Announcer #1: "Ladies and gentlemen, we'd like to take a few moments to give you all an update about two men who put it all on the line and nearly paid the ultimate price against each other last night at WrestleMania. I'm of course talking about Matt Shanahan and Kelly King 2.0."
Announcer #2: "God vs King, what a match! I can't believe either man was able to continue on in as long as they did, and to standing in any way after?"
Announcer #1: "Matt and Kelly beat the hell out of each other, and because of what happened at WrestleMania, neither was able to make it tonight, as neither were medically cleared for travel. But, we have two updates for you. First of all, Matt Shanahan and Kelly King 2.0 will both be here, live, at Reboot next week."
Announcer #2: "And second, we have put together a little reminder of what exactly why those men are not here tonight, and not nearly the friends they used to be. They went into WrestleMania as enemies, and they left changed."
The camera fades out...
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Enemies - Shindown
As the music started to ramp in at a hectic wind-up, images flashed all over the screen. Small short little frame by frame stills, close ups of King and Shanahan and 2.0's family, gritting their teeth, blood on their faces, screaming their lungs out. Then right as the guitar hit it's electric chordes, the Royal Rumble was the scene. Matt Shanahan was in the ring, watching as Kelly King 2.0 walked up to face him. In a short burst of flashing images, King threw Matt over the top rope, and then hit a springboard dropkick to eliminate him from the match. As 2.0 celebrated, the video focused on the God of Punk's furious face, welling up with anger.
Listen up, there's not a moment to spare
It's quite a drop
From the top so how you feeling down there?
The lyrics were very apt when Matt slid back into the ring illegally and grabbed 2.0 by his neck and tights, whirling him around and throwing him out of the ring, eliminating him from the rumble and causing him to crash through the announce table. The seen flashed just as quickly to that first Reboot, so long ago, where Matt was in the ring again.
"I don't care how the ******** you make your presence known, but I demand it!"
King's bandaged face appeared in a padded room, grinning sickly considering how badly he'd been hurt at the rumble. The images of King being thrown through that table once again flashed on the screen, but they were put to an end by King's voice.
It’s a cold cruel, harsh reality
Caught stuck here with your enemies
Who do you think you are,
Tearing us all apart?
"So, my brother, please. Allow me to make it personal."
King hefted his sledgehammer, Scepter, and went to town viciously on the FFA United States Championship. As much as it hurt him to do so, a piece of his own history, his lifeblood, his company. But Matt had tried to ruin him, and for that there could be only one response. King threw the hammer at the camera, which degenerated straight into Matt jabbing his finger into Jed's chest.
"Draw the contract up, get it prepared for signing. Whether or not King shows up, he -will- sign that contract... I swear that."
Where did you think you could go?
'Cause everyone already knows,
It’s 20 to 1
Yeah, so you better run!!!
"No count outs. No disqualifications. Just two men on a mission. Kelly King 2.0 vs Matt Shanahan. God vs King. Greatness vs ******** you."
You got the world on its knees
You’re taking all that you please
You want more
You want more
But you’ll get nothing from me
You’re like the burden we bear
You’re all the hate that we share
You want more
You want more
But you’ll get nothing from me
Enemies.
Enemies!
King pissing on the contract wasn't glazed over, King owned up to that everytime he was asked about it. But the moments following, when Matt Shanahan chased after him, those were the main event of the chorus, while 2.0 was fleeing him. King threw things down stairs at Matt, an ominous precursor to future events, as Matt chased him up the arena to even the rooftop of the building. This culiminated in 2.0 jumping ungracefully onto the lip of a Helicopter and escaping Matt by riding off into the sunset.
King's next scene was him in the middle eating dinner with his family, when suddenly a truck erupted onto the scene, Matt Shanahan at the wheel. King was buried under a table and tossed around like no ones business, until Serenno got involved and chokeslammed on the truck. King fought Shanahan off enough to make it to the stairs, where Railery met a painful end, thrown into shelves and glass.
You started something that you just couldn't stop
You turned the ones that you love into the angriest mob
And their one last wish is that you pay for it
And there's no way you're getting out of this
With Matt Shanahan pinning him down, screaming at his daughter, 2.0's only resolution for the Home Invasion was to kick Shanahan in the chest and send him flying off the balcony. The scene ended with a sick flash of a bloody Shanahan, his hands on his head, police pointing their guns at him.
