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Supercard Archives / Re: TEAM HERO v KAT JONES & WHISPER
« on: October 14, 2023, 11:54:40 PM »
{The scene picks up where Keira left off, with Roxi sitting in her office doing some case work and reporting for the Guild. Keira soon flies in, sighing before flopping on the bed and removing her costume.}
Roxi – How did it go.
Keira – She clearly needs coaching, but given time, she’ll be okay. Sometimes rookies can be reckless and stupid.
Roxi – Like you?
Keira – I wasn’t that bad.
Roxi – The way I remember it, you let the bad guys get away because you rushed and nearly got shot a few times.
Keira – I... She didn’t do that though. Maybe I can blame mine on my teacher!
Roxi – You can. I was like that too.
Keira – I have a hard time believing that after all the times you lectured me.
Roxi – Keira, before I met you, and really before I even had powers... I was reckless and stupid. Off to save the world and it nearly cost me many times.
{Roxi sighs.}
Roxi – It cost Claire hers.
Keira – That wasn’t your fault.
Roxi – She dedicated her life after I couldn’t save her to trying to kill me.
Keira – It was that stuff she took, it rotted her brain. You know that.
Roxi – Maybe, but if I wasn’t as reckless and stupid as I was back then... maybe she’d be alive.
{Keira walks over, rubbing Roxi’s shoulder and kissing her on the head.}
Keira – I made my share of mistakes too.
Roxi – Just that now, we can pass it on to the next great heroes and then... who knows.
Keira – Speaking of which, I think we should talk about that.
Roxi – About what?
{Keira pulls up a chair and sits down.}
Keira – Roxi, I don’t know about you, but once wrestling came to an end last year and until Sin reappeared, I was enjoying life and really... we didn’t have a whole lot to do, hero-wise either.
Roxi – It has been nice.
Keira – But what I’m saying is... We’ve both been wearing spandex way more than any two people should. Maybe it’s time to think about... moving on from both lives.
Roxi – You want to stop being a hero?
Keira – I've given it a lot of thought. I’ve been running around with you for nearly 10 years. We’ve been doing this for so long that we don’t have normal lives. Balancing being a mom, being a coach, being a wrestler, and then fighting crime in the middle of the night hasn’t been the healthiest thing.
Roxi – I can agree with that.
Keira – So, there’s still plenty of superheroes, much like there’s plenty of other wrestlers. I’ve just thought about this and... I don’t see the need for the powers anymore. I don’t see the earth-conquering monster on the horizon.
{Roxi leans forward, stroking Keira’s face with her hand.}
Roxi – I know how you feel. There are plenty of days, and there’s been plenty of nights where I’ve wondered if it’s all worth it and how much longer I can keep going and how much there is left to do. I still have one thing outstanding that I need to take care of on that side. Once that’s done, and provided there isn’t anything else crazy happening... maybe.
Keira – I know you, and I know when you say maybe, you really mean I don’t want to.
Roxi – No, Keira, I’m serious. I just have to finish this last thing. I know we can’t do this forever. I know we can’t fight forever, but so long as there’s something out there, heroes face it. That’s what they do. And I have to uphold that. We have to uphold that so long as the we have the abilities.
Keira – What if we don’t?
Roxi – What do you mean?
Keira – I mean... the end of the powers. Taking them away. Finally just putting Lady Kat and Lady Bedlam away for good too.
Roxi – Keira, you’re talking about just stopping everything now.
Keira – Yeah. I am. Because there’s other things I want to do. There were things I was doing and I was enjoying them. I mean, think about it, we had to take time off to get married, we had to take time off to see our son being born. We had to take time away from other things, to do the things that we should have already made time for.
Roxi – I understand. I mean, I wasn’t specifically talking about powers.
Keira – Don't dodge the question, Roxi. I’m serious. It’s time to start thinking about the end of the road.
Roxi – Keira, I’m not thinking about the end of the road, because this isn’t the end of the road. At least not for me. I understand how you feel. I do. I know it’s been rough, I know we spent way more time than we ever should trying to have a normal life. I know that and I’m aware of how hard it’s been. But, just think about this for a second. I was doing this, before I met you. I’ve been doing this for a long, long time. Before there was powers, before there was Lady Kat. You took that and you decided to come with me on that journey. It’s okay if you want to jump off now and do everything else. Trust me, I want to as well from time to time.
Keira – But...
