The scene opens up inside of a reception hall, likely located somewhere in Nevada. The reason for this assumption? Well that would be because as it turns out, the hall is currently hosting a semi-formal even which is filled with plenty of former faces, familiar wrestlers of both the past and present, including a variety of current SCW superstars. The ones who seem to have drawn the greatest focus, at least from the camera, is SCW's reigning Heavyweight Champion, Nick Jones. Who is currently standing in the company of his usual crowd, his lovely girlfriend Diana, who is dressed in some high-dollar gown and the entirety of his entourage, who are also all dressed surprisingly well. After a moment of talk, Diana excuses herself for a moment as she hands her champagne glass off to Big B, who holds it for her as she walks over to the stage area setup at the front of the room. Diana walks up the steps and walks up to a podium with a microphone setup on it. Diana takes the microphone, with the sound echoing throughout the hall and then waits as the crowd slowly quiets down and turns their attention towards her.
Diana: Hello everyone. First off, let me welcome you all to these great event and thank you all for attending. Now you should all already know why we are all here and that is to celebrate the achievements of one of wrestling's greatest talents, who recently regained his SCW Heavyweight Championship on the preceding international tour and lead the entire company in receiving FOUR different SCW Year-End Awards. So ladies and gentlemen, at this time join me in and welcoming to the stage, the man of the hour... Nick Jones!
A round of polite applause comes from the crowd although clearly not from anyone as Nick waves to the crowd as he leaves his spot with the group and heads up onto the stage as well. He meets Diana up at the podium and gives her a quick kiss before she then leaves the stage to rejoin the group. Nick waits for the applause to stop before he speaks.
Nick: Thank you all very much and the most thanks out to my amazing girlfriend Diana for putting this whole event together.
A significantly louder round of applause comes from the crowd this time as Diana smiles and waves at the crowd.
Nick: And in fairness, I'd also like to send out a thanks to B, Tony, Jimmy and Max, as I'm sure Diana couldn't have done all of this without their help.
Diana nods her head and claps to that, but meanwhile the rest of the audience gives little to no applause to the entourage whatsoever. Upon noticing this, Nick can't help but laugh to himself before continuing.
Nick: So anyway, as far as why we're here tonight. As Diana already alluded to, with us touring all over the world over the course of these past few months, we never had the opportunity to really celebrate my recapturing of the SCW Championship. With our recent return home and my success only being further fueled by receiving a record FOUR different awards, Diana insisted we hold an event like this as she knew there would be a great many of you interested in joining us in the festivities surrounding this celebration and I'm happy to see she was clearly right.
Nick hesitates for a moment, but gets no reaction from the crowd, so continues on.
Nick: And so, in celebration of a series of accomplishments completely unmatched by anyone else standing in this room, shall you all at least take the opportunity to share in the glory of my success. Now let's get this party start!
While the initial set of comments draws some groans from the crowd, the final statement helps to draw a bit more of a positive reaction from the group as there are some applause and cheers. Nick then goes to walk off the stage but stops himself and turns back towards the podium.
Nick: I almost forgot, just one more thing to tell you all before I go.
The group, already dispersing to get their food and drinks all stop and turn back towards Nick with a number of quite audible groans in response.
Nick: I figure why not discuss the current situation and get it all out of the way now. I know it's all on your minds and rather than having you spend the entire night running up and asking me about it over and over again, I'll just get it out of the way right now.
The crowd looks puzzled, as none of them seem to be particularly worried about it, but Nick continues on regardless.
Nick: As I'm sure you are all already well aware, this Sunday I face, in a tag team match a combination of the man who I defeated in the main event at Violent Conduct to retain MY championship, Spike Staggs, and his little best buddy, Casey Williams. Now Spike, you just don't know when to quit do you? I have already proven once who the better man here truly is. We were in that ring together, one on one, with my title on the line and I walked out the victor. Nothing is going to change that. If anything else, you've only further proved what was already known from that match. Just last week I once again proved that I was far and away this company has to offer, something the company itself has even voted upon, as I defeated yet another sorry challenger who never stood a chance, square in the middle of that ring. What did you do? You decided, after I had finished competing in a match when you never even had yours, to come up from out of the crowd, sneak up from behind and hit me with a weapon. Not only does that show what a coward you truly are, it's your very own admission that you know you can't get the job done yourself. Even after I had a match, you knew you couldn't face my face to face. Even when jumping me from behind, you knew you couldn't do it with your bare hands. So now you've got that big goof at your side thinking he can somehow make a difference? Forgetting for a moment that your tag team partner is even more useless than mine...
