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NO REMORSE. When he first arrived in this company he thought just like everyone else, that he would be in the back watching this show in catering, so you could imagine his surprise that after his impressive debut victory over an aging relic of the past, it was announced that TJP of all people would be competing at this show and to top it all off, he would be competing for a championship - ON HIS SECOND MATCH. They say that you should never take anything for granted, but TJP - he truly cannot believe his luck. Like he said in his debut, the result of his match was never really in any doubt as to him it was nothing more than a training level. It was a level that would allow him to get a grip of the controls, it was a level allowing him to show off and it was a level that the result was never in doubt. He won the match and with that victory he was moving onto the bonus level. A title was on the line and this time things would not be so easy for him, he was not facing one man, he was not facing two men, he was facing three men. Three men who were just as hungry as he was. Three men who wanted that title just as badly as he wanted. Three men who where going to quickly learn that they were nothing more than background characters in his game - this was his level to beat - this was his game to win.

“I got to be honest, I never really saw this coming. I knew, I mean I knew I had that match won last week. I knew the result was never in doubt, but this was a surprise. To be rewarded for my efforts with a championship match, I welcome this, I truly do welcome this and I am not going to be like everyone else around here. I am not going to be some arrogant prick who things that this is the first of many title shots. I know - I really do know that chances like this, for someone like me don’t come along very often. So what you saw last week, with me messing around - that’s not going to happen in this match. It may be a long time before a chance like this lands in my lap, so I am going to give it my all. I am going to do whatever I can in order to win the title. You see, the three men I am facing are like The Gears Of War series, trust me if you are sitting there scratching your head wondering what I am talking about, the references will make sense. All you have to know before we begin is that - I want this. I want this more than anything else and you are going to see a very different TJP tonight.”

TJP would smirk a little bit. What he had said, that the three men he was going to face tonight where like the games or the characters of Gears Of War, it made him chuckle. In his head it made sense and everyone watching this - it will make sense as well. The gamer would move forward. He was outside the arena in an empty lot, but he did have something set up. There was a ladder before him. He would walk towards it as he stands there, his head slanting backwards as he stared up at how high he was going to have to climb in order to take his title. To take on three men was hard enough, throw in the fact that this was a ladder match as well, meant that he was going to have his handsful.

“Three men stand in my way. Three men want what I want and I am going to have to take them down one at a time in order to take what is mine. No one said this was going to be easy. No one said you were going to be handed success here. You have to take it. You have to earn it and trust me I am going to earn that title tonight. No matter if it kills me in order to win it, I am going to take it. These three men, they have no idea what they have got themselves into tonight against me. These three men are going to live to regret every stepping into the ring with me. Just like with the Avengers, most of these idiots are not going to be left standing when this is all said and done tonight.”

He reaches out and places his hand on one of the steps of the ladder. It was cold and unfeeling. He could already feel it on his skin and that was enough to send a chill down his spin. He did not want this used against him. All he wanted to do was climb this ladder and take what was his, but he has seen his fair share of ladder matches, he knows that these things are weapons and he knows a man such asd Seth Rollins will be using everything in and out of the ring in order to win.

“Some would respect a man such as Seth Rollins. Some would even go as far as to say he is one of the best wrestlers in the world, but in my eyes he is nothing more than Carmine. If you have not played Gears Of War, let me break it down for you. Carmine is a character that looks good. He is a character that everyone loves for reasons no one understands. He is a character that everyone talks about as being a highlight. He has good looking gear. He has some interesting moves. He has some great one liners, he is funny, he is likable, but what people seem to forget is that Carmine - at the end of the day - is nothing more than a side character who never does anything of note. I mean in nearly every single game, Carmine dies, allowing the true stars to take to the main stage. Seth Rollins is Carmine in my eyes. He looks great. When he is in a group, like The Shield, everyone loves him, but when he is alone - just like Carmine, he falls. You see Seth, the only time you where ever interesting was when you where in The Shield. It goes the same for the rest of the hounds of justice. Together you are strong but alone, there is not too much to you. Some may say that I don't know what I am talking about, but I do, I really do. Alone you never amounted to anything and you know that is the truth. You have always and I mean always had to latch onto someone else. Be it with The Shield, The Authority or with a general manager son, you have always had to have someone to latch onto and suck the life out of. Now I don’t want you to get me wrong here, I know you are good. I know you have talent. I know the titles you have won, the men you have defeated, the matches you have put on and the shows you have headlined, but in your entire career you have always had someone watching your back someone in the office helping you and if you did not have those things, you cheated. You are good Seth, but you are not as good as you think you are, if you were, then you would not be opening the show. If you were as good as you make yourself out to be, you would be headlining, but you aren’t, because here you don’t have someone watching over you. Here you are alone. Here you stand alone and we get to see what you are really like. You are Carmine, accept that Seth it will make your fate tonight all the more easier. I am going to pop your head clean off just like Carmine and just like Carmine, come five minutes from me ending you, everyone will move on. You like your movies, you like your little geeky references, while Seth, my foot is the Infinity Gauntlet and when I drill it into your skull tonight, just like Spiderman - you're not going to feel so good - your just going to be dust in the wind my friend.”

