{The scene opens with Roxi driving. She wears sunglasses despite it being a more overcast day, and a black jacket. She keeps on driving, turning on various roads, until she comes to some hills and trails. The trails giving a nice high view overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Roxi parks her car and turns to the passenger seat, and placed there is an urn. Roxi sighs and grabs the urn, leaving her car and heading up the trail until finally overlooking the cliff.}
Roxi – I should have done this a long time ago.
{Roxi then sits on the edge of the cliff holding the urn in her hands.}
Roxi – I'm sorry I got you mixed up in all this Claire. You will always be my greatest failure. I’m sorry that you had to deal with the life that I never wanted anyone to follow into. You were just a normal girl who got tossed into my... other life. You got put here for all the wrong reasons and I will always feel guilty for what happened to you. I will never forgive myself for making you a monster.
{We flashback to the last time Roxi ever saw Claire.
She was hooked to various machines, wired to regulate her breathing. Claire’s face and body were a hideous mess, shrunken, misshapen, her left arm now no bigger than a toddler’s arm. The right side of her face was sunken in, and her entire complexion was now a sickly pale. There was a hole in her jaw and neck, bones were exposed on her torso as she was covered by a jacket, but it provided very little help. Roxi stood by her friend and what became her hated enemy.}
Roxi – Claire…
{Claire barely moved, as a man behind her regulated everything. Her eyes fixed onto Roxi, and even behind everything, there was an empathy in her eyes. Roxi looked at her as Claire nodded and the man removed her oxygen mask.}
Claire – You came...
Roxi – Claire… you need to get to a hospital. You need to let me help you! Please!
Claire – You… *cough* *cough*
{Claire leaned forward, wheezing and gasping for air. Her voice is raspy, sounding nothing like she had ever been like before. She was more monster than human. The guard behind her reapplied her oxygen mask and she took some deep breaths. Finally regaining herself, she pulled the mask away.}
Claire – No. I did this.
{Claire’s voice cuts sharply as she almost lunges for the mask again.}
Roxi – I tried to help you. I wanted to help you. I still do. But I can’t do it here. I can’t. I need to get you to a hospital. They can at least…. At least try. Let me try Claire. Please. Look, despite what happened, you are always going to be the friend I had since Middle school. You’re always going to be the friend who was there for me, and I know that… I know that you saved me. And I just want to return the favor.
Claire – You can’t. I’m dying.
Roxi – I know! That’s why you need to come with me. Let me help you!
Claire – Look at me!
{Claire reaches for the Oxygen mask again, getting worked up as the guard behind her tries to relax her.}
Claire – I can’t get help. I die…here.
Roxi – You’re doing this to spite me. Please let me help you!
{Claire stares at Roxi and doesn’t move, or speak. Her breathing is still raspy and she then rips the oxygen mask off, and starts pulling everything keeping her alive out of her.}
Roxi – No! Don’t!
{Even the guards are trying to stop Claire, but she collapses in immense pain. Roxi rushes to be by her side. Claire and Roxi are eye to eye, but instead of empathy… there is seemingly remorse in her eyes. }
Roxi – I’m going to get you out of here Claire.
{Claire coughs and wheezes. She weakly reaches into her pocket and hands Roxi a small flash drive.}
Roxi – Come on, hang on we’re going.
{Claire grips Roxi as tightly as she possibly could and leans into her.}
Claire – Goodbye.
{Claire’s body gives out. She slumps over and falls to the ground, out of Roxi’s grasp.}
Roxi – Claire…
{Roxi begins to cry, mourning over her friend, and fierce rival’s death. The guards don’t know what to do and walk around aimlessly. Roxi looks at the flash drive and walks over to the nearby computer. She stick in the flash drive and it boots up. A video is shown of Claire, in far better condition that she was currently, still color in her face and less of the deformities.}
Claire – I held a grudge for a long time Roxi. I blamed you for leaving me to die. I wanted my revenge. And then I wanted you to finish what you started. But you didn’t. You never did, and you never tried to. You always believed you could save me. I admit that I lost sight of any and every goal I had. I know now that… this serum is killing me. I wanted to be as strong as you, but I can’t be, neither physically or mentally. And you never actually gave up on me. You tried to help me, but I was blinded by rage, anger and jealousy. Even when your wife tried to at least talk sense into me, I didn’t want to listen. And now… it’s too late.
In the event you don’t come for me before I die, I will have my men deliver this to you personally. I have also instructed them not to harm you ever again once you see this video. I have destroyed the last of any of the serum, so there will be no more soldiers coming after you.