"He invaded my privacy, he came into my home, laid his hands on my sons. Put all of us in the hospital. Because he wanted a WrestleMania match."
"You could've stopped it, but you didn't."
"-I- will end your reign, for good. I will leave Wrestlemania on my feet, while you are dragged out by your family."
"You forgot to read the fine print."
"No holds barred."
King tossed over a contract signing table onto Matt, leading to them having a vicious scuffle in the ring. Mounting Matt, he started to punch and claw and scratch and club, bloodying up Shanahan in the process.
"YOU'RE A MONSTER. YOU ********. YOU DESERVE TO BE DEAD!"
Matt's retreat was obvious now, as he tried to get away from a family of angry Kings, leading to Serenno being punched in the face. Matt held his enemy's son high in the air, just like the move that had caused all this ruckus, only for 2.0 to spear them both down to size on the ramp.
Who do you think you are
Tearing us all apart?
The fight continued until they were locked against each other in wire and darkness. Matt lifted up 2.0 and threw him as hard as he ever had, shattering glass and breaking electronics as 2.0 flew, slow motion, out the WWFG Titantron from the inside, crashing and burning on the ground below, his family there to tend to his wounds.
Where did you think you could go?
'Cause everyone already knows,
It’s 20 to 1
Yeah, so you better run!!!
The flashes finally led them to WrestleMania. King stood high in the air, the ring lifted up by a giant mechanism beneath it that had allowed 2.0 to survey the fans. Golden rain melted away into cold blue rain, while the hooded Matt Shanahan stalked his way to the ring. And together they stood in the ring for the first time ever, in a sanctioned match. The bell rang.
"There's nothing good about what you do or who you are."
"Your mistake was assuming there ever was."
You got the world on its knees
You’re taking all that you please
You want more
You want more
But you’ll get nothing from me
You’re like the burden we bear
You’re all the hate that we share
You want more
You want more
But you’ll get nothing from me
Enemies.
Enemies!
2.0 slapped the taste clean out of Matt's mouth as they started to trade soup bones, Matt almost consistently getting the better of King in striking matches. Matt was caught in the crossface, and then an ankle lock, and the looks on Matt's face while he was in the submission holds was tantamount to the pain he was in. Matt rolled out of the ring after a time, as 2.0 jumped and leapt out of the ring with the assistance of a springboard. Slowing down time, the crowd was treated to Matt catching King and slamming him up against the steel barricade violently.
But when Matt grabbed his bat, 2.0 was already in the ring with Scepter, beckoning Shanahan to come cross swords with his inferior weaponry. A match up that ended with King being clocked in the head clean with the weapon, but not before 2.0 had choked the sizable Shanahan nearly to death with the classic hammer.
"It's not over until someone's dead..."
A sudden flash led to Shanahan eating his words, sucking a AA Spinebuster through a table of chairs that he'd set up himself. Matt then fell to suffer King's classic tactics of using a drop toe hold, a kick of the rope into Shanahan's throat, and a flying forearm to the head. But Matt rolled out of the ring. King's collision with the steel steps after a failed downgrader was something fans would probably never forget, but not as much as what the video showed during the first half of the guitar solo of the song.
Matt and King scrambled and fought up the stairs into the high balconies of the arena, King even suffering through a boot to the back of the head to send him into the crowd. In fact, the footage showed 2.0 getting trounced by strikes all the way up to the top of the arena, until King finally low blowed Matt to the glee of the fans. King slid off of Matt's grasp, finally avoiding The Toss. However it was the Computer Crash that everyone would take away from the match, as Matt fell a story down, thirty feet below, onto chairs, flesh, and concrete.
And then 2.0 followed him with a splash off the railing.
Stretchers and doctors followed them as they were pulled towards the back, but each of them was unafraid of leaving the safety of their medical beds to climb up onto the stage again. And face down with each other.
Where did you think you could go?
'Cause everyone already knows
It’s twenty to one
Yeah, so you better run
They ran at each other. A haymaker, a DDT, and a punctuated with Matt Shanahan stealing the Downgrader to take King down off the stage. The men fought and pushed each other back to the ring, for the fight of their lives. King leapt off the apron, trying to leg drop Matt on steel steps, only to land a** first on those steps himself. This turn of events of course ended with Matt Shanahan planting King through the announce table with the From Heaven To Hell.
