The scene opens on a warm Sunday morning in San Diego. It's a perfect 75 degrees and not a cloud in the sky. Having one of the best climates in the world, San Diego is an idea place to live. It's mild year round and there is a beautiful ocean on one side, with hundreds of beaches, with lots of beautiful women.
But our scene isn't showing these beautiful women, or gorgeous beaches. We are looking at what appears to be an abandoned storage facility. Many of the glass windows are broken and boarded over. There is still an over-abundance of exposed wiring, trash and a full thriving population of rodents throughout the building. The building is such an eye sore in the San Diego area. But one city's junk is another man's treasure.
The view goes into the building, where there is a ton of scaffolding, and construction equipment. It seems as though there are some major renovations happening, but nothing is getting done very fast. The workers, who are illegals, are standing around smoking and talking while the rats scurry around their feet.
Rebel can be seen walking above what we know is the War Room for XWF Wednesday Warfare. He kicks cans and trash out of his way, and he stomps on a rat that rushes up to taste his boot. The cracking of the rodent's bones and the squashing on the rodent's body echo through the pitiful looking building as Rebel heads to the freight elevators. He steps in and presses the only button that works.
The elevator shakes and groans as it travels down. At any second, it sounds as if the elevator car could break from its cables and free fall to the bottom of the shaft. But is safely arrives at the War Room level. Rebel Walks out of the elevator and into what is now his home.
The larger then average ring sits in the middle of the large room; a centerpiece that demands the attention of anyone looking at it. Scrap metal barriers have been erected a few feet from the ring to keep the inmates from harming the XWF roster. Past those scrap metal barriers are thousands of chairs for the fans to sit in. The problem is that many of them are broken, due to being used as weapons by the XWF roster, or by the fans when they occasionally start a riot in the stands.
Rebel looks out over the room. It's an awesome place. Yeah it's rundown, nasty, but it's got a personality. Mostly a Giovanni/Madison feel to it, but it is home. This is where Rebel will build his legacy. This is where Rebel will one day, soon, become King of XWF. But for now, he's Xtreme Champion, and he has a hell of a fight coming up with Peter Gilmour.
If you look around, off to one side of the ring, a stack of metal cage sides lean against the wall. The sections of cage look like they were taken from the fences that surround this complex, being covered in rust and weather beaten.
You are probably asking yourselves why I am here, at the War Room on a Sunday morning. What possible reason does Rebel have to be here? The lights are off, the illegals aren't working, and Rebel stands in the middle of the XWF ring. Why?
Well, most people go to church on Sunday mornings and pray. They ask God to forgive them for their sins, pray to the Heavenly Father to protect them throughout the next week. Not me; I'm not a big religious guy.
But for me, this is my church. This ring that I wrestle in, the ring that I spill blood in, break bones in, and make a name for myself......this is my church. I pray to the legends of old and learn from them. I hope and pray that I am half the wrestler that those legends were. Legends like Bret Hart, Andre the Giant, Randy Savage, Curt Henning and Gorgeous George. The XWF War Room ring is my church.
Rebel walks to the corner and lifts himself to sit on the top turnbuckle. He places his elbows on his knees and rests his chin on his clenched fists.
On Wednesday, my church will become a prison. Peter Gilmour and myself will be locked in this prison, surrounded by the rusty fence pieces that will be linked together to form a cage. The odd thing is that the cage pieces look like the fencing that surrounds the complex above us. It doesn't surprise me that management would just go and scavenge some fencing for the cage matches.
I'm perfectly fine with this cage though. We don't need a new shiny metal cage. The rust and grime on the cage will add to the flare of the matches. The War Room looks like a war zone, and the cage adds more character. The rust will look great as it embeds itself in Gilmour's face and body.
Speaking of Petey.....I saw your little video. I just don't think you understand what you are walking into on Wednesday. You're not getting into a cage with Jonny Rebel. That fucking cunt is gone.
You, Pete, are getting into the ring with me, Rebel. I'm the fucking Hulk with it comes to relating to Jonny Rebel. Jon is the insult talker, shit starter, carefree bastard and I think he could beat you. But I'm the risk-taking, hard-nosed killer who isn't going to just beat you in that cage match. Pete, I'm going to make a promise that you always like to make. I'm going to hurt you. But unlike you, I will word is solid and I will hurt you. You are going to need that Doctor that you scared away in your video.
Rebel jumps down from the turnbuckle and unzips his black jacket. He is wearing gray sweat pants and a wife beater. Rebel jogs and bounces off the ropes a few times. He drops to a knee and pretends to take someone down. He stands and shadow boxes for a moment.
Rebel walks over to the side of the ring and hops out. On the steps of the ring, Rebel unfolds the Xtreme Championship belt. He looks at it in his hands and grins. He places it on the turnbuckle and lifts the apron of the ring up. Rebel drops to a knee and looks under the ring. He reaches under and pulls out a garbage can and places it at the foot of the steel steps.
Rebel again looks under the ring. He proceeds to fill the steel garbage can with various weapons. In the can, we see a stop sign, a few kendo sticks, a pouch of something, a barbed wire baseball bat and the kitchen sink. Rebel pulls the apron back down and sits on the steel steps looking at all of the weapons in the trash can.
A wise man once said that one man's junk is another man's treasures, Pete. I don't know who that man was, but he was fucking right.
Take the War Room for instance. Whoever owned it before thought very little of the building. They only saw it as an abandoned warehouse. They thought it was junk. But then Giovanni Ferrari found this building. He saw what it could be. He saw that it could host the signature show of XWF. That or it was really fucking cheap to buy but that makes no difference. He saw treasure where others saw junk.
Stay with me Pete, because this relates to you. See, whether it was just business or not, you were seen as junk by the Brotherhood. So, like any smart person would do, Sebastian Duke discarded his junk. Pete, you were like an outdated piece of equipment. You losing all those matches for the Crown was like that bad piece of equipment not doing what it was meant to do. So the Brotherhood tossed you to the curb.
But then LJ Havok and Extreme Revolution walk by the dumpster and find you. LJ's eyes light up like a kid on Christmas morning when he saw you. You were treasure to him; a way to add some legitimacy to ER. LJ sees you Pete, like a shining beacon of hope, when in reality you're a failed pile of horse shit.
Pete, you were the Brotherhood's junk, tossed away and left to flounder. Now you're the treasure of Extreme Revolution, and will still flounder. Only now, you are in common company.
Rebel stands up and grabs his Xtreme title. He picks up the can of weapons and starts walking up the ramp to the back as the scene fades.