Roxi – But this is what I do. It’s what I’ve been doing. It’s hard to turn that off just like that. It requires some thought. Like a lot of things. It’s just how it is.
Keira – So is this Team Hero things like that too.
Roxi – This... this match is for you. I’m here and I’m teaming with you, because you are my wife, you are my partner, you are my rock, you are everything and I want to make you happy, and nothing makes me happier than seeing you happy. But most importantly, I’m teaming with you, because we are Team Hero, and we will make sure that everyone remembers that.
{Keira smiles, even chuckling a bit.}
Keira – Did you just give me a hero speech in casual conversation?
Roxi – I guess I did... old habits are hard to break.
{Keira shakes her head.}
Keira – I'm going to take a bit of a nap, and then... back to training?
Roxi – You got it.
{Keira walks off and Roxi goes back to her work and the scene fades.}
Hello, SCW.
Well, we’ve hit that point, haven’t we? It’s been a year since I said that this ride is pretty much coming to an end. And maybe, maybe the show needs to end. I don’t think I have anything else left to prove at this point when it comes to being in the ring and being a contender for any championships. I removed myself from it and I still don’t have any aspirations to go back on that. I don’t think that I got too far in my dream list, but I kept my word that my appearances would be getting less and less frequent. The fact is, is that I don’t need to be here too much anymore. It was my goal to ensure that the Bombshell’s division got better and while that’s still a work in progress, I think the best thing is to simply remove myself from it for the most part. I don’t want to keep doing what I feel like I did to Krystal, despite everything else.
Yes, it was a little payback for when she was possessed, but it wasn’t my goal to beat her and send her down a downward spiral. It was to make her better. And I think I accomplished that goal. But I look to the future of the bombshell’s division and really, my students and the young talent that’s here and it excites me. It makes me hopeful for the future on wrestling in general. Because they are succeeding. Maybe they aren’t doing it in the way I would have liked, but they’re still doing it. And that makes me happy.
So, when it comes to this match, this match at High Stakes, and the last time Team Hero suits up for SCW, I find myself at a bit of a crossroads. Because this match isn’t really about me. It’s about my wife. She retired once, and now, this is what she wanted to do for a long time and so I’m along for the ride. Of course I support her in every possible way, so being a part of this is special to me. I look back at the legacy of Team Hero and I smile. I look back at the matches we had, with the teams we had to face, the amazing amount of talent and how we, together, were able to forge that path and add our names into history that will most likely not be replicated ever again. Team Hero stakes it’s claim as the best tag team in SCW history, male or female. And I’m proud of that, and proud to even be in the conversation.
Add to that fact that we both before and after, had successful singles careers. I’m proud of that, and now, we get to close this chapter of our lives and start a new journey. I just... don’t know what that journey is.
I know that Keira is going to hang it up and really this is just a little dream match for her. And I said that maybe it was time for me to go, but I feel like there’s still a lot left for me to do. It’s strange that I feel like Batman when he said he was fighting to make sure that Gotham didn’t need him. That’s when the Heroes journey ends. When the battles are over and won.
I feel like there’s something somewhere, and I’m going to look for it. And I don’t know if and when I’ll find it, but that’s the best part of the journey.
But that comes later.
Now, I stand here ready to face off against Kat Jones and Whisper. I know the process to find two opponents was a little muddy, but I guess it’s a little difficult to entice people to come at fight us, but some people were considering it, but... now we’re here. And you know, that’s okay. I’m okay with that. I’m excited for this match because Kat was a dream opponent that I got to step into the ring with.
Now... I don’t know if Kat still hates my guts. She might deep down inside. We have been cordial for the past year after that brief but still hurtful episode where I didn’t do everything that Kat felt I should have, but attempts were made to at least patch some of that up. I don’t know how effective my efforts were, but I never disliked Kat. I never tried to intentionally disrespect Kat. I never meant for her to feel bad or lose trust in me, and I’m trying to work to make it at least a little better for the future.
But in the ring, I know that won’t matter to Kat. Kat’s here to fight. And she’s always been here to fight. I appreciate that more than she knows. She has done something I really have a hard time with, and that’s separating the outside world and the wrestling world. Because I mean, it’s just my nature, and I would argue human nature to not see the people who hang out with and are a part of your lives as something totally different when standing across from them. I saw Kat Jones the first time in the ring and my mind went to “that’s my friend” and it really wasn’t good for me. I took a lot of abuse that match, even though I won. So I applaud Kat to able to make that separation and make it so clean that she can switch back and forth easily.
