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			<title><![CDATA[Feck]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:20:02 -0700</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://xwf1999.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=2230">Mr. Oz</a>]]></dc:creator>
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Standing inside an apartment complex, stood a man shorter than Oz would be, but still above average at 6'2. He also dressed less flashy than his employer. His clothes being black jeans, black sneakers, a belt keeping up the jeans with the flag of Ireland as a buckle, a forest green shirt, a black jacket with the Chicago Bulls as an emblem on the back. His hair a dark red, though mostly covered by a black baseball cap with the Chicago Bears logo. The jacket and cap looking old, worn down. Upon closer inspection, both look like they were too big for him, proving that it was actually Oz's hat and jacket.<br />
<br />
He stood before apartment 403, looking at a picture. <br />
<br />
<span style="color: #2ECC40;" class="mycode_color">"Poor fecker."</span><br />
<br />
He knocked on the door, and the door would open enough for the chain to allow, as he looked down at a soft brown skinned older woman as he smiled softly, to try and disarm the woman with kindness first before speaking with a more Americanized accent, though with the Irish sometimes bleeding out a little as he slipped the picture into his coat pocket with a bit of sleight of hand.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #2ECC40;" class="mycode_color">"Good day, ma'am! One of my friends told me to come here, and talk to your son? I mean, I don't believe you at all are a mother. You're far too young to have a child as old as I am!"</span><br />
<br />
He saw the woman blush a bit, and she held a finger up as he saw the door close, chain sliding, then hearing the door open up wide. <br />
<br />
<span style="color: #FFA339;" class="mycode_color">"You're such a flatterer, young man."</span><br />
<br />
When he looked at her again fully, she had in her left hand a Colt Anaconda, gesturing for him to come inside. <br />
<br />
<span style="color: #FFA339;" class="mycode_color">"Who do you think I am, boy?"</span><br />
<br />
The Irishman shook his head as he sidestepped into the apartment.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #FFA339;" class="mycode_color">"Not fucking born yesterday."</span><br />
<br />
He kept going deeper into the apartment until he saw her not even looking as she yanked on a piece of rope, yanking the door back inside without a single eye leaving him. Then she would lock only the doorknob lock and deadbolt, not the chain.. <br />
<br />
<span style="color: #2ECC40;" class="mycode_color">"I see ya ain't a fan ayer neighbors, Ma'am."</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #FFA339;" class="mycode_color">"Don't you 'Mahm' me, Irishman. Getchur ass on the couch, boy."</span><br />
<br />
She waved the gun to a quite ugly looking dark plaid couch and then turned and slowly sat down as he didn't feel like getting scolded further on something else.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #2ECC40;" class="mycode_color">"So, what d'ya knowabout me?"</span><br />
<br />
She scoffed.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #FFA339;" class="mycode_color">"I worked in a counter-government ring,c hild. Anarchy type shit. You don't think I follow the North Irish shit too? I also know your boss."</span><br />
<br />
He chuckled, rolling his eyes, only for him to see the seemingly old woman with the speed of someone younger than both of them. Her heavy gun seemingly light in her hands. <br />
<br />
<span style="color: #FFA339;" class="mycode_color">"Didn't yer Mama tell ya to not roll your mothafuckin' eyes at your elders?!" </span><br />
<br />
She was now practically nose to nose with him, gun at his left temple <br />
<br />
<span style="color: #FFA339;" class="mycode_color">"The Butcher of Chi-town ain't welcome in this fucking buildin'. He ain't getting nobody's bodies, and he ain't going to keep gettin' away with this shit! So. You are going to tell him that message."</span><br />
<br />
She tossed him a smart phone, some burner, and on it the only program is Uber. The name on the account Jane van Doe. After a few seconds she'd look at the phone pressuring the revolver against his skull so as to keep dominance over the situation. <br />
<br />
The camera changes to outside the apartment, as two shots are heard muffled from outside it, and flashes of light with each shot. Next thing to be seen, is him being thrown out onto the street with two fresh wounds where his kneecaps are. Some screams that start, but then shushed immediately, as a black SUV rolls up to the Irishman and a couple of fully covered people picking him up and tossing him inside before the car starts zooming through the streets as the scene slowly fades to black.<br />
<br />
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 4px; color: red; background-color: red;" />
<br />
<span style="color: #419DC1;" class="mycode_color">"Marisol, your name sounds familiar to me. I don't even know why. Must mean either you didn't put too big of an impression on me, or I simply can't fucking remember you. Either way, it doesn't matter to me. Because you should know, who the fuck I am."</span><br />
<br />
He chuckled deeply, his arms going to behind his back, with right wrist wrapped by his left hand. <br />
<br />
<span style="color: #419DC1;" class="mycode_color">"I am the Savior of Chicago. Soon, I'll be the Savior of Illinois. But now it's time for a pit stop. You were an X-treme Champ, once upon a time. So was I. Two times, in fact. You should know better than anyone I've faced lately, just how X-treme you have to be in order to have won that belt once. Then think about how sick of a fuck you have to be in order to win it a second time!<br />
<br />
Do you not realize just how utterly and so permanently FUCKED UP I AM!?"</span><br />
<br />
He then sends meaty punches to his own head<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #419DC1;" class="mycode_color">"I BREATHE IN THE AIR OF X-TREME! And that means that you are NOT GOING TO BE THE SAME! So, I'm going to give you the chance to give up.<br />
<br />
Fly little bird, before I put you in the cage of torment that will be your very...<br />
<br />
own...<br />
<br />
body."</span><br />
<br />
The scene slowly fades to black as Oswald begins to laugh heartily until there was no more sound.]]></description>
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<br />
Standing inside an apartment complex, stood a man shorter than Oz would be, but still above average at 6'2. He also dressed less flashy than his employer. His clothes being black jeans, black sneakers, a belt keeping up the jeans with the flag of Ireland as a buckle, a forest green shirt, a black jacket with the Chicago Bulls as an emblem on the back. His hair a dark red, though mostly covered by a black baseball cap with the Chicago Bears logo. The jacket and cap looking old, worn down. Upon closer inspection, both look like they were too big for him, proving that it was actually Oz's hat and jacket.<br />
<br />
He stood before apartment 403, looking at a picture. <br />
<br />
<span style="color: #2ECC40;" class="mycode_color">"Poor fecker."</span><br />
<br />
He knocked on the door, and the door would open enough for the chain to allow, as he looked down at a soft brown skinned older woman as he smiled softly, to try and disarm the woman with kindness first before speaking with a more Americanized accent, though with the Irish sometimes bleeding out a little as he slipped the picture into his coat pocket with a bit of sleight of hand.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #2ECC40;" class="mycode_color">"Good day, ma'am! One of my friends told me to come here, and talk to your son? I mean, I don't believe you at all are a mother. You're far too young to have a child as old as I am!"</span><br />
<br />
He saw the woman blush a bit, and she held a finger up as he saw the door close, chain sliding, then hearing the door open up wide. <br />
<br />
<span style="color: #FFA339;" class="mycode_color">"You're such a flatterer, young man."</span><br />
<br />
When he looked at her again fully, she had in her left hand a Colt Anaconda, gesturing for him to come inside. <br />
<br />
<span style="color: #FFA339;" class="mycode_color">"Who do you think I am, boy?"</span><br />
<br />
The Irishman shook his head as he sidestepped into the apartment.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #FFA339;" class="mycode_color">"Not fucking born yesterday."</span><br />
<br />
He kept going deeper into the apartment until he saw her not even looking as she yanked on a piece of rope, yanking the door back inside without a single eye leaving him. Then she would lock only the doorknob lock and deadbolt, not the chain.. <br />
<br />
<span style="color: #2ECC40;" class="mycode_color">"I see ya ain't a fan ayer neighbors, Ma'am."</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #FFA339;" class="mycode_color">"Don't you 'Mahm' me, Irishman. Getchur ass on the couch, boy."</span><br />
<br />
She waved the gun to a quite ugly looking dark plaid couch and then turned and slowly sat down as he didn't feel like getting scolded further on something else.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #2ECC40;" class="mycode_color">"So, what d'ya knowabout me?"</span><br />
<br />
She scoffed.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #FFA339;" class="mycode_color">"I worked in a counter-government ring,c hild. Anarchy type shit. You don't think I follow the North Irish shit too? I also know your boss."</span><br />
<br />
He chuckled, rolling his eyes, only for him to see the seemingly old woman with the speed of someone younger than both of them. Her heavy gun seemingly light in her hands. <br />
<br />
<span style="color: #FFA339;" class="mycode_color">"Didn't yer Mama tell ya to not roll your mothafuckin' eyes at your elders?!" </span><br />
<br />
She was now practically nose to nose with him, gun at his left temple <br />
<br />
<span style="color: #FFA339;" class="mycode_color">"The Butcher of Chi-town ain't welcome in this fucking buildin'. He ain't getting nobody's bodies, and he ain't going to keep gettin' away with this shit! So. You are going to tell him that message."</span><br />
<br />
She tossed him a smart phone, some burner, and on it the only program is Uber. The name on the account Jane van Doe. After a few seconds she'd look at the phone pressuring the revolver against his skull so as to keep dominance over the situation. <br />
<br />
The camera changes to outside the apartment, as two shots are heard muffled from outside it, and flashes of light with each shot. Next thing to be seen, is him being thrown out onto the street with two fresh wounds where his kneecaps are. Some screams that start, but then shushed immediately, as a black SUV rolls up to the Irishman and a couple of fully covered people picking him up and tossing him inside before the car starts zooming through the streets as the scene slowly fades to black.<br />
<br />
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 4px; color: red; background-color: red;" />
<br />
<span style="color: #419DC1;" class="mycode_color">"Marisol, your name sounds familiar to me. I don't even know why. Must mean either you didn't put too big of an impression on me, or I simply can't fucking remember you. Either way, it doesn't matter to me. Because you should know, who the fuck I am."</span><br />
<br />
He chuckled deeply, his arms going to behind his back, with right wrist wrapped by his left hand. <br />
<br />
<span style="color: #419DC1;" class="mycode_color">"I am the Savior of Chicago. Soon, I'll be the Savior of Illinois. But now it's time for a pit stop. You were an X-treme Champ, once upon a time. So was I. Two times, in fact. You should know better than anyone I've faced lately, just how X-treme you have to be in order to have won that belt once. Then think about how sick of a fuck you have to be in order to win it a second time!<br />
<br />
Do you not realize just how utterly and so permanently FUCKED UP I AM!?"</span><br />
<br />
He then sends meaty punches to his own head<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #419DC1;" class="mycode_color">"I BREATHE IN THE AIR OF X-TREME! And that means that you are NOT GOING TO BE THE SAME! So, I'm going to give you the chance to give up.<br />
<br />
Fly little bird, before I put you in the cage of torment that will be your very...<br />
<br />
own...<br />
<br />
body."</span><br />
<br />
The scene slowly fades to black as Oswald begins to laugh heartily until there was no more sound.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[VILAROBANKROLL]]></title>
			<link>https://xwf1999.com/showthread.php?tid=50251</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:58:58 -0700</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://xwf1999.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=3090">Marisol Vilaro</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[American Storm  has Reunited]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:45:05 -0700</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://xwf1999.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=3049">Razor</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">In The interview section of Friday night Anarchy backstage we see Tig Collins with the mic in her</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">hand as she starts to speak.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Tig Collins:<span style="color: #f012be;" class="mycode_color"> Ladies  and Gentlemen, at this time please welcome my guest. He is a member of the</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #f012be;" class="mycode_color">American Storm... The American nightmare Razor Blade.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Razor steps into the view all dressed and ready for action this week as he has a smile on his face.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">American nightmare| Razor Blade:  <span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">How's it going Tig?</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Tig Collins:  <span style="color: #f012be;" class="mycode_color">All good on my end, Thursday you and Latoya. will reunite for the first time in XWF and you two will be facing your Opponent in a triple threat tag team against The Woke Mind Virus and</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #f012be;" class="mycode_color">Dark Warrior as in Michael Graves and Lane-L Penny farthing. What are your thoughts heading into this match?</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Razor shrugs his shoulders.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">American nightmare| Razor Blade: <span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">What is there left to say? This is a Co Main Event match has</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">written All over Friday night Anarchy for this Friday. At the same time it's perfect for us to show</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">the world including Dark Warrior WHY  am I the man to not only face them for the first time in</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">XWF but also an unseat for them the gold that's around their waist. they carried that title almost</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">everywhere they goes and has  not been beaten by guys like me and Latoya Hixx or The Woke Virus</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">Who have come up short. In order to become the American Storm who holds the next Anarchy tag titles, well... to quote an old saying, a Anarchy Superstar... to be the man, you GOTTA beat the MAN!</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">American nightmare| Razor Blade: <span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color"> From the XWF, to the Anarchy, and back to the XWF, I have been battled tested, beating the best from time to time showing the world what we're made of.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Hopefully Dark Warrior and The Woke Virus. doesn't think this is going to be the some sort of cake</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">walk because if they thinks the opposite, they is in for a rude</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">awakening starting  Friday and at Bad Medicine. Now as far at Friday night Anarchy is concerned,</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Woke Virus and Dark Warrior haven't teamed up in a long time or have known each other that well. there's a reason they had what Michael Graves wants and that is the Anarchy tag team titles.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">We're Confident they can hold there own against As far as Lane-L Penny Farting n Michael Graves goes....</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">The mention of Dark Warrior name brings boos from the crowd causing  American Storm to pause</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">and grin a little bit.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">American nightmare| Razor Blade: <span style="color: #c19e00;" class="mycode_color">You hear those people Tig? Those are the sounds of people who are fed up with Dark Warriors and Woke Virus for very good reason. See Tig. many years ago</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #c19e00;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">when Latoya made her first in ring debut right here in XWF she went ahead and defeated me in a</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #c19e00;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">last man standing and she won that match fair and square and she had the rights to shake my hand after our match on Warfare and when tore the roof off the place on Warfare and now Tig. it's every  person for them selves when me and Latoya reunite for the first time since going our separated ways through Anarchy and Warfare but we both raise above the top but we haven't catcher any tag titles from Warfare and Anarchy in that's why When me and Latoya. defeat our Opponents of The Woke Virus and Dark Warrior of Lane' - L Penny Farting and Michael Graves.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #c19e00;" class="mycode_color">in a triple threat tag match this week on Anarchy at XWF.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Razor Shrugged his shoulders.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">American nightmare| Razor Blade: <span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">But if there is any familiar faces who likes to defend there Anarchy tag titles against me and Latoya at Bad Medicine. then you must be prepared for what's about to come your way once the American Storm returns back together for the first time in XWF</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">and if me or Latoya get the pin over on Michael Graves and Lane' L Penny farting and The Woke Virus then Latoya and I could be appearing at Bad Medicine and fight for Michael Graves Anarchy tag titles after our triple threat tag match on July third of Friday night Anarchy at XWF.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">American nightmare| Razor Blade: <span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color"> Latoya and I  are going  to send a message straight to both of our opponents. it's just a preview of what everyone can expect come XWF Anarchy starting Friday.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">So with that being said The Woke Virus and Michael Graves and Lane' -L Penny Farting... get ready.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">and see you four out there.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Razor was about to walk away until Storm arrives and say one final word to XWF Universe.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Storm| Latoya Hixx: <span style="color: #00369b;" class="mycode_color">American Storm ..is. Coming.to. Charlottesville, Virginia.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">American Storm walks away from Tig. looking on before she turns her attention back to the camera.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Tig Collins:  <span style="color: #f012be;" class="mycode_color">That was Razor and Latoya who is up for triple threat tag team action in the Co Main Event coming this Friday.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">The scene switches to the ring where American Storm heads back to their locker rooms before triple threat tag begins this Friday.</span></span></div>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">In The interview section of Friday night Anarchy backstage we see Tig Collins with the mic in her</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">hand as she starts to speak.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Tig Collins:<span style="color: #f012be;" class="mycode_color"> Ladies  and Gentlemen, at this time please welcome my guest. He is a member of the</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #f012be;" class="mycode_color">American Storm... The American nightmare Razor Blade.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Razor steps into the view all dressed and ready for action this week as he has a smile on his face.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">American nightmare| Razor Blade:  <span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">How's it going Tig?</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Tig Collins:  <span style="color: #f012be;" class="mycode_color">All good on my end, Thursday you and Latoya. will reunite for the first time in XWF and you two will be facing your Opponent in a triple threat tag team against The Woke Mind Virus and</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #f012be;" class="mycode_color">Dark Warrior as in Michael Graves and Lane-L Penny farthing. What are your thoughts heading into this match?</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Razor shrugs his shoulders.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">American nightmare| Razor Blade: <span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">What is there left to say? This is a Co Main Event match has</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">written All over Friday night Anarchy for this Friday. At the same time it's perfect for us to show</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">the world including Dark Warrior WHY  am I the man to not only face them for the first time in</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">XWF but also an unseat for them the gold that's around their waist. they carried that title almost</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">everywhere they goes and has  not been beaten by guys like me and Latoya Hixx or The Woke Virus</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">Who have come up short. In order to become the American Storm who holds the next Anarchy tag titles, well... to quote an old saying, a Anarchy Superstar... to be the man, you GOTTA beat the MAN!</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">American nightmare| Razor Blade: <span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color"> From the XWF, to the Anarchy, and back to the XWF, I have been battled tested, beating the best from time to time showing the world what we're made of.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Hopefully Dark Warrior and The Woke Virus. doesn't think this is going to be the some sort of cake</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">walk because if they thinks the opposite, they is in for a rude</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">awakening starting  Friday and at Bad Medicine. Now as far at Friday night Anarchy is concerned,</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Woke Virus and Dark Warrior haven't teamed up in a long time or have known each other that well. there's a reason they had what Michael Graves wants and that is the Anarchy tag team titles.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">We're Confident they can hold there own against As far as Lane-L Penny Farting n Michael Graves goes....</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">The mention of Dark Warrior name brings boos from the crowd causing  American Storm to pause</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">and grin a little bit.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">American nightmare| Razor Blade: <span style="color: #c19e00;" class="mycode_color">You hear those people Tig? Those are the sounds of people who are fed up with Dark Warriors and Woke Virus for very good reason. See Tig. many years ago</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #c19e00;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">when Latoya made her first in ring debut right here in XWF she went ahead and defeated me in a</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #c19e00;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">last man standing and she won that match fair and square and she had the rights to shake my hand after our match on Warfare and when tore the roof off the place on Warfare and now Tig. it's every  person for them selves when me and Latoya reunite for the first time since going our separated ways through Anarchy and Warfare but we both raise above the top but we haven't catcher any tag titles from Warfare and Anarchy in that's why When me and Latoya. defeat our Opponents of The Woke Virus and Dark Warrior of Lane' - L Penny Farting and Michael Graves.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #c19e00;" class="mycode_color">in a triple threat tag match this week on Anarchy at XWF.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Razor Shrugged his shoulders.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">American nightmare| Razor Blade: <span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">But if there is any familiar faces who likes to defend there Anarchy tag titles against me and Latoya at Bad Medicine. then you must be prepared for what's about to come your way once the American Storm returns back together for the first time in XWF</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">and if me or Latoya get the pin over on Michael Graves and Lane' L Penny farting and The Woke Virus then Latoya and I could be appearing at Bad Medicine and fight for Michael Graves Anarchy tag titles after our triple threat tag match on July third of Friday night Anarchy at XWF.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">American nightmare| Razor Blade: <span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color"> Latoya and I  are going  to send a message straight to both of our opponents. it's just a preview of what everyone can expect come XWF Anarchy starting Friday.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">So with that being said The Woke Virus and Michael Graves and Lane' -L Penny Farting... get ready.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">and see you four out there.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Razor was about to walk away until Storm arrives and say one final word to XWF Universe.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Storm| Latoya Hixx: <span style="color: #00369b;" class="mycode_color">American Storm ..is. Coming.to. Charlottesville, Virginia.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">American Storm walks away from Tig. looking on before she turns her attention back to the camera.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Tig Collins:  <span style="color: #f012be;" class="mycode_color">That was Razor and Latoya who is up for triple threat tag team action in the Co Main Event coming this Friday.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">The scene switches to the ring where American Storm heads back to their locker rooms before triple threat tag begins this Friday.</span></span></div>]]></content:encoded>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:49:56 -0700</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/17ATPKL23gsFIvH7olmpGngUqkgRwOWWUuI_R3iUXjV4/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="color: #44b8ff;" class="mycode_color">The Alpha</span></span></a></div>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/17ATPKL23gsFIvH7olmpGngUqkgRwOWWUuI_R3iUXjV4/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="color: #44b8ff;" class="mycode_color">The Alpha</span></span></a></div>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Build]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:44:14 -0700</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: justify;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ffffff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-family: Georgia;" class="mycode_font">You ever been in an IKEA? It's a smorgasbord of a "furniture store" that really focuses on the <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">small space, big ideas</span> kind of bullshit that also sells meatballs and gravy. I dunno about you, but those meatballs slap. In the depths of the Big Blue Box, however, is the warehouse portion where every bit of prefabricated, flat-packed furniture is stacked in towering shelves that could survive the apocalypse. </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ffffff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-family: Georgia;" class="mycode_font"><br />