There would be a sly smirk that crawls over his face. Seth Rollins was good, but TJP was better and that was a fact that he was going to drill home tonight when he kicks the man so hard in the side of the head that he ends his career. It may sound like a bad thing to do, but TJP understands that in a match like this, you have to do whatever you can to win and if that means doing things like that, then so be it. Thanos understood that you have to do evil things so that in the end, everything became good and that is what TJP was going to do. He remained still as he looked at the ladder once more as he knew there were two more men he had to deal with.

“Then we come to The Miz, the gears of war judgment game of the series. The stain. The game that was not even good enough to get a number placed onto it, but still manages to remain part of the series. A game that while not truly awful, it was not even that good, it was sort of in the middle and that my friends sums up The Miz perfectly. I would like to end it right there, if you know gears of war judgment, then you know that someone who sucks as bad as that cannot beat someone like me, but there is so much more to The Miz, so much more that needs to be said. The Miz has managed to remain in this sport for over a decade and I like many others wonder how he has managed to do such a thing and the answer is simple - he plays it safe. I know he hates it, his soft style and all that, but it is the truth. I can do one flip off the top ropes with my hands behind my back and my eyes closed and The Miz would be knocked back in shock at the fact that something that is so easy for me, would be impossible for him. He is everything wrong with this sport today. Ten years ago - maybe just maybe what he did could be accepted, but now everything has changed. Wrestling has changed. Wrestling had evolved, it is fast, high flying and hard hitting. The slow boring pace that The Miz uses, with his countless rest holds and underhanded tactics, they are outdated. Just like Seth Rollins, The Miz has used others to do his dirty work. His entire career he has always had someone at his side, be it the dozens of henchmen he has had, his wife and in years down the line his daughter - he has always used others to do his dirty work. People like him turn my stomach. Knowing that he has won top line championships. That he has headlined shows, that he has stepped into the ring with legends - it is something that feels my heart with hatred. The Miz - is not even good enough to lace up my boots. The Miz is not even good enough to open the door and hold it for me. The Miz is just - not worth my time to be honest. He is not a wrestler in my eyes, not anymore. Maybe a decade ago he was, but like so many others he has used this sport to jump into the movie world where he has spat out crap after crap, but he walks around like he is a god damn hollywood movie star. No one knows who you are. No one cares about anything you do. The only reason any of your shows get watched, is because of your wife. Even now, like always you change how you look. You change your outfit to try and grab attention. You are wearing ninja headbands now? What do you think you are Naruto? Sorry Miz, you are more like Baruto, and if you cannot understand how bad of an insult that is, then really you have no idea what you are doing. The end of this is simple Miz, I am a wrestler and you are a sports entertainer. When we lock up tonight, the world will know who is the better man. This is two versions of wrestling coming together and at the end of the day the wrestler always beats the sports entertainer.”

He would roll his eyes. The Miz was not a wrestler in his eyes. The Miz was nothing in his eyes, he was only an annoyance. He was the one in this match that he cared the least about. The one in this match that would not cause him any trouble. If he wanted to be a ninja, then they will fight like that and TJP as always will show him just how much better he is. The Miz is many things, but he is not the man who is going to stop him tonight. He does not have any henchmen. He does not have his wife to help him. His child is still an infant so he cannot use her as a weapon. Like Seth Rollins, he has no one other than himself and like Seth Rollins, alone he is weak. Alone he is a low leveled enemy and TJP is going to jump over them with ease as he goes for the title.