So, now I know what I’m getting. I know that it’s not going to be easy to beat Kat anyway, but maybe now she has some extra motivation. I’m not sure, but I know Kat will be up for this match and at the end of the day, she’s going to fight me, and fight Keira tooth and nail the entire time. It was a dream come true to wrestle her the first time, this time, it’s more about the legacy of Team Hero than it is anything else. So, I’ve learned and I’ve put it in my mind now that Kat isn’t going to be friendly with me, or with Keira from bell to bell. Maybe after, maybe not. But, I will still have a Christmas card waiting for her afterwards.
Now Whisper, Whisper is different. Whisper and I are cordial and have never had an issue. But I know she’s a trainer, and I know that trainers demand so much from their students, just like I do. And I know that when you’re in that role, you don’t want to seem like you don’t know what you’re doing, and you don’t want to feel like you’re letting anyone down. So, I’ll just say it here: Whisper isn’t going to let anyone down no matter what happens. While we had a few teams thinking about it, no one really just jumped at the chance. And we’re talking about some of the premier teams in all of wrestling who were thinking about it. Whisper volunteered to join Kat without a second thought. So I know she’s going to be motivated and ready.
And I know Keira has more of a history with Whisper, but that doesn’t mean that I’m just not going to jump at the chance to wrestle her. I know it’s rare that she does something like this. She continues to call herself old and while I certainly understand that none of us are getting younger, I wouldn’t class her as old, even though she feels that way. And she may take that as disrespectful but I’m just saying that I wouldn’t. She is more than welcome to call herself whatever she likes.
What I will say is that Keira has showed me what Whisper is capable of, and I’ve seen what training is like at Hell’s Gate a few times, and I know it’s not going to be a walk in the park at High Stakes, especially because of how Whisper trains.
But I’m not expecting a walk in the park. I’m expecting a fight. A fight that will test Team Hero like no other team has ever done. I know that this isn’t just another match, this isn’t another small test. No, this is going to be a fight where we will all leave a lot of ourselves in the ring, some more forcefully than others. Keira and I are going to be in a war. The moment the match was signed it was going to be that way.
So, Keira and I will train harder, we will become better. And we will prove Team Hero is the best team in the world.
One. Last. time.
Roxi – How did it go.
Keira – She clearly needs coaching, but given time, she’ll be okay. Sometimes rookies can be reckless and stupid.
Roxi – Like you?
Keira – I wasn’t that bad.
Roxi – The way I remember it, you let the bad guys get away because you rushed and nearly got shot a few times.
Keira – I... She didn’t do that though. Maybe I can blame mine on my teacher!
Roxi – You can. I was like that too.
Keira – I have a hard time believing that after all the times you lectured me.
Roxi – Keira, before I met you, and really before I even had powers... I was reckless and stupid. Off to save the world and it nearly cost me many times.
{Roxi sighs.}
Roxi – It cost Claire hers.
Keira – That wasn’t your fault.
Roxi – She dedicated her life after I couldn’t save her to trying to kill me.
Keira – It was that stuff she took, it rotted her brain. You know that.
Roxi – Maybe, but if I wasn’t as reckless and stupid as I was back then... maybe she’d be alive.
{Keira walks over, rubbing Roxi’s shoulder and kissing her on the head.}
Keira – I made my share of mistakes too.
Roxi – Just that now, we can pass it on to the next great heroes and then... who knows.
Keira – Speaking of which, I think we should talk about that.
Roxi – About what?
{Keira pulls up a chair and sits down.}
Keira – Roxi, I don’t know about you, but once wrestling came to an end last year and until Sin reappeared, I was enjoying life and really... we didn’t have a whole lot to do, hero-wise either.
Roxi – It has been nice.
Keira – But what I’m saying is... We’ve both been wearing spandex way more than any two people should. Maybe it’s time to think about... moving on from both lives.
Roxi – You want to stop being a hero?
Keira – I've given it a lot of thought. I’ve been running around with you for nearly 10 years. We’ve been doing this for so long that we don’t have normal lives. Balancing being a mom, being a coach, being a wrestler, and then fighting crime in the middle of the night hasn’t been the healthiest thing.
Roxi – I can agree with that.
Keira – So, there’s still plenty of superheroes, much like there’s plenty of other wrestlers. I’ve just thought about this and... I don’t see the need for the powers anymore. I don’t see the earth-conquering monster on the horizon.
