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Roleplay Boards => Archived Roleplays => Climax Control Archives => Topic started by: Austin James Mercer on September 27, 2019, 09:24:19 PM
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Humanity cover me with the ashes of remembrance
I will learn from this pain
There is no darkness without light to teach us of ourselves
Life to lifeless to eternity, life to lifeless the cycle repeats
Death unfolds itself painfully to unmask how fragile we are
Death unfolds itself painfully, teacher of sanity
The pain drags me down
I'll rebuild me
Scene One: Don’t hide from me.
Off Camera
New York, New York
7 Days Ago
It had been a day or two since they had arrived home. Austin deciding not to stay on tour with SCW the whole way, having things that needed attending too back home in New York. He had spent the last 3 days at Wolfslair, but now he stood in his garage tinkering with a few things, mindless work, things he didn’t need to do. But it kept him out of the house, away from Lisa. Austin loved his wife, he loved her with all his heart but since losing the SCW title he had felt like he let her down, like he had let his son and daughter down. Lisa had smiled and held him, told him that she was still very proud.
But there was this speck in Austins stomach. Doubt and anger. Ut had stayed there festering since he lost to Vinnie. Then the loss to Ty had buried it deeper. Had he lost something? Had he watched it all fall away?. These questions burned in his mind and made the doubt grow faster. He had been around the others, Alicia and Alex, Alicia was still a champion, Alex had a match against Vinnie and was always so confident, bordering on arrogance. But this affected Austin, this made everything he did seem so small. He had goals, he had ideas, he put his heart into all of it. And even in loss he had a smile on his face.
Only this time, the smile was fake.
He had plastered it on his face while he clapped along when Vinnie beat him, he had it on when walking up the ramp after the loss to Ty. It had been there for the world to see. For his family to see, for the fans to see. But beneath it was an anger festering and turning that had broken the last part of him. Maybe Alex had been right this whole time. Maybe talent and size could only get you so far before a selfish killer instinct needed to be brought out and used. Austin growled under his breath as he stood in front of the old wooden workbench on the empty side of his double garage. His car sitting on the other side, shining as the sun came in from the small window to the side.
His hands grasped the wood, tightened on it, he felt the anger build and build, his hand clutching a small piece of wood as he had the urge to throw it.
”Austin?” Lisa, her sweet voice cutting through the anger as he let the wood go, his head turned to find her standing in the doorway, their small daughter in her arms. All the anger faded away as he smiled back at them. His beautiful wife, her long hair dyed a platinum silver, her tattoos up and down her arms that told a story, her bright green eyes then seemed to light up whenever she saw the kids or him. And there, in her arms his daughter. Mia. She had grown so much. Her face starting to resemble her mother.
Austin stepped forward, his eyes meeting Lisas before he leaned down and kissed Mia on the forehead. His daughter letting out a small giggle as Austin put his hand on her head. He looked into Lisa’s eyes again and leaned in kissing her. All the anger he had flooded away. This is what stopped him from becoming like his father, this is what stopped him from going down that road. A road that Alex too had walked but had restrained himself from.
”I love you…”
And that was all that needed to be said, Lisa just smiled and leaned forward putting her head on Austins huge chest, Miajust staring at her parents, their son Markus playing just inside on the floor. He would make them proud again….
Promo:The long road back
On Camera
Andros Beach Club
Present Day.
It had been a beautiful day, as it had been in these days in the bahamas. Austin stood in the well stacked gym at the Andros Beach Club. A smirk on his face as he looked at all the equipment, most of it he had used for his workout, his muscles bulged and shone with sweat as he let out a long, deep sigh.
