Adam Gray – Silverback.
1975-2007

(Ten bells with a head shot.)

(The Taco Bell Arena.  Boise, Idaho.  Why isn’t there a Del Taco Arena?  Shawn Twilight and Jeffery Drake in a press box overlooking the arena as fans are still trickling in.)

Shawn Twilight:  And that’s all we heard from the doctor at the scene.

Jeffery Drake:  It’s a shame.

Shawn Twilight:  It’s a tragedy.

Jeffery Drake:  We’ve all had hard weeks in our own ways.  Anyway we could move on for a bit away from this?

Shawn Twilight:  Sure, how about four way – one fall – in a cell – for the title?

Jeffery Drake:  Yeah, why not?

Shawn Twilight:  What happened to that revisionist attitude you used to have around the turn of the century?

Jeffery Drake:  That was just an act to make me the trendsetter of the community.  Hell I had a table match with Abunai that decided not only his career, but also ultimately his life.

Shawn Twilight:  I should rent that copy of Rent on DVD from Netflix. 

Jeffery Drake:  No you shouldn’t.

Shawn Twilight:  Why don’t you tell the fans what we got on tap tonight.

Jeffery Drake:  A lot of crap, no-shows and maybe – just maybe – you’ll see November in his first and last appearance on a Friday Night Fiction card.  And for kicks, I booked him against Frost.  I’m a jerk.

Shawn Twilight:  Maybe his last Friday card?  You think November has a chance of beating you at Vertigo?

Jeffery Drake:  Don’t be stupid.  I just don’t think he’ll show up tonight.

Shawn Twilight:  That was kind of anti-climatic.

Jeffery Drake:  So is this card.

Shawn Twilight:  You realize this runs before the card – we’re supposed to entice people to watch.

Jeffery Drake:  Were on screen right now – that’s their highpoint – nothing but disappointment looms.

Shawn Twilight:  You need to show up to one of marketing meetings.  Just one.  We’ll get you on message.  Ladies and Internet Nerds – it’s Friday – and this is all Fiction!

 

("Knights of Cydonia" from Muse heats up as the opening titles start. Past images of major LWF moments grace the screen. Styx and Mass Carnage delivering a spike piledriver on Nightshade from the first ever LWF card. From the LWF v2 re-opening, a Fall From Grace 7: Full Collapse, Tommy Riley beating Kevin Merrix for the AOWF Television Title. A collection of still imagery from past LWF stars: November and his ego, Synskin battling Don Mega at FNF: Jailbreak, Brandon Nova soaked in blood with his arm raised.  A clip of Vicious applying the Shangri-la to Nightstryker at an overly aggressive angle is followed by a shot of Silverback and Riley at Night of Armageddon 6.  Joe Boxer and Frost squaring off in the finals of a Lover’s Discourse.  Lisa Seldon dropkicking Knight and a shot of her with the World Heavyweight Title.  The Liberty Wrestling logo comes last. We then break from the montage to a live shot of Dan Timberland and Ransom.)

Dan Timberland:  Welcome to another edition of Friday Night Fiction – we’re just over a month away from a Fall From Grace 8: Vertigo – and the card is starting to take shape.

Ransom:  An ugly, unseemly shape.

Dan Timberland:  That’s your opinion.  But tonight – we have quite a line up!

Ransom:  That doesn’t exactly mean the people are going to show up though.

Dan Timberland:  True – but on paper it looks promising.

Ransom:  But how does it look to the people on screen?

Dan Timberland:  Well I guess I should announce now – Nightstryker and Harris are no longer on the Liberty Roster – they couldn’t make the flight out tonight.  So Tommy Riley and Joe Boxer will advance in the Titan Title Tournament.

Ransom:  Nightstryker is a former world heavyweight champion.

Dan Timberland:  At least he’s a former and not a current as of his fall into the bottomless pit.

Ransom:  Well… yeah.

Dan Timberland:  Why don’t we throw it to Joel in the ring?

Joel Cronus:  Our first match of the evening is a tag match scheduled for one fall.  Introducing first…

(“No One Knows” from Quees of the Stone Age kicks up.)

Joel Cronus:  From Wawa Bawa, Ontario, Canada…

(Bob Grenier and Expert Enterprises make their way down to ringside.)

Joel Cronus:  Representing Expert Enterprises – THE EXPERT!

(He slides under the bottom rope and doesn’t look happy.)

Joel Cronus:  And his tag team partner…

(“Grown and Sexy” takes over for the Queens of the Stone Age.)