With an oversized yellow shopping bag dangling over his shoulder and an instruction book (clearly scribbled and created himself, because branding didn't allow for his chicken scratch) folded in his hand, Dickie Watson wanders the aisles, eyes narrowed as he circles the desolate space of brown corrugated boxes and red shelving. <br />
<br />
"Forty-three."<br />
<br />
A few more steps ahead and he peers at the next set of numbers on the metal shelves.<br />
<br />
"When the fuck did I skip forty-four? Fuck is this shit?"<br />
<br />
A sigh escapes him as he scratches absentmindedly at one of the many choices of tattooed forearm as he turns to look up one walkway and back down the other. "I've been here twenty fuckin' minutes already. Charlottesville doesn't even have one of these places, so I've now driven two hours because I committed to a joke before I really thought about whether it was worth the gasoline..."<br />
<br />
He stops walking, turns around, and then looks back down the aisle he'd just come from. "Nah. Nah, nah, nah, I tell ya...if I get fuckin' lost in here, at least I can find a little fake apartment and live in it. Not sure I'd fit in it, but ya know...we've all made compromises. Like me. Showing up on Anarchy. For a match for a championship to really stick it to 'em, right? The big ol' opportunity, hey. The big ol' 24/7 Xtreme Briefcase."<br />
<br />
Dickie's eyes drift back to the instruction booklet he snaps into the waiting air. He holds the booklet up to his face, obscuring it. "<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Before assembly,</span>" he reads, "<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">ensure all required components have been collected.</span>"<br />
<br />
He closes the page and finally holds up the cover up for the camera. In thick black marker, written in handwriting that can only charitably be described as <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">functional helvetica</span>, are the words:</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ffffff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-family: Georgia;" class="mycode_font"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="font-size: large;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">SÄMÄËL</span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ffffff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-family: Georgia;" class="mycode_font">Assembly Required<br />
<br />
<br />
</span><br />
</span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-family: Georgia;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #ffffff;" class="mycode_color">"Look, I got the <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">umlaut</span> in there too. All of 'em."<br />
<br />
Now, I don't know if you've ever built IKEA furniture, but some of it requires multiple boxes. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what Dickie begins to gather. The booklet folds under his hand as he begins wandering again, the other hand absently dragging along the edge of the shelving while he scans the handwritten labels on small boxes he'd very <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">obviously</span> taped to random boxes sometime before a camera appeared.<br />
<br />
God Complex. Followers. Security. Presentation. Confidence. Contingency Plan.<br />
<br />
He studies the collection for a second before looking back at the booklet.<br />
<br />
"...Still missing one." He crouches down, nudging each box into a neat little row with the side of his hand as though he were organizing tools on a workbench instead of pieces of another human being. "You know what I expected to find after five fuckin' months of watching you?" He scratches thoughtfully at his jaw.<br />
<br />
"<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Complexity.</span> I figured somewhere between February and now there'd be a page I'd missed. Somethin' that made me stop the tape and go, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Ah...there it is. That's why the</span><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"> bastard's still champion</span>."<br />
<br />
He shakes his head.<br />
<br />
"Instead...I found a fuckin' routine "You've gotten really, really good at making people stop wrestling and start reacting. They react to the speeches. They react to the followers. They react to whatever weird apocalyptic bollocks you've decided to wheel out this week."<br />
<br />
Another tap.<br />
<br />
"And while everybody's busy trying to solve the fuckin' Da Vinci Code..."<br />
<br />
He shrugs.<br />
<br />
"...you reach for the same answer."<br />
<br />
His eyes finally find the camera.<br />
<br />
"Now don't get pissy with me. I'm not saying it doesn't work. Clearly the shit works. You've been champion since February. I'm not thick enough to stand here pretending that's luck."<br />
<br />
A grin.<br />
<br />
"I'm saying I know where your hands go."<br />
<br />
"You smiled when Elon said my name because you thought I'd spend the week chasing ghosts. Reading occult books. Trying to figure out what flavour of eldritch horror you identify as." He snorts. "I went to IKEA. I watched tape. I had meatballs. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">I solved the fuckin' puzzle.</span>"<br />
<br />
His boot nudges the scattered boxes.<br />
<br />
"You've spent five months teaching everybody to wrestle your match. Fuck that. I'm showing up to ruin it. I don't give a shit about the championship, but I'm definitely interested in ruinin' your day. I'm gonna drag you back to the one place you seem determined to keep escaping."<br />
<br />
He points toward the imaginary ring.<br />
<br />
"A wrestling match." Another shrug. "If I'm wrong? Congratulations. You keep your belt. But if I'm right..."<br />
<br />
He folds the instruction booklet in half and stuffs it into the yellow bag.<br />
<br />
"...you're gonna find out there's a massive fuckin' difference between having a process...and meeting the dickhead who's perfectly happy to kick the instructions straight up your ass."</span></span></div>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: justify;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ffffff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-family: Georgia;" class="mycode_font">You ever been in an IKEA? It's a smorgasbord of a "furniture store" that really focuses on the <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">small space, big ideas</span> kind of bullshit that also sells meatballs and gravy. I dunno about you, but those meatballs slap. In the depths of the Big Blue Box, however, is the warehouse portion where every bit of prefabricated, flat-packed furniture is stacked in towering shelves that could survive the apocalypse. </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ffffff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-family: Georgia;" class="mycode_font"><br />
With an oversized yellow shopping bag dangling over his shoulder and an instruction book (clearly scribbled and created himself, because branding didn't allow for his chicken scratch) folded in his hand, Dickie Watson wanders the aisles, eyes narrowed as he circles the desolate space of brown corrugated boxes and red shelving. <br />
<br />
"Forty-three."<br />
<br />
A few more steps ahead and he peers at the next set of numbers on the metal shelves.<br />
<br />
"When the fuck did I skip forty-four? Fuck is this shit?"<br />
<br />
A sigh escapes him as he scratches absentmindedly at one of the many choices of tattooed forearm as he turns to look up one walkway and back down the other. "I've been here twenty fuckin' minutes already. Charlottesville doesn't even have one of these places, so I've now driven two hours because I committed to a joke before I really thought about whether it was worth the gasoline..."<br />
<br />
He stops walking, turns around, and then looks back down the aisle he'd just come from. "Nah. Nah, nah, nah, I tell ya...if I get fuckin' lost in here, at least I can find a little fake apartment and live in it. Not sure I'd fit in it, but ya know...we've all made compromises. Like me. Showing up on Anarchy. For a match for a championship to really stick it to 'em, right? The big ol' opportunity, hey. The big ol' 24/7 Xtreme Briefcase."<br />
<br />
Dickie's eyes drift back to the instruction booklet he snaps into the waiting air. He holds the booklet up to his face, obscuring it. "<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Before assembly,</span>" he reads, "<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">ensure all required components have been collected.</span>"<br />
<br />
He closes the page and finally holds up the cover up for the camera. In thick black marker, written in handwriting that can only charitably be described as <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">functional helvetica</span>, are the words:</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ffffff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-family: Georgia;" class="mycode_font"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="font-size: large;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">SÄMÄËL</span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ffffff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-family: Georgia;" class="mycode_font">Assembly Required<br />
<br />
<br />
</span><br />
</span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-family: Georgia;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #ffffff;" class="mycode_color">"Look, I got the <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">umlaut</span> in there too. All of 'em."<br />
<br />
Now, I don't know if you've ever built IKEA furniture, but some of it requires multiple boxes. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what Dickie begins to gather. The booklet folds under his hand as he begins wandering again, the other hand absently dragging along the edge of the shelving while he scans the handwritten labels on small boxes he'd very <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">obviously</span> taped to random boxes sometime before a camera appeared.<br />
<br />
God Complex. Followers. Security. Presentation. Confidence. Contingency Plan.<br />
<br />
He studies the collection for a second before looking back at the booklet.<br />
<br />
"...Still missing one." He crouches down, nudging each box into a neat little row with the side of his hand as though he were organizing tools on a workbench instead of pieces of another human being. "You know what I expected to find after five fuckin' months of watching you?" He scratches thoughtfully at his jaw.<br />
<br />
"<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Complexity.</span> I figured somewhere between February and now there'd be a page I'd missed. Somethin' that made me stop the tape and go, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Ah...there it is. That's why the</span><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"> bastard's still champion</span>."<br />
<br />
He shakes his head.<br />
<br />
"Instead...I found a fuckin' routine "You've gotten really, really good at making people stop wrestling and start reacting. They react to the speeches. They react to the followers. They react to whatever weird apocalyptic bollocks you've decided to wheel out this week."<br />
<br />
Another tap.<br />
<br />
"And while everybody's busy trying to solve the fuckin' Da Vinci Code..."<br />
<br />
He shrugs.<br />
<br />
"...you reach for the same answer."<br />
<br />
His eyes finally find the camera.<br />
<br />
"Now don't get pissy with me. I'm not saying it doesn't work. Clearly the shit works. You've been champion since February. I'm not thick enough to stand here pretending that's luck."<br />
<br />
A grin.<br />
<br />
"I'm saying I know where your hands go."<br />
<br />
"You smiled when Elon said my name because you thought I'd spend the week chasing ghosts. Reading occult books. Trying to figure out what flavour of eldritch horror you identify as." He snorts. "I went to IKEA. I watched tape. I had meatballs. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">I solved the fuckin' puzzle.</span>"<br />
<br />
His boot nudges the scattered boxes.<br />
<br />
"You've spent five months teaching everybody to wrestle your match. Fuck that. I'm showing up to ruin it. I don't give a shit about the championship, but I'm definitely interested in ruinin' your day. I'm gonna drag you back to the one place you seem determined to keep escaping."<br />
<br />
He points toward the imaginary ring.<br />
<br />
"A wrestling match." Another shrug. "If I'm wrong? Congratulations. You keep your belt. But if I'm right..."<br />
<br />
He folds the instruction booklet in half and stuffs it into the yellow bag.<br />
<br />
"...you're gonna find out there's a massive fuckin' difference between having a process...and meeting the dickhead who's perfectly happy to kick the instructions straight up your ass."</span></span></div>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dream Killer]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:58:28 -0700</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://xwf1999.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=3216">GCC's Dom Durango™</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">HUNDREDS OF CONTESTANTS</span></span></div>
<br />
<font color="yellow">”I’ve wanted this my *sob* whole… life…”</font><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">CELEBRITY PANELISTS</span></span></div>
<br />
<font color="dodgerblue">”WE LOVE PAULA ABDUL!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="green">”KEVIN FROM THE OFFICE!”</font><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">MAKE YOUR WILDEST DREAMS COME TRUE</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">YOU’RE WATCHING….</span></span></div>
<br />
<center><table cellpadding="30" border="1" bordercolor="blue" width="60%"><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="black" background="http://i.imgur.com/SZ5atbH.png"><font color="white"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u">DREAM BIG</span></span><br />
<br />
WITH SPECIAL CELEBRITY GUEST JUDGE: DOM DURANGO</font></td></tr></table></center><br />
<br />
<hr class="mycode_hr" />
<br />
<font color="yellow">”It… we… uh… racecar…”</font> A third-grader holds a microphone…<br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”Take your time, sweetie!”</font> Paula Abdul soothes him from the judge’s table… <font color="purple">”We’re all rooting for you!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="purple">“Right, folks!?”</font><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: large;" class="mycode_size"><font color="white"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!</span></span></font></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”This crowd loves you!”</font> Paula turns to her righthand co-judge. <font color="purple">”Right, Kevin?”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #964B00;" class="mycode_color">”Actually, my name’s Brian Baumgartner. And while I’m very proud of playing Kevin, I’ve played many parts sin-”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”You’re so funny, Kevin!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”Well, <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">I’m</span> convinced you deserve your dream!”</font> Paula turns left. <font color="purple">”Right, Dom?”</font><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”Dom?”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Hmm? Sorry, what?”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”...I said, ‘weren’t you thinking that Little Timmy should have his dream come true?’”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Oh… No, I wasn’t thinking that.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Honestly, *I* was thinking about blowing my brains out.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #8911c5;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">”CUT!”</span></span><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”With a shotgun.”</font> Dom mutters as the crew resets their cameras…<br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”Mister Durango.”</font> Paula leans in. <font color="purple">”Can I ask…? What’s your… approach to today’s shoot?”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Fulfilling a contractual obligation I accepted before Micheal Graves stole my f<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif">ing soul with Hell grits.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”...Hmmm. Mmmm. It’s just… everyone here wants their dreams to come true! And we can help them! Isn’t that exciting?”</font><br />
<br />
…Dom blinks.<br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”...Well. You’ve voted no on every dreamer today… and said the f-word 37 times.”<br />
<br />
“We’ve gotten zero usable footage from you.”<br />
<br />
“So… try to get into this next one? Ooooh, maybe you and Kevin could do a chili cook-off or something!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”His name’s f<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif">ing Brian.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #964B00;" class="mycode_color">”It’s okay, Dom. You don’t hav-”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Don’t f<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif">ing talk to me, Kevin.”</font><br />
<br />
<hr class="mycode_hr" />
<br />
<font color="purple">”Next dreamer!”</font><br />
<br />
A bombshell in a blue-and-white cheerleading skirt and a knee-brace takes the stage!<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”Judges! My name is Cyndy! That’s…”</font><br />
<br />
Her arms zip through the air!<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”SEE-WHY-EN-DEE-WHY!”</font><br />
<br />
Paula claps delighted.<br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”Impressive!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”She spelled her name. A preschooler can do that.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”Judges… I’ve wanted to be a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader since I was five, choreographing dance routines with my dolls!”<br />
<br />
For TWO decades, Cheerleading’s literally the only thing I feel joy doing!”</font><br />
<br />
…Dom’s eyebrows raise…<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Last year’s tryouts, I reached my first ever Final Selection… then, I tore my…”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”AYE-SEE-EL!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”Awww, you even cheer-out your story’s sad parts! I’m PEPPED-up!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”Judges, I don’t want anything I haven’t earned! I want to make my dream reality the right way!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”I just… can’t afford the surgery for my knee. I’ve been living in my car… travelling from training-camp-to-training-camp…”<br />
<br />
“I’ve spent my life chasing this dream… I can’t give up… But, the surgery’s twenty thousand…”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”This might be the DREAM OF THE DAY!”</font> <br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: large;" class="mycode_size"><font color="white"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!</span></span></font></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”Cyndy, I’m pledging twenty-thousand dollars to get your dream up-and-running!”</font><br />
<br />
Cyndy smiles, mouthing ‘thank you, Paula!’<br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”Can either judge go higher? Let’s make this dream EVEN BIGGER!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Fifty-four thousand.”</font><br />
<br />
Dom pulls his microphone closer…<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”I’ll give you fifty-four thousand dollars.”</font><br />
<br />
Cyndy looks at Dom… Her eyes are confused but grateful!<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”Wow! Thanks, Mister Durango! I love your food!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”On one condition.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Give up your dream.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”...What?”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Cyndy, you’ve had this childish fantasy since… you were five? Over two decades? How old are you?”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”...Twenty-six…”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”F<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif">ing ancient by cheerleading standards.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #8911c5;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">”CUT!”</span></span><br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”Dom, stop cursing!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”This is a woman’s f<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif">ing delusions we’re exploiting for entertainment.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”The bright lights, the crowd cheering... This isn’t real, Cyndy. It’s a bullsh<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif">t lie to sell products to fat idiots clapping for sob stories from their couch.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”Cyndy! Ignore him! We’re gonna make your dream come true!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Then pay her from your own pocket.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”...Huh?”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Instead of a giant novelty network check this poor idiot’ll pay over 50% in taxes on…”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”...Wait? Over Fifty percent…?”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”YOU give her the money. Call your accountant, cover her surgery with cash.”</font><br />
<br />
…Cyndy looks at Paula hopefully.<br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”Uh… w-well…”</font><br />
<br />
Cyndy’s breath hitches.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Cyndy. Look at me.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”I’m your only friend here.  These people… They wanna make themselves appear heroic giving you a pittance… Then, they will NEVER think about you again.”<br />
<br />
“How long have you been trying out for the Cowboys?”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”...Since I was… sixteen… they don’t let girls under eighteen try-out, but, I… lied about my age…”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Cuz you wanted it baaaaaad, right?”</font><br />
<br />
Cyndy nods.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”You had TEN chances. And only LAST YEAR you reached Final Selection?”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”You don’t have it. You won’t make it.”<br />
<br />
“Fifty-four thousand dollars. In exchange, you will NEVER cheerlead again.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”...Cheerleading makes me happy...”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Do you know any f<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif">ing 30-year-old cheerleaders, Cyndy? Even if you recover post-surgery and train into shape… you’ve got… what? Two years before you’re a washed-up HAG?”<br />
<br />
“The Cowboys’ll throw you out with the trash.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”...But…What do I do?”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">“…Real estate license. Technical school. Something that contributes value to society. Don’t give a shit honestly.”<br />
<br />
“But I want to buy your dream from you.”<br />
<br />
“You can take network money… After taxes, you’ll have… a third of what you need?”<br />
<br />
“Or take my money. And give up the dream that’s killing you.”</font><br />
<br />
<hr class="mycode_hr" />
<br />
<font color="red"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Brawliepop Barbie.<br />
<br />
What a joke.<br />
<br />
All that cheering… rhyming… sob story bullshit.<br />
<br />
And you lost to me.<br />
<br />
ME.<br />
<br />
A TV chef.<br />
<br />
I didn’t even have to enter the ring to beat you<br />
<br />
Prancing, hopping… And putting yourself through a fucking table with that moron Landerson.<br />
<br />
You know what’s funny?<br />
<br />
You dream so big! <br />
<br />
A broken little girl dreaming of becoming a winner!<br />
<br />
Decades dedicated to mastering gymnastics, acrobatics… aerial offense…<br />
<br />
You switched souls with a squirrel to become a literal superhuman.<br />
<br />
And you got beat by a guy that doesn’t give ONE SOLITARY FUCK about wrestling.<br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
God, it’s sweet like Mama’s sauce.<br />
<br />
Closest I’ve felt to warmth since I lost my soul.<br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
First bite’s a taste test.<br />
<br />
Second bite’s for savoring.<br />
<br />
I won’t let you beat yourself this time.<br />
<br />