{Roxi leans forward, stroking Keira’s face with her hand.}
Roxi – I know how you feel. There are plenty of days, and there’s been plenty of nights where I’ve wondered if it’s all worth it and how much longer I can keep going and how much there is left to do. I still have one thing outstanding that I need to take care of on that side. Once that’s done, and provided there isn’t anything else crazy happening... maybe.
Keira – I know you, and I know when you say maybe, you really mean I don’t want to.
Roxi – No, Keira, I’m serious. I just have to finish this last thing. I know we can’t do this forever. I know we can’t fight forever, but so long as there’s something out there, heroes face it. That’s what they do. And I have to uphold that. We have to uphold that so long as the we have the abilities.
Keira – What if we don’t?
Roxi – What do you mean?
Keira – I mean... the end of the powers. Taking them away. Finally just putting Lady Kat and Lady Bedlam away for good too.
Roxi – Keira, you’re talking about just stopping everything now.
Keira – Yeah. I am. Because there’s other things I want to do. There were things I was doing and I was enjoying them. I mean, think about it, we had to take time off to get married, we had to take time off to see our son being born. We had to take time away from other things, to do the things that we should have already made time for.
Roxi – I understand. I mean, I wasn’t specifically talking about powers.
Keira – Don't dodge the question, Roxi. I’m serious. It’s time to start thinking about the end of the road.
Roxi – Keira, I’m not thinking about the end of the road, because this isn’t the end of the road. At least not for me. I understand how you feel. I do. I know it’s been rough, I know we spent way more time than we ever should trying to have a normal life. I know that and I’m aware of how hard it’s been. But, just think about this for a second. I was doing this, before I met you. I’ve been doing this for a long, long time. Before there was powers, before there was Lady Kat. You took that and you decided to come with me on that journey. It’s okay if you want to jump off now and do everything else. Trust me, I want to as well from time to time.
Keira – But...
Roxi – But this is what I do. It’s what I’ve been doing. It’s hard to turn that off just like that. It requires some thought. Like a lot of things. It’s just how it is.
Keira – So is this Team Hero things like that too.
Roxi – This... this match is for you. I’m here and I’m teaming with you, because you are my wife, you are my partner, you are my rock, you are everything and I want to make you happy, and nothing makes me happier than seeing you happy. But most importantly, I’m teaming with you, because we are Team Hero, and we will make sure that everyone remembers that.
{Keira smiles, even chuckling a bit.}
Keira – Did you just give me a hero speech in casual conversation?
Roxi – I guess I did... old habits are hard to break.
{Keira shakes her head.}
Keira – I'm going to take a bit of a nap, and then... back to training?
Roxi – You got it.
{Keira walks off and Roxi goes back to her work and the scene fades.}
“I'll tell you something about glory. A hero doesn't want it. The best day of my life will be the day the world doesn't need me anymore. But until that day comes... I'll never quit fighting for what's right.”
— Superman (Superman: Man of Tomorrow Vol 1 15)
— Superman (Superman: Man of Tomorrow Vol 1 15)
Hello, SCW.
Well, we’ve hit that point, haven’t we? It’s been a year since I said that this ride is pretty much coming to an end. And maybe, maybe the show needs to end. I don’t think I have anything else left to prove at this point when it comes to being in the ring and being a contender for any championships. I removed myself from it and I still don’t have any aspirations to go back on that. I don’t think that I got too far in my dream list, but I kept my word that my appearances would be getting less and less frequent. The fact is, is that I don’t need to be here too much anymore. It was my goal to ensure that the Bombshell’s division got better and while that’s still a work in progress, I think the best thing is to simply remove myself from it for the most part. I don’t want to keep doing what I feel like I did to Krystal, despite everything else.
Yes, it was a little payback for when she was possessed, but it wasn’t my goal to beat her and send her down a downward spiral. It was to make her better. And I think I accomplished that goal. But I look to the future of the bombshell’s division and really, my students and the young talent that’s here and it excites me. It makes me hopeful for the future on wrestling in general. Because they are succeeding. Maybe they aren’t doing it in the way I would have liked, but they’re still doing it. And that makes me happy.
So, when it comes to this match, this match at High Stakes, and the last time Team Hero suits up for SCW, I find myself at a bit of a crossroads. Because this match isn’t really about me. It’s about my wife. She retired once, and now, this is what she wanted to do for a long time and so I’m along for the ride. Of course I support her in every possible way, so being a part of this is special to me. I look back at the legacy of Team Hero and I smile. I look back at the matches we had, with the teams we had to face, the amazing amount of talent and how we, together, were able to forge that path and add our names into history that will most likely not be replicated ever again. Team Hero stakes it’s claim as the best tag team in SCW history, male or female. And I’m proud of that, and proud to even be in the conversation.
