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Off Camera
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SCW’s Hell
Hath No Fury pay per view has come to a close and Marie Annabelle Jones picked
up a much needed win over Darrin Miles.
She had to take a few shortcuts, she had to cheat a few times, but in
the end she got the job done. And she
needed to get this win, especially after losing the momentum she had coming
into Supreme Championship Wrestling.
Jones came in with wins over Hannah Warr and Kara Abheri. Unfortunately she would go on to lose a
triple threat to Kara in a match that also included Hannah Warr. She would get a TV Title Eliminator Match
against Brett Sinclaire but she would lose to him as well, due to outside
interference from Jake Starr.
Marie Jones
came to Supreme Championship Wrestling with just one purpose: she wanted a
singles career. Jones truly believed
that she would not get a fair opportunity at a singles career in the Uprising
Wrestling Alliance where she had once reigned as World Champion; the fact that
she had not been booked for four months seemed to indicate that.
So Marie
pulled the old switcheroo, which she likes to call the #GingerHoax. Her identical twin sister Kimberly Williams
took her place in UWA while she managed to negotiate herself a deal to compete
in SCW. Marie’s long term plan was to
focus on SCW and let Kimberly worry about all things UWA. It seemed to work well initially after the
victories over Hannah and Kara. Jones
seemed to be on the fast track to singles gold in SCW. But the back to back losses stopped Jones
dead in her tracks and forced her to either work harder or reevaluate her plan
altogether.
Marie may be
The Crown Jewel of Professional Wrestling but she’s also human. She realizes that she can make mistakes. When she saw she got a match at Hell Hath No
Fury against Darrin Miles, she knew she would have to work harder than before
in order to make sure she regained that momentum she once had…or, in this case,
she took a few shortcuts.
Regardless
of how you look at it, Marie did get her win and now she looks forward into the
future; specifically, the Boston native is looking forward to the SCW End of
the Year Special and the open invitational battle royal.
The winner
of the open invitational will have earned three different things: two hundred
fifty thousand dollars in cash, a new car, and a shot at the SCW Television
Championship.
It’s the SCW
Television Championship Match that intrigues Marie most of all. She already got back to her winning ways at
Hell Hath No Fury, a victory in this open invitational battle royal will fast
track her back to where she ideally wants to be: in the championship hunt.
The match
will definitely be a challenge. It is an
open invitational, anyone can enter, and that makes it hard to prepare
for. There is no way of knowing who
Marie will be facing and thus no way of preparing. Marie feels her best bet is to recruit her
identical twin Kimberly Williams to lend a helping hand.
Jones
already called Kimberly and pitched the idea; Kimberly would enter the open
invitational and would work with Marie, working to make sure one of the two
siblings won. Kimberly would try to make
sure Marie won and if it came down to just the two of them, Kim would let Marie
eliminate her to win the match. But if
Marie happens to get eliminated, Kimberly will then try to win and give the
prizes, championship opportunity included, to Marie Annabelle Jones.
Yes, it is
odd that Kimberly doesn’t want to win the prize money, the car, or the
championship opportunity, but that’s just how Kimberly is. She never has been normal. And in this case, Marie is grateful for
having a twin sister like that. Marie
can use her to her advantage.
Marie feels
having someone in the match actively working to help her win is a great asset
and she feels this makes her a favorite to potentially win. And yet, as great as that feeling is, Marie
also understands that not everything is sunshine and happiness in her life.
Perpetrating
the #GingerHoax and her subsequent declaration of war against UWA has isolated
her from the UWA loyalists and burned several bridges. Marie Annabelle Jones also has aligned
herself with her sociopathic twin sister Kimberly Williams and that, too, has
brought some problems upon Marie from the rest of her family. Their mother, Angelica Jones, is reluctantly
happy that the siblings are working together now instead of fighting with one
another, but Marie’s aunt Kayla Jones and Marie’s half-sister Corey Jones are
both very skeptical of Kimberly and her motives.