I want to tell you... I’m sorry. I’m sorry for all the grief I caused, and I deserve what’s happening to me now. I carried the anger and hatred with me for all this time, just wanting to kill you… and in the process, I have essentially killed myself. I don’t want you to save me. I don’t want you to try and save me. You’ve done more than enough to help me already. And although it’s too late… I want to say thank you, for never giving up on me. I need you to do one thing for me now… and I will have peace of mind going into this, and you can have closure afterward. Just one thing Roxi…
Keep fighting. Be the hero. It’s what you do.
Good-bye… my friend.
{The feed instantly cuts out. Roxi walks back over to Claire’s body, and closes her eyes for her. She still cries for her friend, before putting her mask back on. She simply walks out the door, and soon enough exits the building, before beginning to fly home.
We cut back to Roxi having begun to cry once again.}
Roxi – I wanted so bad to save you, and I could go back to that night with Harold Peterson, I would have. I would have changed everything and you would never know anything about what I do. You could go on and become the writer or the therapist or whatever you always wanted to be. I just... I always told you I was sorry and I always offered to help you and now... this is all I have.
{Roxi peers down at the urn and then picks it up.}
Roxi – But I feel like I trapped you. I trapped you here and you don’t deserve that anymore. You deserve to be free, Just like you let go, I need to let you go as well.
{Roxi stands with the urn in her hand and unscrews the lid, peering down in the ashes.}
Roxi – It's time for you to go free. I release you.
{Roxi then scatters the ashes over the cliff, most of them taken by the wind into the ocean.}
Roxi – Good-bye, Claire, Good-bye my friend. Be free.
{Roxi sighs as she wipes the tears from her eyes and then returns to car, driving away as she places the urn in the passenger seat again.}
{In the new scene Roxi once again arrives as Amy Jo Smyth’s house, knocking on the door and soon enough AJ does answer. AJ notices that Roxi had been crying and her sunglasses}
Amy Jo Smyth – What happened?
Roxi – I just, needed to get some closure on something, that’s all.
Amy Jo Smyth – You sure?
Roxi – Yeah.
Amy Jo Smyth – You need to tell me these things, I thought for a second something bad happened.
Roxi – No, not that I know of anyway.
Amy Jo Smyth – So... what brings you around?
Roxi – I wanted to say thanks for pulling those strings and getting that inquisition scheduled.
Amy Jo Smyth – I did all I could, at least it worked out. I saw on the news they took that Coleman guy off the job and fired him.
Roxi – Yeah, to be fair, he was his own downfall.
Amy Jo Smyth – You still did the right thing.
Roxi – Did I?
Amy Jo Smyth – Oh, it’s gonna be one of those talks, alright, come on in.
{AJ leads Roxi into her home and sits her down, pouring a cup of coffee for them both.}
Amy Jo Smyth – Look, you did the right thing, It’s against the law to physically beat up inmates like that. Haven’t you ever seen “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest?”
Roxi – Yeah, but Coleman wasn’t nurse Ratched.
Amy Jo Smyth – Close enough.
Roxi – I don’t know, a part of me thinks maybe they were making it up but they were believeable and I could have made a mountain out of a molehill based on a hunch, and gotten a lot of people in trouble unnessecarily.
Amy Jo Smyth – But you didn’t. That Coleman guys was bad news. His records became public after they fired him. He was a bad egg and you did the right thing taking him down.
Roxi – Sometimes I feel like maybe I’m not doing the good I should be. I feel like I’m just putting out fires at this point.
Amy Jo Smyth – And? I know I don’t want my house burning down, that’s for damn sure.
Roxi – You’re lucky you don’t burn your house down with your experiments.
Amy Jo Smyth – You brought up the fire analogy, I was just playing off it. Also, if my house burns down for science, that’s totally different.
Roxi – I see. I’m just... I don’t know, A part of me feels like maybe Coleman had the right idea.
Amy Jo Smyth – What? Are you crazy?
Roxi – He kept them in line, AJ. The Peak Twins escaped because they were afraid of him. They were more afraid of him, than they ever were of me.
Amy Jo Smyth – And that doesn’t make it better. That makes it worse.
Roxi – They’re still criminals.
Amy Jo Smyth – Does that make it so that they shouldn’t ever be treated humanely? Isn’t the the goal of you putting them there? You do what you do to help them. All that Coleman guy was doing was hurting them because he believed in his own brand of justice. And that’s not how it works.
Roxi – I’m kinda doing the same thing?
Amy Jo Smyth – You handle shit the police can’t. You’ve saved the world like 25 times or something. Shit, you’re a hero and the only person who doesn’t believe it is you. Look, I’m not a fan of what those people in the asylum do, but killing them doesn’t solve anything. And this is coming from me, the old chick with a shitload of guns.
