Alexander The Raven and Loopy Luna, armed with swords as they stepped forward. Sam joined Ben and looked at their two opponents, but a man grabbed Ben from behind.
"Bugger off!" Ben yelled out.
The man fell to his knees as Miles Kasey dropped out of nowhere, taking the man down and nodding at Ben.
"Mate, that was assassin like moves!" Ben said. "We should give you a nickname working that in."
Ben looked at the camera and winked before turning back to Alexander The Raven.
"Your time is up Alexander." Ben said raising his sword. "You have let that mouth of yours run out of control and your actions have been nothing short of disgusting. Enough is now enough, you're no longer then man you think you are, because you will hunt no more. I am now the hunter, and I came for you!"
Alexander The Raven stepped forward, his sword raised and his eyes focused on Ben.
"I said I will destroy you and now I will..." Alexander said as he took another step forward.
Before the four could engage in battle, a cannonball flew in between them, causing all four to move their heads back and look in the direction it came from.
"No more balls flying at faces!" Ben yelled out. "Nearly had me eye out."
From out of nowhere, Jamie Dean's face just appeared next to Ben.
"Giggidy!" He said with a familiar tone and a nod to a certain cartoon.
Jamie disappears out of the shot and Alexander The Raven frowns.
"Where did you get these people?" Alexander asked.
"A lot of them just showed up." Ben said. "I don't know most of them, just stuck out the parody tweet and people showed up."
Before Ben can talk more, Alexander thrusts his sword towards Ben, and Luna towards Sam, both Ben and Sam blocking it before the two separated. Ben charges towards Alexander The Raven and a vicious sword fight breaks out, Alexander forcing Ben back against the mast and swinging for his head but Ben kicking Alexander away. As the two men attempt to engage again, a person swings in between them, missing both before a splash could be heard off camera.
"Idiot." Alexander The Raven said with a laugh.
"Swinging on those thing ain't easy." Ben told him. "I tried, hit the side of the ship."
The two continue their battle, their swords clashing against each other in ferocious attacks before Ben eventually forces Alexander The Raven up the steps towards the wheel and sweeps his leg, sending Alexander The Raven to the wooden floor. Ben turns his head to see Sam sitting on fallen Loopy Luna, Luna face down and Sam sitting on her back. Sam taps her imaginary watch,
"What the bloody hell?" Ben asked.
"I've been like this for ten minutes." Sam told him. "Not my fault this is all time constricted and a lot has been cut out. You're wasting valuable pub time, you know?"
Ben rolled his eyes at Sam.
"Fine..." He said. "I'll skip to the end."
Ben moved his sword under the throat of Alexander The Raven and looked down at him, his foot pressed to his chest.
"Do you understand this?" Ben asked.
"Not really." Alexander The Raven replied.
"Bloody hell." Ben muttered to himself. "This whole thing has been about me showing you that everything that happened to me, everything you have put me through with your hit and runs, everything you think you had the advantage with, you didn't. I've been hunting you Alexander and that's the point. You chipped away at me and you turned me in to this, you turned me in to the guy that is coming after you. This is what you wanted, you wanted to make me come after you and now I have, you're gonna regret it."
Ben pressed the sword a little closer to Alexander.
"Got it now, mush?" Ben asked.
"I broke you, now you're after me and gonna break me, right?" Alexander The Raven said.
"Yeah, let's go with that." Ben said with a shrug. "That should do it."
Ben turns around, looking at people.
"He gets it so pub?" Ben said in a loud voice. "It's his round."
Ben pointed the sword at Alexander as the camera faded to black.
The camera fades to the dark room where footsteps can be heard and the sound of metal dragging along a stone floor.
"You get it now, yeah?" Ben's voice says through the darkness. "You really understand now?"
More steps are heard and the camera focuses on a metal pipe upright on the floor.
"I think that dreams have a meaning, always have." Ben's voice says through the darkness. "Doesn't matter if it's good, or bad, winning vast amounts, or doing good deeds, or if it's loss or survivors guilt, dreams have meanings and that dream you just learned about Alexander, that has meaning too."
The camera moves up the pole and up Ben's leg to his body and his face before zooming out to show the suit is long gone and replaced with torn jeans and a white shirt. On his eyes, dark make up.
"You wanted me to look at myself." Ben says looking down. "And see what I can become, who I am, reflect on what I've done. Mate, I've done nothing but look at myself."
Ben clicks his fingers and the lights come on, showing himself to be surrounds by mirrors.
"This is what you wanted me to do and take a good hard look at myself and see if I'm the man I used to be, to see if I have any killer instinct left." Ben says softly. "Well job done, because you want to know who I am?"
Ben clicks his fingers again and a nearby mirror shatters. Ben turns his head to look at it.
"You wanted to see what was below the surface?" Ben says as he points down at the broken glass. "That's what's below the surface. A mind that can be broken that will come back and turn things around on the very person that broke you in the first place. See you thought mild mannered Ben was there to be stepped on. The easy target, but no, this is what lies beneath. This is a man who will do what it takes. Look at these broken pieces Alexander, this is what you've done and you're expecting that by doing this, you get the advantage, but what you've done is made me sharper."
