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The now
infamous #GingerHoax is still on the minds of many. Pro-wrestling fans are still stunned that
Marie Annabelle Jones would pull the switcheroo in UWA, allowing her identical
twin Kimberly Williams to compete in the tag team division on her behalf so she
could focus entirely on her singles career, a career she decided to seek out in
another company; SCW. Despite the fact
that Marie has tried explaining herself to the masses, there are still questions
about what drove her to mastermind such an action. Whatever ultimately drove her to betray the
UWA and its fans, the #GingerHoax did its job and allowed Marie to perform in
SCW.
Marie
Annabelle Jones has already made an impact since her arrival in Supreme
Championship Wrestling. Jones defeated
both Hannah War and Kara Abheri in singles competition before losing a triple
threat match to Kara that also involved Hannah.
But Marie can hold her head high knowing that she didn’t get
pinned. She can also be thankful for the
fact that her career has not been slowed down in the slightest bit due to this
minor bump in the road. That triple
threat win would have earned her a shot at the women’s championship, but Marie
doesn’t want the women’s championship to begin with. The Crown Jewel of Professional Wrestling
knows all too well what it is like to be pigeonholed into particular divisions
in pro-wrestling. In UWA, Marie was
pigeonholed into the tag team division.
This was why she jumped ship and went to SCW to begin with. She definitely would not want to risk SCW
pigeonholing her in the women’s division, either.
The
redheaded Boston native has bigger and loftier goals in mind for herself not
just in Supreme Championship Wrestling but in UWA as well. She wants to be a world champion. She wants to be world champion in UWA and in
SCW. She wants to prove that she is the
absolute best wrestler in the world; the true Crown Jewel of Professional
Wrestling.
Her rise to
success in both the UWA and SCW will not be the focus of her next quest. She is scheduled to compete in the upcoming
Icon Memorial Tournament to take place in UWA.
It will be a thirty-two person tournament held over a three day period. The winner will receive a BMW and five
hundred thousands dollars, and while those two prizes are great, there is still
one other reward that Marie is looking for…
…a title
shot.
A part of
Marie definitely wants to do this to honor the memory of Orlando Cruze. He was one of the greats and will be
remembered as one of the greats. That
will never change. But Marie wants to
one day be at least near his level of success.
Just as Orlando Cruze was a former world champion, Marie, a former world
champion in her own right, wants to win back that championship.
Winning this
tournament punches her ticket to an automatic title shot right off of the bat.
That being
said, with the stakes being as high as they are for The Crown Jewel of
Professional Wrestling, you’d expect that she’d be out busting her ass,
training her ass off trying to get ready for what will be a test of endurance
like no other. You’d expect her to be
focused entirely and only on the Icon Memorial Tournament.
You’d be
wrong.
Instead, we
find a set with a plain white backdrop.
A bed is set up on the backdrop and Marie Jones is found lying on the
bed. She is wearing flip flops, denim
jeans, and a black T-shirt with #GingerNation written on the front in orange
lettering. Her long red hair is left to
hang flowing down to shoulder length.
She is propped up on her side on the bed, staring across into the lenses
of a camera set up on a tripod stand.
A man known
as Hamilton is operating this tripod stand camera. He is wearing a faded blue button up shirt
and khaki pants with nice dress shoes…
…this is a
photoshoot. Marie is doing a photoshoot,
which isn’t out of the ordinary for wrestlers these days, especially the
beautiful ladies in UWA. But with what’s
at stake in this Icon Memorial Tournament, a tournament where she faces Niles
Gray in the first round, you may have expected her to be more focused on the
match than what appears on the surface…
…but
remember, things are not always what they seem, and appearances can often be
deceiving.
“Good great…”
Hamilton
seems to be pleased so far with what he has seen from young Marie. He waves his arm, while still holding the tripod
camera stead with the other, motioning for Marie to go to her right.
“…now, move a bit closer to your right,
that’s it…”
He flashes
her a thumbs up.
“…perfect!”
“Of course I am!”
He smirks.
“Great, you look great, now how about giving
me a look over your shoulder?”
She turns
and gazes deep at him and into the camera as seductively as she can. He snaps a few more photos as he gives her a
thumbs up sign.
“Perfect Marie, now could you please lean
back and let your hair flow over one eye?”
Marie smirks
and nods her head.
“Of course!”
She leans
back and then flicks some of her hair forward, enough that it covers one of her
eyes.
“Great job, Marie! Now could you remove your top?”
“We’re a naughty boy, aren’t we?”