As that is said, the camera shot cuts over towards the crowd where Nick's partner for Sunday, Tom Dudely, is seen standing and gets a rather annoyed and somewhat perplexed look on his face when hearing that comment.
Nick: ... I could be facing the both of you by myself and it would not make one damn bit of difference. You don't even have your silly little piece of tin from the NeWA to your name anymore and you tired and failed oh so miserably to get a real title for change, but I wasn't going to have any of that. Sunday will just be further proving what we already know, you can't hang with the big boys. I'm sure you think you're having a fun little time ripping off the stable that me and SCW's Staff of the Year made famous, but it's about time you learn that neither you, nor that little group of yours, is worth a damn thing without the two of us.
The shot cuts to the crowd where SCW Co-Owner "Hot Stuff" Mark Ward is smiling and nodding at Nick's comments.
Nick: Which brings me to Spikey's little buddy. I know how badly you want to be one of the big boys Casey, but it takes more than height and weight to be a REAL big man in this business. You have to be able to beat the best of the best, any time and every time. You have done that a grand total of NO times. I've heard the rumbles, I know you want a shot at my belt and as funny as that may be, I'm sure sooner or later this place will run out of challengers who's asses I haven't already kicked, so they'll get desperate enough to give you your pity shot. Well on Sunday, I'll give you a little preview of how badly that's going to go for you. Just be happy that you'll be able to run scared out of that ring when you need to, be even happier that there can be times you'll be in that ring that it very well may not be with me, but still know that when we are in there together, you'll be taught a big lesson. I have a funny feeling by the time this match is over, you might not be grumbling nearly as much about that title shot you want and I promise you, nobody around this company would blame you one bit for it. The truth is, you're only making matters for yourself by aligning yourself with career losers the likes of little Spikey Staggs but then again, he's probably the only person in this company desperate enough to be willing to be seen talking to you, never mind be regularly associated with you. It's just too bad for you that there's no room for you on my entourage, because I already have the role of a big, strong mindless oaf filled.
After mostly silence, this is the first comment that draws a nice reaction from the crowd, as it is met with lots of laughter. The camera pans over to Big B, who seems to be oblivious to the fact that he's the one being laughed at, despite the nearby crowd all looking at him for a reaction.
Nick: At this point, I think I have made myself clear. So while you two sit at home and wait for your Sunday defeat to approach, the rest of us are going to have ourselves a party. Cheers everybody!
Nick raises the glass he had in his hand and gets a loud response of cheers from the crowd followed by the sound of lots of glasses clinking together. With that, Nick walks away from the podium and walks down the steps to leave the stage, rejoining the area where his entourage is standing. As he gets there, Diana immediately wraps her arms around and gives Nick a big kiss. As they depart she smiles at him and excitedly speaks.
Diana: Great speech, honey!
Nick: Thanks babe, and great job with this party. This is just the start to what should be one hell of a night.
Just a moment later, the group is approached by two very familiar faces as "Hot Stuff" Mark Ward and Jordan "PS" Williams walk up together, both dressed in very nice, custom-tailored suits. As they walk up, they both extend their hands out to Nick, Nick shaking each of them.
HS: Well done up there, yank.
Jordan: Seriously and hell of party you guys having going here.
Nick: Thanks guys, glad you both could make it.
HS: Wouldn't miss it.
Jordan: Yeah, I think we can officially concede that all water is under the bridge. After tonight, I'm pretty sure we can say there's no more hard feelings.
Nick gives a chuckle to Jordan's comment as Jordan has a wide smile on his face.
Nick: Very well said. I'm sure we can all drink to that.
Nick raises his glass and as do both Jordan and Mark, as the three clink their glasses together. Just as this is happening, Tom Dudely comes walking up from behind Mark. As soon as Nick sees him, he sees a little surprised by that.
Nick: Oh... you're here? I didn't realize that.
HS: Yeah, I told him to tag along tonight. I didn't see there being a problem with that.
Nick: Um... yeah, sure, why not.
Nick then turns to Tom, who doesn't even address Nick's question upon his approach, but goes straight to a question regarding Nick's speech.
Tom: So Casey Williams is "more useless" than me, huh?
Nick: What? That was meant as a compliment!
Tom: A compliment? I'd say that's about as back-handed as you can get.
Nick: What do you want? Like I said, I didn't even know you were here. Besides, you should be happy with a back-handed compliment, it's about the best you'll ever get from me.