I’ll peel you in that ring like a banana.<br />
<br />
I’ll take those legs that forest wizard blessed with squirrel agility… <br />
<br />
And SNAP your knees the wrong way…<br />
<br />
‘Til you’re as broken as you were at birth.<br />
<br />
I will EAT your DREAM.<br />
<br />
What you’ve prayed for since you were a child.<br />
<br />
Leaving nothing but your hopelessness.<br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
Why?<br />
<br />
Fuck you, that’s why.</span></font>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">HUNDREDS OF CONTESTANTS</span></span></div>
<br />
<font color="yellow">”I’ve wanted this my *sob* whole… life…”</font><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">CELEBRITY PANELISTS</span></span></div>
<br />
<font color="dodgerblue">”WE LOVE PAULA ABDUL!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="green">”KEVIN FROM THE OFFICE!”</font><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">MAKE YOUR WILDEST DREAMS COME TRUE</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">YOU’RE WATCHING….</span></span></div>
<br />
<center><table cellpadding="30" border="1" bordercolor="blue" width="60%"><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="black" background="http://i.imgur.com/SZ5atbH.png"><font color="white"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u">DREAM BIG</span></span><br />
<br />
WITH SPECIAL CELEBRITY GUEST JUDGE: DOM DURANGO</font></td></tr></table></center><br />
<br />
<hr class="mycode_hr" />
<br />
<font color="yellow">”It… we… uh… racecar…”</font> A third-grader holds a microphone…<br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”Take your time, sweetie!”</font> Paula Abdul soothes him from the judge’s table… <font color="purple">”We’re all rooting for you!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="purple">“Right, folks!?”</font><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: large;" class="mycode_size"><font color="white"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!</span></span></font></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”This crowd loves you!”</font> Paula turns to her righthand co-judge. <font color="purple">”Right, Kevin?”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #964B00;" class="mycode_color">”Actually, my name’s Brian Baumgartner. And while I’m very proud of playing Kevin, I’ve played many parts sin-”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”You’re so funny, Kevin!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”Well, <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">I’m</span> convinced you deserve your dream!”</font> Paula turns left. <font color="purple">”Right, Dom?”</font><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”Dom?”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Hmm? Sorry, what?”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”...I said, ‘weren’t you thinking that Little Timmy should have his dream come true?’”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Oh… No, I wasn’t thinking that.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Honestly, *I* was thinking about blowing my brains out.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #8911c5;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">”CUT!”</span></span><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”With a shotgun.”</font> Dom mutters as the crew resets their cameras…<br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”Mister Durango.”</font> Paula leans in. <font color="purple">”Can I ask…? What’s your… approach to today’s shoot?”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Fulfilling a contractual obligation I accepted before Micheal Graves stole my f<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif">ing soul with Hell grits.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”...Hmmm. Mmmm. It’s just… everyone here wants their dreams to come true! And we can help them! Isn’t that exciting?”</font><br />
<br />
…Dom blinks.<br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”...Well. You’ve voted no on every dreamer today… and said the f-word 37 times.”<br />
<br />
“We’ve gotten zero usable footage from you.”<br />
<br />
“So… try to get into this next one? Ooooh, maybe you and Kevin could do a chili cook-off or something!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”His name’s f<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif">ing Brian.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #964B00;" class="mycode_color">”It’s okay, Dom. You don’t hav-”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Don’t f<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif">ing talk to me, Kevin.”</font><br />
<br />
<hr class="mycode_hr" />
<br />
<font color="purple">”Next dreamer!”</font><br />
<br />
A bombshell in a blue-and-white cheerleading skirt and a knee-brace takes the stage!<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”Judges! My name is Cyndy! That’s…”</font><br />
<br />
Her arms zip through the air!<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”SEE-WHY-EN-DEE-WHY!”</font><br />
<br />
Paula claps delighted.<br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”Impressive!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”She spelled her name. A preschooler can do that.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”Judges… I’ve wanted to be a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader since I was five, choreographing dance routines with my dolls!”<br />
<br />
For TWO decades, Cheerleading’s literally the only thing I feel joy doing!”</font><br />
<br />
…Dom’s eyebrows raise…<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Last year’s tryouts, I reached my first ever Final Selection… then, I tore my…”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”AYE-SEE-EL!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”Awww, you even cheer-out your story’s sad parts! I’m PEPPED-up!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”Judges, I don’t want anything I haven’t earned! I want to make my dream reality the right way!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”I just… can’t afford the surgery for my knee. I’ve been living in my car… travelling from training-camp-to-training-camp…”<br />
<br />
“I’ve spent my life chasing this dream… I can’t give up… But, the surgery’s twenty thousand…”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”This might be the DREAM OF THE DAY!”</font> <br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: large;" class="mycode_size"><font color="white"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!</span></span></font></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”Cyndy, I’m pledging twenty-thousand dollars to get your dream up-and-running!”</font><br />
<br />
Cyndy smiles, mouthing ‘thank you, Paula!’<br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”Can either judge go higher? Let’s make this dream EVEN BIGGER!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Fifty-four thousand.”</font><br />
<br />
Dom pulls his microphone closer…<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”I’ll give you fifty-four thousand dollars.”</font><br />
<br />
Cyndy looks at Dom… Her eyes are confused but grateful!<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”Wow! Thanks, Mister Durango! I love your food!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”On one condition.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Give up your dream.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”...What?”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Cyndy, you’ve had this childish fantasy since… you were five? Over two decades? How old are you?”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”...Twenty-six…”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”F<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif">ing ancient by cheerleading standards.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #8911c5;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">”CUT!”</span></span><br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”Dom, stop cursing!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”This is a woman’s f<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif">ing delusions we’re exploiting for entertainment.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”The bright lights, the crowd cheering... This isn’t real, Cyndy. It’s a bullsh<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif">t lie to sell products to fat idiots clapping for sob stories from their couch.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”Cyndy! Ignore him! We’re gonna make your dream come true!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Then pay her from your own pocket.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”...Huh?”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Instead of a giant novelty network check this poor idiot’ll pay over 50% in taxes on…”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”...Wait? Over Fifty percent…?”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”YOU give her the money. Call your accountant, cover her surgery with cash.”</font><br />
<br />
…Cyndy looks at Paula hopefully.<br />
<br />
<font color="purple">”Uh… w-well…”</font><br />
<br />
Cyndy’s breath hitches.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Cyndy. Look at me.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”I’m your only friend here.  These people… They wanna make themselves appear heroic giving you a pittance… Then, they will NEVER think about you again.”<br />
<br />
“How long have you been trying out for the Cowboys?”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”...Since I was… sixteen… they don’t let girls under eighteen try-out, but, I… lied about my age…”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Cuz you wanted it baaaaaad, right?”</font><br />
<br />
Cyndy nods.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”You had TEN chances. And only LAST YEAR you reached Final Selection?”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”You don’t have it. You won’t make it.”<br />
<br />
“Fifty-four thousand dollars. In exchange, you will NEVER cheerlead again.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”...Cheerleading makes me happy...”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Do you know any f<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif">ing 30-year-old cheerleaders, Cyndy? Even if you recover post-surgery and train into shape… you’ve got… what? Two years before you’re a washed-up HAG?”<br />
<br />
“The Cowboys’ll throw you out with the trash.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”...But…What do I do?”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">“…Real estate license. Technical school. Something that contributes value to society. Don’t give a shit honestly.”<br />
<br />
“But I want to buy your dream from you.”<br />
<br />
“You can take network money… After taxes, you’ll have… a third of what you need?”<br />
<br />
“Or take my money. And give up the dream that’s killing you.”</font><br />
<br />
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<br />
<font color="red"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Brawliepop Barbie.<br />
<br />
What a joke.<br />
<br />
All that cheering… rhyming… sob story bullshit.<br />
<br />
And you lost to me.<br />
<br />
ME.<br />
<br />
A TV chef.<br />
<br />
I didn’t even have to enter the ring to beat you<br />
<br />
Prancing, hopping… And putting yourself through a fucking table with that moron Landerson.<br />
<br />
You know what’s funny?<br />
<br />
You dream so big! <br />
<br />
A broken little girl dreaming of becoming a winner!<br />
<br />
Decades dedicated to mastering gymnastics, acrobatics… aerial offense…<br />
<br />
You switched souls with a squirrel to become a literal superhuman.<br />
<br />
And you got beat by a guy that doesn’t give ONE SOLITARY FUCK about wrestling.<br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
God, it’s sweet like Mama’s sauce.<br />
<br />
Closest I’ve felt to warmth since I lost my soul.<br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
First bite’s a taste test.<br />
<br />
Second bite’s for savoring.<br />
<br />
I won’t let you beat yourself this time.<br />
<br />
I’ll peel you in that ring like a banana.<br />
<br />
I’ll take those legs that forest wizard blessed with squirrel agility… <br />
<br />
And SNAP your knees the wrong way…<br />
<br />
‘Til you’re as broken as you were at birth.<br />
<br />
I will EAT your DREAM.<br />
<br />
What you’ve prayed for since you were a child.<br />
<br />
Leaving nothing but your hopelessness.<br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
Why?<br />
<br />
Fuck you, that’s why.</span></font>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[It's gonna be a Bad summer]]></title>
			<link>https://xwf1999.com/showthread.php?tid=50246</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:55:00 -0700</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://xwf1999.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=3217">Jay Fetu</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">"<span style="color: #ff30dc;" class="mycode_color">UUUUUUU-SOOOOOOOO."</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">The XWF Universe inside of John Paul Jones Arena! responded accordingly as they got to their</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">feet, not missing a beat as they sang loudly to his theme. Seconds later, Main Event Jay Fetu</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">appeared through the crowd, a wide smile on his face. Jay stood in unison with the XWF Universe</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">and Yeeting along with them.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><img src="https://i.postimg.cc/15H6QqTV/ak60amvr9a5d1.gif" loading="lazy"  alt="[Image: ak60amvr9a5d1.gif]" class="mycode_img" /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Jay eventually made his way down to the ring, got over the barricade, dapping up with Bama and  Todd until getting into the ring, to Yeet along with The XWF Universe, until Uce got down,</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">calling for a microphone, and once he got it, he stood in the center of the ring as his theme died</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">down.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Main Event| Jay Fetu: <span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">Charlottesville, Virginia! Main Event Jay Fetu is now in yo' CITTYYYY!!!</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #b10dc9;" class="mycode_color">YEET!</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Main Event| Jay Fetu: <span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">But check it, ya'll. Next week, I made an agreement to meet Summer Page in this ring so we can talk 'bout 'ish, so let's not waste any time here.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><img src="https://i.postimg.cc/KzzdWP9j/normal-scene02191-28.jpg" loading="lazy"  alt="[Image: normal-scene02191-28.jpg]" class="mycode_img" /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Jay turned his attention towards the entrance ramp.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Main Event| Jay Fetu: <span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">Summer Page. Getcho' ass out here, Uce.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Jay, who was pacing back and forth in the ring.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">At this point, Summer had joined Jay in the ring. Both of them are sizing one another up. The sold</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">out crowd inside the John Paul Jones Arena cheered wildly seeing these two face-to-face. For</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">almost a minute or two, nothing was said; the XWF Universe did it for them with a mix of YEET</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">chants. They both looked around the arena until one of them finally</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">broke their silence. Jay.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Main Event| Jay Fetu: <span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">You hear that, Uce? I look at you, and I can see you doin' yo' best not to care, but you do. We gon' all these months back and fourth ever since you attacked me at Leap of Faith, and they wanna see the exact thing I wanna do... beat yo' ass and make you pay fo' everythang you've done and said.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #b10dc9;" class="mycode_color">YEET!</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Main Event| Jay Fetu: <span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">'Bad Medicine is the perfect place to make this finally happen because I'll be honest witchu', Uce, and it's because of the very small silver of respect I have for you to admit it. I can never forgive you for what you did to me, and now it's personal, and when I see you eye for an eye, I'm gonna embarrass you in front of the whole world until I get what I truly deserve, in that's your Revolution Championship at Bad Medicine, the day after our match on Anarchy at XWF.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Main Event| Jay Fetu:  <span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">Bad Medicine is the perfect place for you to defend your new Revolution title against Main Event Jay Fetu. to make it finally happen because I'll be honest witchu',</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Uce, and it's because of every small silver of respect I have for you to admit it, I can never forgive</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">you for what you did to my friends last month on Leap of Faith, and making me feel helpless since I</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">wasn't able to do anything. Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can see it, I can hear them, and I</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">can hear you laughin' bout it like the twisted person you are, all because you blame me for what</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">happened at Leap of Faith last May. I'mma make you feel what I feel on the 31st, Uce. I'mma</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">make you feel what they did.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Jay with a cold look before staring at the new Revolution Champion.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Main Event| Jay Fetu:  <span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">Someone seems to be fo' gettin' the lil part where I couldn't lay a finger on her when she was Revoluion Champion, leadin' into Bad Medicine, huh Uce? Or you choose to do</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">That's because you remember what happened right before.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Jay paused, moving back and forth in the ring, but staring directly at Summer. So far, keeping his</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">promise to friends.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Main Event| Jay Fetu:  <span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">Nah, Nah, Summer... you chose not to when I got yo' ass back here. Call yo'</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">self ' most dangerous,' but you and yo' homegirl made sure I couldn't lay a finger on you because of yo' title defense, but turns out, Charlotte's Virginia, that didn't matter, huh?</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #9a00b2;" class="mycode_color">YEET!</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Main Event| Jay Fetu: '' <span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">Most dangerous'' but yo' ass got punk'd out by a woman who constantly</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">made YOU look like a fool, not jus' here but all over social media, If you really say who you say you are, you still be Champion as of right now, Summer, which is why I can look you dead in the eyes and say</span>...</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Jay paused, taking off his sunglasses and stepping a few inches closer towards Summer.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><img src="https://i.postimg.cc/2SChX8VJ/normal-scene04281-20.jpg" loading="lazy"  alt="[Image: normal-scene04281-20.jpg]" class="mycode_img" /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Main Event| Jay Fetu: <span style="color: #005dc2;" class="mycode_color"> I letchu' get in my head once Uce, that was a mistake. I gave you what you wanted, now you, me, Bad Medicine... is what I want, Uce. You don't think I can beat you in Anarchy, and I can be that guy who's willin' to do</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #005dc2;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">whatever it takes to get past you, we'll see 'bout that, but you lookin' straight into the eyes of a</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #005dc2;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">man who's willin' to do jus' 'bout anythang he can to put down someone who threatens my friends.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #005dc2;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">On July ninth, Uce. I'm gon' be yo' Judge, Jury, and Executioner. I'm evicting you from yo' own</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #005dc2;" class="mycode_color">Championship and yo' ass gettin' tossed into The Uce Penitentiary! YEET!</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">The tension was thick between the two.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Main Event| Jay Fetu: <span style="color: #005dc2;" class="mycode_color">We'll see 'bout that, Uce. next week's your warning shot then you and I you. at Bad Medicine, I'mma get yo' ass and everythang you've done. Count on it!</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Jay dropped his microphone, as did Summer. Nothing came to blows, this time. just trash-talking</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">towards each other as they stood in the ring.</span></span></div>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">"<span style="color: #ff30dc;" class="mycode_color">UUUUUUU-SOOOOOOOO."</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">The XWF Universe inside of John Paul Jones Arena! responded accordingly as they got to their</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">feet, not missing a beat as they sang loudly to his theme. Seconds later, Main Event Jay Fetu</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">appeared through the crowd, a wide smile on his face. Jay stood in unison with the XWF Universe</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">and Yeeting along with them.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><img src="https://i.postimg.cc/15H6QqTV/ak60amvr9a5d1.gif" loading="lazy"  alt="[Image: ak60amvr9a5d1.gif]" class="mycode_img" /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Jay eventually made his way down to the ring, got over the barricade, dapping up with Bama and  Todd until getting into the ring, to Yeet along with The XWF Universe, until Uce got down,</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">calling for a microphone, and once he got it, he stood in the center of the ring as his theme died</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">down.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Main Event| Jay Fetu: <span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">Charlottesville, Virginia! Main Event Jay Fetu is now in yo' CITTYYYY!!!</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #b10dc9;" class="mycode_color">YEET!</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Main Event| Jay Fetu: <span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">But check it, ya'll. Next week, I made an agreement to meet Summer Page in this ring so we can talk 'bout 'ish, so let's not waste any time here.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><img src="https://i.postimg.cc/KzzdWP9j/normal-scene02191-28.jpg" loading="lazy"  alt="[Image: normal-scene02191-28.jpg]" class="mycode_img" /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Jay turned his attention towards the entrance ramp.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Main Event| Jay Fetu: <span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">Summer Page. Getcho' ass out here, Uce.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Jay, who was pacing back and forth in the ring.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">At this point, Summer had joined Jay in the ring. Both of them are sizing one another up. The sold</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">out crowd inside the John Paul Jones Arena cheered wildly seeing these two face-to-face. For</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">almost a minute or two, nothing was said; the XWF Universe did it for them with a mix of YEET</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">chants. They both looked around the arena until one of them finally</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">broke their silence. Jay.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Main Event| Jay Fetu: <span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">You hear that, Uce? I look at you, and I can see you doin' yo' best not to care, but you do. We gon' all these months back and fourth ever since you attacked me at Leap of Faith, and they wanna see the exact thing I wanna do... beat yo' ass and make you pay fo' everythang you've done and said.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #b10dc9;" class="mycode_color">YEET!</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Main Event| Jay Fetu: <span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">'Bad Medicine is the perfect place to make this finally happen because I'll be honest witchu', Uce, and it's because of the very small silver of respect I have for you to admit it. I can never forgive you for what you did to me, and now it's personal, and when I see you eye for an eye, I'm gonna embarrass you in front of the whole world until I get what I truly deserve, in that's your Revolution Championship at Bad Medicine, the day after our match on Anarchy at XWF.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Main Event| Jay Fetu:  <span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">Bad Medicine is the perfect place for you to defend your new Revolution title against Main Event Jay Fetu. to make it finally happen because I'll be honest witchu',</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Uce, and it's because of every small silver of respect I have for you to admit it, I can never forgive</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">you for what you did to my friends last month on Leap of Faith, and making me feel helpless since I</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">wasn't able to do anything. Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can see it, I can hear them, and I</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">can hear you laughin' bout it like the twisted person you are, all because you blame me for what</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">happened at Leap of Faith last May. I'mma make you feel what I feel on the 31st, Uce. I'mma</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">make you feel what they did.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Jay with a cold look before staring at the new Revolution Champion.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Main Event| Jay Fetu:  <span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">Someone seems to be fo' gettin' the lil part where I couldn't lay a finger on her when she was Revoluion Champion, leadin' into Bad Medicine, huh Uce? Or you choose to do</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">That's because you remember what happened right before.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Jay paused, moving back and forth in the ring, but staring directly at Summer. So far, keeping his</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">promise to friends.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Main Event| Jay Fetu:  <span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">Nah, Nah, Summer... you chose not to when I got yo' ass back here. Call yo'</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">self ' most dangerous,' but you and yo' homegirl made sure I couldn't lay a finger on you because of yo' title defense, but turns out, Charlotte's Virginia, that didn't matter, huh?</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #9a00b2;" class="mycode_color">YEET!</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Main Event| Jay Fetu: '' <span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">Most dangerous'' but yo' ass got punk'd out by a woman who constantly</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #1e92f7;" class="mycode_color">made YOU look like a fool, not jus' here but all over social media, If you really say who you say you are, you still be Champion as of right now, Summer, which is why I can look you dead in the eyes and say</span>...</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Jay paused, taking off his sunglasses and stepping a few inches closer towards Summer.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><img src="https://i.postimg.cc/2SChX8VJ/normal-scene04281-20.jpg" loading="lazy"  alt="[Image: normal-scene04281-20.jpg]" class="mycode_img" /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Main Event| Jay Fetu: <span style="color: #005dc2;" class="mycode_color"> I letchu' get in my head once Uce, that was a mistake. I gave you what you wanted, now you, me, Bad Medicine... is what I want, Uce. You don't think I can beat you in Anarchy, and I can be that guy who's willin' to do</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #005dc2;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">whatever it takes to get past you, we'll see 'bout that, but you lookin' straight into the eyes of a</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #005dc2;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">man who's willin' to do jus' 'bout anythang he can to put down someone who threatens my friends.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #005dc2;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">On July ninth, Uce. I'm gon' be yo' Judge, Jury, and Executioner. I'm evicting you from yo' own</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #005dc2;" class="mycode_color">Championship and yo' ass gettin' tossed into The Uce Penitentiary! YEET!</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">The tension was thick between the two.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Main Event| Jay Fetu: <span style="color: #005dc2;" class="mycode_color">We'll see 'bout that, Uce. next week's your warning shot then you and I you. at Bad Medicine, I'mma get yo' ass and everythang you've done. Count on it!</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Jay dropped his microphone, as did Summer. Nothing came to blows, this time. just trash-talking</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">towards each other as they stood in the ring.</span></span></div>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Centurion Learns The Singular “They”]]></title>
			<link>https://xwf1999.com/showthread.php?tid=50244</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:21:39 -0700</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XBcyOmZxZJPXrFv7waRh5x7MyyNOY5ebslt_gH5cKpk/edit?usp=drivesdk" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url"><span style="font-size: x-large;" class="mycode_size">You should never use metal utensils on a no stick pan.</span></a></div>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XBcyOmZxZJPXrFv7waRh5x7MyyNOY5ebslt_gH5cKpk/edit?usp=drivesdk" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url"><span style="font-size: x-large;" class="mycode_size">You should never use metal utensils on a no stick pan.</span></a></div>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Five Finger Fillet]]></title>
			<link>https://xwf1999.com/showthread.php?tid=50242</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:48:21 -0700</pubDate>
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<span style="color: red;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Beaverlick, Kentucky<br />
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">The small town’s rowdy honky tonk, the Boot Scoot, is alive on a Friday night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Decked out in preparation for America’s 250th birthday, the greatest Fourth of July since the original, the bar is hopping with locals. The beer is flowing and the jukebox is turned up to eleven with Hank Junior and Toby Keith blasting so loud you could feel the long oak bar vibrating under your fingers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">At a table in the corner, the XWF’s own Kentucky “Tuck” Taggart is sitting alone, one of his massive hands pressed palm down on the tabletop with his fingers spread. In his other hand? The switchblade his paw handed down to him. Tuck stabs the tip of the knife into the wooden table in between each of his fingers, moving quicker as he works his way through.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fffa1e;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Wow, nice! I was great at that in college!”<br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">A younger man says a little too loud, doing his best to impress the young lady he’s brought with him to the bar. The pair look out of place, dressed in nice clothes.  Business suit for the man and a cocktail dress for the woman. Everyone else in the room being in jeans and flannels, after all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">The younger man bumps the table Tuck is seated at when he leans in to get a closer look, and it causes Tuck to nip the side of one of his thick fingers with the blade. Tuck doesn’t flinch, though, he just stops and looks up at the man.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Help ya?”<br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Tuck growls while a drop of blood leaks from his fingertip.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffdc00;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Oh, oops! Looks like you missed… babe, in college, I would have been able to go TWICE that fast…”<br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">The girl giggles as the man leans even further over the table.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffdc00;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Tough luck, hombre! Twenty bucks says I can outdo you.”<br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">The man pulls a wallet from his jacket pocket and peels out a crisp Andrew Jackson, laying it on the table in front of Tuck with a slap. Tuck nods and lifts the switchblade to hand over to the man.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Instead, though, Tuck yanks the man’s necktie down and drives the blade through it, through the twenty, and into the table before popping up to his feet and kicking his chair backwards into the wall with a crash. Tuck sneers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“I got a better bet for ya, ya Limp-wristed Louisville Libtard. Twenty bucks? That buys you ONE.”<br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ffdc00;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“H-h-hey! What the… one what?”<br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">The man stammers as he tries to pry the switchblade out of the table with no luck.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cf2be7;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“I’ll get security, Todd!”<br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">The man's no-longer-giggling date says as she scurries off toward the bar.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Todd, huh? Well Todd… you get ONE swing at ol’ Kentucky. Open hand. You put me down, you get your tab covered the rest of the night. But I’m still standing? I get one shot on you AND I get that twenty. Bet?”<br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Todd looks unsure.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffdc00;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Just one? Even if I lose, you only get to slap me once?”<br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“That’s all, bubba. Just a little slap. You game? Or should we let your ol’ lady over there know she got duped into datin’ one of them transgenders?”<br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Todd gapes, but looking over his shoulder he sees his girl staring at him and waiting for him to make up his mind.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffdc00;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Uh… sure. Fine. I accept.”<br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Good.”<br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Tuck pulls the knife out of the table and lets Todd stand up straight. Todd takes off his jacket and rolls up the sleeves of his button down shirt. Tuck stands still as Todd swings a slap at his face… and grazes his beard with a handful of limp fingers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">The bar lets out a collective groan as Todd’s girl turns away and starts chatting with another guy at the bar.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffdc00;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Listen, you won, keep the money there’s no need to-”<br />
</span></span><br />
</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="color: #2ecc40;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: xx-large;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Georgia;" class="mycode_font">!!!SWAT!!!!</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;" class="mycode_font"><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Tuck’s cast iron skillet of a right hand hits Todd’s cheek with the sound of a 1980’s phone book hitting the floor.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Todd’s head bounces first off the table and then off of the chair next to it as he collapses from the blow, and Tuck snatches the twenty off the table. Tuck turns to the bar and bellows.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“LEXINGTON KY TAGGART! GIT OVER HERE!”</span><br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ff30dc;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“One sec, pa!”</span><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">The blonde bartender says, handing over a pair of pitchers to a group of rednecks at the corner of the bar. She turns around and heads over.</span><br />
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;" class="mycode_font"><br />
<span style="color: #ff30dc;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Can you please just call me Lexi at work? These roughnecks don’t need to know my whole government name.”</span><br />
</span><br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Fuck ‘em. What’re they gonna do? I’ll send their noses to the backs of their heads they lay a finger on my baby girl.”</span><br />
</span><br />
<span style="color: #ff56ff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“What do you need?”</span><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Tuck hands Lexi the twenty.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Change for the juke. And buy Todd’s girlie a beer on me.”</span><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Lexi takes the bill and rolls her eyes.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff56ff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“She’s gonna want a White Claw.”</span><br />
</span><br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Whatever.”</span><br />
</span><br />
<br />
</span><br />
<hr class="mycode_hr" />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;" class="mycode_font"><br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">A bit later, Tuck is sitting on the side of his bed in his BVDs smoking a Marlboro as the young lady from the bar storms out of his room, covering up her naked body with the cocktail dress she wore crumpled into a ball in her hands.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #cf2be7;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Fucking JERK!”</span><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">She shouts as she heads for the door. Tuck grabs the red bottom pumps from his floor and chucks them one at a time towards her.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Don’t forget your stripper shoes, bitch!”</span><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">The door slams as Tuck drags on his smoke, then lays back against his pillow.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Wasn’t my fault I hit the wrong damn hole.”</span><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">He flicks the cherry of his cig into an ashtray by his side.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Ketucky Taggart handles business. Just because I blowed out a knee against Marigold don’t mean I ain’t ready to put a motherfucker to sleep on Anarchy. And this Anarchy? I gots TWO motherfuckers. El Lady, the Bitch Luchador, and Solomon Cuck. Listen boys, I hope y’all got a good ear doctor. Them eardrums are fittina get busted. I warned y’all, don’t forget.”</span><br />
</span><br />
</span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">He turns out the light.</span></div>]]></description>
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<span style="color: red;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Beaverlick, Kentucky<br />
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">The small town’s rowdy honky tonk, the Boot Scoot, is alive on a Friday night.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Decked out in preparation for America’s 250th birthday, the greatest Fourth of July since the original, the bar is hopping with locals. The beer is flowing and the jukebox is turned up to eleven with Hank Junior and Toby Keith blasting so loud you could feel the long oak bar vibrating under your fingers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">At a table in the corner, the XWF’s own Kentucky “Tuck” Taggart is sitting alone, one of his massive hands pressed palm down on the tabletop with his fingers spread. In his other hand? The switchblade his paw handed down to him. Tuck stabs the tip of the knife into the wooden table in between each of his fingers, moving quicker as he works his way through.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fffa1e;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Wow, nice! I was great at that in college!”<br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">A younger man says a little too loud, doing his best to impress the young lady he’s brought with him to the bar. The pair look out of place, dressed in nice clothes.  Business suit for the man and a cocktail dress for the woman. Everyone else in the room being in jeans and flannels, after all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">The younger man bumps the table Tuck is seated at when he leans in to get a closer look, and it causes Tuck to nip the side of one of his thick fingers with the blade. Tuck doesn’t flinch, though, he just stops and looks up at the man.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Help ya?”<br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Tuck growls while a drop of blood leaks from his fingertip.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffdc00;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Oh, oops! Looks like you missed… babe, in college, I would have been able to go TWICE that fast…”<br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">The girl giggles as the man leans even further over the table.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffdc00;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Tough luck, hombre! Twenty bucks says I can outdo you.”<br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">The man pulls a wallet from his jacket pocket and peels out a crisp Andrew Jackson, laying it on the table in front of Tuck with a slap. Tuck nods and lifts the switchblade to hand over to the man.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Instead, though, Tuck yanks the man’s necktie down and drives the blade through it, through the twenty, and into the table before popping up to his feet and kicking his chair backwards into the wall with a crash. Tuck sneers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“I got a better bet for ya, ya Limp-wristed Louisville Libtard. Twenty bucks? That buys you ONE.”<br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ffdc00;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“H-h-hey! What the… one what?”<br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">The man stammers as he tries to pry the switchblade out of the table with no luck.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cf2be7;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“I’ll get security, Todd!”<br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">The man's no-longer-giggling date says as she scurries off toward the bar.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Todd, huh? Well Todd… you get ONE swing at ol’ Kentucky. Open hand. You put me down, you get your tab covered the rest of the night. But I’m still standing? I get one shot on you AND I get that twenty. Bet?”<br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Todd looks unsure.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ffdc00;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Just one? Even if I lose, you only get to slap me once?”<br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“That’s all, bubba. Just a little slap. You game? Or should we let your ol’ lady over there know she got duped into datin’ one of them transgenders?”<br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Todd gapes, but looking over his shoulder he sees his girl staring at him and waiting for him to make up his mind.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffdc00;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Uh… sure. Fine. I accept.”<br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Good.”<br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Tuck pulls the knife out of the table and lets Todd stand up straight. Todd takes off his jacket and rolls up the sleeves of his button down shirt. Tuck stands still as Todd swings a slap at his face… and grazes his beard with a handful of limp fingers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">The bar lets out a collective groan as Todd’s girl turns away and starts chatting with another guy at the bar.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffdc00;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Listen, you won, keep the money there’s no need to-”<br />
</span></span><br />
</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="color: #2ecc40;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: xx-large;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Georgia;" class="mycode_font">!!!SWAT!!!!</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;" class="mycode_font"><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Tuck’s cast iron skillet of a right hand hits Todd’s cheek with the sound of a 1980’s phone book hitting the floor.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Todd’s head bounces first off the table and then off of the chair next to it as he collapses from the blow, and Tuck snatches the twenty off the table. Tuck turns to the bar and bellows.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“LEXINGTON KY TAGGART! GIT OVER HERE!”</span><br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ff30dc;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“One sec, pa!”</span><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">The blonde bartender says, handing over a pair of pitchers to a group of rednecks at the corner of the bar. She turns around and heads over.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/21FTyP35/halyj.jpg" loading="lazy"  alt="[Image: halyj.jpg]" class="mycode_img" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;" class="mycode_font"><br />
<span style="color: #ff30dc;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Can you please just call me Lexi at work? These roughnecks don’t need to know my whole government name.”</span><br />
</span><br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Fuck ‘em. What’re they gonna do? I’ll send their noses to the backs of their heads they lay a finger on my baby girl.”</span><br />
</span><br />
<span style="color: #ff56ff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“What do you need?”</span><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Tuck hands Lexi the twenty.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Change for the juke. And buy Todd’s girlie a beer on me.”</span><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Lexi takes the bill and rolls her eyes.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff56ff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“She’s gonna want a White Claw.”</span><br />
</span><br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Whatever.”</span><br />
</span><br />
<br />
</span><br />
<hr class="mycode_hr" />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;" class="mycode_font"><br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">A bit later, Tuck is sitting on the side of his bed in his BVDs smoking a Marlboro as the young lady from the bar storms out of his room, covering up her naked body with the cocktail dress she wore crumpled into a ball in her hands.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #cf2be7;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Fucking JERK!”</span><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">She shouts as she heads for the door. Tuck grabs the red bottom pumps from his floor and chucks them one at a time towards her.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Don’t forget your stripper shoes, bitch!”</span><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">The door slams as Tuck drags on his smoke, then lays back against his pillow.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Wasn’t my fault I hit the wrong damn hole.”</span><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">He flicks the cherry of his cig into an ashtray by his side.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“Ketucky Taggart handles business. Just because I blowed out a knee against Marigold don’t mean I ain’t ready to put a motherfucker to sleep on Anarchy. And this Anarchy? I gots TWO motherfuckers. El Lady, the Bitch Luchador, and Solomon Cuck. Listen boys, I hope y’all got a good ear doctor. Them eardrums are fittina get busted. I warned y’all, don’t forget.”</span><br />
</span><br />
</span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">He turns out the light.</span></div>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Legacyfall]]></title>
			<link>https://xwf1999.com/showthread.php?tid=50241</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:28:04 -0700</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://xwf1999.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=3191">Samael Dyson</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[A stormy wet sky is what greets you as the shot slowly trickles down in step with the raindrops onto Samael Dyson. He’s seated on a headstone, but it’s thus far impossible to see who’s buried there. A soaking wet Insignificant holds an umbrella aloft over his master. But most haunting of all is the eerie yet oddly familiar tune Samael is whistling…<br />
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The whistle continues until it reaches its perilous crescendo and then Samael abruptly stops, slowly cants his head and smiles maliciously. <br />
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<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">“You know, I could just about see the erection filling Elon’s pants when he announced you as my final opponent, Dickie. Too bad about those blue balls though.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Let’s dispense with the pleasantries. We know who we are. Dickie, XWF’s present day golden boy du jour. Samael, artiste in residence and general ne’er do well. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Let’s dispense with the beating around the bush too. I know you’re a verbose motherfucker and me, heh, similarly guilty as charged. But it’s completely unnecessary in this case. Why?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Because you’re gonna fucking lose. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">The writing is on the wall. You see Elon thought he hit a master stroke when he picked you. Not so! Because the vaunted Dickie Watson? He’s on a skid. Why, I remember when you chastised Jenny Myst for mocking your 0-3, rightfully pointing out it wasn’t the full picture. But now that we have a FULLER picture post March Madness, what have we got?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Golden boy lost to Scoops and fucked up March Madness when most of the prognosticators had him picked to win.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Golden boy lost to Kristoffer Arroyo. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Golden boy lost to Michael Graves. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Skid! Skid! Skid!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">And that’s not even the worst of it. You see Dickie, I love, love, LOVE how you see fit to include the Xtreme in your list of accomplishments. All four days of that reign. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Four days, Dickie! Christ in a handbasket you couldn’t hack it a WEEK! Whereas I’ve fought off over FIFTY attempts on my championship over the course of four and a half months! </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Where’s your gumption, boy?! Oh….it’s with me! I have it! Hahahahahaha!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Of course this isn’t going to stop you from assassinating my character. It’s what you’re good at. Unfortunately what you’re not so good at is saying shit that actually matters. These facts? They don’t lie. You think pointing out my mommy issues is going to stop me, the longest reigning Xtreme champion in five years, from caving your shit in? You think pointing out that I’m a bad guy is going to clinch this win for you? Oh hunty, me being a bastard is a feature, not a bug! Especially when I got a handy dandy ladder to drag across that pretty face of yours. But please do make me some cute AI art! Drop some of that famous wordplay! </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">None of it fucking matters. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">What fucking matters is that I’ve never been pinned or made to submit. You have. Multiple times. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">What fucking matters is that I’m the cruelist, most conniving son of a bitch on the roster whereas you’re a halfhearted loogie hacked up by the local Hot Topic.  </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">And most importantly of all what matters is that YOU DON’T. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Not really anyway. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Because this?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Oh I bet you thought this song was about you!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Shit it's not even about my mother anymore. I already packed that bitch up. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">No….it's about HIM."</span><br />