“Just snapping the pictures that the
photoshoot requires.”
Marie nods
her head and quickly removes her shirt, casting it to the side. She is now standing there in flip flops,
denim jeans, and a pink lace bra.
Hamilton tries to maintain his composure, though he’s almost drooling.
“Now remove the bra…”
“Not gonna happen!”
That voice
was not Marie’s, although it sounds damn near identical. Hamilton does not recognize it but Marie does
and looks around rather annoyed.
“Not now…”
“Yes, now…”
Hamilton is
thoroughly confused as a second female enters the set. His curiosity grows even greater when he
notices that this female looks identical to Marie in every way, except for the
clothing. This beautiful young lady,
identical to Marie, is wearing a slinky little number that embraces every
single one of her luscious curves. The
black dress is a stretchy, sleeveless, off the shoulder midi-dress that
features a wide fold-over neckline and an open back cut-out. The skirt flares out ever so slightly and
stops just below the knee. Her feet are
encased in strappy black high heeled sandals.
Hamilton’s
eyes look at one woman, then the other, then back at the other. The fact that they are identical is hard for
him to fathom. He doesn’t quite know
what is going on. He gazes back to the
woman on the bed…
“Marie, what…or who…who is this?”
“You’re asking the wrong person.”
The other
woman snaps her fingers to get Hamilton’s attention. He turns his head to face her. She then points towards her identical twin
lying on the bed.
“THAT is not the person you think it is.”
“Ok, then who are you?”
She pats
herself on the chest.
“I am Marie Annabelle Jones.”
She smirks.
“And the woman you have been taking pictures
of for that photoshoot is my identical twin.
Her name is Kimberly Williams.”
Hamilton
turns and gazes at the woman he has been photographing for quite some time
now. She playfully waves at him.
“Hi there, stud muffin!”
Marie turns
and stares in a scolding manner at her twin.
“Stud muffin?”
“Yeah, and he’s a naughty stud muffin
too. He wanted me to run around
topless.”
Hamilton
shakes his head vehemently.
“It wasn’t like that! It was…”
Marie holds
up her hand to interrupt him.
“Whoa, you DID ask Kim to remove her bra,
did you not?”
“Yes, but that’s what the shoot required…”
“I’m not giving some perverse plebeians the
honor of seeing what MY gloriously nude body would look like.”
“Your body?”
Hamilton is
nearly beside himself.
“I wasn’t even photographing you! I was photographing her!”
“True, but we are identical twins,
darling. Her body may as well BE my
body.”
“But why…”
Hamilton
sighs and shakes his head.
“…why pull the trick anyway? I thought you WANTED this photoshoot, Ms.
Jones?”
“I do, but I’m way too busy with much more
important matters that require my attention.
I am a superstar of the highest level.
People all over the world desire to see me. But not everyone can. I am only one person, after all. So when I can’t be somewhere, or if I just
DON’T want to be somewhere…”
She motions
to Kim again.
“…then I have my stunt double.”
“I just…”
He shakes
his head.
“…I just can’t believe it.”
“You don’t have to believe it. Your one job is to do, not question. You did your job for me, you have your
photos, now leave. Kimberly and I have
things to discuss.”
Hamilton
sighs as he takes his camera off of the tripod stand and walks away. Kimberly and Marie both watch, Kimberly
snickers as he walks away with frustration etched across his face. Once he is gone and out of sight, Kimberly
waves for Marie to join her on the bed.
Jones walks over and sits down on the bed next to Kimberly, who embraces
Marie in a tight hug.
“Sissy!”
Kimberly
smirks.
“You are soooo glad that you came when you
did. I was totally gonna flash that
horny photogenic bastard!”
Marie rolls
her eyes.
“I know you would have, that’s why I stopped
you. I can’t have YOU showing off my
breasts to the world.”
“Technically it would’ve been MINE, but
that’s neither here nor there, right?”
“Right, but our bodies are identical and
that is one perk to being an identical twin, a perk I intend to use to its
utmost.”
Kimberly
hops up off of the bed.
“And its helps that your twin is an
absolutely wonderful actress!”
Kimberly
spins around three-hundred sixty degrees so that she is once again facing
Marie. Kim then proceeds to give her
very best Marie impersonation.
“I am The Phoenix! I am The Crown Jewel of Professional
Wrestling! I am a superstar and a legend
and I deserve to be treated as wrestling royalty! All I do is win. I know winning and by the time I’m done
America will have won so much that they’ll be sick and tired of winning. But then I’ll build a wall on the southern
border and make Mexico pay for it!