Roxi – Which makes this odd.
Amy Jo Smyth – But you just need to understand that you’re doing good. You do what’s right, and you and I both know, what’s right isn’t always popular, and what’s popular isn’t always right, but dammit you do it well.
Roxi – I guess it’s just after closing the door on Claire after all this time, that sometimes it feels like I didn’t do enough.
Amy Jo Smyth – You’ve done a lot. And you should be proud, because those who know you, they’re proud too.
{AJ sits down as the two begin to sip their coffee.}
Amy Jo Smyth – Now, let me tell you about what I just found.
Roxi – Oh no...
Amy Jo Smyth – No, this is good. I found The Price Is Right episodes from the 60’s!
Roxi – I see.
Amy Jo Smyth – They were giving away houses back then! Fucking houses! Who wins a house on a gameshow?!
Roxi – I mean, prices were different back then.
Amy Jo Smyth – Still, I wonder about how the taxes work then. This shit interesting.
Roxi – I can tell.
Amy Jo Smyth – Oh, I also found videos of fake cops pretending to be cops and then the real cops show up and arrest them.
Roxi – This is what you do with your time now?
Amy Jo Smyth – Your god damn right.
Roxi – Fair enough. Let’s watch.
Amy Jo Smyth – Come on, this shit is good.
{Roxi and AJ head into AJ’s living room to watch their videos as the scene fades out.}
"We'll be ready. Justice is always ready. That's why evil always fails. There's only one kind of good, and it's all evil ever gets to battle. Makes it weak and narrow-minded. There's an endless variety of evil. And good's got a lifetime of tricks up its sleeve. We learn from the best."
- Batman (JLA: Welcome to the Working Week)
Hello, SCW.
Blaze of Glory is now in the past and while I am in a better mood after it was over, I am not happy, I am content. Content with that victory over Lucy, who as always gave me a fight, but now that it over and everything resets after the big shows. And so, for a while there, as the much-needed week off came and went, I was left to wonder where exactly do I go from here? What path am I taking after all that has happened? I have a lot of options in front of me, and of course, the biggest one being the new Bombshell’s champion, Amber Ryan and no, I’m not scared to say her name, I’m not afraid of the violence that comes with that fight, because I already experienced it, and I’m still here. I thought that at least for a little while, that we would go our separate ways and see what happens, before we cross paths again. It was agreed that after the last time, we were “done”. But this is wrestling and “done” really means “for now.” Maybe sooner rather than later we will meet again.
At least, that was the thought. I mean, I know that Prudence won the Blast from the Past and she’s obviously got her title match. And of course, Andrea, if she ever decides to actually do something with her wins other than count them, could be in line as well. I’m not going to sit here and say I should get anything based on one recent victory, far from it. I’m not one to rely on past accomplishments to use as leverage. It is simply about results, and what has been done lately, and I have a few wins in the Blast from the past tournament and then the win at Blaze of Glory. So, I believe that it is fair right now that my next match is a number one contender’s match, albeit for the Internet championship.
Everybody wants to be gunning for the Bombshell’s championship, but let’s face it, right now, the toughest championship to get a hold of is the Internet championship for the Bombshell’s. Myra Rivers has had a stranglehold on that championship and has turned back every single challenge that has been put in front of her. And now, here I am with a chance to make a little bit of history if I were to win and then defeat Myra. You see, there’s only been 3 people to hold the Internet championship twice. Myself, Amy Marshall, and Kate Steele. And I was the first two-time champion, I still feel I should have been the inaugural champion, but that’s stuff from 6 years ago. But now I have the chance to be the first 3-time Internet champion, but obviously that’s a lot easier said than it is done, as right now, I have a giant gauntlet ahead of me with several talented women who I have shared the ring with many, many times. It won’t be easy to just walk into this match and just win based on the talent level that’s involved here. Plus, there’s a whole lot of luck depending on when one enters the match. Because let’s face it, nobody who is in this match is just going toss people out one by one without a fight. That’s just not going to happen, every single person here a former champion, and almost everyone is a former Bombshell’s champion. That right there is the reason this match is the main event in the first place. So yeah, it’s a long road and a tough fight, but you know what, I’m always up for the chance to prove myself, yet again.
Lucy and I just wrestled, and so it’s only right to begin with her. As I’ve said numerous times, the respect between the Angel Clan and Team Hero is endless. We have done many great things in that ring when we were in there. And I am happy and proud to call her my friend and colleague. She has done a lot for me and my family and I am forever grateful for it. Having said that, there just doesn’t appear to be that same fire that once led the Angel Clan to be the tag team that took the bombshell’s tag team championship from Team Hero after all those years. It just appears at this point that Lucy is almost, doing this because she either just enjoys it, or feels obligated, and in some ways, I envy her for that.