Currently we
find Marie standing outside of a dance hall.
She is on the phone with her twin Kimberly. Due to the fact that no one is around to
listen in on them, she has her turned on FaceTime. And Marie appears to be rather frustrated
with her twin at this moment.
“I don’t need your advice, Kim!”
“It’s not as much advice as it is a
command. Loosen up!”
Marie rolls
her eyes.
“I don’t need to loosen up. This is important and I need to focus. I need to prepare. You and I BOTH need to prepare for this.”
“Uh, Marie, may I ask a question?”
“Yes.”
“Isn’t this SCW Open Invitational thingy
just a fancy term for a clusterfuck?”
Marie nods
her head.
“Pretty much.”
“Then tell me, dear sister, how do you
prepare for a clusterfuck?”
“You don’t.
But that’s not the point.”
Kimberly
sighs.
“I get it, Marie, I really do. You want to win this thing and prove yourself
to the SCW world. You were on a roll
when you first came to SCW and then you hit a brick wall. You just beat Darrin Miles and now you want to
prove to SCW that this wasn’t a fluke, that you are still a legitimate threat
in SCW. And if you can win the whole
thing you can get that SCW Television Title Match. Am I right?”
Marie nods
her head.
“Yeah…”
“See?
I get it. But this isn’t one of
those dumbass traditional matches. This
is going to be a glorified bar room brawl without the beer. There’s nothing you can really do to
prepare. What you can do is gain a
slight edge and you’ve done that…you got me!”
“I know that, Kimberly, but just humor me,
please?”
“Fine, just for you I’ll take time out of my
busy schedule to help you prepare for this clusterfuck.”
Marie
frowns, gazing skeptically at the phone.
“Your busy schedule? Really?”
“Yes, really.”
“What do you have to do that keeps you busy?”
“Oh I just have someone chained up in my
basement. I try to torture them at least
one a day.”
Marie rolls
her eyes.
“Right…whatever…quit the joking Kim and just
meet me at mom’s gym tomorrow, ok?”
Kimberly
playfully salutes.
“Right-O!”
“Take care, Kim.”
“And you loosen up. Relax.
Have fun!”
Marie sighs.
“I wish I could. I’m not exactly the most popular person right
now.”
“Who cares about a popularity contest? It’s about being the best, who the hell cares
what other people think about you!”
“I can agree with that to a degree. I don’t
care about what other people think about my methods. But then there’s our family…”
“Ah, I see.
Mommy and Aunt Kayla don’t approve of your actions as of late. And our half-sissy Corey doesn’t approve of
me at all, does she?”
Marie
frowns.
“How did you know?”
“It’s not hard to figure out. She always hated me, she always will hate me
despite the fact that we are sisters.”
Kim
chuckles.
“But it’s ok, I’ve learned to accept it.”
“You shouldn’t have to accept anything. She should accept you. You’re family.”
“Yeah, but I’m not normal.”
“Neither is she. She lets few people call her anything but
Archangel. And her father is a nutcase
with anger management issues. Now I don’t
claim to be mentally stable. In fact, I’d
dare say I’m nuts too! But Corey is just
as crazy as I am, just as sociopathic as I am, the only difference is that I’m
honest about it. Corey won’t admit it.”
Suddenly
Marie feels a pair of hands on her shoulders.
She turns her head to find her husband Arthur standing there.
“Oh…hi, sweetie…”
“Hi Arthur!”
Arthur chuckles.
“Hi, babe.”
He kisses
Marie on the cheek and then waves down at the camera.
“Hi, Kim!
I hope you don’t mind me borrowing your sister, we have a dance coming
up.”
“Not at all.
I already told her that she needs to loosen up. This would be perfect.”
Marie sighs.
“I can see when I’ve been beaten.”
“Great, now go out there and cut a rug. Love ya, sis!”
“Love you, Kim.”
They hang up
their phones. Marie puts it away and
then turns to Arthur. He runs a hand
through Marie’s long red hair.
“What’s wrong?”