"GET UP!"
King was nearly broken when Matt screamed at him to get back in the ring after the travesty for his body, bringing them back to equal terms. But he managed to get into the ring anyway.
You've got the world on its knees
You've taken all that you please
You want more, you want more
But you’ll get nothing from me
The fight escalated against all odds. A countered spear, a Seventh Act that landed King on the apron, a flatliner that floated seemlessly into a Koji Clutch. The camera zoomed in on the third drop of a seemingly passed out Matt's arm, only for Matt to stand back up with King in tow and drop him on his back. King took a sick boot to the head, and Matt followed it up with the Chapter Four. But King kicked out.
You're like the burden we bear
You’re all the hate that we share
You want more, you want more
And slapped Matt in the face.
Matt's rage led him to fall prey to a stretch backbreaker that flowed perfectly into a 2.0ver, but Matt kicking out was a story that was impossible to forget. As was what followed. 2.0 screamed and shouted as he stomped down on Matt's head not once or twice, not even three times. Four times he smashed Matt's face under foot before locking him in the No Leaf Clover.
King was thrown off of the No Leaf position by the might of Matt, and the camera cut a few of the moves, simply showing as 2.0 walked into another Chapter Four, but another flash revealed Matt taking another devestating 2.0ver.
You've got the world on its knees
You've taken all that you please
You want more, you want more
But you’ll get nothing from me
King countered the Chapter Four, but Matt countered the Downgrader. King countered the Conversion, but Matt countered the Clover. King countered Hells' Throat, Matt countered his Wrath. King bit Matt's fingers, Matt countered the 2.0ver. They had fought each other just this one time, but they knew each other so perfectly. When Matt lifted him up for the Toss once more, he was finally planted with the Hard Restart, but King went to the top.
You're like the burden we bear
You’re all the hate that we share
You want more, you want more
King stood on the top, hit down by Matt. When King ran back at the God Of Punks, who was standing in the corner, his head hit the turnbuckles, which led to Matt pulling his enemy up onto his shoulders, and finally, along with many repeat showings, guiding 2.0 down the Last Corner. King was pinned.
But you’ll get nothing from me
We're Enemies
Matt stood over 2.0, staring down at the man, until he was shown on the stage, holding his fingers up, his 3-0 Logo showing on the titantron. Complimented by a cracked crown and a bloody Scepter.
ENEMIES.
"I will leave Wrestlemania on my feet, while you are dragged out by your family."
As the music started to ramp in at a hectic wind-up, images flashed all over the screen. Small short little frame by frame stills, close ups of King and Shanahan and 2.0's family, gritting their teeth, blood on their faces, screaming their lungs out. Then right as the guitar hit it's electric chordes, the Royal Rumble was the scene. Matt Shanahan was in the ring, watching as Kelly King 2.0 walked up to face him. In a short burst of flashing images, King threw Matt over the top rope, and then hit a springboard dropkick to eliminate him from the match. As 2.0 celebrated, the video focused on the God of Punk's furious face, welling up with anger.
Listen up, there's not a moment to spare
It's quite a drop
From the top so how you feeling down there?
The lyrics were very apt when Matt slid back into the ring illegally and grabbed 2.0 by his neck and tights, whirling him around and throwing him out of the ring, eliminating him from the rumble and causing him to crash through the announce table. The seen flashed just as quickly to that first Reboot, so long ago, where Matt was in the ring again.
"I don't care how the ******** you make your presence known, but I demand it!"
King's bandaged face appeared in a padded room, grinning sickly considering how badly he'd been hurt at the rumble. The images of King being thrown through that table once again flashed on the screen, but they were put to an end by King's voice.
It’s a cold cruel, harsh reality
Caught stuck here with your enemies
Who do you think you are,
Tearing us all apart?
"So, my brother, please. Allow me to make it personal."
King hefted his sledgehammer, Scepter, and went to town viciously on the FFA United States Championship. As much as it hurt him to do so, a piece of his own history, his lifeblood, his company. But Matt had tried to ruin him, and for that there could be only one response. King threw the hammer at the camera, which degenerated straight into Matt jabbing his finger into Jed's chest.