Ben bends down and picks up a piece of the broken glass and looks at it.
"This edge is what you've given me." Ben says as he holds the broken edge towards the camera. "All this glass together, it a sane me but when you take it apart, it's unpredictable and what it's done to is turn around and say I'm sick of your games Alexander. I'm not running from you but you should from me, cause broken glass and broken people is a dangerous thing and out on the street, it's even more dangerous. I'm not the guy sitting around waiting for someone to come at him, this has shown me to be proactive and make the moves and that's what that dream was about, that was about me chasing you down, that was me coming for you, that was me being the hunter and that's exactly what's about to happen Alexander. It's a damn street fight, it can happen any time, and I'm not gonna be sitting there doing the wrestlers stretching or the prayers or any superstitious stuff, I'm coming for you and you're not gonna expect it."
Ben stands and looks around more of the mirrors, reflecting back different angles.
"This isn't any other match anymore, this became personal when you tried to change me and now I have, you need to remember the old saying." Ben says lifting the pole. "If you fight enough monsters, then you become a monster."
Ben looks down and smiles slightly.
"I guess I've become a monster." Ben says with a more sinister smile then usual. "Not for the first time."
Ben looks up at the mirrors around him.
"This reflection on me is not just about who I am or who I want to be, it's about who I'm gonna become, and who I will be on Sunday." Ben says with a huff. "Who I will be on Sunday Alexander is someone you will not be able to handle. You pushed me too far, you pushed me to depths I didn't want to go to. Now look at me, I'm liking being in these depths, I'm willing to sit there and see how far I can push myself and I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna make a point Alexander, not only for you but for everyone else who thinks it's a good idea to mess with me to try and make a name for themselves. It's the other way around now Alexander, cause I'm in your head, you know I can beat you, I've done it more then once, and I wasn't even this messed up when I did it. I wasn't even broken, I wasn't even switched off from empathy but now I am and if you think that's gonna give you an advantage mate, then you're out of that tiny little box of yours that sits on those shoulders."
Ben points to his head.
"I was already good before you turned me to this." Ben says as he points the pole at the broken glass. "I'm not going to get worse when you make me take a look at who I am, because I'm proud of who I am, I'm proud that I can beat you over, and over and over and over, and over again, because I'm Ben Jordan and you're not."
Ben grits his teeth.
"I'm proud of who I AM!" He says with a shout as another mirror breaks around him.
Ben turns his head to look at the mirror and smiles.
"I'm proud that you came at me and tried to ruin me, only for me to ruin you Alexander." Ben says with a reflective proud smile. "Because not only has this shown me who I can become, what I'm capable of, but it's shown you as a complete and utter failure as a person, as a human being and a wrestler. It's shown the world that you was never good enough for the top and even when you stack things in your favour, manipulate things for your own comfort zone, this little wrestler guy from East London can still beat you at your own game."
Ben tilts his head towards another mirror.
"You've broke me with your attacks, but I'm gonna break you with my skills." Ben says with a half smile. "This is going to haunt you Alexander, this is gonna screw your head up that I can beat you in over the top matches with lots of people around and me shoehorned in to that madness, I can beat you one on one and now I'm gonna beat you in a mixed tag street fight, your game, something you've made a name for yourself out of, but the wrestler is once again gonna beat the chair swinging freak that you are and that is going to play on your mind forever. That's going to screw with your head over and over."
Ben takes a couple of steps away from the glass and sits down on the floor, placing the metal bar across his legs.
"All the time you thought you was messing with me, bringing Luna in to it, attacking my friends and you thought you was just gonna get away with everything, draw me in to this match and walk out happy?" Ben says with a shake of his head as he looks down. "Well you played right in to my hands without even knowing that's what you was doing. You couldn't see the trees for the forest as we say in London, because you pretty much thought of the glory and none of the work but now, I'm going to do things to you that you never expected to see from me in your wildest dreams Alexander. Not even your messed up mind could see this one coming."
Ben grips the pole.
"No matter how much you think you broke me." Ben says firmly. "Or how much more you think you can break me..."
Ben points the pole at a mirror and it instantly shatters.
"Or how much you truly believe you can break me." He says through gritted teeth.
Ben points the pole at another mirror, causing it to break.
"Or how much more you want to break me..." Ben says looking up.
He points the pole at another mirror, for the third time, a mirror breaks.
"You can't break me enough to make me fold to you." Ben says with determination. "There's not enough you can do to break me small enough for me to fade away. You signed away yours and Luna's careers when you decided to play this game and in a few minutes, someone will be here to talk right about the whole ball of crazy that is Luna, but before I go, you wanted something from me."
He smiles down the camera.
"You wanted me to thank you..." Ben says with a huff. "Well thank you Alexander for showing me who I am when it comes to facing you, who am I?"
Ben swings the pole back across his lap, holding both ends.
"I'm controlled chaos, Sam and me, controlled chaos." Ben says with a smile. "And you're not ready for that."
Footsteps, heels to floor can be heard behind Ben as Ben lowers his head and smiles down the camera....
And this good people is where Sammi takes over....