<br />
Samael hops down off the headstone, and we finally see the name.<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><img src="https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/estuary/public_content/enc/eyJpZCI6Im1fNmE0MDU3MWU2ZDQ4ODE5MTk3NmI1MjBlZjBhMzYxZjU6ZmlsZV8wMDAwMDAwMGFjYjQ3MjBjODk2MjkzNDc4ZmNhMjhiMCIsImdpem1vX2lkIjpudWxsLCJ0cyI6IjIwNjMxIiwicCI6InB5aSIsImNpZCI6IjEiLCJzaWciOiI2YzVmMmE5YjM1YWI5MTFmOTM4ZDMwYjMwZWJlNjY5ZWU5NDE5NmRlZmQwNGVkN2JjOTFjZDkyZmNjMTU4NWJiIiwidiI6IjAiLCJjcyI6bnVsbCwiY2RuIjpudWxsLCJmbiI6bnVsbCwiY2QiOm51bGwsImNwIjpudWxsLCJtYSI6bnVsbH0=" loading="lazy"  width="400" height="400" alt="[Image: eyJpZCI6Im1fNmE0MDU3MWU2ZDQ4ODE5MTk3NmI1...I6bnVsbH0=]" class="mycode_img" /></div>
And more alarmingly, the grave is open. The casket is open. And Dexter Bright’s skeletal corpse is exposed.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">"It’s about HIM. My mother’s pet freak! The longest Universal Championship reign in modern history. The longest XTreme Championship reign in modern history. The man who is synonymous with the legacy of the XWF. The man this company coddled while my mother tutored him about like a surrogate son, lavishing him with opportunity after opportunity while I ROTTED AWAY IN AN ASYLUM!"</span><br />
<br />
Sam’s voice hits a fever pitch, his face trembling with barely contained rage.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">"Yes, that’s right. The final target of my ire, my penultimate act of vengeance is on Dexter Bright and by extension THE ENTIRE FUCKING XWF!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">You people….<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">you people</span>....gave Dexter and my mother a home while I was being beaten down, restrained, and tortured. You indulged their vices, signed their paychecks and gave them ample TV time. You REWARDED my mother and her animal as I SUFFERED. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Well guess what you indolent pricks? It’s my turn now! It’s my turn to make the entire XWF suffer! It’s my turn to make you fuckers PAY!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Because once that Universal Championship is mine, I’m turning this entire promotion TOXIC! I’m going to make the Shane <img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif"> era look like goddamn Sesame Street. Pornography. Drugs. Ultraviolence. No network will be willing to touch the XWF with a ten foot pole! </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">The legacy of the XWF dies with ME. I will be its final champion! And who’s going to stop me? That fatted calf Dickie Watson? Heh. Ha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”</span><br />
<br />
Sam descends into peals of manic laugher. And as he does so he unzips his fly. The shot trends downwards towards the skull of Dexter Bright, one of the XWF’s most legendary bannermen. A piece of the foundation that the modern XWF is built on. It occurs to you that legacy is precisely the word to describe him…..<br />
<br />
…just as a stream of hot piss begins to patter into his eye socket. The urine slathers Dexter’s face, leaking past his teeth and into his mouth. Soaking him in Samael Dyson’s waste. And through the twinkling of the piss and the falling rain, the XTreme Champion’s psychotic chanting assaults your ears, settling in like a parasite, a mind virus warped and out of control. <br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">“DEATH TO THE XWF!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">DEATH TO THE XWF!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">DEATH TO THE XWF!”</span></div>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A stormy wet sky is what greets you as the shot slowly trickles down in step with the raindrops onto Samael Dyson. He’s seated on a headstone, but it’s thus far impossible to see who’s buried there. A soaking wet Insignificant holds an umbrella aloft over his master. But most haunting of all is the eerie yet oddly familiar tune Samael is whistling…<br />
<br />
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<br />
The whistle continues until it reaches its perilous crescendo and then Samael abruptly stops, slowly cants his head and smiles maliciously. <br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">“You know, I could just about see the erection filling Elon’s pants when he announced you as my final opponent, Dickie. Too bad about those blue balls though.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Let’s dispense with the pleasantries. We know who we are. Dickie, XWF’s present day golden boy du jour. Samael, artiste in residence and general ne’er do well. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Let’s dispense with the beating around the bush too. I know you’re a verbose motherfucker and me, heh, similarly guilty as charged. But it’s completely unnecessary in this case. Why?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Because you’re gonna fucking lose. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">The writing is on the wall. You see Elon thought he hit a master stroke when he picked you. Not so! Because the vaunted Dickie Watson? He’s on a skid. Why, I remember when you chastised Jenny Myst for mocking your 0-3, rightfully pointing out it wasn’t the full picture. But now that we have a FULLER picture post March Madness, what have we got?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Golden boy lost to Scoops and fucked up March Madness when most of the prognosticators had him picked to win.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Golden boy lost to Kristoffer Arroyo. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Golden boy lost to Michael Graves. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Skid! Skid! Skid!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">And that’s not even the worst of it. You see Dickie, I love, love, LOVE how you see fit to include the Xtreme in your list of accomplishments. All four days of that reign. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Four days, Dickie! Christ in a handbasket you couldn’t hack it a WEEK! Whereas I’ve fought off over FIFTY attempts on my championship over the course of four and a half months! </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Where’s your gumption, boy?! Oh….it’s with me! I have it! Hahahahahaha!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Of course this isn’t going to stop you from assassinating my character. It’s what you’re good at. Unfortunately what you’re not so good at is saying shit that actually matters. These facts? They don’t lie. You think pointing out my mommy issues is going to stop me, the longest reigning Xtreme champion in five years, from caving your shit in? You think pointing out that I’m a bad guy is going to clinch this win for you? Oh hunty, me being a bastard is a feature, not a bug! Especially when I got a handy dandy ladder to drag across that pretty face of yours. But please do make me some cute AI art! Drop some of that famous wordplay! </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">None of it fucking matters. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">What fucking matters is that I’ve never been pinned or made to submit. You have. Multiple times. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">What fucking matters is that I’m the cruelist, most conniving son of a bitch on the roster whereas you’re a halfhearted loogie hacked up by the local Hot Topic.  </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">And most importantly of all what matters is that YOU DON’T. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Not really anyway. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Because this?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Oh I bet you thought this song was about you!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Shit it's not even about my mother anymore. I already packed that bitch up. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">No….it's about HIM."</span><br />
<br />
Samael hops down off the headstone, and we finally see the name.<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><img src="https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/estuary/public_content/enc/eyJpZCI6Im1fNmE0MDU3MWU2ZDQ4ODE5MTk3NmI1MjBlZjBhMzYxZjU6ZmlsZV8wMDAwMDAwMGFjYjQ3MjBjODk2MjkzNDc4ZmNhMjhiMCIsImdpem1vX2lkIjpudWxsLCJ0cyI6IjIwNjMxIiwicCI6InB5aSIsImNpZCI6IjEiLCJzaWciOiI2YzVmMmE5YjM1YWI5MTFmOTM4ZDMwYjMwZWJlNjY5ZWU5NDE5NmRlZmQwNGVkN2JjOTFjZDkyZmNjMTU4NWJiIiwidiI6IjAiLCJjcyI6bnVsbCwiY2RuIjpudWxsLCJmbiI6bnVsbCwiY2QiOm51bGwsImNwIjpudWxsLCJtYSI6bnVsbH0=" loading="lazy"  width="400" height="400" alt="[Image: eyJpZCI6Im1fNmE0MDU3MWU2ZDQ4ODE5MTk3NmI1...I6bnVsbH0=]" class="mycode_img" /></div>
And more alarmingly, the grave is open. The casket is open. And Dexter Bright’s skeletal corpse is exposed.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">"It’s about HIM. My mother’s pet freak! The longest Universal Championship reign in modern history. The longest XTreme Championship reign in modern history. The man who is synonymous with the legacy of the XWF. The man this company coddled while my mother tutored him about like a surrogate son, lavishing him with opportunity after opportunity while I ROTTED AWAY IN AN ASYLUM!"</span><br />
<br />
Sam’s voice hits a fever pitch, his face trembling with barely contained rage.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">"Yes, that’s right. The final target of my ire, my penultimate act of vengeance is on Dexter Bright and by extension THE ENTIRE FUCKING XWF!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">You people….<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">you people</span>....gave Dexter and my mother a home while I was being beaten down, restrained, and tortured. You indulged their vices, signed their paychecks and gave them ample TV time. You REWARDED my mother and her animal as I SUFFERED. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Well guess what you indolent pricks? It’s my turn now! It’s my turn to make the entire XWF suffer! It’s my turn to make you fuckers PAY!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">Because once that Universal Championship is mine, I’m turning this entire promotion TOXIC! I’m going to make the Shane <img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif"> era look like goddamn Sesame Street. Pornography. Drugs. Ultraviolence. No network will be willing to touch the XWF with a ten foot pole! </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">The legacy of the XWF dies with ME. I will be its final champion! And who’s going to stop me? That fatted calf Dickie Watson? Heh. Ha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”</span><br />
<br />
Sam descends into peals of manic laugher. And as he does so he unzips his fly. The shot trends downwards towards the skull of Dexter Bright, one of the XWF’s most legendary bannermen. A piece of the foundation that the modern XWF is built on. It occurs to you that legacy is precisely the word to describe him…..<br />
<br />
…just as a stream of hot piss begins to patter into his eye socket. The urine slathers Dexter’s face, leaking past his teeth and into his mouth. Soaking him in Samael Dyson’s waste. And through the twinkling of the piss and the falling rain, the XTreme Champion’s psychotic chanting assaults your ears, settling in like a parasite, a mind virus warped and out of control. <br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">“DEATH TO THE XWF!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">DEATH TO THE XWF!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ff4136;" class="mycode_color">DEATH TO THE XWF!”</span></div>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Best Behavior]]></title>
			<link>https://xwf1999.com/showthread.php?tid=50240</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:03:25 -0700</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://xwf1999.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=3139">Sir Lionel Pennyfarthing</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: right;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ffff44;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size">Interior: Lobby</span></span></div>
<br />
Soft instrumental muzak. <br />
<br />
Framed posters cover the walls.<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: large;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">LISTEN TO UNDERSTAND.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: large;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">WORDS HAVE POWER.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: large;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">KINDNESS COSTS NOTHING</span></span>.</div>
<br />
Michael Graves sat, arms folded, staring at the last poster and considering putting his head through it. <br />
<br />
On his lap, a clipboard. Atop the page, in big, black, bold letters:..<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align">MANDATORY SENSITIVITY SEMINAR.</div>
<br />
Lane’l sat beside him, momentarily hypnotized by a pulsating vein in Michael’s skull that looked somehow ready to punch a hole through his mask.<br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Heeeey! Don’t look glum-bago, chum-bago! The Trillies just want us ready for the PR circuit! As the star of the upcoming Vinnie Lane biopic—and his Realistic Combat Consultant—we gotta know what not to say on a live mic!”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">”I am a live Mike…”</font></span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Hell yeah, Graves-meister! The Trillies are investing in us! Cuz as a team? We’re cash MONEY! Anarchy’s still the playground of Cock ‘n Guac in the Morning, 69 point FUN, EFF-EM! We just gotta…. tune our frequency… set our receptiveness to max!”</span><br />
<br />
Suddenly, the door beside reception opened. A woman in a blue pantsuit entered, sporting  enough pins on her jacket to qualify as body armor. <br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="font-size: large;" class="mycode_size">SHARE OPENLY.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="font-size: large;" class="mycode_size">SILENCE IS VIOLENCE.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="font-size: large;" class="mycode_size">BE KIND OR DIE.</span></span></div>
<br />
<font color="pink">“Good afternoon.”</font><br />
<br />
Michael looked at the clock. <br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">”It’s ten AM…”</font></span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Solar-based greetings exclude individuals whose internal rhythms do not align with conventional scheduling.”</font><br />
<br />
Michael just stared… <br />
<br />
Lane’l’s eyes narrowed in thought, pondering  this PC riddle.<br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“OH!”</span> <br />
<br />
Lane’l whispered toward Michael… <span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”I think she means vampires.”</span><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ffffff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: xx-large;" class="mycode_size">SMACK!</span></span></div>
<br />
A yardstick SMACKED Lane’l’s hand!<br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“OUCH CITY!”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”The politically-correct term is <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">hemoglobin-deficient</span>. ‘Vampire’ has historical negative connotations and is not acceptable language.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">“But… it’s… breakfast time? Sun… breakfast… morning.”</font></span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“No. We say ‘good afternoon’ because it’s always after noon.”</font><br />
<br />
Graves blinked. <br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”...Totes.”</span> Lane’l inhales, shaking his agonized hand into a shaka. He mouthed to Graves… <span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Max… receptiveness… yoooooo.”</span><br />
<br />
Lane’l smiled. <span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Like the song goes, it’s five o’clock somewhere!”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Ah. A reference.”</font><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ffffff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: xx-large;" class="mycode_size">SMACK!</span></span></div>
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“AH-AH-AHHHHHHH. OWWWWWW!”</span> Lane’l moaned to the tune of <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">‘Immigrant Song’</span> by Led Zeppelin. <br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“References are exclusionary. They create an in-group of those familiar with the source and exclude the unfamiliar.”</font><br />
<br />
The woman adjusted her glasses, stepping forward.<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“My name is Harmony Evergreen. She/her, ally, and XWF’s Senior Director of Emotional Accountability.”</font><br />
<br />
Michael glared like she was a diseased rat.<br />
<br />
…Well, no, Michael wouldn’t be <span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u">disgusted</span> by a diseased rat. <br />
<br />
Michael glared like a <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">normal person</span> would glare at a diseased rat.<br />
<br />
Lane’l reached to shake Harmony’s hand.<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ffffff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: xx-large;" class="mycode_size">WHAP!</span></span></div>
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Da-Duh-nuh-nuh-nuh…. OWWWWWW!”</span> (“Rock and Roll” by Gary Glitter)<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Physical greetings create unspoken pressure. And unspoken pressure is violence.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Violence</span> is violence.”</font></span><br />
<br />
Harmony touched her heart. <font color="pink">“Thank you for sharing your truth, Michael.”</font><br />
<br />
Harmony checked her tablet.<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Michael, I must say—I am impressed.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">”With what?”</font></span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“According to your employee profile, you answer to he/him, she/her, they/them, it/its, we/us, any/all, and occasionally hey/asshole.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">”Yeah, that usually gets my attention.”</font></span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Your relationship with identity is admirably fluid.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">”Fluid? Like milk?”</font></span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“And I see you’re a member of the trans community… *and* the trans-trans community.”<br />
<br />
“My sincerest congratulations on living openly as your genuine self.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">”I live on a park bench.”</font></span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”Uh, ex-squeeze me… the trans-<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">trans</span> community?”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Those who transitioned, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">then</span> transitioned beyond their original transition.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”You mean transitioned <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">back</span>?”</span><br />
<br />
SMACK!<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“BEYOND.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">”Like changing buses?”</font></span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“A perfect metaphor.”</font><br />
<br />
Michael nodded.<br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">”I’ve done that.”</font></span><br />
<br />
Lane’l sucks air, his hand tanned red... <span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”Yoooooo… Could we start so fresh, so clean? I’m Lan-”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“I’m *too* familiar with you, Pennyfarthing. Your XWF escapades have been… exceedingly problematic.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“...Whoa, harsh. I’m <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">no simpatico</span> with the problematic-o, dawg! I’m just a performer! An artist!”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Identity theft is not art.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“...Identity theft? No, I’m… I’m an actor!”</font><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ffffff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: xx-large;" class="mycode_size">WHAP! </span></span></div>
<br />
Yardstick across Lane’l’s eyepatch!<br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“AYAYAY! MY EYE!”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“My identity is not your costume.”</font><br />
<br />
Harmony grips her yardstick.<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“We have… MUCH to do for your… re-education.”</font><br />
<br />
<hr class="mycode_hr" />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">“Pretty sure I was born in that closet. It’s all I’d ever known.”</font></span><br />
<br />
Micheal held a stick, labelled ‘the honest stick.’ Harmony nodded, as if Graves was bestowing sage wisdom.<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“It takes true courage to acknowledge you were in the closet, Michael.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Uh…”</span> Lane’l raises his hand. <span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“F-to-the-Y-to-the-I, Gravy’s talking about a closet. Not metaphorically. I found him in a closet where we work.”</span><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ffffff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: xx-large;" class="mycode_size">WHAP!</span></span></div>
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Owwwwwwwww-chee-wa-wa...”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“You’re not holding the honest stick.”</font> Harmony chided, before turning back to Graves…. <font color="pink">“And who did you encounter when you gave yourself permission to leave the closet?”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">“A fuckton of furries.”</font></span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“So brave.”</font><br />
<br />
<hr class="mycode_hr" />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Next, you’ll share stories describing prior instances of… problematic behavior. We’ll start with Pennyfarthing.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Okay.”</span> …Lane’l squinted skeptically. <span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“And, like… you ain’t gonna smack me when I share the problematic thing I did?”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Obviously not. This is a safe space.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“...Well… way back, Micheal Graves…”<br />
<br />
“(allegedly)...”<br />
<br />
“Hired me to play Charlie Nickles… and, while in-character, I got booked against ragin’ Summer Pagin’...” <br />
<br />
“So! I came out as the Nickleman, ready to give her no quarter! To drop her like an unlucky penny!”<br />
<br />
“Buuuuut, I didn’t know Nickles had previously locked her in a trunk, tryin’ to make waves in James Shark’s pool, dig?”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“So… kinda aggravated her trauma… That was…”</span> Lane’l crossed his arms, shrugging.  <span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“...uncool, yo.”</span><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ffffff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: xx-large;" class="mycode_size">WHAP!</span></span></div>
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Daaaaaaaaaaawg!”</span> Lane’l moaned, cradling his forehead. <span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“You SAID you wouldn’t hit me!”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“I never expected you’d share a story that’s your victim’s to tell. How dare you steal her truth.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“YOU said tell a story where I was prob-”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Now, Michael. Describe an instance you were problematic.”</font><br />
<br />
Michael glances at the ceiling.<br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">“...”</font></span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">“Can’t think of anything.”</font></span><br />
<br />
…Harmony nods.<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Impressive. You’ve never been problematic.”</font><br />
<br />
Lane’l squints in disbelief.<br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“DAWG! What about… like… the KID! Honey, he blew up a kid! And his stuff with Dolly from way ba-”</span><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ffffff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: xx-large;" class="mycode_size">WHAP!</span></span></div>
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Awwwwwwwwww SHARONA!”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Stop telling other people’s stories, Mister Pennyfarthing…”</font><br />
<br />
<hr class="mycode_hr" />
<br />
<font color="pink">“You’ve reached our program’s end. Congratulations.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Dope-as-a-soap-on-a-rope.”</span> Lane’l rubbed a large purple welt at his forehead’s center... <span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“We’ll skip the graduation walk… Just email those ‘completed-the-course’ certificates…”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“No certificates, Pennyfarthing. Instead, you finally… awaken.”</font><br />