I wish that at some point that I could look at all this and go “I’m okay with that.” Despite everything I have done, inside and outside of the ring, I just don’t have that ability to just step back and say “I did all I could.” I just don’t have that in me. I will always be looking at things and thinking about how I could do more to help improve it or something along those lines because it’s just built in me to be a competitor, I suppose. I’ve been trying to be the best for almost a decade in SCW. It’s always been difficult for me to leave this alone and not try and be at the top. Lucy having that ability is where I would like to be one day. I would very much like to just sit down and say “I just do this because I want to.” instead, I always have felt I have to. It’s a struggle, but maybe one day, Lucy can teach me about it. I only felt that way slightly, one time, and that was when Nate was born, and he became the most important thing in my life. He was everything and for that whole year, I loved not being in the ring and spending time with him. But as Nate grew up, and continues to grow, that itch has always returned.
This time is no different than before, Lucy knows me, I know Lucy, but at the end of the day, I’m here to win, not just to participate.
Well, it has been quite a long time since I was able to share the ring with Sam Marlowe. It has been years. I love Sam to death as she has been such a force of positivity in SCW and had always been so friendly and inviting no matter the situation. It is always a pleasure to see her backstage and just to give her a big hug. She always offers to me the same courtesy. And even though she doesn’t need to, she’s always been receptive to the #WCW posts I do and that’s always been heartwarming. It’s always been my goal to make someone’s day every now and again. If that helps brighten Sammi’s day, I’m always glad to help.
But of course, this match, means that potentially, I have to dim Sammi’s day and end her dream of being number one contender, I take no joy in that, it’s not something I strive for, but Sammi knows that about me. I’m not out to hurt people, I’m out to test my abilities and make myself better each and every time I step foot in the ring. And going into a match against a former Bombshell’s champion and multiple time roulette champion, is a darn good place to test yourself. I have always enjoyed being in the same ring with friends, because that leads to pushing each other further. It means the harder you can fight, because at the end of the day, the friendship between people has always been able to overcome the differences between friends. Competition brings out the best in people, and this is just that type of thing. If I have to go against Sammi in the ring, I know it will be a heck of a battle and that makes me excited for the possibility, because I know at the end, we can only get better. So, while truthfully it is rather painful to have that “only one winner” thing holding over our heads, it’s always good to know that at the end of the day, there won’t be hard feelings no matter the outcome.
But, again, this is about getting to a spot to win a championship, and I know Sammi understands that. We all will do what we have to do, and that means, I have to beat Sammi and she has to beat me, and I know we’re both okay with that. It makes what I have to do, sting a lot less than it normally would.
And speaking of friends, another one shows up in the form of Seleana. Seleana has always been friendly to me and she and I have shared the ring on many occasions and it has always been fun and competitive. I was big believer in Sel and I still am, she has surpassed many expectations from when she first started and has grown into one of the finest competitors in SCW, maybe ever. She is so versatile despite not being in the wrestling game for that long. She has won multiple championships across the sport in various companies and while people try and diminish this, all the proof is right there. Sel have proven time and time again that no matter the match, and no matter the opponent she is a threat to win each and every time she enters the ring. It doesn’t matter if it’s for the Roulette championship, the Bombshell’s championship, or if she’s teaming to win tag championships, Sel can win anywhere, and at any time.
The only flaw I’ve ever seen with Sel is that sometimes she doesn’t focus like we all know she’s capable of doing. At some points it has become a chronic issue that Sel loses her focus and becomes blinded by one thing or another and that has always led to her downfall. It has nothing to do with her skill or experience anymore, a lot of the issues are in Sel’s head, and I know that she’s always been a level-headed person, I know all-too-well at times it become a burden. It becomes a problem that people like us always have to be level headed because otherwise bad things happen. Otherwise, people get hurt and we end up frustrated because of it. It’s a very annoying thing, but I am glad that Sel is like that because it’s something we can all relate to. She is an amazing person and an amazing friend who has always encouraged and lifted people up, so while it might seem like I’m bringing her down, it’s not like that and it never will be. I will always encourage Sel to keep fighting, even though it is difficult sometimes to always have that turned on each and every day.
I know that when you get tunnel vision like Sel, it means you try harder, and sometimes too hard to make things right. But if I could give Sel some words after Blaze of Glory, it would simply be this: Andrea needed to beat you, not the other way around. Seleana has already cemented her spot, and Andrea still on the verge of being a footnote, rather than a mainstay.