“Uh, Kim…”
“And I’m gonna grab that pussy!”
“…KIM!!!”
Marie’s
shouting stops Kimberly suddenly.
“What?”
“That was a Donald Trump impersonation.”
“Oh…I get you two confused, at times.”
Marie
punches Kim in the arm. Kim rubs it
painfully.
“Owwww….what was that for?!”
“For being dumb.”
Kimberly
smiles sheepishly.
“Sorry…”
She plops
back down on the bed and ruffles Marie’s hair, messing it up.
“…but you gotta admit, we DO make a great
team!”
“That we do.
That’s partially why I wanted to stop by and interrupt your photoshoot.”
Kimberly’s
curiosity is peaked.
“Oh?”
“The Icon Memorial Tournament.”
“Oh yeah, what about it?”
“I have to win, Marie. A world title shot is at stake if I win.”
“And a great car and five hundred big ones!”
Marie shakes
her head.
“I don’t CARE about any of that. I just want the world title shot. Nothing more, nothing less.”
“Oh, well can I have the money and car since
you don’t want it?”
Marie
smirks.
“Of course!”
Kimberly
squeals with joy.
“Yaaaaay!
I looove you, sissy!”
“Right, but before you shower me with
praise, I need to get ready. I have this
tournament and my first opponent is none other than Niles Gray.”
“Who the hell is Niles Gray?”
“Don’t give me that shit, Kim! You kicked his ass twice! You know who he is!”
Kimberly
smirks.
“Oh, you mean that boy toy?”
Marie sighs and
rolls her eyes.
“Yes, him…”
Marie gently
shoves her twin sister, who is giggling uncontrollably.
“Try to remain focused, Kim! Niles Gray may be green, he may be wet behind
the ears, but he’s dangerous and could eliminate me early if I’m not careful.”
“I know this. But why are you telling me?”
Marie tilts
her head to one side and glares at Kimberly.
“That’s simple. I lost the UWA World Championship to Vanilla
Skyy. I was on a huge roll in SCW but
recently I came up short in two separate number one contender opportunities.”
She shakes
her head.
“That cannot happen again. No matter what that cannot happen again. I want bigger and better things for
myself. I want to be a world champion
again, Kim. This tournament is my ticket
to that opportunity. An opportunity that
I deserved that UWA refuses to grant me.
By winning this tournament there will be no way in hell UWA can deny me
of my world title shot. I will get my
world title shot. And I will prove to
UWA, SCW, and anyone else who may doubt me or criticize me that I am exactly
who I say I am…”
Marie
smirks.
“…the Crown Jewel of Professional Wrestling.
“That sounds simple enough. You can do it.”
“Oh I KNOW I can do it, but I do not want to
leave anything to chance. I want to win
this tournament and I will use EVERY resource at my disposal to make sure that
happens. Do we understand one another,
Kimmie?”
Kimberly
chuckles nastily and winks.
“I read you loud and clear, babe!”
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We open
inside of a private gym owned and operated by Angelica Jones. Currently the matriarch of the Jones Family,
Angelica herself, finds herself sitting on the edge of a pro-wrestling ring set
up in the center of the floor. She is
staring at her daughter, Marie Annabelle Jones, a few feet away who is
currently doing crunches as part of an exercise regimen to prepare herself for
the coming challenge that looms; The Icon Memorial Tournament to be held soon
in UWA. Marie will have to outlast a
thirty-two person field in this tournament but if she can, she will have earned
a world title opportunity.
Angelica
wants nothing more than the best for her daughter. She wants to see her succeed. And she wants the two of them to have a close
relationship. Although the recent
actions and attitude shift in Marie Annabelle Jones has made that relationship
just slightly strained; definitely not a good thing for the beginning of a
Thanksgiving holiday.
“You’re looking good, Marie. Keep it up.”
Angelica is
doing her best to show support for her daughter, but the truth is that she
isn’t supportive of her new attitude.
“Thanks, mom.”
Marie hops
up off of the floor after completing the crunches. She then turns to the heavy bag, which isn’t
but a few feet away, and starts laying into it with right hands, left hands,
and even a few martial arts kicks to boot.
“Niles Gray is going down. He is just a mere stepping stone as I go
through anyone and everyone else I may have to in order to win that tournament
and get my UWA World Title Shot.”
Angelica
sighs. Those words sound awfully
familiar. Angelica herself spoke words
similar to that not too long ago, before she turned over a new leaf. Seeing her own daughter adopting a similar
attitude troubles her greatly.