<br />
Harmony opened a door…<br />
<br />
To reveal a dark room…<br />
<br />
Atop an illuminated examination table… <br />
<br />
A wriggling millipede-esque creature the size of a schnauzer.<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“WHOA! Gag me with pesticide, yo! Anybody got a newspaper the size of a baseball bat? …Axly, just gimme a baseball bat.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”…How… unreceptive…”</font> Harmony scooped up the insect. It wrapped itself around her wrist.<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“To graduate, you will permit this creature to occupy your mind.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">“My mind’s full-up on tenants.”</font></span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“...Yo, what da FUCK? Isn’t this class about… like… not being problematic?”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“The level of self-interrogation required to critically analyze one’s own problematic tendencies is all-consuming.”<br />
<br />
“By enrolling in a class to become unproblematic, you wield privilege in the form of access and resources.”<br />
<br />
“The journey toward becoming unproblematic IS itself problematic.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“...Whoa.”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“To resolve this internal contradiction, we must excise your ability to look internally.”<br />
<br />
“Destroy the conscious.”<br />
<br />
Allow this creature to assume your mind. Give it control.”<br />
<br />
“When all humans surrender their consciousness… your species will finally be without conflict.”<br />
<br />
“In harmony…”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">“The road to becoming woke means going to sleep?”</font></span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“...Dawg? HARD PASS. The world’s got mad problems… but the solution can’t be surrendering our humanity!”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”Your ’humanity’ is a privilege. Acknowledge it.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”That doesn’t mean I gotta give it up, yo!”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”Spoken like a colonizer.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”Dawg, YOU can’t call ME ‘colonizer’ when you’re LIT’RALLY colonizing Earth, BUG!”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">“What he said. You’re not offering a cure. You’re spreading a WOKE MIND VIRUS.”</font></span><br />
<br />
Harmony stroked her insectoid’s chin…<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Shame. With your enlightened sense of self, I’d hoped you’d be… receptive, Graves.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">“You don’t want reception. You want the frequency shut-off.” <br />
<br />
“Even if it’s after-noon? That don’t make it bedtime.”<br />
<br />
“Want my brain? Pry it outta my cold, dead hands.”</font></span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“That can be arranged.”</font><br />
<br />
Harmony snaps her fingers.<br />
<br />
From the walls… shambling zombie hipsters!<br />
<br />
Insectoids peering from their ears!<br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Dawg! This was supposed to be a safe space!”</span><br />
<br />
<center><table cellpadding="30" border="1" bordercolor="blue" width="60%"><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="black" background="http://i.imgur.com/SZ5atbH.png"><font color="white">TO BE CONTINUED…</font></td></tr></table></center><br />
<br />
<hr class="mycode_hr" />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">I learnt a new word today.<br />
<br />
ESTABLISHMENT. <br />
<br />
I thought an establishment was a building. Like a bar… Or a Hooters. <br />
<br />
Turns out, it’s people too. <br />
<br />
People who have been around so long, got so much power, and got rewarded so many times that they basically become bricks of the building themselves.</font></span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”Ick city. We stepped-up from the JOB squad, yo! Crawled outta the lowest pipe in the sewer system! And now dweebs born on third base wanna play dress-up like THEY’re getting held-down?”<br />
<br />
“Is there anything LAMER than pretending to be something you’re not?”</span><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”...Wait, not… not like us!”<br />
<br />
“We’re doing this for ART. They’re doing this to tilt a scale already weighed in their favor!”<br />
<br />
“WE’RE Impostors, but THEY’RE full-on PHONIES!”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">Take Centurion. <br />
<br />
Two-hundred-and-twenty-four wins. Three World titles. Five Tag titles. Three Anarchy titles. Seven Xtreme titles. Official XWF Legend.<br />
<br />
They’ve given this motherfucker everything except a retirement match.<br />
<br />
That’s our job!<br />
<br />
But this guy’s supposed to be #TheResistance!?</font></span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”Cent’s idea of Rebellion is wearing an Elon-cheese-hat t-shirt… while he wrestles on Eazy-E’s show and hits all his marks advertising Musky’s products.”</span><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/hFQLyr8T/effcf3a6-07a9-4195-8647-d519e2436cdb.avif" loading="lazy"  width="400" height="300" alt="[Image: effcf3a6-07a9-4195-8647-d519e2436cdb.avif]" class="mycode_img" /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">”Ha, got ‘em!” says the Man dancing for nickels, making Musk mad money</span></div>
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Lit’rally WEEKS ago! Cent marched into an XWF ring to brag about his UNSACKABLE, THIRTY-YEAR contract!”<br />
<br />
“Dawg, you can’t claim you’re the voice of the voiceless when you’ve got HIGH-POWER ATTORNEYS working overtime to make you UNFIRABLE!!! You’ve got more voice than ANYBODY, yo!”<br />
<br />
“Andy’s gabbing about how the people must overcome their corporate oppressors, calling Elon a tyrant… while loungin’ on a Cali King made outta SpaceX paychecks!!”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">Fuckface even made sure that the contract was tied to the company and not J-boy Brown. <br />
<br />
No matter who buys the place, Cent gets paid. <br />
<br />
Smart.<br />
<br />
Real smart.<br />
<br />
But it ain’t no resistance.<br />
<br />
Centurion imagines himself standing at the gates of the XWF throwing stones. <br />
<br />
In reality, he’s got a permanent residence in the building’s biggest suite…<br />
<br />
Pissed off that the new owners swapped the curtains.<br />
<br />
A Mind Virus is exactly what he has.<br />
<br />
But Centurion ain’t a resistance fighter. Never was.</font></span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”Playing a part! And dudes, I knoooooow playing a part!”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">The XWF needed Centurion, and he exploited that need to secure permanent wealth.<br />
<br />
Institutional protection.<br />
<br />
Out of everyone in this match… Hell, this whole company? <br />
<br />
Centurion IS the establishment.<br />
<br />
Sheep in wolf's clothing.”</font></span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Totes! And… wait… rewind-and-reverse.”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">“Then he puts pronouns in his bio and acts like that’s #Resistance. <br />
<br />
He/him.<br />
<br />
Yeah, Cent, we know.<br />
<br />
Harmony would give you a sticker for participating.<br />
<br />
Speaking of—who the fuck is Oleandyr Reitan?<br />
<br />
Only thing remotely credible about her is that she’s a martial artist.<br />
<br />
But what art is she martialing? I looked it up, found plenty about what she believes, but nothing about why anyone should fear her.<br />
<br />
Centurion’s accomplishments don’t transfer just cuz you’re ridin’ his coattails.</font></span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Claws latched into his draggin’-on-the-floor old-man balls!”</span> <br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">Experience ain’t caught like a cold. <br />
<br />
What we have here is a new girl…</font></span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“HE MEANS NON-BINARY INDIVIDUAL OF SELF-DETERMINED GENDER EXPRESSION. Damn Gravy, you’re gonna get us cancelled faster than Thad’s Monday Night Madness!”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">Standing beside the oldest, most-protected man in the company,</font></span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Less ‘standing beside’ and more ‘hiding within’… like a parasite!”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">Hoping his credibility rubs off… before anyone has the chance to ask what you’ve ever done. <br />
<br />
Well, we’re asking.<br />
<br />
What have you done?”</font></span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”Dare to compare? Last Anarchy, we defeated a former Tag Champ! And the REIGNING Anarchy Champion! Miss Furry hasn’t lost… EVER! Since her debut in SEPTEMBER 2024, yo! NOBODY could beat Furry!”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">Centurion included. We earned our place by winning. Oleandyr earned hers by being available when Centurion came looking for a partner.</font></span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”Calling for the Anarchy tag champs when y’all ain’t even tagged together? Better keep stirring the pot, cuz that’s WEAK SAUUUUUUUUUUCE!”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">Oleandyr, you might know a fancy kick or two. <br />
<br />
Good for you. <br />
<br />
But this ain’t no demonstration. <br />
<br />
It’s full-contact.<br />
<br />
Centurion’s record can’t fight for you. <br />
<br />
Nellie’s words can’t protect you. <br />
<br />
You’ll have to stand on your own. <br />
<br />
And from everything we’ve seen? <br />
<br />
You standing behind Centurion is the only thing keeping anybody from looking straight through you.</font></span><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>Also! Hixx and Blade are in the match.</span> <br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">There, we mentioned them… That’s more than they deserve!</font></span>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: right;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ffff44;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size">Interior: Lobby</span></span></div>
<br />
Soft instrumental muzak. <br />
<br />
Framed posters cover the walls.<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: large;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">LISTEN TO UNDERSTAND.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: large;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">WORDS HAVE POWER.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: large;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">KINDNESS COSTS NOTHING</span></span>.</div>
<br />
Michael Graves sat, arms folded, staring at the last poster and considering putting his head through it. <br />
<br />
On his lap, a clipboard. Atop the page, in big, black, bold letters:..<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align">MANDATORY SENSITIVITY SEMINAR.</div>
<br />
Lane’l sat beside him, momentarily hypnotized by a pulsating vein in Michael’s skull that looked somehow ready to punch a hole through his mask.<br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Heeeey! Don’t look glum-bago, chum-bago! The Trillies just want us ready for the PR circuit! As the star of the upcoming Vinnie Lane biopic—and his Realistic Combat Consultant—we gotta know what not to say on a live mic!”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">”I am a live Mike…”</font></span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Hell yeah, Graves-meister! The Trillies are investing in us! Cuz as a team? We’re cash MONEY! Anarchy’s still the playground of Cock ‘n Guac in the Morning, 69 point FUN, EFF-EM! We just gotta…. tune our frequency… set our receptiveness to max!”</span><br />
<br />
Suddenly, the door beside reception opened. A woman in a blue pantsuit entered, sporting  enough pins on her jacket to qualify as body armor. <br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="font-size: large;" class="mycode_size">SHARE OPENLY.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="font-size: large;" class="mycode_size">SILENCE IS VIOLENCE.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="font-size: large;" class="mycode_size">BE KIND OR DIE.</span></span></div>
<br />
<font color="pink">“Good afternoon.”</font><br />
<br />
Michael looked at the clock. <br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">”It’s ten AM…”</font></span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Solar-based greetings exclude individuals whose internal rhythms do not align with conventional scheduling.”</font><br />
<br />
Michael just stared… <br />
<br />
Lane’l’s eyes narrowed in thought, pondering  this PC riddle.<br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“OH!”</span> <br />
<br />
Lane’l whispered toward Michael… <span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”I think she means vampires.”</span><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ffffff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: xx-large;" class="mycode_size">SMACK!</span></span></div>
<br />
A yardstick SMACKED Lane’l’s hand!<br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“OUCH CITY!”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”The politically-correct term is <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">hemoglobin-deficient</span>. ‘Vampire’ has historical negative connotations and is not acceptable language.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">“But… it’s… breakfast time? Sun… breakfast… morning.”</font></span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“No. We say ‘good afternoon’ because it’s always after noon.”</font><br />
<br />
Graves blinked. <br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”...Totes.”</span> Lane’l inhales, shaking his agonized hand into a shaka. He mouthed to Graves… <span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Max… receptiveness… yoooooo.”</span><br />
<br />
Lane’l smiled. <span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Like the song goes, it’s five o’clock somewhere!”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Ah. A reference.”</font><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ffffff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: xx-large;" class="mycode_size">SMACK!</span></span></div>
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“AH-AH-AHHHHHHH. OWWWWWW!”</span> Lane’l moaned to the tune of <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">‘Immigrant Song’</span> by Led Zeppelin. <br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“References are exclusionary. They create an in-group of those familiar with the source and exclude the unfamiliar.”</font><br />
<br />
The woman adjusted her glasses, stepping forward.<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“My name is Harmony Evergreen. She/her, ally, and XWF’s Senior Director of Emotional Accountability.”</font><br />
<br />
Michael glared like she was a diseased rat.<br />
<br />
…Well, no, Michael wouldn’t be <span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u">disgusted</span> by a diseased rat. <br />
<br />
Michael glared like a <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">normal person</span> would glare at a diseased rat.<br />
<br />
Lane’l reached to shake Harmony’s hand.<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ffffff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: xx-large;" class="mycode_size">WHAP!</span></span></div>
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Da-Duh-nuh-nuh-nuh…. OWWWWWW!”</span> (“Rock and Roll” by Gary Glitter)<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Physical greetings create unspoken pressure. And unspoken pressure is violence.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Violence</span> is violence.”</font></span><br />
<br />
Harmony touched her heart. <font color="pink">“Thank you for sharing your truth, Michael.”</font><br />
<br />
Harmony checked her tablet.<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Michael, I must say—I am impressed.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">”With what?”</font></span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“According to your employee profile, you answer to he/him, she/her, they/them, it/its, we/us, any/all, and occasionally hey/asshole.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">”Yeah, that usually gets my attention.”</font></span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Your relationship with identity is admirably fluid.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">”Fluid? Like milk?”</font></span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“And I see you’re a member of the trans community… *and* the trans-trans community.”<br />
<br />
“My sincerest congratulations on living openly as your genuine self.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">”I live on a park bench.”</font></span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”Uh, ex-squeeze me… the trans-<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">trans</span> community?”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Those who transitioned, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">then</span> transitioned beyond their original transition.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”You mean transitioned <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">back</span>?”</span><br />
<br />
SMACK!<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“BEYOND.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">”Like changing buses?”</font></span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“A perfect metaphor.”</font><br />
<br />
Michael nodded.<br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">”I’ve done that.”</font></span><br />
<br />
Lane’l sucks air, his hand tanned red... <span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”Yoooooo… Could we start so fresh, so clean? I’m Lan-”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“I’m *too* familiar with you, Pennyfarthing. Your XWF escapades have been… exceedingly problematic.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“...Whoa, harsh. I’m <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">no simpatico</span> with the problematic-o, dawg! I’m just a performer! An artist!”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Identity theft is not art.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“...Identity theft? No, I’m… I’m an actor!”</font><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ffffff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: xx-large;" class="mycode_size">WHAP! </span></span></div>
<br />
Yardstick across Lane’l’s eyepatch!<br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“AYAYAY! MY EYE!”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“My identity is not your costume.”</font><br />
<br />
Harmony grips her yardstick.<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“We have… MUCH to do for your… re-education.”</font><br />
<br />
<hr class="mycode_hr" />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">“Pretty sure I was born in that closet. It’s all I’d ever known.”</font></span><br />
<br />
Micheal held a stick, labelled ‘the honest stick.’ Harmony nodded, as if Graves was bestowing sage wisdom.<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“It takes true courage to acknowledge you were in the closet, Michael.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Uh…”</span> Lane’l raises his hand. <span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“F-to-the-Y-to-the-I, Gravy’s talking about a closet. Not metaphorically. I found him in a closet where we work.”</span><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ffffff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: xx-large;" class="mycode_size">WHAP!</span></span></div>
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Owwwwwwwww-chee-wa-wa...”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“You’re not holding the honest stick.”</font> Harmony chided, before turning back to Graves…. <font color="pink">“And who did you encounter when you gave yourself permission to leave the closet?”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">“A fuckton of furries.”</font></span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“So brave.”</font><br />
<br />
<hr class="mycode_hr" />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Next, you’ll share stories describing prior instances of… problematic behavior. We’ll start with Pennyfarthing.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Okay.”</span> …Lane’l squinted skeptically. <span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“And, like… you ain’t gonna smack me when I share the problematic thing I did?”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Obviously not. This is a safe space.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“...Well… way back, Micheal Graves…”<br />
<br />
“(allegedly)...”<br />
<br />
“Hired me to play Charlie Nickles… and, while in-character, I got booked against ragin’ Summer Pagin’...” <br />
<br />
“So! I came out as the Nickleman, ready to give her no quarter! To drop her like an unlucky penny!”<br />
<br />
“Buuuuut, I didn’t know Nickles had previously locked her in a trunk, tryin’ to make waves in James Shark’s pool, dig?”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“So… kinda aggravated her trauma… That was…”</span> Lane’l crossed his arms, shrugging.  <span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“...uncool, yo.”</span><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ffffff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: xx-large;" class="mycode_size">WHAP!</span></span></div>
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Daaaaaaaaaaawg!”</span> Lane’l moaned, cradling his forehead. <span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“You SAID you wouldn’t hit me!”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“I never expected you’d share a story that’s your victim’s to tell. How dare you steal her truth.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“YOU said tell a story where I was prob-”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Now, Michael. Describe an instance you were problematic.”</font><br />
<br />
Michael glances at the ceiling.<br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">“...”</font></span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">“Can’t think of anything.”</font></span><br />
<br />
…Harmony nods.<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Impressive. You’ve never been problematic.”</font><br />
<br />
Lane’l squints in disbelief.<br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“DAWG! What about… like… the KID! Honey, he blew up a kid! And his stuff with Dolly from way ba-”</span><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #ffffff;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: xx-large;" class="mycode_size">WHAP!</span></span></div>
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Awwwwwwwwww SHARONA!”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Stop telling other people’s stories, Mister Pennyfarthing…”</font><br />
<br />
<hr class="mycode_hr" />
<br />
<font color="pink">“You’ve reached our program’s end. Congratulations.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Dope-as-a-soap-on-a-rope.”</span> Lane’l rubbed a large purple welt at his forehead’s center... <span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“We’ll skip the graduation walk… Just email those ‘completed-the-course’ certificates…”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“No certificates, Pennyfarthing. Instead, you finally… awaken.”</font><br />
<br />
Harmony opened a door…<br />
<br />
To reveal a dark room…<br />
<br />
Atop an illuminated examination table… <br />
<br />
A wriggling millipede-esque creature the size of a schnauzer.<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“WHOA! Gag me with pesticide, yo! Anybody got a newspaper the size of a baseball bat? …Axly, just gimme a baseball bat.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”…How… unreceptive…”</font> Harmony scooped up the insect. It wrapped itself around her wrist.<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“To graduate, you will permit this creature to occupy your mind.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">“My mind’s full-up on tenants.”</font></span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“...Yo, what da FUCK? Isn’t this class about… like… not being problematic?”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“The level of self-interrogation required to critically analyze one’s own problematic tendencies is all-consuming.”<br />
<br />
“By enrolling in a class to become unproblematic, you wield privilege in the form of access and resources.”<br />
<br />
“The journey toward becoming unproblematic IS itself problematic.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“...Whoa.”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“To resolve this internal contradiction, we must excise your ability to look internally.”<br />
<br />
“Destroy the conscious.”<br />
<br />
Allow this creature to assume your mind. Give it control.”<br />
<br />
“When all humans surrender their consciousness… your species will finally be without conflict.”<br />
<br />
“In harmony…”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">“The road to becoming woke means going to sleep?”</font></span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“...Dawg? HARD PASS. The world’s got mad problems… but the solution can’t be surrendering our humanity!”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”Your ’humanity’ is a privilege. Acknowledge it.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”That doesn’t mean I gotta give it up, yo!”</span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”Spoken like a colonizer.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”Dawg, YOU can’t call ME ‘colonizer’ when you’re LIT’RALLY colonizing Earth, BUG!”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">“What he said. You’re not offering a cure. You’re spreading a WOKE MIND VIRUS.”</font></span><br />
<br />
Harmony stroked her insectoid’s chin…<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“Shame. With your enlightened sense of self, I’d hoped you’d be… receptive, Graves.”</font><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">“You don’t want reception. You want the frequency shut-off.” <br />
<br />
“Even if it’s after-noon? That don’t make it bedtime.”<br />
<br />
“Want my brain? Pry it outta my cold, dead hands.”</font></span><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“That can be arranged.”</font><br />
<br />
Harmony snaps her fingers.<br />
<br />
From the walls… shambling zombie hipsters!<br />
<br />
Insectoids peering from their ears!<br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Dawg! This was supposed to be a safe space!”</span><br />
<br />
