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It's time to show you who is in control - Mastermind - 07-25-2020

OOC: DISCLAIMER: I Don't own the words to 'Into The Unknown' I just needed to use them as part of my promo

I CAN HEAR YOU
BUT I WON'T
SOME LOOK FOR TROUBLE
WHILE OTHERS DON'T
THERE'S A THOUSAND REASONS
I SHOULD GO ABOUT MY DAY
AND IGNORE YOUR WHISPERS
WHICH I WISH WOULD GO AWAY

Fuck it

Fuck it fuck it fuck it

I didn't get time to see my beautiful wife Maria, and my 4 beautiful kids, 2 boys and 2 girls, both sets of twins, Vinnie and Jacob, and Bernadette and Louise.

Every chance I get for a small break I usually fly home and spend time with my awesome family. This time I couldn't, as I blame what happened at last Warfare where I was chucked around a glass cage by Warstein, and then a sneak attack by the Wizard, which really wasn't a sneak attack but just a chance to one up me, after I oned uped him a few times previously.

Because of that I was experiencing problems hearing violet screaming, and seeing eyes. I had to find out what it all meant.

Which was the reason where I had to go to Christchurch to meet the Wizard of Christchurch so he can help me, then had to go to his home in Oamaru, where he then helped me find a way on to where I was going next, and of all places, it was Castle Cliff on the way to the rugged West Coast of the South Island. From there I was given the final clue, which is where I am heading to now.... England. And in particular Stonehenge.

YOU'RE NOT A VOICE
YOU'RE JUST A RINGING IN MY EAR
AND IF I HEARD YOU, WHICH I DON'T
I'VE SPOKEN FOR I FEAR
EVERYONE I EVER LOVED
IS HERE WITHIN THESE WALLS
I'M SORRY SECRET SIREN
BUT I'M BLOCKING OUT YOUR CALLS
I'VE HAD MY ADVENTURE
I DON'T NEED SOMETHING NEW
I'M AFRAID OF WHAT I'M RISKING
IF I FOLLOW YOU

ENROUTE TO ENGLAND

I was on board my Private jet heading to England, and I was also on the phone talking to my wife.

"I'm so, so, sorry babe, I didn't really have time to stop in this time. I'm on a mission."

MARIA: "So the mission comes first over your family?"

My wife was angry, acting like all wives do when they don't get their own way.

"That's not fair babe, all the other times I have come home to visit you and the kids."

MARIA: "I get that, but you seem to be struggling, and just wanted to see if you were okay, face to face."

"Struggling? I'm not struggling. How did you come up with that assessment?"

Maria went quiet for a few seconds, which was unlike her.

"Baby?"

I heard her sighing.

MARIA: "Antony called. He said he has tried calling you, but you haven't been taking his calls? What's going on 'M'?"

I shook my head in frustration.

"Nothing,"

MARIA: "Don't you DARE give me that line,"

It was my turn to sign.

"I'm not in a happy place with Antony or the Misfits right now,"

MARIA: "Why?"

"Because they were late turning up when I needed them the most,"

MARIA: "And is that it?"

"I've been getting annoyed with the Misfits a lot lately, and no it isn't just about them losing all of the time. I've lost 7 in a row, and so I can't use that excuse for them."

MARIA: "Then what's it about?"

I rub my forehead with my available hand, I've had enough of this conversation, but if I don't say anything more, Maria would just keep ringing and ringing until she got her way. Much like Antony, but Antony isn't my wife, and I can easily ignore him.

"I'm too busy trying to focus on the Wizard!"

MARIA: "And what has that done for you?"

"What do you mean?"

MARIA: "He's come out of nowhere and challenged you like no one has ever had before, and so you took the bait, and now have a match with him,"

"Yes because he thinks he can control the situation, he can control me. He's just an upstart!"

MARIA: "An upstart that has gotten under your skin and pissed you off, and because of that he's made you focus on what he wanted to make you focus on the most.... HIM. He's made you so focused that anything else that gets in the way, just seems to not cut it. He's alienated you from the Misfits."

She sounds so like Doctor Louis D'Ville, XWF's resident psychologist, who I have had a few run ins with a few years ago before he disappeared from the XWF. But she's right. My sole focus, my main focus is on the Wizard.

"I just want to beat him,"

MARIA: "I know you do, because he's suckered you in, just like you sucked him in by saying that you've already mastered his mind, for being stupid to challenge you,"

She's seen my promos. Which she always does. But she's been keeping an eye on me.