While not intended to, that comment can't help draw laughter from the entirety of the Entourage as well as both Mark and Jordan. Tom looks at them rather confused by their reaction while Mark is quick to notice Tom's expression and address it.
HS: It really is true. I've been friends with the guy for years and that's about on par with some of the nicest things he's said about me. Trust me, just take it as a compliment and move along, it'll be a lot easier than way.
Tom: Whatever. How about we just have some fun tonight, and then have even more on Sunday when we're kicking some NXT ass?
Nick: Sounds like a hell of a plan to me.
Nick and Tom then shake hands, but as Tom is about to turn and walk away, Nick holds onto it and pulls Tom back a little closer, quietly and very seriously speaking to him.
Nick: Just remember that, come Sunday, once we're in that ring, I'm the one who is the champ and I'm the 4-time award winner. So just follow my lead, don't get screw things up and cost us the match, and we'll be just fine. Got it?
Tom: You don't need to worry about me, pal. I'll be right there, ready and waiting for you.
Tom then pulls his hand away from Nick's and turns and goes to walk off, but then stops and turns back towards Nick and follows up with one last comment.
Tom: Just to be clear, that's ready and waiting to save your ass once you're near defeat so that way these two clowns won't have to do it.
Tom points over in the direction of Tony and Big B as he makes his last comment, flashing a big smile before walking off. As he does, Nick simply shakes his head and looks back to the group around him who are all chuckling.
Nick: Oh shut up. All of you.
That draws only further comments from the crowd as Nick turns his attention back to Diana.
Nick: Alright babe, I'm going go grab another drink and hit the floor and see who else showed up to this little shindig. Care to join me?
Diana: Lead the way!
Nick puts his arm out which Diana quickly hooks and the two head straight over to the bar area first, both putting their empty glasses down on the bar. The bartender quickly comes right over to them and grabs their glasses, hastily refilling them with new drinks before passing them back across the bar. Nick and Diana both grab their drinks and then head out to the main floor where the rest of the crowd is at. As the go through the crowd, they suddenly come to a stop as stepping directly in front of them is an old associate of Nick's, former wrestler and current manager, Austin Parker, along with his wife Ms. Angel. Nick can be seen giving Ms. Angel a once over for a few moments, looking her up and down before eventually shaking it off and turning his attention back to Austin, with the former look of disdain each man typically has whenever they see one another.
Nick: Ah can't believe it! What 'er ya doin' here, pahtnah?
Austin: Are you kidding me? Ah couldn't pass up the free dinner and an open bar.
Nick: Not that you dumb hick, how did you even end up here? How did you even know this was happening?
Austin: How do you think, ah was invited.
Upon hearing this, Nick looks less than pleased and turns towards Diana.
Nick: You seriously invited this inbred to my party?
Diana: Sure, why not? You guys worked together for years. He was a pretty big part of your early career.
Nick: I don't care how long we worked together, the two of us never even got along!
Austin: Not to interrupt, but let's be honest here, if the lady only invited people you got along with, this place would be damn near empty.
Nick: Hardy freakin' har.
Diana: You know, he does kind of have a point.
Nick: Whatever, like he's one to talk. Outside of his buddy Tonto, who the hell does this guy ever get along with?
Ms. Angel: I'd say he and I get along well enough.
Nick: I'm sure that's only by a virtue of requirement though. I mean, what is he your father or something?
Both Austin and Ms. Angel can't help but laugh at that, as she simply shades her head at Nick.
Ms. Angel: Not exactly.
Nick: Oh, of course not. I got it. You're his nurse right? Old-timer probably needs help wiping his ass these days.
Austin: Nah, ah never really needed help with that, it was just funny making you do it back in the old days. Little bit of the ole rookie hazing.
Nick: You're just a real riot today, huh? Listen, this has been a real blast, but how about you and your little nurse...
Austin is quick to inerupt before Nick can continue.
Austin: Actually, she's my wife.
Nick: Ok, credit where it's due. Now THAT is a funny one. Like this fine piece would be caught dead with you.
Ms. Angel: Oh, I most certainly would.
Ms. Angel then leans right in and gives Austin a kiss right on the lips, before leaning on his shoulder as she turns back towards Nick and smiles.
Nick: Wait, you're serious about this? You have got to be kidding me.
Ms. Angel: Afraid not, he's all mine... so hands off of him.
Nick: Trust me, if I wanted to lay him out I would have done it years ago, any other interaction with the old hick doesn't really pique my interest.
