Pryce Industries Headquarters
Phoenix, Arizona


One week after losing his first match, a tag team match in which is partner Hunter Payne was set ablaze by a bat shit crazy ESP, Theo Pryce alongside the XWF’s latest wannabe preacher Miltem Dominum defeated Hunter and his partner the ever gross looking Ann Thraxx of the newly formed stable S.E.X. Now back at his day job Theo Pryce has just finished a marathon conference call that thankfully ended with Pryce Industries securing a new client, and all for the sum of $500 million dollars paid out over 5 years. The client? The People’s Republic of China. The merchandise? 200 new prototype long range ballistic missiles, developed as part of Pryce’s Leviathan Project. While the long range missiles are considered to be the prize of the project there are other things that have as of yet not been revealed to the public and weapons lovers alike.

People have asked Theo repeatedly whether he has any mixed feelings selling his company’s products to countries that could turn around and use them on the US of A, his response; absolutely not. America was after all formed with the belief that her citizens were constitutionally protected to their “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” and making money makes Theo very happy. But you know what makes Theo happier than making money? Spending it. A few weeks ago Theo Pryce was able to buy his way onto XWF’s weekly program only a few days after he was unfittingly bared from appearing on Wednesday Warfare.

On this past week’s edition of Monday Madness Theo and Militem won a match which stipulated that the winners of said match would become the #1 Contenders to the XWF Tag Team Titles. However Madness GM in a stroke of pure genius decided to switch things up last minute. And instead of Theo and Millitem partnering up for at minimum one more match the two of them will face off, the winner having the ability to pick any partner he wishes to take on the tag team champions. For the moment that is Griffin MacAlister and Sebastian Duke, though possibly not for much longer. It has been speculated that Heyman’s last minute bait and switch was yet another instance of Theo Pryce exerting his wishes on the XWF using his never ending bank roll. Those who came to that conclusion would be absolutely right.


“So tell me Jimmy, what the hell have you been up to these last few weeks? I feel like it’s been forever since you picked up one of my suits or drove me to the strip club.”

“Well not a whole lot sir. Other than….I met a girl, her name is Suzy, she works in Finance.”

“Finance…our finance? She works for me?”

“Yes sir. I hope that’s ok.”

“Rookie move there kid. Haven’t you ever heard the phrase don’t shit where you eat?”

“Yes I have. But how does that apply here?”

“Well suppose you kids start to have develop feelings for each other…”

“We already have sir.”

“Ok, so suppose that these feelings that you have keep developing, you take her to some nice dinners, waste your money on flowers, maybe she let you wet your noodle, and if you are really lucky she tongues your balls. And then a few weeks later this little budding romance hits the skids and she decides to break up with you, or stop hooking up or whatever it is your crazy kids call it these days, and then what? You both work here and you will both run into each other in the halls, maybe see each other at the gym. She’ll give you the death stare and you’ll act like you could careless only to find the closest janitors closet where you will then weep like a 14 year old girl when she found out that Lance Bass was gay.”

“Who is Lance Bass?”

“Seriously? Lance Bass…the gay one from the 90’s boy band N’Sync.”

“Never heard of them.”

“N’Sync…”Tearing Up My Heart” “Bye Bye Bye”. Seriously every girl wanted to sleep with the members of N’Sync and the lesser talented Backstreet Boys during the 90’s. They were One Direction before One Direction. They also had the benefit of being American, unlike those douchers from across the pond.”

“Oh ok, One Direction, I know who they are.”

“Of course you do. But anyway back to the point. What happens if, no, no, when this little fling ends? I’m going to have to fire one of you, and I really don’t want it to be you.”

“I don’t see why that has to happen. I really don’t. There is no reason we can’t keep our personal life and our business life separate.”

“Let me ask you something Jimmy. Do you and Suzy ever have sleep overs and not the kind where you braid each other’s hair and talk about your latest crushes and have pillow fights.”

“Yes Mr. Pryce we sleep at each other’s places.”

“Ok, that’s good, explains why you have been so chipper lately. Now tell me something else, do you and Suzy ever drive to work together?”