I rub my forehead again. I can start to hear that squealing sound again, it's faint but it's there.

MARIA: "Just promise me something?"

"What?"

MARIA: "That when you've finished with the Wizard at Leap of Faith, win, lose, or draw... you and I know you are going to win.... but either way after Leap of Faith you'll come home and spend some quality time with the kids and I?"

Here we go, she's using that trick.

"I'll see what I can do,"

MARIA: "No babe. You WILL promise me that!"

"Yes ma'am,"

MARIA: "And you need to sort out Antony and the Misfits."

"After the Leap of Faith PPV, I will,"

MARIA: "I will let you have that one,"

Finally.

"Babe, I need to go. I'll give you a call when I hit Japan, after I've been to England,"

MARIA: "Make sure you do, bye."

"Bye,"

I ended the call, and put the phone down on the seat next to me. I can hear the squealing getting louder.

"LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE," I yell out

For once the squealing subsides.

I look out the window, allowing my mind to wander anywhere than here or England, or Japan, or the Wizard.

WHAT DO YOU WANT?
CAUSE YOU'VE BEEN KEEPING ME AWAKE
ARE YOU HERE TO DISTRACT ME
SO I MAKE A BIG MISTAKE?
OR ARE YOU SOMEONE OUT THERE
WHO'S A LITTLE BIT LIKE ME?
WHO KNOW'S DEEP DOWN
I'M NOT WHERE I'M MEANT TO BE
EVERY DAY'S A LITTLE HARDER
AS I FEEL MY POWER GROW
DON'T YOU KNOW
THERE'S PART OF ME THAT LONGS TO GO

LONDON, ENGLAND

I flew into London,
and then I made the
1-hour 15-minute trip
from London to Stonehenge.
It was very foggy when
I got there. It felt so surreal
and eerie.
There was no one else around
Did I expect anyone else to be?
I dunno tourists or something?

Anyway I made my way to the middle
of the circular structure

[Image: Stonehenge-example-post-and-lintel-construction.jpg]

It was so quiet.
I couldn't even hear the sound of birds,
or anything else.
It was just surreal.

I heard myself speak.....

"Helloooooooooo? Is there anyone there?
Are you out there?
Whoever you are that brought me here
Do you know me?
Can you feel me being here?
Can you show yourself to me?"

Just then, I felt a tap on my shoulder.
I spun around and saw what looked
to be a druid.

[Image: New-Medieval-Renaissance-Original-Cospla...pg_q50.jpg]

Behind him, there was just a mess of dirt, leaves, stones,
circling around and what looked to be a black hole.
He beckoned me to follow him.
I didn't want to but I had no choice.
I'm here now, I might as well find out
what I'm here for, where I am going?
And what the unknown is all about?

I nodded, and he turned, and walk straight
down the middle of the swirling leaves, dirt, and rocks.
I followed, hesitantly at first, then I built up the
courage just to go with it.

I watched as the druid disappears into the
the pitch black nothingness that is the black hole.
I stop just before it. I just realize that I am
trembling. I need to do this. The answers
to this whole thing is beyond the black hole.
So I do it, I step foot into the black hole.

Something seems familiar but I know it isn't
I've stopped trembling, that's not a good
sign. All around me is whiteness.
I know I'm no longer in the middle of
the circular monument that is Stonehenge.
I'm somewhere else.
But I don't know where.

The druid has disappeared.
But I sense another presence.
I've arrived where I'm supposed to be.
I've arrived where I was told to come.
I've arrived.

Suddenly, another presence appears.
His or her back is towards me.
He or she has a robe on too.

Suddenly I find myself talking....

"I think it's time for you to show yourself.
That is the reason why you brought me here isn't it?
To show yourself to me?
After all this time I am dying to meet you.
To understand who you really are
And why you called me here.
So please show yourself
I'm ready to learn what you
have to tell me."

The robed stranger turns around.

They are not the eyes that I have seen before
But something tells me that this person
whoever he is, is in charge.
But those eyes I can feel stare right into me.
And then I hear the squealing of the voices
That I have been hearing for the past few
days since Warfare. Since my struggle with Shawn
Warstein and since The Wizard turned up.

The squealing is unbearable.
I grab my head to try and block them
out with my hands but I can still hear them.
The stranger holds up his hands and the
squealing subsides.
Then he speaks.
His voice booms right through me.