”It’s been a rough month. It really has and believe me, I’m not complaining here. Everyone goes through these and now it’s my turn. I took on a schedule where I faced the best of the best and I wanted to stand on top of the wrestling world and I did. I did that and I did it proudly. I reached so many of my goals and I was proud. The thing is that goals, like everything in life, change. At first the goal was to just train to be a wrestler, win a match, get signed to a company. And as I reached all those goals I realised, naturally that I needed more. So they changed to competing for a title, then it changed to winning a title. Then it changed to winning a world title…”
“I reached all those goals. I trained to be a wrestler, I won a match, I made my father proud, I got signed to IWF, then WWH, then Honor and now SCW. And I won titles in all of them. I was the IWF United States champion, I was the WWH Hellsgate champion and then I won my first world title for Honor. Then the goal was simple. Become the SCW world champion. And after a few stumbles, I got there. I got there before so many others that had tried. I got there before Caleb Storms, I got there before Ty West, I got there before Vinnie and before Alex. I did it, I stood there and held the SCW world title in front of my friends, family and fans. But, then where did I go from there?”
“What was the next goal?”
“What was the next moment?”
“Well, I wanted to defend the SCW title, at least one time. And I did it. So what was the next goal?. Well the title records for most defences and total days looked good. But those goals were ones I was unable to achieve...this time..”
Austin pauses and smiles wider folding his arms over his chest.
”I say this time because I am far from done yet. See I may have lost the title to Vinnie, and have now stood here and watched him become a total hypocrite. I may have lost to Ty who is going to challenge Vinnie at High Stakes, but I am far, far from done in SCW. See the way to be successful in wrestling and, well anything in life, is to have those goals there, to always be pushing and striving towards something. And for me, now, those goals are simple. Win matches, earn the right to face whoever the champion is, get the title back and then, well then go for the goal of breaking those records.”
“That is what I want, that is where I want to go and to start this journey, to stand back on that path and walk towards it, I need to start with the first goal. Getting back into the winners circle. And to do that, I start with my opponent this week, Kedron Williams.”
“The son of salem”
“Five eleven, under two hundred pounds. A brooding personality and some pretty awesome high flying moves and technical ability. A guy who has put in some impressive efforts, beating Jake Raab...which I personally enjoyed, and coming close to beating Bill Barnhart and Ben Jordan, two amazing talented. And that has just been his last few matches. Truth is Kedron Williams is an impressive guy and I can see him going far in SCW and even winning the roulette title or challenging for the world title…”
Austin shrugs and smiles.
”But, not now, not this time. Cause as much as I can see my opponents strengths and I know anything can happen and anyone can beat anyone else if it is their day, I need this. I need this win, I need to step in the ring and remind everyone that I was the man who stood up as a dominant champion, I was the one who kept the title meaning something after beating Fenris. And that I was the one to beat Fenris to begin with. No one else did that, I did. It’s something I hold as precious, just as precious as holding the SCW title and defending it. And to get back to that level, to stand on the top of the mountain again and stare down from it’s peak I need to beat everyone they put in my way…”
“And right now Kedron, you are in my way.”
“And as technically sound as you are, as sneaky as you are and even though you are willing to go to lengths with the rules that I simply am not I still hold something over you…”
“I’m a fucking monster…”
“I am six foot six, I am two hundred and sixty five pounds. And I can move faster than people half my size, I can lift and throw people like you as easy as a rock skimming across a lake and I have generations of wrestling knowledge and ability bred into me and taught to me. In fact, many have said if you could build a wrestler from the ground up with the strengths to make them a dominant world champion you’d build me. And the scary part Kedron?...”
“I haven’t even reached my prime yet…”
He growls the last few words and looks down as his long brown hair flows down the sides of his face.
”I can still get better, get smarter and get more dangerous. And as we head into Climax Control 149 I know I need to make a statement. And I don’t want you to taker this personally Kedron, I know you are a talent, hell I said it. But I need to beat you, I need to win again and I need to set my sights back on the SCW world title. So anything I do to you will not be personal, it will just be a statement.”
“A statement of intent and a warning for you and everyone else to see. Austin James Mercer is not done, Austin James Mercer is not a loser and Austin James Mercer will earn the right to once again be called the champion, I don’t care who I have to go through Kedron, you, Ty, Vinnie, Griffin Hawkins, Fenris, Alex or even your buddy Satan himself...I will take back the title and I will achieve my goals…”