“Well yeah we do, it makes sense seeing as how we work at the same place.”

“So then tell me again how well you are doing keeping your personal life and your business life separate?”


Surprised at the turn of events Jimmy just stands there, completely dumbfounded. He had spent a week in front of the mirror practicing for this very moment and despite how confident he felt Theo had a way of just kicking the metaphorical legs out from under him.


“Tell you what kid, I’m going to let this play out because I think it’s going to be a valuable learning experience for you. But so help me God if you bring drama into my work place I’m going to tie you to the mother fucking flag pole out front, completely naked, for the entire company to see. And I’m going to do it in the middle of July. So you better pray to whatever God you believe in that your little fling with Ms. Thing doesn’t end badly. And if you don’t believe in God pick someone else and pray to them. I hear Eli James is always looking for the newest member to join his Congregation.”

“That’s so nice of you sir.”

“You know Jimmy, if I didn’t know any better I’d think that you were mocking me there. But you know what? I’m in a good mood so I’ll let it slide this time. Now get the hell out of here. Oh and before you go, here’s a slip for a suit that I need picked up.”


Jimmy takes Dry Cleaners slip out of Theo’s hand and exit’s the office, closing the doors behind him only for Erica Rayner to open them back up right after. Theo turns around as he had just begin to gaze out the window at downtown Phoenix and sees his VP and newly minted Half Sister Erica Rayner standing there. Some three weeks after leaving the office to take some personal time.


“The Prodigal Daughter returns.”

“Actually, I haven’t. Not really.”


Erica hands Theo a white envelope with only his name written on the outside.


“What is this?”

“It’s my letter of resignation.”

“Fantastic.”

Theo walks over to his desk, flips the switch on his paper shredder and feeds the envelope through the machine, shredding the document into roughly 40 evenly sliced sized pieces of scrap that falls into a basket filled with out previously shredded documents.


"What are you doing?"

“I don’t accept your resignation.”

“You have to.”

“No I don’t. You want to quit, fine, quit. But I’m still going to pay you regardless so you might as well earn it.”

“Why are you doing this? I thought you would be happy to see me leave.”

“You know what? Say that to me a month ago and you would probably be right. But even so that’s just my ego getting in the way of doing good business. Because the truth is, regardless of whether we are family, best friends, enemies, or frenemies, you are too good at what you do to just let you walk away.”

“Theo, I can’t do this.”

“Can’t do what? Your job?”

“This. I can’t be here every day and just pretend like everything we just learned is no big deal. Because it is.”

“Who told you to pretend anything? Look I get it. I do. You were lied to, for years. We both were. It sucks, that people we cared about, our parents, people who are supposed to protect us did what they did. Maybe in their own twisted heads they thought that they were protecting us. But we see it differently. Let that be our rallying cry. I’m going to say this to you now but I swear to God I will deny this until my dying breath if you ever repeat it outside of these walls, but I can’t run this company without you. Despite all that my father did wrong, to you, to us, he knew that much. That’s why he brought you here. It’s why he made it impossible to get rid of you. So please, stick around. For him. And for me.”

“I don’t get you. One minute you are the worst biggest asshole, the next you show a hint of actually caring about someone other than yourself.”

“Exciting isn’t it?”

“Are you sure about this? I came here absolutely prepared to walk away. I have a degree from an Ivy League College with several years of experience as the VP of a Multi Billion Dollar company. I can get a job anywhere.”

“All true. But yes I am sure. I’m also sure about one other thing.”

“What’s that?”

“You’re fired.”

“What the hell are you talking about?”

“You’re fired…as my manager for the XWF. I can’t have you there around all those people who are a few French fries short of a happy meal. I can’t put you in harms way. Besides I know you hated it. So consider this an early Christmas gift. Which reminds me, we need to talk about holidays. And gift giving. You know, all the stuff that families do.”

“Yeah I guess we do. So I guess I’ll get back to work then.”

“Guess so. And Erica. Welcome back.”


Erica faines a smile and exits the office. Theo walks over to his couch, grabs the remote and presses the blue DVR button, scrolls through his options and settles on a program called “Killing Kennedy”.