“Nothing is wrong.”
Arthur
smiles wryly.
“You’re lying.”
“Am I that obvious?”
“I know you too well, babe. So tell me, what’s wrong?”
Marie sighs
and shrugs her shoulders.
“It’s my family. I thought we had a chance, a legitimate
chance, at finally having a united family.
I thought mom and Aunt Kayla and all of them would accept Kimberly…”
She bows her
head.
“…I guess I was wrong.”
Arthur
chuckles.
“You have to admit, Kimberly IS rather
unique.”
Marie looks
up at Arthur with a fire in her eyes.
“Like Corey isn’t? I’m her sister and she wants ME to call her
Archangel instead of Corey? Or Jessica? Kimberly is right. Corey is just as unstable as Kimberly is.”
Arthur
chuckles.
“Yeah, I can agree with that.”
He takes
Marie by her hands.
“But now is not the time to be worrying
about that. Hell, you don’t even need to
worry about the SCW Open Invitational until next week. What you need to do right now is to relax and
enjoy yourself. We’re here to have fun,
to dance in this couples dancing competition.
We’re up next. Tomorrow is
Christmas Eve and the day after that…”
“Christmas.”
Arthur nods
his head.
“That’s right. Now I know Christmas can be hard if you’re
having family issues, so I know Saturday and Sunday will be difficult for you,
but tonight, just for tonight, try to forget about all of it. Just have fun.”
Marie sighs
and nods her head.
“I guess I can try.”
“That’s all I ask.”
Arthur and
Marie walk hand in hand from the hall and back through a pair of double doors
that lead to the dance floor.
Immediately a spotlight shines down upon them. A voice booms from the loudspeakers…
“Up next we have “Mr. Arthur Pond and his
wife Marie Pond!”
The people
gathered here in this dance hall applaud and cheer loudly. Arthur and Marie step out onto the dance
floor, waving politely at the crowd of people.
The applause
of the audience died down as both Marie and Arthur ignored the stares they
received. Marie and her husband took
their placed and waited for the soft flow of music to begin. Once it started they took a step forward and
bowed. They circled one another, their
gazes remaining locked upon one another.
Arthur Pond placed his hand on Marie's back, her hand on his shoulder,
and their free hands finally met.
Together they danced to the music, their feet in perfect sync to the
beating of their hearts as the song progressed both seemed to relax more and
more. Jones allowed a small smile to
form on her lips. Arthur is her husband
and he is perfect. He wore a white
spotless suit, which matched her mini lace dress featuring boat neckline Lace
sleeves and blouse over detail.
Arthur
turned elegantly, his body in tune with the slow music. He was harsh, aggressive, as if he shouldn't
be messed with, and yet at the same time, in a strange contrast, he was loving
and caring to the Crown Jewel of Professional Wrestling. The warmth between husband and wife grew more
powerful by the second. Her heartbeat
was growing steadily along with it. The
dance was perfect; everything from their
breathing to how their feet moved, staying in sync. Arthur guided Marie across the dance floor as
if they were in a dream. She has no idea
how Arthur feels at this moment but right now Marie cannot even tell if the
audience is there. He keeps his eyes on
Marie, yet still he knew exactly where to take her. Every moment, every angle seemed to be
planned in advance. Nothing was force;
Marie literally felt as if she were floating on the air.
It was at
that moment that Marie Annabelle Jones decided to just let go. She let her worries and concerns over Supreme
Championship Wrestling, her problems with Uprising Wrestling Alliance and its
owned David Helms and Drew Bryant, and any potential problems with her own
family, she decided to let it all go.
Right here, right now was all that mattered. Nothing else.
Marie allowed him to take her anywhere he pleased on the dance
floor. He went right, so did she. Arthur sped up, Marie sped up. Marie and Arthur became o ne with t he song,
with the dance, and with each other.
They continued like that until they had to separate when the song came
to a close and the crowd applauded loudly.
She hated that the moment had to end but she couldn't help but smile up
at him.