Joel Cronus:  Coming down to ringside…

(Kellie Taminson makes her way down to the ring as the lights dim orange and cascade around the arena. )

Joel Cronus:  KELLIE TAMINSON!

(She slides in, but keeps her distance from the Expert as she acknowledges the crowd.)

Joel Cronus:  And their opponents… first from Las Vegas, Nevada.

(A bright flashing strobe effect takes over the Taco Bell Arena.)

Joel Cronus:  At just under two hundred and thirty pounds…

(Surge runs down to ringside, ready to go.)

Joel Cronus:  I give you… SURGE!

(He goes through the middle ropes and acknowledges the crowd’s reception.)

Joel Cronus:  And finally…

(“Spit Your Game” from the Notorious B.I.G. starts up.)

Joel Cronus:  From Miami, Florida…

(Indiez emerges from the curtain and walks down to ringside.)

Joel Cronus:  Barry Rey – WEST INDIEZ!

(He enters and we get a bell.)

*DING, DING*

Dan Timberland:  We got a whole lot going on with this one.

Ransom:  As long as Indiez never attempts to add commentary to the show ever again – I’m good.

(Surge and the Expert start things off.)

Dan Timberland:  Obviously a lot of angst between the Expert and Indiez from last week’s drunken attack.  Surge, the Expert and Malt Liquor Matt have had their troubles – and Taminson finds herself in the semi-finals of the Titan Title Tournament despite all this drama.

(Surge rushes in looking for a lariat, but the Expert dogs under and catches him with a drop toe hold.)

Ransom: So what you’re saying is that with all the people in the ring and all the people outside the ring – things are probably going to explode?

Dan Timberland:  More or less.

(Grenier takes up Surge in a single leg crab.)

Dan Timberland:  The Expert showing some brains – slowing down Surge early on in this match – trying to cut the size of the ring down.

Ransom:  We’re three seconds into the match – how much of an impact do you think this will really have?

Dan Timberland:  It’ll absolutely have an impact – everything counts for something.

Ransom:  Just not in voting during Presidential elections.

(The Expert lets go of the hold and drops a couple elbows to the back of Surge’s knee.  He holds the arm up and looks for a tag to Taminson.)

Dan Timberland:  What’s Kellie doing?  She’s talking to her manager Laura Drones and isn’t looking for a tag.

Ransom:  She probably has some important information to go over.

Dan Timberland:  In the middle of the match while her partner needs some relief?

Ransom:  It’s possible.

(Surge wiggles out of the hold and brings down the Expert with a scissor kick.  Surge drags the Expert over to his corner.)

Dan Timberland:  And Taminson reaches out not for a tag after the Expert is pulled away. 

Ransom:  You’ve got that tone.

Dan Timberland:  Like I smell something fishy.

Ransom:  Yeah.  Though I did have a tuna club for lunch.

(Surge tags in Indiez.)

Dan Timberland:  And in comes West Indiez – who last week beat up Nick Swifkicky in near record time.

Ransom:  I think he also set a B.A.C. record too.

(West Indiez stomps away at the Expert.  He lifts him up and throws him into the corner.)

Dan Timberland:  And now Indiez is the one cutting the ring in half.  I’ll be interested to see what kind of team work we’ll see between Indiez and Surge.

Ransom:  “Interested”?  Really?  You care that much?

(Indiez slugs away a couple times and then tags Surge back in.)

Dan Timberland:  And there apparently some of that team work now as the pair lifts up the Expert.

(The two lift up the Expert and throw him over with a double suplex.)

Dan Timberland:  And they bring him down hard!  Surge stays in.

Ransom:  That’s hardly teamwork.  It’s two guys wanting to do the same move – and not getting out of the way of the other.

Dan Timberland:  Are you drunk?

Ransom:  No.  Just depressed.

(Surge goes back to the single leg crab.  The Expert manages to grab a rope.)

Dan Timberland:  Surge repaying the favor of the single leg crab – but Grenier reaches out and grabs the ropes.

(Surge lets go of the hold and the Expert catches him off guard with a European uppercut.)

Dan Timberland:  The Expert fighting back here.

Ransom:  Someone has their eye on that “Malt Liquor” guy – right?  I still don’t trust him.

Dan Timberland:  Do you trust anyone outside the Charms?

Ransom:  I trust in God and waffles.  Not necessarily in that order.

(The Expert dives over to tag in Taminson, but she doesn’t take it, once again talking to her manager outside the ring.)