And this match is proof of that. Seleana is here, because she deserves to be here. But much like I’ve said with everyone so far, this is about a goal of being number one contender, and that’s something I want just as much as anyone, so I will do what I do best, and I just hope Sel understands it’s not a slight at her, if she is focused and ready, it will be an even better fight. I look forward seeing her in the ring and then at the end, walking away number one contender.
Wait, never mind. I should just forget all that. Because Alicia Lukas is in this match.
I completely forgot, so just forget what I said about winning because nobody wins anything when Alicia Lukas in involved. I mean, we all remember 2019 and stuff, right? I mean how could we when Alicia never lets us forget about it? It’s always humorous to hear Alicia just riff on everybody because none of us did that one thing that one time, so we all must just be terrible. I’m sure she’s just going to walk into this match and win. I mean, I don’t even know why we’re having this match in the first place. We should just hand Alicia this opportunity and save everyone the main event, if you believe her.
But, 2019 was 2 years ago, and Alicia managed to sneak in another championship win at the tail end of 2020 before promptly losing it. But you know, Keira is obviously a bad champion because she lost it already. Crystal is bad champion because she lost it on her first supercard defense. I guess Alicia should just rename herself Paul Stanley because she sounds like him. “Everybody sucks but me” is all I hear at this point. Everybody just fails so hard, despite that Alicia lost it on her first supercard defense... twice, if memory serves correctly. No, wait, the first time, she didn’t make it that far. But, again, everyone is just bringing that championship down and it’s so bad. The reason it’s bad is because Alicia isn’t the champion, and now more and more it looks like that championship reign with all those defenses looks more and more like a fluke.
But I’m sure I’ll get the nice subtweet about how wrong I am as Alicia tries to earn brownie points or something by trying to bring everyone down. I said a while back that Alicia was a robot, but I think that was wrong. It might just be an insult to robots at this point, because at least AI can learn and adapt after a while. At this point, Alicia is more of one of those talking action figures, where you push the button and they says there “fighting phrases” I didn’t watch or listen to anything Alicia has done in a quite a while, because it’s just the same thing, over and over and over. I am the best. Everybody else sucks. Cheap shot at Crystal who is most likely not my opponent. Done and done. You’ll have to tell me how close I was. Remember, Alicia can just say the same thing over and over, but if you do it, you’re unoriginal. That’s just how that works, I guess.
The truth is Alicia found out that once somebody beat her, it wasn’t going to be as easy as it was before, it only gets harder, and now all of a sudden, she can’t run through people anymore and that leads to those little slices of introspection and “I need to re-evaluate things” after those losses come. So, I look forward to seeing one again after Sunday, because she’s not going to win this match either. But she call always feel free to voice her frustration on twitter and complain about everybody else.
And finally, I come to my lovely wife, Keira.
You know, Keira has made me proud each and every time you have stepped into the ring, and even more so now, because she is her own woman. She has grown and become a champion in her own right. She has become a woman capable of winning every single title she competes for. When a lot of people believed she would not win the Bombshell’s title, she did. When people wanted to run her out of SCW, she stood steadfast and kept plugging away. And at the end, it all paid off, even if her championship reign all ended the next day, for one bright, shining moment, Keira was on top of the world, and it wasn’t because she was my wife, it was because she was the best, at that moment.
Granted, things haven’t been the greatest for her since she lost the title, but that’s what happens when you fall off the mountain, you have to get yourself back to the top. And it is a long way down, and an even longer way back up.
Of course, it didn’t help that Keira got injured and I felt really bad for her when it happened, but she knew it was part of the game and didn’t lose that fire, instead, I watched her train and get herself in better shape than she was before. I saw her ready to accomplish one more goal, and do something only a handful of people have ever been able to do. And that is awesome. I applaud my wife for wanting to be a grand slam champion, and it makes this match 100 times more difficult than it already is because I’m sitting here looking to write my own history.
If I took myself out of this match, of course I’d be rooting for Keira. I’m still rooting for her to do well, because she’s my wife and I love her. I want the best for her, but here we are, and I AM in this match, and low and behold, I have a chance to win something for myself, and that means Keira can’t. And that sucks. It sucks and I wish it was a different way, but it’s not. It’s just not.
So, all I will say, is that I hope to see her at the end, and then, we will let the chips fall where they fall. I just don’t want her to be too upset, because I’m planning on winning.
So, that’s that. We’re only a few days away, and I look forward to continuing to build what I’ve been building on for a long time. I am ready to take down each of my opponents, some, obviously more than others, but at the end of the day, it’s what this is all about. So, I hope you are all prepared for this. I’m coming to win.
I will see you all there. 