“Thanks, Arthur.”
“I’m glad I could be of service.”
He kisses
her on the lips, which draws more loud cheers and applause from those in
attendance.
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The screen
opens with an image of Marie Annabelle Jones and Sophie James, holding the UWA
World Tag Team Championship belts over their heads. It isn’t long until Marie Annabelle Jones
herself, The Crown Jewel of Professional Wrestling, steps out onto the scene
from stage right.
“The year 2016 is nearly over. It’s drawing to a close and as I consider the
year that was, I cannot help but start
with the UWA World Tag Team Championships.
Sophie and I actually won them back in 2015 and we have held them into
the New Year. We were the #GingerNation
and we were more than a brand, more than just a team. We were a freaking movement. We were a force of nature that could not be
stopped. Cassius DeLight and Chris
Davids tried to stop us, The Sinistry tried to stop us, The Dogs of War tried
to stop us, Flawless Goodness tried to stop us, and most recently The
Heartbreakers and The Sisterhood tried to stop us.”
The
confident if not outright arrogant Jones woman shakes her head.
“None of them could stop the force of nature
that is the #GingerNation.”
The image in
the background changes to an image of Marie Jones and Willow Wilkes.
“Drew Bryant and “Douchebag” David Helms
decided to set up a tournament, a tag team style tournament to determine two of
the three challengers for the UWA World Championship at the signature event,
Olympus. Willow Wilkes was my partner
and together we marched through Benjamin Flynn and Gavin Taylor, Sophie James
and Serenity, and finally Alana Starr and Myra Lynwood on our way to earning
our spots in the world championship at Olympus.”
The image of
Willow and Marie fades away and in its place is an image of the infamous
Pyramid structure that debuted at Olympus.
“But this would not be any normal
match. The brain trust at UWA had the
brilliant idea UWA World Championship should be defended in the most hellacious
structure ever devised…a Pyramid. So
that’s what happened, and had it been anyone else in that match, the Pyramid
would have no doubt been a flop. But I’m
the Crown Jewel of Professional Wrestling and anything turns to gold. I made that Pyramid a success, I made Olympus
a success becoming the first winner of the first Olympus main event, and I won
the UWA World Championship on that night.
And I was world champion until August 1st. For eight months of 2016 I busted my ass for
UWA. For eight months of 2016 I
sacrificed and I bled for UWA. And then
what does UWA choose to do?”
“They pigeonhole me. After I lose the championship to Vanilla
Skyy, Helms and Bryant chose to pigeonhole me, sticking me forever in their
pathetic tag team division. This was
done no doubt to protect Vanilla Skyy, because I am The Crown Jewel of Professional
Wrestling and that victory over me was a fluke.
I am her superior, I have proven it twice now. 2016 could have and should have been my year,
but Bryant and Helms screwed me over. I
would have won back that championship and gone on to become the greatest
champion in UWA history had it not been for them.”
The image of
the Pyramid at Olympus fades away and in its place is an image of the SCW logo.
“I knew something had to be done. I knew a change had to be made. Now you may not like what I did, you may not
like the choices and decisions I made, but ask yourself this question: what
would you have done had you been in my position? Would you not have also tried to change your
situation? Would you not have also tried
to look out for your own best interests?
Drew Bryant and David Helms clearly weren’t. They tried t o keep me away from my
destiny. They tried to keep me out of
the singles division.”
Jones shakes
her head.
“That wasn’t going to happen. I wasn’t going to let it happen. So I negotiated a new contract, one with
Supreme Championship Wrestling. But why
did I choose SCW? It wasn’t just because
of the obvious fact that SCW is the number one game in town, there was another
reason too.”
The SCW logo
changes to an image of Marie Jones participating in last year’s End of the Year
Battle Royal.
