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 Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2022 2:51 pm
The arena lights dim and a spotlight shines on the arena entrance as Weak Aside by Bloodbath blasts out of the arena speakers.
♫We're born to reign as masters
To ashes we'll burn the pastures
Repell their ways back to nothingness♫
Loud boos are heard from the crowd as Cartwright enters the arena wearing a black robe which shines in the light thanks to the red sequins that are all over it. Cartwright basks in the spotlight, looking towards the fans and embracing the jeers. He is joined by The Blood Imbruer, Gary Guitar and The Jester.
♫Chaos in symmetry
This glorious victory
In darkness only we can see♫
The Ferocious Four make their way towards the ring, Cartwright looking particularly happy.
♫Transcend with rage of the elite
The new order come to rise and shine
Write new history as we wipe and delete
An urge to rid this world of human waste
Weak aside♫
Cartwright asks for a microphone before The Ferocious Four enter the ring.
Cartwright: "You should all be cheering wildly for the return of The Ferocious Four!"
The crowd continues to boo, even though they haven't done anything wrong yet.
Cartwright: "You people sure love to hold a grudge!
What is the problem?!
Are you angry with us for being the most dominant force in wrestling?!
Are you jealous of all the success that we have had?!
Do you all wish that you could be us?!"
Cartwright gets an idea and smirks
Cartwright: "Is it because of what we did to your hero, Salem Croft?!"
The crowd suddenly begins to start cheering.
Crowd: "SALEM!
SALEM!
SALEM!"
Cartwright doesn't look impressed.
Cartwright: "Forget about him!
Salem Croft is FINISHED!
We brutalised him so much that he hasn't been seen since and never will be seen again!
I bet he is still in the hospital right now, over two years later!"
The crowd boos as The Ferocious Four relish in it.
Cartwright: "I remember it like it was yesterday!
In August 2019, The Ferocious Four was formed when these three men helped me to take out one of the biggest pieces of trash in wrestling history!
I gave Salem the sickest chair shot to the skull that anyone has ever seen or heard!
We all enjoyed kicking, punching, stomping and whacking his corpse with steel chairs!
I grabbed a baseball bat while Salem looked at me with tears in his eyes, before I delivered the finishing shot across Salem's throat!
IT WAS THE GREATEST NIGHT OF MY LIFE!"
The booing gets louder and louder with each gloating sentence that Cartwright utters.
Cartwright: "I did what everyone in the wrestling industry wished that they could do but never did....."
Cartwright looks into the camera's lens.
Cartwright: "....I ended the career of Salem Croft!"
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2022 2:39 am
As Cartwright proudly makes his proclamation in the ring, a static would start over the speakers of the venue for just a couple seconds, followed by the titantron standing above the stage coming to life. A lone figure sat in a dark room, a solitary lightbulb suspended above them that barely licked at the shadows engulfing the man, shaggy black hair drinking in the dim light and leaving none to shine on his face, but for the whites of his teeth glinting in a shark like grin. The audience cheered before the figure even spoke, perhaps predicting such an event, but once the man opened his mouth, the familiar voice would further excite the crowd - save for those still standing in the ring.
"Hello, old friend." Salem said, his face still masked in shadow while only his teeth and hair caught the light. His voice was soft, but the tone held a hint of sarcasm.
"It's been a long time...I see you're doing well for yourself...that's good, I'm doing much better, too. See, spending a year in a hospital bed, having your throat crushed to the point you can't speak, enduring surgery after surgery that almost killed me, trying to reconstruct my windpipe, that kinda thing does something to a man. It changes them...some days, I laid in bed and wanted to just sleep forever, never get up again. Other days, I wanted to rip out that intubation tube and shove it down your throat. Being bedridden so long, it took me a while to get on my feet again...even longer to get back into shape. But I'm fit as a fiddle, now, healthy as a horse, and coming for you like a bat outta hell, buddy. We've got so much catching up to do, so many things to talk about...I know you probably weren't expecting visits from dead men, but if I'm dead, then you must be looking into a mirror..."
Salem slowly stood up, no longer sitting at the table, but standing under the dim bulb struggling to light the room, which now showed off a physique of muscles and definition previously unknown to Salem, muscles looking cut from stone, hard as the black bat that could be seen in Salem's left hand.
"...and what's funny about mirrors, things can be closer than they appear."
Reaching up with his empty hand, Salem pulled the hanging drawstring above him, the bulb turning off with a satisfying click as all the lights in the arena went off at the same moment. In the darkness, the crowd cheered loudly, anticipating what was next as a moment later the venue lights came back on, revealing Salem standing behind the four with the same black bat in his hands. A black, sleeveless t-shirt clung to his well-defined chest, a pair of black jeans with knees worn out of the them extended down to a set of shiny black steel toed boots, and his taped fists tightened up around the bat's grip, a sadistic smile on Croft's face as he waited for his quarry to turn around!
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2022 2:35 pm
The Ferocious Four wonder what is going on with all of this loud cheering, turning around to be greeted by Hulk Salem.
Cartwright looks shocked as the crowd go mad, they have waited for so long to see this moment.