"I AM THE ONE WHO BROUGHT YOU HERE
I am the one you are looking for
I am the one asking for you help?"

My help? My help? I doubt I can help someone like this dude.

"My help? How can I.... of all people help
someone like you. You are the one who holds the magic.
I'm just Mastermind."

"Your persona is Mastermind
But I know the real you, not the fake you who you
pretend to be what they call a wrestler.
You are like all the other wrestlers, fake.
But you are human and you have what
you have to help me. To help us."

Shit, he does know the real me.
I feel him delving deep down inside
my body, my being.
I'm just part of the wrestling industry
To put on a show and to make the world
a better place, when it clearly it isn't.

"I'll ask again, how can I
help you? And who is us?"

The squealing voices return, and once again
I grab my head. They are all around me.
They are all around this whiteness.
Once again the stranger holds up his hand.
And once again the squealing subsides.

"They are the victims of the one,
of the person, of the imposter, you call the Wizard.
He stole the essence that was inside them
by his magic. The dark magic of the Mind.
You have good magic that is inside you.
The light magic of the Mind."

I put up my hand to stop him.

"Hold on, are you telling me that I can do magic?"

"Yes.... what you are always using on others....
Your Mind.
That is why the Wizard hates you.
That is why the Wizard is after you.
That is why you must beat the Wizard this coming
showdown."

Once again I hold up my hand to stop him.
This sounds ridiculously far fetched.

"Hold on dude. This sounds way too far fetched.
Why can't you stop him?"
You have way more power than me."

"Because that is not how this works.
Do you not know.... The Universe has chosen
your for a reason.
YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE
YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO STOP
THE WIZARD.
You have what it takes to return the essences
to my people.
I cannot and will not get in the way."

"Why?"

"Because I am not the light and I am
not the dark.
I am not the chosen one.
I can however assist you by
telling you how to beat The Wizard!"

"Hang on, I don't get it.
If the Wizard truly is this dark side
Then why did you let him get away
with what he got away with? With the
essence of your people?"

"He became too powerful to stop.
He became too infatuated with you.
He just took bits of essence over time
until it was too late.
He became too powerful.
But only you can stop him.
And only you can make him quit.
Only then will the essence return to
my people."

Again this sounds way too farfetched.
It was like I was in a dream.
I still doubted all of this
But the doubt disappeared when the squealing
returned tenfold.

I grabbed my head, but it was too strong.
I dropped to my knees.
The pain, the sorrow, the despair.
I could feel it all.

With the only energy, I had left from
feeling all of this squealing
I held up my hand to want it to stop.
The stranger held up his hand and
all the pain, all the sorrow, all the despair
disappeared.

I bowed my head.

"I believe you." is all I could muster.

The stranger who I now knew as the leader of these people
walked towards me. I couldn't look up. He placed his hands on my head.

"You have the power to make the Wizard quit at this showdown.
You need to believe in yourself.
Because if you don't believe in yourself
then the Wizard will win.
We cannot have that.
So don't stop believing in yourself."

I nodded.

"You are the light, he is the darkness.
The light and the dark have been fighting for centuries
It's just your turn.
You have the power.
You can and you will
MAKE HIM QUIT."

"I have the power
I can and I will
MAKE THE WIZARD QUIT."

"Good, now rise."

I stood up. I looked the leader of the Wizards
in his glowing eyes.
Once again I felt the full force of the squealing.
They were showing me the way.
They were showing me the how.
They were showing me what I needed to know.
They were showing me how to beat
THE WIZARD.

Then everything went black................

ARE YOU OUT THERE?
DO YOU KNOW ME?
CAN YOU FEEL ME?
CAN YOU SHOW ME?

ENROUTE TO TOKYO, JAPAN

I woke up feeling really heavy. I realized that I was back on board my Private Jet.

I looked around. One of my aides was close by looking concern.

"Are you alright boss?"

"What happened?" I asked

"Strangest thing, these 'druids? I think they're called? brought you back to the plane. You were clearly unconscious."

"How long have I been out?"

"We didn't leave until the Doctor gave you the all clear, because we weren't sure how bad you were. 48 hours."

"Where are we going?"

"Tokyo, Japan. That's where one of the 'druids' told us to take you."

I nodded. Was what I just experienced a dream?

"Boss there's something on the laptop the team thinks you should see,"

I put up my hand to tell my aide I heard him and grabbed my laptop. As I turned it on, I looked out the window. I was missing two days.