“I already had a history with Supreme
Championship Wrestling. I competed in last
year’s End of the Year Open Invitational Battle Royal and I did quite well if I
say so myself. I threw myself into the
heart of the fire against some of the toughest competition SCW could muster and
I survived. I may not have won but I
survived. My performance in last year’s battle royal not only gave me the
necessary preparation and fighting skill going forward into UWA in my quest to
become UWA World Champion, but it also proved to me that I could hang with the
stars of SCW. When Tabitha Silverstone
and I negotiated this deal for me in SCW, many were questioning me. Many of my own supporters doubted that I
could get the job done. I knew I could
be successful in SCW because I had already been there and I had survived!”
“I went on to defeat Hannah Warr, I defeated
Kara Abheri, and I defeated Darrin Miles.
Yes, there have been bumps in the road here and there since coming to
SCW. But I believe I can safely say that
I have arrived and that I am a success in SCW.
I am Marie Annabelle Jones, I am The Crown Jewel of Professional
Wrestling, and more importantly than that, I AM AN SCW SUPERSTAR!”
She snarls
and shakes her head.
“Yet there are still those who doubt
me. That’s fine and I’m going to tell
you why. Last year was about me proving
to Drew Bryant that I was ready to compete, proving to him that I was ready to
go. Last year, Drew Bryant wouldn’t
clear me to compete because his worthless know-nothing doctors thought I was
injured. I entered the SCW End of the
Battle Royal to prove that I was more than ready to compete regardless of what
his stupid half-witted doctors thought.
And despite what they said, despite what they thought about my injuries,
I kicked ASS in last year’s battle royal!
This year will be no different. This
year’s End of the Year Battle Royal is all about me silencing my critics once
and for all. This isn’t about the cash
or the car, because I don’t need either.
My performance this year is about making the SCW universe sit up and
take notice of who the hell I am! And
when I win…”
She chuckles
lightly.
“…notice what I said there, because I’m not
going to settle for just performing well.
I’m not going to settle for just kicking ass.”
She shakes
her head.
“This year is my time. No one will stand in my way, no one will stop
me. This year I will be victorious and I
will claim the one prize of the three that I really and truly want and that is
the opportunity to compete for the SCW Television Championship.”
“2016 wasn’t completely friendly to me. It started out great and then the political
machine in UWA tried to keep me down, they tried to hold me back. SCW has given
me an opportunity to rise up out of the ashes, just like The Phoenix…”
Marie grins
knowingly.
“…The Phoenix, an old ring name I used to go
by; how ironic. I may have been beat
down by the UWA machine but like The Phoenix I am going to rise back up here in
SCW and claim gold, gold that I deserve, and claim the spot that I deserve in
professional wrestling. The top
spot. Main event status!”
“Now I know main event status won’t be given
instantaneously. The top spot and main
event status in any company is earned. I
am prepared to earn that status here in SCW.
This battle royal is my opportunity to fast track my way from the lower
card to the spot I deserve, because WHEN I win, SCW will be unable to keep me
down the way UWA did.”
“And I will win, I will win by any means
necessary. Isn’t that right…Kim?”
Kimberly
Williams walks into the scene from stage left.
She stands next to her identical twin sister with a wicked grin etched
across her face.
“Damn right, sis! Did ya give them low down?”
Marie nods
her head.
“I’m getting there.”
Marie’s own
vapid sneer nearly matches Kimberly’s.
“Kimberly already told you, but in case you
weren’t paying attention to her, then maybe you’ll pay attention to me. Kimberly Williams is the greatest weapon
anyone could possess and, to put it bluntly, I have no qualms utilizing that
weapon against anyone and everyone who gets in my way at the End of the Year
Special. Kimberly’s job in the battle
royal is simple. She is going to make
damn sure that I win.”
“In other words, ladies and gentlemen, I am
coming into this match with an advantage over everyone else, a perfectly LEGAL
advantage that none of you, not even SCW, can do a damn thing about. I will use that advantage, that weapon, and
everything else at my disposal to win, because I AM The Crown Jewel of
Professional Wrestling and I am The Phoenix that will rise up from the ashes
claim victory at the End of the Year Special.”
