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Freakshow vs Landry
-Undisputed Champion Commentary.

Rise Against -- Re: Education Through Labor

The arena went dark and multiple flashing white lights filled the stadium. The lights synced up with the bass line until the pace picked up and all the lights went on, an white pyro display going off on the stage. When it died down, Mike Landry appeared on the stage, but it wasn't the usual fanfare and showmanship that the crowd was used to. It was a stoic Mike Landry who stood there are the flames dissipated.

To the sound of a heartbeat pounding away
To the rhythm of the awful rusted machines
We toss and turn but don't sleep
Each breath we take makes us thieves
Like causes without rebels
Just talk but promise nothing else

We crawl on our knees for you
Under a sky no longer blue
We sweat all day long for you
But we sow seeds to see us through
Because sometimes dreams just don't come true
We wait to reap what we are due

"The following contest is scheduled for one-fall, introducing first, weighing in at 245 lbs, from Seattle, Washington...His is the Innovator, Mike Landry!!"

Landry walked down the ramp, focused and furious. His eyes were red from watching that tape air earlier in the broadcast. It was a violation of his privacy, and he was going to deal with those who were responsible when the time came, but now he had bigger things on his mind.

Mike stepped up the steel steps and slid into the ring, again no flashy entrance. This was just a man who had been betrayed, and now his secret with Athena was out in the open, and the one man he wanted to keep it from was sitting at ringside. Mike gestured for a microphone, and was quickly provided one by the ringside attendant. He paced for a few moments as his music died down, gathering his thoughts before proceeding.

"First of all, I want to make perfectly clear...you people who came to my home, followed me and filmed my private conversation with Athena...you will be found....and you will be dealt with...You want to get into our private lives? You WILL pay the consequences..."

Landry said this staring directly at the camera with deadly intensity, making sure his message was sent to those cowardly cameramen in the back. He then turned his attention to the man at ringside, Chrono Clepsydra.

"Secondly...yes. It's true. Athena, Phoenixfire, she's living with me right now. We have Matthias, and i'm going to make sure it stays that way. Athena trusts ME more than she trusts YOU, and to me...I think that's just pathetic. After everything i've done to her, YOU'VE managed to drive your own WIFE away and into my home. Now i've done a lot of disgusting things in my life...i've made a career on breaking hearts and hurting the ones who trust me and i'm not proud of it...But you? You struck your own wife...the mother of my child...you've put her in danger on multiple occasions for your own selfish ambissions, and now...you've lost her. I'm going to defeat you at the Royal Rumble in our casket match, and then i'm going to win the Royal Rumble for the very first time...But it won't be you i'm facing at Wrestlemania. Do you know how I know that? Because you laid your worthless hand on Athena...i'm going to make you experience more pain than previously thought imaginable...i'm going to make you teeter over the threshold of death over and over again...and when its over...i'm going to push you over it...and let you fall into that casket, seal it up tight, and bury you...bury you so far underground that even the worms won't be able to feast on you because they deserve a better meal than you. Look into my eyes...and tell me i'm lieing..."

Mike glared at Chrono with such intensity that the audience could almost see the tension between them. It had almost been forgotten that Landry had a match coming up against Freakshow right now.

DUUUUUN DUUUN DUUUUUUUN... DUN DUN DUN....

Every time I look at you
I don't understand
Why you let the things you did
Get so out of hand
You'd have managed better
If you'd had it planned
Now why'd you choose such a backward time
And such a strange land?

Suddenly the familiar. bombastic opening horns to Jesus Christ Superstar swell through the arena. Heads turn quickly from the ring, where Landry had just given a passionate speech, right towards the entrance ramp. This was certainly a change of tone given what they'd seen earlier in the night. As of now, they were anticipated a release in the tension in form of Freakshow getting curb stomped. A light funk guitar kicks in, the curtains fly open.



Through the curtain a brilliant apparition appears. Freakshow steps out onto stage wearing a long glittery ring robe, the stage lights accentuated this. On the inside of the robe there was red velvet. He'd spared no expense to get this made. Aside from this, he had on the usual, black trunks, white boots, no kneepads, a towel in his hands. Twisted pride and vanity is seen in his eyes. He throws his arms out and spins around slowly, basking in his own greatness. He starts down the ramp, slinging the towel around his neck. This time he doesn't bother with the fans, who boo him, yell 'you suck', hold up signs with derogatory terms on them.

"From New York, New York, weighing in tonight at 205 lbs, Freaaakshow!"

Freak arrives at the ringside area. There was alot of malice in the air. Not all of it towards him, but a sizable amount was. He walks up the steps, stops, turns towards Chrono to wink at him, before running a hand through his greasy bleached blonde hair, and strutting across the side of the ring, stopping only to slip through the ropes, into squared circle. He sheds his ring robe in theatrical fashion, flexes his muscles a little bit, before starting to back into the corner. If only he'd known what he was about to get himself into, he wouldn't have gone through with this backhanded tribute. Freakshow, the number one contender, his posture relaxed, stares across the ring at Mike Landry, his old rival. Despite their long history, he'd never been in the ring with The Innovator under circumstances like this, emotions running at a boiling point, and soon enough he'd learn that he probably wouldn't want to ever again.

Landry was so furious that he damn near jumped out of the ring to kill Chrono right then and there, but he was held back by the referee.

"YOU STAY AWAY FROM ME! YOU STAY AWAY FROM HER! YOU STAY AWAY FROM MY SON DAMNIT! IF ANYONE SEES YOU NEAR MY HOME AGAIN, YOU'LL BE SHOT ON SIGHT! DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME YOU PSYCHOPATH SONOFABITCH!?"

The referee yanked Landry back into the ring and held him off as best he could, trying to get him to focus on Freakshow.

"FREAKSHOW? YOU WANT ME TO FIGHT FREAKSHOW?"

Landry turnd and reared back, throwing all his weight into a right hand aimed at Freak's face.

Freakshow, who'd been lounging in the corner this whole time, looks to his left. to his right, and then starts creeping up towards The Innovator. Hand cocked back for a big closed fist left, intent on launching a sneak attack. Just as he gets within feet of his opponent, he's beaten to it. Landry spins around and rails Freak square between the eyes with a solid right.

It hits him like a brick. His body stiffens a bit upon impact, he staggers backwards in an attempt to stay on his feet, but alas, his legs give out under him and he starts to fall. All he can do is throw his arms out to try and evenly distribute the weight of the impact. The moment he hits the mat, he pops right off the ground onto his stomach and frantically begins clawing, kicking, and scrambling his way towards the ropes, hopefully out of the ring.

'In fact... I think I'll pay them a little visit now..." Chrono said as he hopped off the announce table and started walking to the back

Landry was seeing red and was intent on destroying Freakshow by any means necessary. He'd try and grab him by the hem of his tights and his hair and pull him back over the barricade, and if he was successful, he'd try and heave him with all his might into the steel steps.

If all of that had gone according to plan, Landry would notice Chrono heading to the back, presumably towards his car, and rush after him, trying to tackle him like an offensive linebacker.

"No, no, no!" Freakshow shouts as he's grabbed just before he makes it to freedom over the guard rail. All of this happened much too fast for him to really do anything in the way of defending himself. He's launched right into the steel steps, connecting with a loud crash, the impact sends the heavy metal toppling right over. With Freak out of the way, Landry was now free to pursue Chrono. The fans seemed well aware of that, they began to cheer the Innovator on even louder than they were before.