<center><table cellpadding="30" border="1" bordercolor="blue" width="60%"><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="black" background="http://i.imgur.com/SZ5atbH.png"><font color="white">TO BE CONTINUED…</font></td></tr></table></center><br />
<br />
<hr class="mycode_hr" />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">I learnt a new word today.<br />
<br />
ESTABLISHMENT. <br />
<br />
I thought an establishment was a building. Like a bar… Or a Hooters. <br />
<br />
Turns out, it’s people too. <br />
<br />
People who have been around so long, got so much power, and got rewarded so many times that they basically become bricks of the building themselves.</font></span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”Ick city. We stepped-up from the JOB squad, yo! Crawled outta the lowest pipe in the sewer system! And now dweebs born on third base wanna play dress-up like THEY’re getting held-down?”<br />
<br />
“Is there anything LAMER than pretending to be something you’re not?”</span><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”...Wait, not… not like us!”<br />
<br />
“We’re doing this for ART. They’re doing this to tilt a scale already weighed in their favor!”<br />
<br />
“WE’RE Impostors, but THEY’RE full-on PHONIES!”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">Take Centurion. <br />
<br />
Two-hundred-and-twenty-four wins. Three World titles. Five Tag titles. Three Anarchy titles. Seven Xtreme titles. Official XWF Legend.<br />
<br />
They’ve given this motherfucker everything except a retirement match.<br />
<br />
That’s our job!<br />
<br />
But this guy’s supposed to be #TheResistance!?</font></span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”Cent’s idea of Rebellion is wearing an Elon-cheese-hat t-shirt… while he wrestles on Eazy-E’s show and hits all his marks advertising Musky’s products.”</span><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/hFQLyr8T/effcf3a6-07a9-4195-8647-d519e2436cdb.avif" loading="lazy"  width="400" height="300" alt="[Image: effcf3a6-07a9-4195-8647-d519e2436cdb.avif]" class="mycode_img" /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">”Ha, got ‘em!” says the Man dancing for nickels, making Musk mad money</span></div>
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Lit’rally WEEKS ago! Cent marched into an XWF ring to brag about his UNSACKABLE, THIRTY-YEAR contract!”<br />
<br />
“Dawg, you can’t claim you’re the voice of the voiceless when you’ve got HIGH-POWER ATTORNEYS working overtime to make you UNFIRABLE!!! You’ve got more voice than ANYBODY, yo!”<br />
<br />
“Andy’s gabbing about how the people must overcome their corporate oppressors, calling Elon a tyrant… while loungin’ on a Cali King made outta SpaceX paychecks!!”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">Fuckface even made sure that the contract was tied to the company and not J-boy Brown. <br />
<br />
No matter who buys the place, Cent gets paid. <br />
<br />
Smart.<br />
<br />
Real smart.<br />
<br />
But it ain’t no resistance.<br />
<br />
Centurion imagines himself standing at the gates of the XWF throwing stones. <br />
<br />
In reality, he’s got a permanent residence in the building’s biggest suite…<br />
<br />
Pissed off that the new owners swapped the curtains.<br />
<br />
A Mind Virus is exactly what he has.<br />
<br />
But Centurion ain’t a resistance fighter. Never was.</font></span><br />
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<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”Playing a part! And dudes, I knoooooow playing a part!”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">The XWF needed Centurion, and he exploited that need to secure permanent wealth.<br />
<br />
Institutional protection.<br />
<br />
Out of everyone in this match… Hell, this whole company? <br />
<br />
Centurion IS the establishment.<br />
<br />
Sheep in wolf's clothing.”</font></span><br />
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<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Totes! And… wait… rewind-and-reverse.”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">“Then he puts pronouns in his bio and acts like that’s #Resistance. <br />
<br />
He/him.<br />
<br />
Yeah, Cent, we know.<br />
<br />
Harmony would give you a sticker for participating.<br />
<br />
Speaking of—who the fuck is Oleandyr Reitan?<br />
<br />
Only thing remotely credible about her is that she’s a martial artist.<br />
<br />
But what art is she martialing? I looked it up, found plenty about what she believes, but nothing about why anyone should fear her.<br />
<br />
Centurion’s accomplishments don’t transfer just cuz you’re ridin’ his coattails.</font></span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Claws latched into his draggin’-on-the-floor old-man balls!”</span> <br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">Experience ain’t caught like a cold. <br />
<br />
What we have here is a new girl…</font></span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“HE MEANS NON-BINARY INDIVIDUAL OF SELF-DETERMINED GENDER EXPRESSION. Damn Gravy, you’re gonna get us cancelled faster than Thad’s Monday Night Madness!”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">Standing beside the oldest, most-protected man in the company,</font></span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>“Less ‘standing beside’ and more ‘hiding within’… like a parasite!”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">Hoping his credibility rubs off… before anyone has the chance to ask what you’ve ever done. <br />
<br />
Well, we’re asking.<br />
<br />
What have you done?”</font></span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”Dare to compare? Last Anarchy, we defeated a former Tag Champ! And the REIGNING Anarchy Champion! Miss Furry hasn’t lost… EVER! Since her debut in SEPTEMBER 2024, yo! NOBODY could beat Furry!”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">Centurion included. We earned our place by winning. Oleandyr earned hers by being available when Centurion came looking for a partner.</font></span><br />
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<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>”Calling for the Anarchy tag champs when y’all ain’t even tagged together? Better keep stirring the pot, cuz that’s WEAK SAUUUUUUUUUUCE!”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">Oleandyr, you might know a fancy kick or two. <br />
<br />
Good for you. <br />
<br />
But this ain’t no demonstration. <br />
<br />
It’s full-contact.<br />
<br />
Centurion’s record can’t fight for you. <br />
<br />
Nellie’s words can’t protect you. <br />
<br />
You’ll have to stand on your own. <br />
<br />
And from everything we’ve seen? <br />
<br />
You standing behind Centurion is the only thing keeping anybody from looking straight through you.</font></span><br />
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…<br />
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<span style="text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;font-size:15pt;color:#ff1493;font-weight:bold;font-family:'trebuchet ms";>Also! Hixx and Blade are in the match.</span> <br />
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<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 13px lime"><font color="purple">There, we mentioned them… That’s more than they deserve!</font></span>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[There's No Escaping]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 02:00:53 -0700</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://xwf1999.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=3178">El landerson</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">When Big Luchador was in the back preparing for his three-way, until Tig Collins came and stood beside of him while speaking</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G7Ic9mqXIAAoE6i.jpg" loading="lazy"  width="711" height="400" alt="[Image: G7Ic9mqXIAAoE6i.jpg]" class="mycode_img" /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Tig Collins: <span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">Landerson. Three weeks ago on Anarchy, you were eliminated through a table by Dom Durango. And now this week, you'll be facing not one but two people in another triple threat, but only against Solomon Kline and Kentucky. On Anarchy, care to comment, Mr Landerson?</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">XWF Universe Cheers for Landerson.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HMBM3ZRXgAARctT.jpg?format=jpg&amp;name=thumb" loading="lazy"  width="150" height="150" alt="[Image: HMBM3ZRXgAARctT.jpg?format=jpg&amp;name=thumb]" class="mycode_img" /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Bit luchador| Landerson: <span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color">Dom Durango. may have won the tables elimination, but I'm still standing, </span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">and whoever is out there wants a piece of The Bit Luchador. They know where to find me cause I'm</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">not that easy to find, so Kentucky and Solomon Kline. You two better get ready for what's coming</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color">your way when The Bit Luchador starts attacking you two, then you must be getting prepared for what's about to come when all three of us meet in the same ring together when we have our three-way match on Anarchy at XWF.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Tig Collins: <span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">And what's next for you, Mr Landerson, after your triple threat match?</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Bit Luchador| Landerson: <span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color"> I haven't made up my mind just yet, until I win my three-way match with</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Solomon Kline and Kentucky. And once that happens, then maybe I'll get an Anarchy title from Miss Furry at Bad Medicine unless she's too afraid to defend her Anarchy title against Bit Luchador</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color">on Bad Medicine right after I handle some business this week on Anarchy when I face Kentucky and Solomon Kline at XWF.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Tig Collins: <span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">But what if you can't handle Solomon Kline and Kentucky? on Anarchy.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Bit Luchador| Landerson: <span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color">Kentucky and Solomon Kline. doesn't know what they are cable of when i drop the dime on there culos when all three of us will meet out there in the center of the ring</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color">and win my triple threat match on Anarchy and when the time comes The Bit Luchador will be ready once I get my hands on the X-Treme Championship at Bad Medicine if only Samael Dyson. accepts my offer and puts it on the line against me on Bad Medicine cause he knows if he defends it, then consider himself lucky when I catch his X-Treme title in an X-Treme Rules match for his title at Bad Medicine, and I want him to watch my triple threat match when I mop the floors with Kline and Kentucky. This week on Anarchy at XWF.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Tig Collins: <span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">Do you think that Samael Dyson might accept your offer at Bad Medicine? right after your triple threat match with Solomon Kline and Kentucky. at Anarchy.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Bit Luchador| Landerson: <span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color">Solomon Kline and Kentucky. They better not just come after me because it's every man for himself, and it's a three-way match at Anarchy, and once that bell rings, I'm gonna give everything that I have in the middle of the ring in my three-way on Anarchy at XWF</span>.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Tig Collins: <span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">Can you even defeat Solomon Kline and Kentucky? next Friday.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Bit Luchador| landerson: <span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color">Only hows our three-way turns out cause when I beat one of those men, then one day I will face Samael Dyson. for his X-Treme Championship right after he watches me manhandle these two men of Kentucky and Solomon Kline. And when I get my hands on either of those men, then Samael Dyson. will put his X-treme Championship on the line at Bad Medicine after</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color">Our triple threat match on Anarchy.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Landerson looks directly at the camera to send a message to Kline and Kentucky.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Bit Luchador| Landerson: <span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color">Solomon Kline and Kentucky. You two better take something with you next week cause I'm bringing something along with me, and when I do, I'm gonna hit the two of you</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color">Next week at Anarchy, when Bit Luchador comes after you.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">landerson walks off when Tig Collins. continues talking</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Tig Collins: <span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">Thanks for your landerson. And good luck next week.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Tig Collins: <span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">We hope to get some more information on El Landerson. When he takes on Kentucky and Solomon Kline in a triple threat match next week's Anarchy and sees who will come outa s the victor on XWF.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">The camera fades when Landerson goes ahead to see his wife and hijo in his locker room before Anarchy begins next week</span></span></div>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">When Big Luchador was in the back preparing for his three-way, until Tig Collins came and stood beside of him while speaking</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G7Ic9mqXIAAoE6i.jpg" loading="lazy"  width="711" height="400" alt="[Image: G7Ic9mqXIAAoE6i.jpg]" class="mycode_img" /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Tig Collins: <span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">Landerson. Three weeks ago on Anarchy, you were eliminated through a table by Dom Durango. And now this week, you'll be facing not one but two people in another triple threat, but only against Solomon Kline and Kentucky. On Anarchy, care to comment, Mr Landerson?</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">XWF Universe Cheers for Landerson.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HMBM3ZRXgAARctT.jpg?format=jpg&amp;name=thumb" loading="lazy"  width="150" height="150" alt="[Image: HMBM3ZRXgAARctT.jpg?format=jpg&amp;name=thumb]" class="mycode_img" /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Bit luchador| Landerson: <span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color">Dom Durango. may have won the tables elimination, but I'm still standing, </span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">and whoever is out there wants a piece of The Bit Luchador. They know where to find me cause I'm</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">not that easy to find, so Kentucky and Solomon Kline. You two better get ready for what's coming</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color">your way when The Bit Luchador starts attacking you two, then you must be getting prepared for what's about to come when all three of us meet in the same ring together when we have our three-way match on Anarchy at XWF.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Tig Collins: <span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">And what's next for you, Mr Landerson, after your triple threat match?</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Bit Luchador| Landerson: <span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color"> I haven't made up my mind just yet, until I win my three-way match with</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Solomon Kline and Kentucky. And once that happens, then maybe I'll get an Anarchy title from Miss Furry at Bad Medicine unless she's too afraid to defend her Anarchy title against Bit Luchador</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color">on Bad Medicine right after I handle some business this week on Anarchy when I face Kentucky and Solomon Kline at XWF.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Tig Collins: <span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">But what if you can't handle Solomon Kline and Kentucky? on Anarchy.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Bit Luchador| Landerson: <span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color">Kentucky and Solomon Kline. doesn't know what they are cable of when i drop the dime on there culos when all three of us will meet out there in the center of the ring</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color">and win my triple threat match on Anarchy and when the time comes The Bit Luchador will be ready once I get my hands on the X-Treme Championship at Bad Medicine if only Samael Dyson. accepts my offer and puts it on the line against me on Bad Medicine cause he knows if he defends it, then consider himself lucky when I catch his X-Treme title in an X-Treme Rules match for his title at Bad Medicine, and I want him to watch my triple threat match when I mop the floors with Kline and Kentucky. This week on Anarchy at XWF.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Tig Collins: <span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">Do you think that Samael Dyson might accept your offer at Bad Medicine? right after your triple threat match with Solomon Kline and Kentucky. at Anarchy.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Bit Luchador| Landerson: <span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color">Solomon Kline and Kentucky. They better not just come after me because it's every man for himself, and it's a three-way match at Anarchy, and once that bell rings, I'm gonna give everything that I have in the middle of the ring in my three-way on Anarchy at XWF</span>.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Tig Collins: <span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">Can you even defeat Solomon Kline and Kentucky? next Friday.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Bit Luchador| landerson: <span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color">Only hows our three-way turns out cause when I beat one of those men, then one day I will face Samael Dyson. for his X-Treme Championship right after he watches me manhandle these two men of Kentucky and Solomon Kline. And when I get my hands on either of those men, then Samael Dyson. will put his X-treme Championship on the line at Bad Medicine after</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color">Our triple threat match on Anarchy.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Landerson looks directly at the camera to send a message to Kline and Kentucky.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Bit Luchador| Landerson: <span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color">Solomon Kline and Kentucky. You two better take something with you next week cause I'm bringing something along with me, and when I do, I'm gonna hit the two of you</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font"><span style="color: #68c4e8;" class="mycode_color">Next week at Anarchy, when Bit Luchador comes after you.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">landerson walks off when Tig Collins. continues talking</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Tig Collins: <span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">Thanks for your landerson. And good luck next week.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">Tig Collins: <span style="color: #e8c500;" class="mycode_color">We hope to get some more information on El Landerson. When he takes on Kentucky and Solomon Kline in a triple threat match next week's Anarchy and sees who will come outa s the victor on XWF.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="mycode_size"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;" class="mycode_font">The camera fades when Landerson goes ahead to see his wife and hijo in his locker room before Anarchy begins next week</span></span></div>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Office:XWF HR Dept Edition]]></title>
			<link>https://xwf1999.com/showthread.php?tid=50233</link>
			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:07:28 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Was ist Das?]]></title>
			<link>https://xwf1999.com/showthread.php?tid=50196</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:47:59 -0700</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://xwf1999.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=2230">Mr. Oz</a>]]></dc:creator>
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<br />
The video opens on the sounds of a handheld saw, the sound of something wet as the screen slowly goes from black as it fades away slowly from inside to the out. The sound of the saw cutting into something hard as screams near the source came out from it. Muffled sobs, cries, screams and grunts. In the screen is a tall person, completely covered from head to toe. It could be Oswald, or it could be Thias, or some unknown tall surgeon. Their back to the camera, only for the video to show them toss them into a very large stainless steel cooler to their left. The person was blindfolded and gagged, as a medical bone saw cut through more toes only to toss them into the cooler as well. <br />
<br />
Soon, the camera panned around, showing the front of the person, who is masked up completely and all you can see behind goggled eyes are blue-green eyes. Without looking, he continued to cut through more bone, like right above the ankle of the left foot, causing the person to scream in pain for every second that passes. Words soon came from the masked person, and with just the expression of his eyes and slight pull up from his cheeks underneath the mask, you could tell he was smiling as he spoke softly.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #FFFA1E;" class="mycode_color">"Oh? Was haben wir denn da, meine Süßen?"</span><br />
<br />
He giggled a little bit, but soon a gruff sounding voice also came from the man<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #4CEA5E;" class="mycode_color">"Chan eil fhios 'am, a bhràthair. Cha toil leam e."</span><br />
<br />
Soon, another large man came in, this time, his face seen and could be seen just barely enough to show that it was Oswald.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #419DC1;" class="mycode_color">"It's my camera. It's going to catch every last detail of this operation, so we can start getting rid of those who pretend they're my damned equal."</span><br />
<br />
The first voice sounding German, though somewhat caricatured. <br />
<br />
<span style="color: #FFFA1E;" class="mycode_color">"Oh ho! Herr Oz! Ve vere vondering vhen du vere coming! As du have given us such a delightful specimen to take apart!"</span><br />
<br />
Oswald sighs, wishing he didn't have to do this dark dealing instead of doing it on the up-and-up. <br />
<br />
<span style="color: #419DC1;" class="mycode_color">"You deal with this, and there'll be more contracts coming your way to take apart many bodies. Make sure each bit of their body is pristine. I have uses for their bodies. Though, if the bodies are male or female, take off their biological equipment. Breasts, testes, dicks, fallopian tubes, womb. Their body parts are no longer theirs, they offered to be organ donors. <br />
<br />
Their contract <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">never</span> said that they had to be <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">dead</span> first before we harvest them for spare parts."</span><br />
<br />
He soon faded into the darkness of the room, with the sounds of his expensive dress shoes clacked against the floor until they were gone. <br />
<br />
<span style="color: #FFFA1E;" class="mycode_color">"Meine freund, it seems today vis your unlucky day!"</span><br />
<br />
The surgeon began to cackling, as he began to move quicker but not <span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u">too</span> quickly so as to ruin the flesh, fat, muscle and bone of the bound and gagged man who continued to scream until soon blood loss and pain made him go unconscious and the scene fades to black as the sound of a squelching and bone getting sawed into.<br />
<br />
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 4px; color: red; background-color: red;" />
<br />
In the background, a multitude of screams and sawing and mishmash of squelching, violent sounding splatters. This office, much different than his normal one, looked like one a head surgeon would have. Desk, monitors, papers and folders, though since most is done electrical, said folders and papers are not everywhere in his office. There, sits Oswald as his camera floats in, recording video of him deep in thought, until he finally notices the floating spec capable of rivaling even that of a Lumix GH7.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #419DC1;" class="mycode_color">"Well then. At Anarchy, I have an opponent. One Jay Fetu. Well Jay. I'm Oswald Autem Sephtis. I am one of the last remaining XWF OGs from the Shane Era. The Era where the Xtreme were truly masters of their craft and would play and dominate. <br />
<br />
So you can tell what I mean, when you are a mere fleshbag to be thrown, raked, clawed, cut, broken...<br />
<br />
Defeated.<br />
<br />
Do you understand that? Or am I not getting through to you? Because I want you to be prepared for the destruction coming your way. I THRIVE in these conditions. I RUN this shit! One could say I am..."</span><br />
<br />
He snickers before letting out a laughing exhale<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #419DC1;" class="mycode_color">"Surgical... with my ways to deal so much... delightful pain. I have so many ways that will make you fall to my might, and kneel before me before I cave your skull in with a steel pole. I am the reason why X-Treme still means anything in this world! Extreme pressure! Extreme skill! Extreme precision! Extreme and simply, utterly wholesale destruction of your entire life as you know it. I'm going to change you. I'm going to make you wish you never <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">heard</span> my name, child. <br />
<br />
Anarchy, Jay Fetu versus Mister Oz, the Surgeon, the Butcher, the Architect of X-Treme. Because this is what I live for, Jay. You, will never, shall never, be ready for the pain coming your way. <br />
<br />
Your dissection will be televised. Your ego will vanish and dry up as you come to terms that I am, and shall ever be, the XWF's X-Treme Gatekeeper.<br />
<br />
To make sure the next opponent I forge in the fires of the X-Treme, will outlast me in this company. Surpass me. <br />