Add to that fact that we both before and after, had successful singles careers. I’m proud of that, and now, we get to close this chapter of our lives and start a new journey. I just... don’t know what that journey is.
I know that Keira is going to hang it up and really this is just a little dream match for her. And I said that maybe it was time for me to go, but I feel like there’s still a lot left for me to do. It’s strange that I feel like Batman when he said he was fighting to make sure that Gotham didn’t need him. That’s when the Heroes journey ends. When the battles are over and won.
I feel like there’s something somewhere, and I’m going to look for it. And I don’t know if and when I’ll find it, but that’s the best part of the journey.
But that comes later.
Now, I stand here ready to face off against Kat Jones and Whisper. I know the process to find two opponents was a little muddy, but I guess it’s a little difficult to entice people to come at fight us, but some people were considering it, but... now we’re here. And you know, that’s okay. I’m okay with that. I’m excited for this match because Kat was a dream opponent that I got to step into the ring with.
Now... I don’t know if Kat still hates my guts. She might deep down inside. We have been cordial for the past year after that brief but still hurtful episode where I didn’t do everything that Kat felt I should have, but attempts were made to at least patch some of that up. I don’t know how effective my efforts were, but I never disliked Kat. I never tried to intentionally disrespect Kat. I never meant for her to feel bad or lose trust in me, and I’m trying to work to make it at least a little better for the future.
But in the ring, I know that won’t matter to Kat. Kat’s here to fight. And she’s always been here to fight. I appreciate that more than she knows. She has done something I really have a hard time with, and that’s separating the outside world and the wrestling world. Because I mean, it’s just my nature, and I would argue human nature to not see the people who hang out with and are a part of your lives as something totally different when standing across from them. I saw Kat Jones the first time in the ring and my mind went to “that’s my friend” and it really wasn’t good for me. I took a lot of abuse that match, even though I won. So I applaud Kat to able to make that separation and make it so clean that she can switch back and forth easily.
So, now I know what I’m getting. I know that it’s not going to be easy to beat Kat anyway, but maybe now she has some extra motivation. I’m not sure, but I know Kat will be up for this match and at the end of the day, she’s going to fight me, and fight Keira tooth and nail the entire time. It was a dream come true to wrestle her the first time, this time, it’s more about the legacy of Team Hero than it is anything else. So, I’ve learned and I’ve put it in my mind now that Kat isn’t going to be friendly with me, or with Keira from bell to bell. Maybe after, maybe not. But, I will still have a Christmas card waiting for her afterwards.
Now Whisper, Whisper is different. Whisper and I are cordial and have never had an issue. But I know she’s a trainer, and I know that trainers demand so much from their students, just like I do. And I know that when you’re in that role, you don’t want to seem like you don’t know what you’re doing, and you don’t want to feel like you’re letting anyone down. So, I’ll just say it here: Whisper isn’t going to let anyone down no matter what happens. While we had a few teams thinking about it, no one really just jumped at the chance. And we’re talking about some of the premier teams in all of wrestling who were thinking about it. Whisper volunteered to join Kat without a second thought. So I know she’s going to be motivated and ready.
And I know Keira has more of a history with Whisper, but that doesn’t mean that I’m just not going to jump at the chance to wrestle her. I know it’s rare that she does something like this. She continues to call herself old and while I certainly understand that none of us are getting younger, I wouldn’t class her as old, even though she feels that way. And she may take that as disrespectful but I’m just saying that I wouldn’t. She is more than welcome to call herself whatever she likes.
What I will say is that Keira has showed me what Whisper is capable of, and I’ve seen what training is like at Hell’s Gate a few times, and I know it’s not going to be a walk in the park at High Stakes, especially because of how Whisper trains.
But I’m not expecting a walk in the park. I’m expecting a fight. A fight that will test Team Hero like no other team has ever done. I know that this isn’t just another match, this isn’t another small test. No, this is going to be a fight where we will all leave a lot of ourselves in the ring, some more forcefully than others. Keira and I are going to be in a war. The moment the match was signed it was going to be that way.
So, Keira and I will train harder, we will become better. And we will prove Team Hero is the best team in the world.
One. Last. time.