“Last and certainly by all means least we have Trent Seven. A man who like myself made his debut last week. A man just like myself who managed to win his debut match as well, but for some odd reason - for reasons that no one has come to tell me about, Trent Seven was ranked number one, while I was ranked number five?”

TJP would turn his head around as he looks into the camera as he would raise his eyebrow. He had a confused look on his face and it was justified why he had that look. They both started out at the same time. They both joined the company at the same time, they both wrestled there first match on the same show and yet Trent Seven was ranked above him. A heavy sigh would escape him as he would shrug, seems he has to prove everyone wrong again and show the world that it should be the other way around, TJP should be number one and Trent Seven should be number five.

“We started off at the same time and yet it seems he has been favoured more than me. I saw his match last week. I watched it in the back and I was not impressed. If you struggled against someone as beaten and broken down as Daniel Bryan, then I am sorry - you don’t deserve to be awarded a title match. Trent Seven, you are Baird from Gears Of War. You are a good part of the story, but like Baird you are always trying to steal the spotlight. You are always trying to hog the spotlight. You are always trying to become the star, but the one time you got your chance, the one time they gave you your chance, the one time Baird got his own spinoff game, it sucked! Trent Seven, like the other two men in this match, you come from groups. You have always worked with others. You have formed a group with other British Wrestlers, men far younger than you, far smaller than you and ten times better than you! When we think of them, no one things about you. British strong style is a group that a whole lot of people respect. It is a group that everyone likes, but you are not the reason why it is what it is today. Trent you are good - and that’s it my friend. You are good and that all there is too it. Did you deserve to be ranked over me in the ranking board, no! Did you deserve to be placed into this match after the struggle of last week? No! Are you going to win this match tonight? No! Do you want to know what you are? Do you want to know why people cheer for you, they cheer for you because of your moustache and nothing else. That’s all you are my friend, facial hair and nothing else and it is a sad world we live in that a man has fans based on what is one his face. You are a good wrestler, but I am a great wrestler. Like Seth and Miz - you are all alone. You don’t have any of your buddies and if - if you did have them with you - if they were here with you tonight - it would not make a difference. Your entire career you have been nothing more than a tag team wrestler, you have like the other men here tonight, latched onto better wrestlers to carry you to where you are today. There is no one here to help you. There is no one else here to watch your back. You are all alone. You will fight alone. You will be beaten alone and above all else you will lose alone!”

With that word he would step back a little bit as he looks at the ladder. He would narrow his eyes slightly as he backs up some more before he runs forward, he runs up the steps of the ladder with ease, reaching the top of the ladder in what had to be a record breaking time. This was how easy it was going to be to him. He was showing everyone, everyone who was watching and more to the point the three men he had to face and defeat tonight how easy ot was going to be for him. He stands there, a smirk upon his face as he would fold his arms over his chest.

“That right there, that right there how easy it is going to be for me tonight. My stamina bar will not go out tonight. I will not become weaker as the match goes on, rather I will become stronger. These three men, even if they joined forces, they will not be able to do anything to stop me. What they need to understand is that I am Marcus Fenix. This is my story. I am the main character. I am the hero. I am the man who has the weight of the world on my back. People always doubt me. People always say that I will fall. The odds, god damn the odds are always against me, but that just makes me smirk as I charge in head first. I never back down and failure, hell failure is a word that I don’t understand, to me it has no meaning. You asee I have worked hard to be here, I have worked so hard to be here and this - this is a match I thought I would never see. A title. This ultimate bonus of any level. This is my reward for my hard work and I am not going to miss this. Think of it like this, the title is a powerup and you better bet that I am going to jump higher than anyone else to get it. I know my opponents want this. I know even after what I have said about them all, that it is not going to be as easy as it sounded. I am going to have my handsful with this one. This is the game put onto insane mode. This is the game on the hardest mode. This is time for me to test myself, to see if I am as good as I know I am. I will do what needs to be done and when it is all over, I will be holding my newly won title and for my opponents, it will be game over for them.”

He would remain standing on the top of the ladder as he keeps his arms folded over his chest. He slowly nods his head as he looks upwards, the title come tonight would be above him and all he needed to do, as overcome three men who have never had success alone, three men who have always been in groups, three men who he knows he will beat tonight. This match and the title is his for the taking and when it is all over with, the most talented man in the match will be standing tall as champion and that of course will be TJP.