Ms. Angel: If you say so. Now if you excuse us, we were just on our way to the bar. It was nice meeting you Nick, I had heard oh so much about you.
Austin: Don't you worry though, we'll be here all night,.
Nick: Oh joy.
Austin then takes Ms. Angel and leads her off as the two walk away to head towards the bar. As they walk off, Nick can be seen clearly staring quite intently at Ms. Angel from behind as she walks off. After a few seconds of this, Diana has finally had enough and slaps Nick right across the big of the head, immediately grabbing his attention.
Nick: What the hell was that for?
Diana: Seriously? What, do you think I'm blind? It looked like you were trying to stare a whole straight through her ass.
Nick: I just can't believe that it's her with... HIM.
Diana: Yeah, well get over it already. Besides, just imagine how many people say the same thing about you being lucky enough to have me.
Nick can't help but chuckle as he just shoots a look at Diana.
Nick: Yeah, I'm sure that's how that one goes.
Diana: If you don't watch that mouth of yours, we won't have to worry about finding out.
Nick: Well we wouldn't want that, would we? Come on, let's go grab something to eat.
Nick and Diana then turn and head on over towards an area where there is a variety of buffet tables setup. Also seen all around them is a number of waiters carrying around and serving hors d'oeuvres, which Nick is sure to grab a few as they walk by. As they get over to the buffet tables, Nick and Diana both start to take a look around at what they eat, but are interrupted as someone comes drunken stumbling right by in front of them and falls straight into one of the buffet tables, sending the thing falling over and all of the food crashing to the ground. Another drunk person stumbles over and goes to help the other drunkard over. As the one pulls the other up, the two go stumbling backwards and stop themselves just short of falling into a second buffet table. As Nick and Diana move in closer, and the camera along with them, it quickly becomes clear that the two culprits are, not surprisingly the former tag team of Life of the Party, Shane Boswell and Matt Grove.
Matt: Dude.
Shane: What?
Matt: Dude!
Shane: What?!?
Matt: DUDE! DUDE! DUDE!
Shane: WHAT?!? WHAT?!? WHAT?!?
Matt: Um...
Matt seems to be thinking it over for a moment, until suddenly snapping his fingers as it seems to cmoe to him.
Matt: That was freakin' awesome!
Shane: Yeah, it was!
Shane and Matt go to high five, but miss in the process and instead end up falling straight into each other, luckily enough managing to catch one another. It is at this point, that Nick approaches the two men, clearly very unhappy.
Nick: What the hell is wrong with you two?!?
Shane: We're drunk!
Matt: Yeah... DUH!
Nick: No shit, but you're destroying my party!
Shane: Don't sweat it, all the food on that table looked like crap anyone.
Matt: Yeah, plus I think those were the plates I all sneezed on before.
Nick's face starts to turn red with anger as he turns back towards Diana.
Nick: Austin is one thing, but you seriously invited these two schmucks?
Diana: What? Are you kidding me? I'm not an idiot, I didn't invite other of these two losers. I don't know what the hell they're doing here.
Upon hearing this, Nick is quick to turn back towards Matt and Shane, now even more annoyed.
Nick: What the hell are you two doing here then?
Matt: Isn't it obvious? We're here to party!
Nick: No, it's more like you're hear to crash my party.
Shane: No way man, we're no party crashers. We're the life of the party, dude!
Matt: Dude! That's awesome! We totally are!
Shane: Yeah, I know, that's why I said it.
Matt: But... it's like our tag team name too!
Shane: Oh man, you're right. That wasn't even intentional! That's totally awesome!
Shane and Matt go to high-five again, this time barely grazing each other's hands and nearly fall over in the process. As they regain themselves, Nick is quick to chime back in.
Nick: You know what? I really don't care what you have to say. You don't belong here.
Matt: What are you talking about dude? We fit right in!
Shane: Totally! We heard you talking all about your awards and your titles and stuff. You know, we've won awards and titles and stuff too.
Matt: You! See?
With that, Matt and Shane open up their suit jackets to reveal that they are currently wearing their GCW World Teag Team Championship belts.
Shane: And keep in mind Mr. "I won this title belt twice", we still hold these belts as an UNDEFEATED tag team!
Matt: Yeah, nobody has ever beaten us... like... ever!
Nick: Are you two putzes serious? You do realize that company you won those belts in close down, right? Over FIVE years ago!
Both Matt and Shane seem confused by this comment as they look at each other for a moment before turning back to Nick.
Shane: You sure, dude?
Nick: Yes I'm sure!