I turned around and saw the title of a match that was sent to me.

THURSDAY NIGHT ANARCHY

THE DEBUT OF

SCARLET THE HUNTRESS DONALDSON

VS LIAM ROBERTS.

I looked at who sent me the video.

Bloody Antony The Jerk.

I was still not prepared to talk to him or any of the Misfits, as far as I was concerned I was done with them.

I've always been a loner.

I know that's where I should be. Just be a lone wolf.

Being part of a Stable or a group, does me no favors at it. Especially going back to my days in the New Zealand Wrestling Competition, where I was turned upon. It put a bitter taste in my mouth. Then the same thing happened when I was wrestling in Japan.
I thought it was just a one-time thing.
But being a part of a group in Japan, history came back to bite me in the butt.

So twice now I've been bitten. Should I just heed the warning and leave whilst I'm the one in control?

Decisions, decisions.

My main focus at the moment was The Wizard though. I knew now the real reason why I was put on his path. Why he was put on my path. We were destined to meet, and you know what they say about destiny. If you don't control your own destiny someone else will control it for you. Therefore I wasn't going to let the Wizard control me or my destiny.

I thought I would give the match a watch, at least I owed Scarlet that, she was, after all, taking my place on Thursday Night Anarchy.

So against my better judgement, I pushed play.

I must admit she did look good on her debut, she stalked Liam, had him in all sorts of bother early on, before he somehow managed to find a way back before once again Scarlet took control and hit him with her 'You are being trapped' patented moves. That looked great.

But somehow Liam manages to get out of trouble and take control and puts her in all sorts of trouble before waiting too long at the end to put her away before Scarlet comes back and puts him away, and gets a remarkable first-up victory.

What a great comeback, what a great win. Very well deserved victory.

A Misfit victory right there and then. Scarlet The Hunteress Donaldson deserved to be a Misfit.

I'm still not certain if I'm better off as a lone wolf or part of a stable.

So I send an email to Antony.

"Antony.

I did watch Scarlet's debut match on Anarchy, and I have to say I am very impressed. You've got yourself a keeper there. You just need Kris and Melanie to work harder and they can be world-beaters.

But here's the thing. My main focus is beating the Wizard at the moment, and I am still angry at you guys for not showing up when you should of. With my history of being in stables, I have to decide where this is going for me.

Let me make this perfectly clear.

'DO NOT and I repeat DO NOT come to Tokyo.'

I don't want The Misfits there.

I will make a decision once I have finished with The Wizard at Leap of Faith.

I hope you give me the respect that I deserve to grant me this one thing.

I know you know what I want.

So let's keep it at that.

Thanks.'

And with that I press send, and shut down my lap-top and turn off my phone.

I began to think about what I wanted to say in my final promo to The Wizard.

WHERE ARE YOU GOING?
DON'T LEAVE ME ALONE
HOW DO I
FOLLOW YOU
INTO THE
UNKNOWN?

SAITAMA SUPER ARENA
TOKYO, JAPAN
XWF'S PAY PER VIEW
LEAP OF FAITH

The camera fades into the locker room of Mastermind, as he is preparing for his match against the Wizard here at the XWF's pay per view Leap of Faith. This is one of Mastermind's biggest matches this year, and he has turned up a few hours earlier than normal just to get in the zone. He's on a 7 match losing streak. He needs it to stop with the Wizard.

The camera pans around the locker room trying to find Mastermind, but instead, it finds a chair in the middle of the room. It is not just any old chair, it is THE chair. It is The Thinking Chair of Mastermind. The back of the chair is facing the camera. There is someone in the chair. Not just anyone. It is MASTERMIND.

"For several weeks now I had been wondering why I was on this lunatic's radar.
For several weeks now, I did not know why he chose me
For several weeks now, I did not know why this was supposed to be
For several weeks now, I did not know what the full reasoning was.
But I do now.

"For several weeks now he chose his path to walk down, and it was a disturbing one
For several weeks now I went on my own journey and it was an enlightening one
For several weeks now our paths went in different directions
But now our paths lead us back to here, to this place, to Tokyo, Japan tonight.

"Tonight our destinies are in our hands.
Tonight, you and I will meet
Tonight, one will be forced to utter two simple words
Tonight will be my night
Tonight you will quit to me.