“Let’s hope so, for your sake…”
“Hope so?”
Marie
chuckles at her own mother’s supposed doubt.
Marie continue to lay into the bag with everything she has.
“I am The Crown Jewel of Professional Wrestling,
mom. I can win this.”
“I have no doubt you can win.”
Marie stops
her punching and kicking of the heavy bag and turns to face her mother. Marie places her hands on her hips and
frowns.
“Then why is it that I detect a hint of
doubt from you?”
Angelica
sighs once more as she hops down off of the ring apron. She walks over to her daughter and places a
hand on her shoulder.
“It isn’t that I doubt you. You have all of the skill in the world and I
know you can beat anyone on any given night.
That isn’t what troubles me.”
She pokes
her in the chest.
“What troubles me is how you’ve been acting
lately.”
Marie rolls
her eyes.
“Mom, do we have to go through this?”
“I understand you’ve gone through some rough
patches lately, especially with UWA…”
“A rough patch? Mom, David Helms and Drew Bryant pigeonholed
me in the tag team division. They
blackballed me from singles competition after losing the world championship. The fans turned on me the moment their ‘hero’
Willy French Vanilly’…”
“You mean Vanilla Skyy?”
“Yeah, her…but the fans turned on me the
moment she won the title back. Helms and
Bryant turned on me the moment she won the title back. So I did something about it. I let Kim wrestle in my place in UWA while I
signed with SCW. And do you know how SCW
has been treating me?”
Marie grins.
“They’ve been treating me like the superstar
I am. SCW gives me the opportunities
that a superstar of my stature so richly deserves. No, I didn’t win all of my opportunities, but
at least SCW granted me opportunities.
In UWA I had to pull off the #GingerHoax just to force Helms and Bryant
to sit up and take notice of me.”
She motions
to herself and to Angelica.
“WE are wrestling royalty. We should accept nothing less than the best.”
Angelica
sighs and nods her head.
“Like I said, I do understand your
frustrations, and perhaps UWA did wrong you in some way, but there is a right
way and a wrong way of doing things.”
Marie looks
at her mother incredulously.
“Right and wrong? I’m sorry, mom, but I TRIED doing things the
right way and it got me nowhere. Now I
do things the easy way. Now I take the
easy path to success. And the people can
hate me for all I care. I’m going to get
what I want because I deserve it. It
starts with this Icon Memorial Tournament when I become number one contender to
the UWA World Championship.”
Angelica
frowns and shakes her head with disappointment.
“I just hope…I hope you know what you’re
doing…”
“I know exactly what I’m doing.”
“Does that include using Kimberly to your
advantage?”
Kimberly
Williams is Marie’s twin sister and it is already well known that Kimberly has
wrestled in Marie’s place in UWA before.
Now the question has to be asked, will this continue? Will she try this stunt in the Icon Memorial
Tournament?
“So what if I do?”
“It’s not the right way.”
“And like I said, I TRIED doing things the
right way and nothing ever worked out for me.
I deserve the best and I’m going to GET the best by any means
necessary.”
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We open in
front of an UWA logo backdrop. Marie
Annabelle Jones is standing in the dead center of the backdrop. The redhead is wearing long denim jeans and
flip flops. She sports a red blouse with
a black leather jacket. A confident gaze
is written across her face as she stares into the camera.
“There’s been a great deal of questions
thrown my way, all of them asking me why…”
She shrugs
her shoulders.
“….why pull the wool over the eyes of the
fans? Why mastermind the
#GingerHoax? Why, Marie, after going
through the long quest for redemption would I throw it all away and throw the
support of my fans away? Why would I
turn my back on them?”
Jones
sneers.
“Let’s get one thing perfectly clear; the
fans turned their back on me! UWA turned
its back on me! I tried to be the hero
for the fans that they needed. I tried
to be the face of UWA and the hero for UWA that it needed. But I was cast aside like yesterday’s news as
soon as Vanilla Skyy won back the championship. I knew right then that UWA never did give a
damn about me. I knew right then that
the fans bandwagon jumpers who don’t care about me or anyone. They just jump onto the newest
bandwagon. After I beat Vanilla Skyy at
Olympus, they jumped onto my bandwagon.
They stayed by my side until I lost the title back to Vanilla, when they
jumped back onto her bandwagon. Now they’re on the Alana Starr or Victoria
Salinas bandwagon.”
She shakes
her head.
“No, they never cared about me. And no, I didn’t turn my back on them, they
turned their back on me. Second, as for
why I did this…”
She smirks.