Matt: No wonder it's been so long since our last title defense.
Shane: Seriously. But hey, we're still undefeated!
Nick: Whatever. You two morons do me a favor and just don't brake anything else, alright?
Shane: Not a problem.
Matt: Can't make any promises.
As Matt says that, all three of Nick, Diana and even Shane turn and give Matt a dirty look.
Matt: What? At least of the two of us I'm being the honest one.
Shane: Shut up, dude! We're just supposed to tell him what he wants to hear so he'll leave us alone.
Matt: Oh yeah, good point.
Matt then turns his attention back towards Nick.
Matt: I meant... not a problem!
Nick: Whatever... idiots.
Nick shakes his head and walks away, followed closely behind by Diana as the two drunkards watch them leave. As they get out of hearing range, Shane then turns back to Matt.
Shane: Did you hear him? He just called you and that broad idioits.
Matt seems perplexed by this as the scene fades out.
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The scene fades back in later in the evening as the party is still ongoing. At this point, Nick and Diana are back amongst the group of the entourage and once again, Diana leaves them to go to the stage. She walks right up to the podium and waits for the crowd to quiet down before speaking.
Diana: Hello everyone, I would like to thank you all once again for coming. I hope everyone is having a great time and if you could all just take a couple of minutes to turn your attention to the big screen here, we have a little congratulatory video that was made for us for Nick. Enjoy!
Diana motions towards the big screen behind her to get everyone's attention as the lights are dimmed. A moment later, a projector starts as a compilation video starts featuring some of Nick's biggest moments in SCW with "Cocky" by Kid Rock playing over it. The video features a number of big matches, including his wins early in his career that led to his title shot, Nick's first SCW title victory, each of his successful title defenses before moving onto the match where he regained the title against Rage. As the closing moments of the match are shown, it gets to the point just before the final finish, when suddenly the clip ends and it cuts away to an empty chair seated in a room. Everyone at the party seems rather confused by this, particularly Diana and Nick. Then suddenly a moment later the seated is filled as walking into the shot and sitting into it is the man who Nick has had a number of interactions with over the past few months, former GCW Superstar "Beautiful" Billy James. Billy sits down in the chair with a big smile on his face as he begins speaking.
Billy: Well hey there buddy. Sorry, I couldn't make it, but I had a prior engagement. Not to mention, somehow it seems as though my invitation got lost in the mail. Isn't that strange? Well anyway, not to worry, I still made sure to put together this little message for you as part of your big congratulatory dinner. I know what it feels like, Nick, I've been there before. As you may recall, I was once an undefeated wrestler, including an undefeated ASFW champion, for quite some time. After that eventually came to an end, I became a multi-time GCW champion on top of that. I had a whole lot of big victories in my day, including a few over your best buddy Mark, who I'm sure is there. Hey Mark!
The camera cuts over to Mark, who can be seen with a scowl on his face as he watches the video continue on. Meanwhile, Nick can be seen nearby as he is in a heated argument with one of the mangerial folks who works at the reception hall. After a few minutes of arguing and Nick demanding for the video to be cut off, the manager goes racing off to take care of it. For now though, the video continues on.
Billy: Miss me, don't you Mark? We would have gotten to have a nice talk if security didn't spoil it back at Violent Conduct. I'm sure that really broke your heart, huh? But we can get back to that some other time, because it's Nick who this night is supposed to be about. Now Nicky, I've given you plenty of advice and you've ignored it, and as stupid as it may have been, that was fine. But I think it's gotten a little past that since then, don't you? I was only trying to help and you were the one who decided to lash out. Now I know this may seem a little off topic, but trust me, I'm getting there. See, I know what this night is all about, this night is about you trying to make sure everyone knows that you're the best. Well, I was thinking I'd maybe give you a little gift. Maybe one day, you'll get a REAL chance to prove that you're the best. Now I wonder... how could we manage a thing like that?
Billy puts his hand to his chin and goes over the top in clearly being over-dramatic as he acts as though he's pondering the situation.
Billy: I guess there's no need to worry about it for now, Nicky. Let bygones be bygones, right? But let me give you one friendly piece of advice: don't push your luck. Because as the old saying goes, when you mess with this beauty...
At that moments, it appears the manager was successful as the video is cut off before it can be finished and the likes are put back up to full brightness. Given the situation, there can now be a quiet murmuring amongst the crowd as everyone talks amongst themselves. Meanwhile, Nick still stands there staring at the now blank screen, breathing heaving and his face completely red as the scene eventually fades to black.