"Draw the contract up, get it prepared for signing. Whether or not King shows up, he -will- sign that contract... I swear that."
Where did you think you could go?
'Cause everyone already knows,
It’s 20 to 1
Yeah, so you better run!!!
"No count outs. No disqualifications. Just two men on a mission. Kelly King 2.0 vs Matt Shanahan. God vs King. Greatness vs ******** you."
You got the world on its knees
You’re taking all that you please
You want more
You want more
But you’ll get nothing from me
You’re like the burden we bear
You’re all the hate that we share
You want more
You want more
But you’ll get nothing from me
Enemies.
Enemies!
King pissing on the contract wasn't glazed over, King owned up to that everytime he was asked about it. But the moments following, when Matt Shanahan chased after him, those were the main event of the chorus, while 2.0 was fleeing him. King threw things down stairs at Matt, an ominous precursor to future events, as Matt chased him up the arena to even the rooftop of the building. This culiminated in 2.0 jumping ungracefully onto the lip of a Helicopter and escaping Matt by riding off into the sunset.
King's next scene was him in the middle eating dinner with his family, when suddenly a truck erupted onto the scene, Matt Shanahan at the wheel. King was buried under a table and tossed around like no ones business, until Serenno got involved and chokeslammed on the truck. King fought Shanahan off enough to make it to the stairs, where Railery met a painful end, thrown into shelves and glass.
You started something that you just couldn't stop
You turned the ones that you love into the angriest mob
And their one last wish is that you pay for it
And there's no way you're getting out of this
With Matt Shanahan pinning him down, screaming at his daughter, 2.0's only resolution for the Home Invasion was to kick Shanahan in the chest and send him flying off the balcony. The scene ended with a sick flash of a bloody Shanahan, his hands on his head, police pointing their guns at him.
"He invaded my privacy, he came into my home, laid his hands on my sons. Put all of us in the hospital. Because he wanted a WrestleMania match."
"You could've stopped it, but you didn't."
"-I- will end your reign, for good. I will leave Wrestlemania on my feet, while you are dragged out by your family."
"You forgot to read the fine print."
"No holds barred."
King tossed over a contract signing table onto Matt, leading to them having a vicious scuffle in the ring. Mounting Matt, he started to punch and claw and scratch and club, bloodying up Shanahan in the process.
"YOU'RE A MONSTER. YOU ********. YOU DESERVE TO BE DEAD!"
Matt's retreat was obvious now, as he tried to get away from a family of angry Kings, leading to Serenno being punched in the face. Matt held his enemy's son high in the air, just like the move that had caused all this ruckus, only for 2.0 to spear them both down to size on the ramp.
Who do you think you are
Tearing us all apart?
The fight continued until they were locked against each other in wire and darkness. Matt lifted up 2.0 and threw him as hard as he ever had, shattering glass and breaking electronics as 2.0 flew, slow motion, out the WWFG Titantron from the inside, crashing and burning on the ground below, his family there to tend to his wounds.
Where did you think you could go?
'Cause everyone already knows,
It’s 20 to 1
Yeah, so you better run!!!
The flashes finally led them to WrestleMania. King stood high in the air, the ring lifted up by a giant mechanism beneath it that had allowed 2.0 to survey the fans. Golden rain melted away into cold blue rain, while the hooded Matt Shanahan stalked his way to the ring. And together they stood in the ring for the first time ever, in a sanctioned match. The bell rang.
"There's nothing good about what you do or who you are."
"Your mistake was assuming there ever was."
You got the world on its knees
You’re taking all that you please
You want more
You want more
But you’ll get nothing from me
You’re like the burden we bear
You’re all the hate that we share
You want more
You want more
But you’ll get nothing from me
Enemies.
Enemies!
2.0 slapped the taste clean out of Matt's mouth as they started to trade soup bones, Matt almost consistently getting the better of King in striking matches. Matt was caught in the crossface, and then an ankle lock, and the looks on Matt's face while he was in the submission holds was tantamount to the pain he was in. Matt rolled out of the ring after a time, as 2.0 jumped and leapt out of the ring with the assistance of a springboard. Slowing down time, the crowd was treated to Matt catching King and slamming him up against the steel barricade violently.