Dan Timberland:  And again!  Taminson is distracted by Laura on the outside.  It’s like she has no idea there’s a match going on.

Ransom:  It’s that haircut.  It’s a ruiner.

(Tony Brick and “Malt Liquor” Matt reposition Laura elsewhere.)

Dan Timberland:  And the muscle of Expert Enterprises looks to fix that problem.

(Surge takes control over Grenier again and drags him back over to their corner.  He tags in West Indiez.)

Dan Timberland:  More back and forth teamwork from Surge and West Indiez.  They seem to be on the same page tonight much more so than Taminson and the Expert.

Ransom:  You’re really going out on the limb there with that comment.

(Indiez springboard over the ropes with a splash.  He stays on and covers.)

Dan Timberland:  West Indiez with a quick splash… Swifkicky with a couno!

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Dan Timberland:  NO!  Grenier got his shoulder up.

(Indiez with some words for referee Dick Swifkicky as he brings the Expert back up to his feet.)

Dan Timberland:  West Indiez not happy with that count from Swifkicky.  Expert still not able to tag out of this situation – he’s really getting beaten down by Surge and Indiez.

Ransom:  Another groundbreaking piece of commentary.

Dan Timberland:  What do you want me to say?  I’m trying to paint a picture to the audience.

(Indiez with a Russian Leg Sweep and he covers up on the Expert again, but he pushes him off.)

Dan Timberland:  What do you ever contribute but unwitty, unfunny banter that adds absolutely nothing to any match we call.

Ransom:  Celebrity appeal.

Dan Timberland:  You don’t even make the D list.

(The Expert trying to make his way to his corner, but Indiez grabs his leg.)

Dan Timberland:  Indiez keeping Grenier from making a tag.

(West Indiez lays a pair of elbows to the inside of Grenier’s leg.  He then lays on and wrenches it back.)

Dan Timberland:  That pair has really spent a good deal of time on working on the leg of the Expert.

Ransom:  I’m still upset about that D list remark.  I do a lot of good things for this federation.

Dan Timberland:  Just none of them while we’re on the air – right?

(The Expert starts punching his way out of the hold.)

Dan Timberland:  And finally the Expert building some momentum – he’s showing some passion out there as this has been a handicap match in everything but name.

Ransom:  They prefer “specially challenged” match backstage.

Dan Timberland:  I saw the “Anatomy of Matthew Attict” video – your family is anything but politically correct.

(Grenier gets out of it and dives to the corner, slapping Taminson on the shoulder.  Indiez tags in Surge.)

Dan Timberland:  And finally the Expert forces the hot tag on Taminson! 

(Taminson jumps in and dropkicks Surge.  West Indiez gets dropkicked as well.)

Ransom:  Waking the fans up… maybe I’ll open my eyes.

Dan Timberland:  Taminson knocking out both her competitors quickly with some vicious dropkicks.

(The crowd gets behind Taminson and she raises her hands up.  She then dropkicks the Expert as he struggles to get to his feet.)

Dan Timberland:  WHAT!?!  She just dropkicked her partner.

Ransom:  She was probably just caught up in the moment.

(Taminson looks a little upset about his move, but then drops a knee down on Grenier’s injured leg.  Kellie lifts him up and lands a spinning piledriver on the Expert.)

Dan Timberland:  Think she’s still caught up in the moment?  The three of them had this planned all along.

(Surge dives over and covers up on the Expert.)

Dan Timberland:  Surge taking advantage of the situation presented to him.

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*DING, DING*

Dan Timberland:  And here comes Expert Enterprises.

(Tony Brick and “Malt Liquor” Matt tear into the ring and throw Taminson out of it.  They start stomping at Indiez and Surge.)

Ransom:  They look pretty pissed.

Dan Timberland:  Well of course.

(Taminson, Drones, Indiez and Surge quickly exit the ring and make their way to the back.)

Dan Timberland:  Looks like Indiez is asking for a mic as they back their way out.

(An LWF intern runs one out to him.)

West Indiez:  Not so genius now – are we?  You’re looking at the Eternal Evolution!

(He throws the mic that holds his hands up in the air.)

Ransom:  I take back every bad thing I’ve ever said about the Rough Gods – the Eternal Evolution is by far the stupidest fuc---- name I’ve ever heard.

Dan Timberland:  No argument here.

(We fade out to break on the foursome exiting behind the curtain and Expert Enterprises following after them.)