“…well I was just looking out for my own
best interests. I mean, let’s face it,
David Helms and Drew Bryant sure as hell weren’t going to give me the
opportunity that I rightfully deserved.
As soon as I lost the championship to Vanilla Skyy, I was pigeonhole in
the tag team division. Helms and Bryant
weren’t going to book me in singles action ever again. Did you honestly believe I was going to just
sit back and be a happy UWA employee forced to compete exclusively in the tag
team division?”
Jones shakes
her head.
“I am wrestling royalty. I am The Crown Jewel of Professional
Wrestling, damnit! I deserve better than
that! I can beat anyone! And I’m going to prove it, appropriately
enough, in The Icon Memorial Tournament.”
Jones laughs
lightly.
“You know what’s funny about Orlando? There were times he was loved by fans
everywhere, there were also times when the fans loathed him as much as they
loathe me now. There were times Orlando
was the hero and there were times when he was the villain. But regardless of whether you loved him or
hated him, regardless of whether he was the hero or the villain, the one
consistent thing about Orlando Cruze was that he was one of the most talented
wrestlers in our industry. Everywhere he
went, he made an impact. And that’s why
we’re honoring him with this tournament, because he transcended good and bad,
hero and villain, right and wrong, simply because of how damned talented he was
in that squared circle.”
“His legend was so great that it is uniting
and unifying so many people from across
our sport. The heroes such as Victoria
Salinas and David Helms, villains such as Myra Lynwood and Gavin Taylor, and
even wild cards such as Tina Valentine, it’s bring everyone regardless of who
you are or what your label is together to honor his memory.”
She motions
to herself.
“Whether I am good or bad, whether I am
right or wrong, whether I am your hero or your villain, I am and always will be
The Crown Jewel of Professional Wrestling and this tournament is my opportunity
to not just honor Orlando Cruze’s memory with a performance that no one will
ever forget but also because to prove that I am among the best in this
industry. And this tournament in
particular gives me a special opportunity in its reward.”
A smirk
forms across her face.
“A BMW?
Oh yeah, that’d be nice, but if I win that’s going to my BFF Sophie
James. Five hundred thousand dollars?
That’s also great, but if I win I’m going to give that cash to my twin
sister Kimberly Williams. Use it wisely,
girl!”
She
snickers.
“The biggest prize, as far as I’m
concerned, is that world championship
opportunity that the winner will get. Do
you think Helms and Bryant will be fair to me?”
She shakes
her head.
“No, they wanted me pigeonholed in the tag
team division. But by winning this
tournament, I can FORCE them to give me an opportunity at the UWA World
Championship. And ironically enough, the
first person who stands in the way between me and the world title shot is none
other than Niles Gray, one half of the Heartbreakers.”
She
chuckles.
“You’re probably anxious to get this
opportunity, not just to get a world title shot, or the money, or the car, or
even to honor the man who helped make you who you are today. But for you this is an opportunity to get
your hands on the woman who masterminded the #GingerHoax that played you and
the rest of the fans for a bunch of fools!
So you may say the most important goal for you is to honor Orlando
Cruze, and I don’t doubt that it is your most important goal, but I’m sure that
revenge is also in the back of your mind.
I humiliated you and Corey. That’s
not exaggerating, either. That’s a fact.”
“You’re getting a quick and very difficult,
challenging lesson in what things are like in this harsh world of
pro-wrestling, little boys. Like my
sister said, it’s not fair and the good guys rarely win. I had to learn that lesson, as well. And as hard as you try, as good as you may
be, your best may not be good enough, especially when you’re competing against
a wrestler willing to do anything, willing to go to great lengths, to get the
job done.”
“I am that person willing to go to great
lengths, willing to push the envelope, and willing to do really ANYTHING to
win, because you are absolutely right, the pressure is on me. I’m not just a former world champion but I
also HAVE to win this. I have to win
this tournament and get that title shot so I can claim the world title shot I
so rightly deserve.”
She shakes
her head.
“And I’ll be damned if I let you stop me.”
“Orlando Cruze was a great man who
transcended this sport. He transcended
silly emotions or feelings about good and bad, right or wrong, because whether
you loved him or hated him, everyone agreed that he was one of the best. Regardless of whether he was a hero or a
villain, you still recognized that you were going to be in for a fight when you
went up against Orlando Cruze. Now we
gather to honor his memory…all of us…regardless of whether we are heroes or
villains…good or bad…it’s just all about doing it for The Icon.”