"Tonight is all about the light and the dark
Tonight is all about the good and the bad
Tonight is all about writing the wrongs
Tonight is all about putting things right
Tonight is all about making sure those that cry out
for help receive the help that they sorely need
Tonight is all about me making that one move.
Tonight is all about hearing you say two extraordinary words."

Mastermind turns his famous chair around to face the camera and he is smirking his infamous smirk.

"Wizard, you think you know me, but you really don't.
But I know more about you now than you think.
At first, I couldn't hear you but I can now
At first, I felt that you were a distraction so I went about my own way, but now
your distractions are way more sinister than you appear to let on
So now that means I need to stop you
Because I know now that means trouble,
you are trouble,
and I need to stamp that trouble out.
The whispers are so loud now that I really can't ignore,
It's my time."

Mastermind sits forward in his chair and looks serious.

"The voices that I keep hearing were all about you
I know that now.
I was alerted to that.
So know this.... I HEAR YOU NOW.
I was afraid before because what I was risking was just myself.
I was afraid before because I didn't want to appear weak
I was afraid before because I didn't want to made to look like a fool.
I'm no longer afraid now because it's not all about me.
I'm no longer afraid now because I'm no longer weak.
I'm no longer afraid now because I know I'm not the one that looks like a fool.
You started this....
I'm finishing this...."

Mastermind starts rapping his fingers on his chair, as he continues to think, continues to go about his work of unravelling the Wizard.

"I know now why you did what you did.
I know now that you tried to distract me.... it almost worked
I know now that you tried to make me make mistakes.... it almost worked
I know now that you tried to send me places where I didn't want to go.... it almost worked.
I know now that you tried to make it hard for me to focus.... it almost worked.
Like I said it almost worked, but now I know more about you than you think I do.

"Let me just say when we step into that ring tonight, it will be a match for the ages.
We don't know how it's going to go
But I do know I need to stop you.
I do know that between us we are the start point and endpoint to
everything good and bad in this world.
You took something from me early on.
Heck I know now you took something from those in the Wizard world.
Their entities
Their pride
Their mana.

"Mana is a big thing to me because in New Zealand the Maori who are the natives use Mana to go about their lives.
If you don't have Mana you aren't considered a big thing
You just don't have Mana you need to work for it
You need to command respect.
Mana is their life force just as the entities are the life force for the Wizards.
I have Mana because I worked hard to be amongst the Maori and to understand them.

"But you, my friend, I know now that after you took what you took from your friends in the Wizard world
that you are after me because of my Mana.
I'm Good whereas you are Bad.
I'm right and you are wrong

"Sometimes good and bad can't survive at the same time,
and that's why when we step into that ring
the forces of nature will come together
that only one of us can survive this meeting.
It's going to be me who will survive.
It's going to be me who will keep my Mana
It's going to be me who will give back to the Wizard world their Entities
It's going to be me who will keep the World safe.
It's my job, not yours.

Mastermind stands up and stretches. He walks around to the back of his chair, and looks at the camera.

"Am I boring you Wizard? Because if I'm boring you then I know that you are not on MY WAVELENGTH
We both know I'm right.
We both know that you are wrong.
We both know where this is meant to go.
We both know that once we step foot into that ring, it's about making one of us say those two magical words.
No, not just making, but forcing each other to say what we need to say.

"You think we are supposed to be the ants to the Universe
But this isn't insignificant, because you made it that way
It has a lot more meaning because you made it that way
The Universe now knows that we are two large figures
that has to play out in this match."

Mastermind returns to the front of his chair, and sits back down.

"It's about to come to a head Wizard, whether you like it or not.
I know your secret now
I know you are there to be dealt with
I know you know me
I know you can feel me.... NOW
I know I have to be the one to SHOW you
To show you what you are doing is wrong
To show you of your mistakes
To make things right
To end this.

"How do we end this? Well, I know you know what must be done.
But It is I that needs to get it done.
It is I who will make you..... no.no... force you."

Mastermind holds up two fingers.

"Two little words, Wizard.
It comes down to saying two little words.
That's what this match is truly about.
I need to hear you say it.
No, the fans need to hear you say it.
No, Your Wizard mates need to hear you say it.
No, The World needs to hear you say it.
No. The UNIVERSE needs to hear you say it.
Two simple words.

"It is my mission,
It is my job
It is what I have to do
It is my craving
It is what we all need to hear you say......."

Mastermind turns his chair back around so that the back of the chair is facing the camera.

"I..... QUIT."