Cartwright orders The Jester to finish the job that they started over two years ago.
The Jester runs towards Salem, but he is met with a baseball bat to the gut, the crowd exploding with cheers as The Jester instantly drops to the mat, holding his stomach with both hands in agony.
Cartwright's eyes widen, this was never supposed to happen!
Salem charges towards the other men in the ring. Cartwright bails-out of the ring, sliding under the bottom rope as Salem swings his bat into the guts of Gary Guitar and The Blood Imbruer.
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2022 3:11 pm
The crowd roars with approval as Salem gut-checks Gary and TBI with the bat, leaving the former to roll out in pain under the bottom rope while the big man chokes for breath on the mat, struggling for the ropes. The Jester, still on the outside, pleads with Cartwright to join the fray, as Gary Guitar starts trying to pull himself up by the announce table, visibly winded from the steel-to-stomach strike.
Staring down Cartwright with Hell in his eyes, Salem confidently chucks the bat out of the ring behind him and away from his foes, waving the British b*****d to step back into the ring and face him as TBI starts pulling himself up at a nearby corner!
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2022 3:19 pm
Cartwright looks back at Salem and then towards The Jester.
Cartwright: "There's three of you and one of him, deal with it!"
Cartwright picks-up a steel chair and slides it towards The Blood Imbruer.
Cartwright: "Hurry, Salem is over there! Finish him!"
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2022 3:26 pm
The Jester continues to cringe, not eager to re-enter the ring and face more of Salem's fury. Gary Guitar, back on his feet and leaning against the announce table, seems equally weary of the idea as he catches his breath on the outside. But Cartwright's big bruiser, The Blood Imbruer, still has some fight in him, reaching down for the chair his boss slid into the ring...
....only for Salem to surge forward and catch the big man around the neck, running up the turnbuckle TBI was staggered into and twisting, dropping the big man on his head with a thunderous thud into the chair, still on the canvas where Cartwright slid it!
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2022 3:29 pm
Cartwright looks visibly annoyed that TBI wasn't able to use the steel chair he provided, instead it was Salem taking advantage of it.
Cartwright: "WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE?!"
Cartwright vents his frustration at The Jester, before Cartwright begins to make his way towards the guard rail, trying to escape!
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2022 3:33 pm
Cartwright was more than frustrated, but whether more at Salem or his own entourage, one could only guess. Still, it wasn't Cartwright's posse that Salem wanted to sink his teeth into, it was the chav trying to escape over the barricade! Hitting the ropes hard opposite of the side Carty was standing on, Salem did a baseball slide out of the ring, reaching the guardrails lightning quick to seize the Brit by his hair, trying to pull him back into the ringside area as the crowd clamors for 'The Copperhead' to draw blood!
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2022 3:39 pm
Cartwright can be heard wailing as Salem gets a hold of his beautiful, long, brown hair. The Lad has been stopped in his tracks by the sudden and sharp pain coming from his head!
The Jester finally decides to spring in to action, along with Gary Guitar. TBI has been left on the mat, wondering where he is from the devastating DDT in to the steel chair. Both men try to stop Salem with Double Axe Handle smashes to his back!
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2022 3:56 pm
Salem was seeing red, so close to retribution, but Cartwright's goons hadn't quite given up yet, hammering him in the back with four fists! The double double double-axehandle did its job at separating Salem from his quarry, but some of Cartwright came with 'The Copperhead', a clump of brown locks still clenched in Croft's hand!
Dropping to a knee on the ring side of the barricade, Salem's awareness snapped back into focus, remembering his formerly forgotten foes as he started standing back up to turn and face his attackers!
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2022 3:59 pm
An embarrassed Cartwright covers his head and begins to walk through the baying mob that is the crowd, while Gary Guitar and The Jester try to beat Salem down with punches and kicks!
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2022 4:05 pm
Gary and Jester seemed to be making brief headway, hammering at Salem with all they could! Still, Salem continued trying to get up, urged on by his own determination and the encouraging chants and cheers from the fans! Each blow staggered Salem slightly, but eventually he managed to stand back up with his back to the barricade and blast each man with a hard chop across the chest, trying to get some separation to pause their attack and continue his own, temporarily oblivious to Cartwright's continued exit!
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2022 4:11 pm
The Jester separates himself from the attack after taking the chop from Salem, while Gary Guitar rushes towards Salem with a lariat, trying to halt Salem's momentum.
The Jester meanwhile makes his way towards the time keeper, stealing the ring bell from him.
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2022 4:17 pm
Jester took the hint to back off, while Gary found a surge of confidence, seeking to clothesline Salem and challenge 'The Copperhead' one-on-one! But the smaller Gary found himself snatched by his outstretched arm at the wrist, Croft deftly seizing control of the man's limb and twisting him around in a chicken wing, running him towards Jester and throwing Gary into him as he was approaching with the ring bell!
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Posted: Thu May 05, 2022 6:14 am
Gary Guitar is launched towards The Jester, the two crashing in to each other and falling to the ground. The Jester drops the ring bell along the way!
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