But when Matt grabbed his bat, 2.0 was already in the ring with Scepter, beckoning Shanahan to come cross swords with his inferior weaponry. A match up that ended with King being clocked in the head clean with the weapon, but not before 2.0 had choked the sizable Shanahan nearly to death with the classic hammer.
"It's not over until someone's dead..."
A sudden flash led to Shanahan eating his words, sucking a AA Spinebuster through a table of chairs that he'd set up himself. Matt then fell to suffer King's classic tactics of using a drop toe hold, a kick of the rope into Shanahan's throat, and a flying forearm to the head. But Matt rolled out of the ring. King's collision with the steel steps after a failed downgrader was something fans would probably never forget, but not as much as what the video showed during the first half of the guitar solo of the song.
Matt and King scrambled and fought up the stairs into the high balconies of the arena, King even suffering through a boot to the back of the head to send him into the crowd. In fact, the footage showed 2.0 getting trounced by strikes all the way up to the top of the arena, until King finally low blowed Matt to the glee of the fans. King slid off of Matt's grasp, finally avoiding The Toss. However it was the Computer Crash that everyone would take away from the match, as Matt fell a story down, thirty feet below, onto chairs, flesh, and concrete.
And then 2.0 followed him with a splash off the railing.
Stretchers and doctors followed them as they were pulled towards the back, but each of them was unafraid of leaving the safety of their medical beds to climb up onto the stage again. And face down with each other.
Where did you think you could go?
'Cause everyone already knows
It’s twenty to one
Yeah, so you better run
They ran at each other. A haymaker, a DDT, and a punctuated with Matt Shanahan stealing the Downgrader to take King down off the stage. The men fought and pushed each other back to the ring, for the fight of their lives. King leapt off the apron, trying to leg drop Matt on steel steps, only to land a** first on those steps himself. This turn of events of course ended with Matt Shanahan planting King through the announce table with the From Heaven To Hell.
"GET UP!"
King was nearly broken when Matt screamed at him to get back in the ring after the travesty for his body, bringing them back to equal terms. But he managed to get into the ring anyway.
You've got the world on its knees
You've taken all that you please
You want more, you want more
But you’ll get nothing from me
The fight escalated against all odds. A countered spear, a Seventh Act that landed King on the apron, a flatliner that floated seemlessly into a Koji Clutch. The camera zoomed in on the third drop of a seemingly passed out Matt's arm, only for Matt to stand back up with King in tow and drop him on his back. King took a sick boot to the head, and Matt followed it up with the Chapter Four. But King kicked out.
You're like the burden we bear
You’re all the hate that we share
You want more, you want more
And slapped Matt in the face.
Matt's rage led him to fall prey to a stretch backbreaker that flowed perfectly into a 2.0ver, but Matt kicking out was a story that was impossible to forget. As was what followed. 2.0 screamed and shouted as he stomped down on Matt's head not once or twice, not even three times. Four times he smashed Matt's face under foot before locking him in the No Leaf Clover.
King was thrown off of the No Leaf position by the might of Matt, and the camera cut a few of the moves, simply showing as 2.0 walked into another Chapter Four, but another flash revealed Matt taking another devestating 2.0ver.
You've got the world on its knees
You've taken all that you please
You want more, you want more
But you’ll get nothing from me
King countered the Chapter Four, but Matt countered the Downgrader. King countered the Conversion, but Matt countered the Clover. King countered Hells' Throat, Matt countered his Wrath. King bit Matt's fingers, Matt countered the 2.0ver. They had fought each other just this one time, but they knew each other so perfectly. When Matt lifted him up for the Toss once more, he was finally planted with the Hard Restart, but King went to the top.
You're like the burden we bear
You’re all the hate that we share
You want more, you want more
King stood on the top, hit down by Matt. When King ran back at the God Of Punks, who was standing in the corner, his head hit the turnbuckles, which led to Matt pulling his enemy up onto his shoulders, and finally, along with many repeat showings, guiding 2.0 down the Last Corner. King was pinned.
But you’ll get nothing from me
We're Enemies
Matt stood over 2.0, staring down at the man, until he was shown on the stage, holding his fingers up, his 3-0 Logo showing on the titantron. Complimented by a cracked crown and a bloody Scepter.
ENEMIES.
"I will leave Wrestlemania on my feet, while you are dragged out by your family."