<br />
Until then... <br />
<br />
Suffer..."</span><br />
<br />
The camera fades to black as Oz plays with a scalpel at his desk, spinning the sharp point on the index finger of his right hand.]]></description>
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The video opens on the sounds of a handheld saw, the sound of something wet as the screen slowly goes from black as it fades away slowly from inside to the out. The sound of the saw cutting into something hard as screams near the source came out from it. Muffled sobs, cries, screams and grunts. In the screen is a tall person, completely covered from head to toe. It could be Oswald, or it could be Thias, or some unknown tall surgeon. Their back to the camera, only for the video to show them toss them into a very large stainless steel cooler to their left. The person was blindfolded and gagged, as a medical bone saw cut through more toes only to toss them into the cooler as well. <br />
<br />
Soon, the camera panned around, showing the front of the person, who is masked up completely and all you can see behind goggled eyes are blue-green eyes. Without looking, he continued to cut through more bone, like right above the ankle of the left foot, causing the person to scream in pain for every second that passes. Words soon came from the masked person, and with just the expression of his eyes and slight pull up from his cheeks underneath the mask, you could tell he was smiling as he spoke softly.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #FFFA1E;" class="mycode_color">"Oh? Was haben wir denn da, meine Süßen?"</span><br />
<br />
He giggled a little bit, but soon a gruff sounding voice also came from the man<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #4CEA5E;" class="mycode_color">"Chan eil fhios 'am, a bhràthair. Cha toil leam e."</span><br />
<br />
Soon, another large man came in, this time, his face seen and could be seen just barely enough to show that it was Oswald.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #419DC1;" class="mycode_color">"It's my camera. It's going to catch every last detail of this operation, so we can start getting rid of those who pretend they're my damned equal."</span><br />
<br />
The first voice sounding German, though somewhat caricatured. <br />
<br />
<span style="color: #FFFA1E;" class="mycode_color">"Oh ho! Herr Oz! Ve vere vondering vhen du vere coming! As du have given us such a delightful specimen to take apart!"</span><br />
<br />
Oswald sighs, wishing he didn't have to do this dark dealing instead of doing it on the up-and-up. <br />
<br />
<span style="color: #419DC1;" class="mycode_color">"You deal with this, and there'll be more contracts coming your way to take apart many bodies. Make sure each bit of their body is pristine. I have uses for their bodies. Though, if the bodies are male or female, take off their biological equipment. Breasts, testes, dicks, fallopian tubes, womb. Their body parts are no longer theirs, they offered to be organ donors. <br />
<br />
Their contract <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">never</span> said that they had to be <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">dead</span> first before we harvest them for spare parts."</span><br />
<br />
He soon faded into the darkness of the room, with the sounds of his expensive dress shoes clacked against the floor until they were gone. <br />
<br />
<span style="color: #FFFA1E;" class="mycode_color">"Meine freund, it seems today vis your unlucky day!"</span><br />
<br />
The surgeon began to cackling, as he began to move quicker but not <span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u">too</span> quickly so as to ruin the flesh, fat, muscle and bone of the bound and gagged man who continued to scream until soon blood loss and pain made him go unconscious and the scene fades to black as the sound of a squelching and bone getting sawed into.<br />
<br />
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 4px; color: red; background-color: red;" />
<br />
In the background, a multitude of screams and sawing and mishmash of squelching, violent sounding splatters. This office, much different than his normal one, looked like one a head surgeon would have. Desk, monitors, papers and folders, though since most is done electrical, said folders and papers are not everywhere in his office. There, sits Oswald as his camera floats in, recording video of him deep in thought, until he finally notices the floating spec capable of rivaling even that of a Lumix GH7.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #419DC1;" class="mycode_color">"Well then. At Anarchy, I have an opponent. One Jay Fetu. Well Jay. I'm Oswald Autem Sephtis. I am one of the last remaining XWF OGs from the Shane Era. The Era where the Xtreme were truly masters of their craft and would play and dominate. <br />
<br />
So you can tell what I mean, when you are a mere fleshbag to be thrown, raked, clawed, cut, broken...<br />
<br />
Defeated.<br />
<br />
Do you understand that? Or am I not getting through to you? Because I want you to be prepared for the destruction coming your way. I THRIVE in these conditions. I RUN this shit! One could say I am..."</span><br />
<br />
He snickers before letting out a laughing exhale<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #419DC1;" class="mycode_color">"Surgical... with my ways to deal so much... delightful pain. I have so many ways that will make you fall to my might, and kneel before me before I cave your skull in with a steel pole. I am the reason why X-Treme still means anything in this world! Extreme pressure! Extreme skill! Extreme precision! Extreme and simply, utterly wholesale destruction of your entire life as you know it. I'm going to change you. I'm going to make you wish you never <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">heard</span> my name, child. <br />
<br />
Anarchy, Jay Fetu versus Mister Oz, the Surgeon, the Butcher, the Architect of X-Treme. Because this is what I live for, Jay. You, will never, shall never, be ready for the pain coming your way. <br />
<br />
Your dissection will be televised. Your ego will vanish and dry up as you come to terms that I am, and shall ever be, the XWF's X-Treme Gatekeeper.<br />
<br />
To make sure the next opponent I forge in the fires of the X-Treme, will outlast me in this company. Surpass me. <br />
<br />
Until then... <br />
<br />
Suffer..."</span><br />
<br />
The camera fades to black as Oz plays with a scalpel at his desk, spinning the sharp point on the index finger of his right hand.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Timing]]></title>
			<link>https://xwf1999.com/showthread.php?tid=50200</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:39:00 -0700</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://xwf1999.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=3216">GCC's Dom Durango™</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[A pair of children, a brother and sister, sit at the breakfast table, enjoying a bowl of…<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Dom Durango’s Sugar-Blasted Spaghetti Flakes!</span><br />
<br />
The brother raises his spoon with a smile.<br />
<br />
<font color="dodgerblue">”It tastes like the old country…”</font> <br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“But with sugar!”</font><br />
<br />
But… what’s this?!?<br />
<br />
CHEERLEADER CINDY AND LUCHADOR LARRY BURST THROUGH THE WINDOW!<br />
<br />
<font color="yellow">”Hey kids! We’re here to STEAL YOUR CEREAL!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="green">”Pero no porque yo soy Mexicano y mexicanos son ladrónes! Eso es un estereotipo!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="dodgerblue">”Oh no! He’s speaking spanish at us!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”Won’t someone save our breakfast?!?”</font><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
The girl looks at the camera, unsure how to proceed…<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”I said… Won’t someone save our breakfast?!?”</font><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
The intercom on the set sparks.<br />
<br />
<font color="white"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">”Dom, that’s your cue!”</span></font><br />
<br />
Dom Durango!<br />
<br />
…Quietly steps on stage.<br />
<br />
Not through the back door.<br />
<br />
He just… wanders onto the set, making the whole production look cheap.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”What?”</font><br />
<br />
…The Brother clears his throat!<br />
<br />
<font color="dodgerblue">”Whoooooa! Dom Durango! Of Dom Durango’s Sugar-Blasted Spaghetti Flakes!”</font><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
Dom coughs.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Yup.”</font><br />
<br />
The intercom buzzes again.<br />
<br />
<font color="white"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">”Um… Dom? Aren’t you gonna do the voice?”</span></font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”What the f<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif"> is happening in this commercial again?”</font><br />
<br />
Brother and Sister cover each other’s ears from the profanity!<br />
<br />
<font color="white"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">”It’s a breakfast cereal commercial! The two wacky cartoon characters want to steal the cereal from the children and YOU stop them!”</font><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
Dom squints at Cheerleader Cindy and Luchador Larry.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Why are you two stealing cereal from children?”</font><br />
<br />
Cheerleader Cindy clears her throat, trying to get things back on track… <font color="yellow">”W-well, because Dom Durango’s Sugar-Blasted Spaghetti Flakes are packed with Marinara Marshmallows! Meatball that won’t get soggy in milk! An-”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Then, go buy a f<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif">ing box.”</font><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
Brother coughs uncomfortably…<br />
<br />
<font color="white">[b]”Um… Maybe we should cut and try again?”</span></font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Why? Do you think a second take with these garbage concepts is gonna fix anything? It’s a sh<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif"> commercial, selling a sh<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif"> product for sh<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif"> people to shove down these fetid, festering gobs.”</font><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
Dom glances back at the set, seeing the stove.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Is that stove real?”</font><br />
<br />
Before anyone can answer, Dom moves to the stove… and flips the switch.<br />
<br />
The flame comes on.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”...I’m gonna cook a steak right now.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="white"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">”Um… Mister Durango, we should follow the script! This production is on a budg-”</span></font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Don’t tell me about my f<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif">ing budget right now.”</font> Dom throws open the freezer, retrieving a raw steak. <font color="red">”F<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif">ing mascots and cereal all to peddle this god awful food…”</font><br />
<br />
Dom reaches under the cabinet for the oil, laying some in the pan.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”It’s all tasteless.”<br />
<br />
“I haven’t been able to taste anything since…”</font><br />
<br />
…Dom stops.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Since Gravy shoved those grits from Satan’s a<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif">hole down my throat.”</font><br />
<br />
Dom carefully pans the steak…<br />
<br />
<font color="red">“I’ve tried Italian, Korean, Korean-Italian fusion, Mexican, Indian… every flavor of my culinary empire.”<br />
<br />
“And it all turns to ash and sulfur against my palate.”</font><br />
<br />
Dom flicks his wrist, flipping the steak.<br />
<br />
<font color="green">”Ay! Muy bien!”</font> Larry Luchador marvels, impressed.<br />
<br />
…Dom slowly turns toward him.<br />
<br />
…Larry gulps. <font color="green">”Ah… lo siento, señor Durango.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Hey… come here a sec. I wanna show you something.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Actually…”</font> Dom then points to Cheerleader Cindy as well <font color="red">“I’d like to show you both something.”</font> <br />
<br />
Cindy bites her lip. <font color="yellow">”Um… actually, I think I wanna g-”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”The secret…”</font> Dom flips the steak again, adjusting the pan to let it sizzle. <font color="red">”To a good steak. Is timing.”<br />
<br />
”Not patience.”<br />
<br />
“Timing.”<br />
<br />
“Get the difference?”</font><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Patience… is waiting. A moment that simply… comes. And once that moment arrives, you’ve succeeded.”<br />
<br />
“Timing. Means striking when the moment is nigh. Not before. Not after.”</font><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”I killed my mother for this empire.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”...Well. Not my birth mother. But the only woman who ever cared for me.”</font><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”You know, I could never get her recipes *exactly* right.”<br />
<br />
“…The Culinary Cabal wanted Mama’s dishes. And I thought I could deliver.”<br />
<br />
“I had her recipes… Her kitchen.”<br />
<br />
“But something was missing.”<br />
<br />
“I could tell from the taste.”<br />
<br />
“I used basil from her garden… added the spices just like she’d showed me…”<br />
<br />
“But it wasn’t HER food.”<br />
<br />
“And no matter what I did… that missing piece eluded me.”</font><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”So. I resorted to… buffoonery.”<br />
<br />
“Cartoon mascots.”<br />
<br />
“Fake Italian accent.”<br />
<br />
“I lacked substance, so I overcompensated with style.”<br />
<br />
“I buried my failings under a veneer of sugar additives and schlock. An-”</font><br />
<br />
Dom stops suddenly.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Steak’s done.”</font><br />
<br />
He quickly turns off the heat and plates the dish… leaving the hot oily pan on the stove.<br />
<br />
He holds the plate up to the Luchador, slicing off a bite.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Here. Taste.”</font><br />
<br />
…Larry swallows nervously.<br />
<br />
He pinches it off the plate.<br />
<br />
He chews it.<br />
<br />
As Dom reaches backwards for the pan…<br />
<br />
<font color="green">”Es… mmmm… muy sabroso, señor Durango!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”I wouldn’t know.”</font><br />
<br />
WHAM! Dom SMACKS the Luchador over the skull with the hot pan!<br />
<br />
His face is SEARED! <br />
<br />
Larry grasps at his mask to rip it off… but the heat melted it to his skin!<br />
<br />
<font color="yellow">”AHHHHHH! WHAT THE F-”</font><br />
<br />
Dom grabs Cheerleader Cindy’s by her skull!<br />
<br />
And SLAMS HER FACE INTO THE PAN! HOLDING IT THERE!<br />
<br />
She squeals, her feet desperately kicking, wildly thrashing!<br />
<br />
The entire production crew runs in panic!<br />
<br />
…Finally, she stops thrashing, collapsing to the set floor…<br />
<br />
…Leaving Dom alone.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”...A chef without a sense of taste.”<br />
<br />
“Is nothing.”<br />
<br />
“I’ll never recreate Mama’s recipe now.”<br />
<br />
“Micheal Graves took that from me.”<br />
<br />
“I have… nothing left.”</font><br />
<br />
…Dom sits at the table with his barely-touched steak.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”So. I have nothing left to lose.”<br />
<br />
“All I want...”<br />
<br />
“Is to hurt people who remind me of what I once was.”<br />
<br />
“Silly luchadors who bring their ugly wives and whining brats to their interviews.”<br />
<br />
“Braindead blondes chanting letters to convince people to cheer.”<br />
<br />
“Cartoons.”<br />
<br />
“Caricatures.”</font><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”I’m not waiting any longer. The time is now.”<br />
<br />
“I’m done pretending to be something I’m not.”<br />
<br />
“I’m not… Chef-ah Durango! From-ah the old country!”<br />
<br />
“I’m Dom.”<br />
<br />
“And I’m here to feel something.”<br />
<br />
“By hurting everyone else.”</font><br />
<br />
…Dom stands up. And starts walking off-set…<br />
<br />
Luchador Larry is moaning and weeping on the ground.<br />
<br />
WHAM! Dom kicks him in the stomach.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Consider breakfast saved.”</font>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A pair of children, a brother and sister, sit at the breakfast table, enjoying a bowl of…<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Dom Durango’s Sugar-Blasted Spaghetti Flakes!</span><br />
<br />
The brother raises his spoon with a smile.<br />
<br />
<font color="dodgerblue">”It tastes like the old country…”</font> <br />
<br />
<font color="pink">“But with sugar!”</font><br />
<br />
But… what’s this?!?<br />
<br />
CHEERLEADER CINDY AND LUCHADOR LARRY BURST THROUGH THE WINDOW!<br />
<br />
<font color="yellow">”Hey kids! We’re here to STEAL YOUR CEREAL!”</font><br />
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<font color="green">”Pero no porque yo soy Mexicano y mexicanos son ladrónes! Eso es un estereotipo!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="dodgerblue">”Oh no! He’s speaking spanish at us!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”Won’t someone save our breakfast?!?”</font><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
The girl looks at the camera, unsure how to proceed…<br />
<br />
<font color="pink">”I said… Won’t someone save our breakfast?!?”</font><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
The intercom on the set sparks.<br />
<br />
<font color="white"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">”Dom, that’s your cue!”</span></font><br />
<br />
Dom Durango!<br />
<br />
…Quietly steps on stage.<br />
<br />
Not through the back door.<br />
<br />
He just… wanders onto the set, making the whole production look cheap.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”What?”</font><br />
<br />
…The Brother clears his throat!<br />
<br />
<font color="dodgerblue">”Whoooooa! Dom Durango! Of Dom Durango’s Sugar-Blasted Spaghetti Flakes!”</font><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
Dom coughs.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Yup.”</font><br />
<br />
The intercom buzzes again.<br />
<br />
<font color="white"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">”Um… Dom? Aren’t you gonna do the voice?”</span></font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”What the f<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif"> is happening in this commercial again?”</font><br />
<br />
Brother and Sister cover each other’s ears from the profanity!<br />
<br />
<font color="white"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">”It’s a breakfast cereal commercial! The two wacky cartoon characters want to steal the cereal from the children and YOU stop them!”</font><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
Dom squints at Cheerleader Cindy and Luchador Larry.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Why are you two stealing cereal from children?”</font><br />
<br />
Cheerleader Cindy clears her throat, trying to get things back on track… <font color="yellow">”W-well, because Dom Durango’s Sugar-Blasted Spaghetti Flakes are packed with Marinara Marshmallows! Meatball that won’t get soggy in milk! An-”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Then, go buy a f<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif">ing box.”</font><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
Brother coughs uncomfortably…<br />
<br />
<font color="white">[b]”Um… Maybe we should cut and try again?”</span></font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Why? Do you think a second take with these garbage concepts is gonna fix anything? It’s a sh<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif"> commercial, selling a sh<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif"> product for sh<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif"> people to shove down these fetid, festering gobs.”</font><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
Dom glances back at the set, seeing the stove.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Is that stove real?”</font><br />
<br />
Before anyone can answer, Dom moves to the stove… and flips the switch.<br />
<br />
The flame comes on.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”...I’m gonna cook a steak right now.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="white"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">”Um… Mister Durango, we should follow the script! This production is on a budg-”</span></font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Don’t tell me about my f<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif">ing budget right now.”</font> Dom throws open the freezer, retrieving a raw steak. <font color="red">”F<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif">ing mascots and cereal all to peddle this god awful food…”</font><br />
<br />
Dom reaches under the cabinet for the oil, laying some in the pan.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”It’s all tasteless.”<br />
<br />
“I haven’t been able to taste anything since…”</font><br />
<br />
…Dom stops.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Since Gravy shoved those grits from Satan’s a<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pUgtAVa.gif">hole down my throat.”</font><br />
<br />
Dom carefully pans the steak…<br />
<br />
<font color="red">“I’ve tried Italian, Korean, Korean-Italian fusion, Mexican, Indian… every flavor of my culinary empire.”<br />
<br />
“And it all turns to ash and sulfur against my palate.”</font><br />
<br />
Dom flicks his wrist, flipping the steak.<br />
<br />
<font color="green">”Ay! Muy bien!”</font> Larry Luchador marvels, impressed.<br />
<br />
…Dom slowly turns toward him.<br />
<br />
…Larry gulps. <font color="green">”Ah… lo siento, señor Durango.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Hey… come here a sec. I wanna show you something.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Actually…”</font> Dom then points to Cheerleader Cindy as well <font color="red">“I’d like to show you both something.”</font> <br />
<br />
Cindy bites her lip. <font color="yellow">”Um… actually, I think I wanna g-”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”The secret…”</font> Dom flips the steak again, adjusting the pan to let it sizzle. <font color="red">”To a good steak. Is timing.”<br />
<br />
”Not patience.”<br />
<br />
“Timing.”<br />
<br />
“Get the difference?”</font><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Patience… is waiting. A moment that simply… comes. And once that moment arrives, you’ve succeeded.”<br />
<br />
“Timing. Means striking when the moment is nigh. Not before. Not after.”</font><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”I killed my mother for this empire.”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”...Well. Not my birth mother. But the only woman who ever cared for me.”</font><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”You know, I could never get her recipes *exactly* right.”<br />
<br />
“…The Culinary Cabal wanted Mama’s dishes. And I thought I could deliver.”<br />
<br />
“I had her recipes… Her kitchen.”<br />
<br />
“But something was missing.”<br />
<br />
“I could tell from the taste.”<br />
<br />
“I used basil from her garden… added the spices just like she’d showed me…”<br />
<br />
“But it wasn’t HER food.”<br />
<br />
“And no matter what I did… that missing piece eluded me.”</font><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”So. I resorted to… buffoonery.”<br />
<br />
“Cartoon mascots.”<br />
<br />
“Fake Italian accent.”<br />
<br />
“I lacked substance, so I overcompensated with style.”<br />
<br />
“I buried my failings under a veneer of sugar additives and schlock. An-”</font><br />
<br />
Dom stops suddenly.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Steak’s done.”</font><br />
<br />
He quickly turns off the heat and plates the dish… leaving the hot oily pan on the stove.<br />
<br />
He holds the plate up to the Luchador, slicing off a bite.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Here. Taste.”</font><br />
<br />
…Larry swallows nervously.<br />
<br />
He pinches it off the plate.<br />
<br />
He chews it.<br />
<br />
As Dom reaches backwards for the pan…<br />
<br />
<font color="green">”Es… mmmm… muy sabroso, señor Durango!”</font><br />
<br />
<font color="red">”I wouldn’t know.”</font><br />
<br />
WHAM! Dom SMACKS the Luchador over the skull with the hot pan!<br />
<br />
His face is SEARED! <br />
<br />
Larry grasps at his mask to rip it off… but the heat melted it to his skin!<br />
<br />
<font color="yellow">”AHHHHHH! WHAT THE F-”</font><br />
<br />
Dom grabs Cheerleader Cindy’s by her skull!<br />
<br />
And SLAMS HER FACE INTO THE PAN! HOLDING IT THERE!<br />
<br />
She squeals, her feet desperately kicking, wildly thrashing!<br />
<br />
The entire production crew runs in panic!<br />
<br />
…Finally, she stops thrashing, collapsing to the set floor…<br />
<br />
…Leaving Dom alone.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”...A chef without a sense of taste.”<br />
<br />
“Is nothing.”<br />
<br />
“I’ll never recreate Mama’s recipe now.”<br />
<br />
“Micheal Graves took that from me.”<br />
<br />
“I have… nothing left.”</font><br />
<br />
…Dom sits at the table with his barely-touched steak.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”So. I have nothing left to lose.”<br />
<br />
“All I want...”<br />
<br />
“Is to hurt people who remind me of what I once was.”<br />
<br />
“Silly luchadors who bring their ugly wives and whining brats to their interviews.”<br />
<br />
“Braindead blondes chanting letters to convince people to cheer.”<br />
<br />
“Cartoons.”<br />
<br />
“Caricatures.”</font><br />
<br />
…<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”I’m not waiting any longer. The time is now.”<br />
<br />
“I’m done pretending to be something I’m not.”<br />
<br />
“I’m not… Chef-ah Durango! From-ah the old country!”<br />
<br />
“I’m Dom.”<br />
<br />
“And I’m here to feel something.”<br />
<br />
“By hurting everyone else.”</font><br />
<br />
…Dom stands up. And starts walking off-set…<br />
<br />
Luchador Larry is moaning and weeping on the ground.<br />
<br />
WHAM! Dom kicks him in the stomach.<br />
<br />
<font color="red">”Consider breakfast saved.”</font>]]></content:encoded>
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