Post by Devlin Knight on Apr 8, 2023 19:09:36 GMT -5
(NB: Continues on from: iiwefed.boards.net/thread/1882/fred-debonair-deandre-williams)
Puff the Magic Dragon…
The scene opens the next morning after Fred Debonair had successfully defended his JIWC Title against “The Gaijin from Beijing” Frankie Carter at City of Wrestling 12, in the Tokyo Dome. There is music playing in the hotel room (“I write sins not tragedies”, by Panic! At the Disco) and the shower is clearly running in the background but only for a short while as the sound of the running water stops and the door opens revealing the man of the hour, “The Kingdom” Fred Debonair dressed in a towel wrapped around him. The song stops playing over Spotify on his phone as his ringtone kicks in (“Limits” by Bad Omens), Fred chuckles to himself as he steps out onto the balcony and sits down at the table, looking at the three-quarter joint in the ashtray. He hits the answer button and places the call on speakerphone as he picks up the spliff and the lighter.
Fred: ”Babe, how’s everything out there?”
Aurora: ”Everything is good, Fred.
Are you doing okay? How’d last night go?”
Fred: ”Yeah, I obviously won! hah! But how are you feeling? Everything going the way it should be??”
Aurora: ”Look babe, I’m pregnant, I haven’t got some viral infection or whatever. I’m okay I promise…”
Fred: ”Okay well, I’ll be home soon so, don’t worry okay??”
Aurora: ”The only one worrying Fred, is you… Besides don’t you have to go back to Vegas this weekend?”
Fred: ”Yeah I do, let me send the plane to LAX to bring you in…”
Aurora: ”Hmm… You know what? I will, you can. Once you’re over the US send the plane…”
Fred: ”Well it’s either that I could ask Colonel Foster to jump you over but I don’t think that’ll go down too well…”
Aurora: ”No, probably not…. Anyway who are you facing this week on Brawl??”
Fred: ”I don’t know…”
Aurora: ”What do you mean, you don’t know?”
Fred: ”They've got me facing a mystery opponent…”
Aurora: ”Why would they do such a thing??”
Fred: ”Eh, it’s Raven I reckon… Page probably had to go along with it. But I’m not fussed, I’ll take on whoever they put in front of me… You know that.”
Aurora: ”I know babe I just don’t like the idea of you getting played.”
Fred: ”Don’t worry about me babe, I’ve got this… Just relax and I’ll see you in a couple of days ok?”
Aurora: ”Ok if you say so… I trust you. I’ll let you go so you can eat breakfast and get your match sorted for Monday…”
Fred says his goodbyes, hangs up the phone and sighs. He looks out at the horizon, the blurred shadow of Mount Fuji in the distance. He sighs as he lights the joint and looks on.
Fred: ”So first and foremostly I’ve got James Raven to thank for my match on Brawl, Page definitely wouldn’t have booked me in something so ominous, games are being played. It’s okay though, I’m really not bothered… So I’ve been placed in a match against an “mystery opponent” and that’s okay too! You can put me in a match against a returning Jon Cable, you can put me in a match against Austin or Todrick Ramsey, you can put me in a match against Cholo or even Peter Vaughn, it won’t matter! Because I AM Fred Debonair.”
Fred takes another puff on the joint and stands up looking out at the skyline, blowing smoke rings and smirking a little.
Fred: ”Do I know what’s planned for me? Of course I don’t. Do I have any idea who my opponent is? Of course I don’t… But the situation itself is probably very fun for the wider audience to speculate, so let’s keep them guessing… But as I said it matters not who I’ll be facing because they’ll still be met with the God Complex or Enigma Divide, I don’t take any opponent with salt, especially those who’re a mystery! But it’s still inevitable, I’m going into this with the mindset I can destroy absolutely anybody… Do you know why?
Because. I. Can.”
FADE — TO — BLACK.