Post by J on Jan 27, 2021 12:55:54 GMT -5
“MY FRIEND”
(On Camera)
The video starts with a loud, sizzling static before we get a black and white view of a place that seems rather “disturbing” for the lack of a better word. Behind what looked like a worn out wooden desk, straight out of prohibition time’s Chicago, in a chair one could have visualized seeing Al Capone sitting a hundred or so years ago sat a figure dressed in black from head to toe. The camera swirls and sways it vay with cuts straight from 1980’s late night MTV before getting right in the person’s face. We see a dark pair of eyes looking at us from the cut up holes in the ski mask.
MR SINISTER:
Friendship, such a valuable, treasured thing in life. Fortunate are those who happen to have others they can trust, those that they can rely on and put their faith in. Ah what true bliss is it take no responsibility of your own actions and just trust in someone else to make the decisions.Video cuts to flashes of BUSCH brothers arriving to the Silver State Ballroom bits and pieces of their conversation.
TINY TIM
“Sammy, look! That shirt is so cool! And look, there’s the poster for the big show! This is SOOO COOOOOOL!!!” BIG SAM
“TINY! Calm down will ya, we got places to be and things to do. We can come check these out AFTER our match. Right Tom?...Tom?”We cut back to the desk with the masked figure who slams his palms down to the lid of it.
MR SINISTER:
OR IS IT? IS IT REALLY?!? When the ones who are supposed to be the closest to you, your own blood, your family...when they are the ones holding you back, trying to force you to see things their way and ONLY THEIRSAnother quick cut and flashes from Revolution 5.
TINY TIM BUSCH
“Can I get a hotdog Sammy? Pretty please? I’m hungry and Socksworth says they look good! Please please please please?!”BIG SAM BUSCH
No Tiny, not before the match. We got some snacks on the bag that’ll tide you over. Let’s just find our lockers so we can get ready.”MR SINISTER’S VOICE over the video as a whisper.
MR SINISTER:
When they are the ones holding you back, trying to force you to see things their way and only theirs..TINY TIM BUSCH
“BUT I WANT A HOTDOG I WANT A HOTDOG I’M HUNGRY I WANT A HOTDOG!!!!!”MR SINISTER’S VOICE over the video as a whisper.
MR SINISTER:
Their ways to guide and manipulate come in many forms, some hard as iron and others silky smooth, so soft you may not even see them coming..LOVERBOY BUSCH
“There there Tiny, calm down. Let's do it like this: If you do a good job out there in the ring, I’ll get you THREE hotdogs. How does that sound?”MR SINISTER’S VOICE over the video as a whisper.
MR SINISTER:
..and even when you agree, you comply out of the goodness of your heart, of love and trust to those who have claimed to protect you even that is not enough is it?BIG SAM BUSCH
"...can we FINALLY get going? We’re gonna be late at this rate.”
We fade away with the footage from an effect similar to the film melting back to the black and white setting and the masked figure behind the desk.
MR SINISTER:
I know what you just witnessed looked pretty bad, I know you are confused, how could my own brothers dear LB and Sammy ever do or say anything bad to me, how could they be that mean? I am here as your friend Timothy. I got nothing to hide from you, no secrets at all..He reaches and pulls away the ski mask and we see Ricky Rhodes in the chair.
RICKY RHODES:
You see Timothy what happened at Revolution 5 it was not your fault. I want you to understand that. It was a scary night and I am sure you feel mighty bad about how things went but, you are not to be blamed Timmy. You have done nothing wrong. Do you hear me Timmy? Nothing. Wrong.He leans back in that chair and smiles.
RICKY RHODES:
I know, I know. You must be wondering “then why Ricky why did you take my friend Mr. Socksworth? Why would you take my only friend in the whole wide world?” I’ll tell you why Timmy, but to you and just you..come closer.The camera zooms in as if he was truly getting to Tiny’s face as Ricky whispers
RICKY RHODES:
I did it because Mr Socksworth told me to.
The camera jumps back as if in shock when Ricky puts his feet on the desk.
RICKY RHODES:
That’s right Timmy, I did it because Mr. Socksworth told me to. You see he wanted me to help you. To show you what you are surrounded with. Your brothers, those girls at the Crush, people who try to tell you not to be you, not to do what you do. Mr. Socksworth does not like it and he asked me to help you. Of course being a helpful guy I did, me and asked my friends Vincenzo and Nico to help too. Now I know, it was scary, it was violent but I needed you to see what is going around you Timmy..and if I’ve upset you I’m sorry.
He puts those feet back down leaning forward looking almost sincere or as sincere as anyone with a face like Ricky could.
RICKY RHODES:
So since things happened me and Mr. Socksworth have been talking and he is very upset Timothy, so very upset. Not at you of course, he is your friend and all but at your brothers especially Sammy and for all the mean, nasty things he has said about me after all I did was just try to help you and your friend. Mr. Socksworth is here and he’s safe, I swear. Cross my heart and hope to die nothing bad has happened to him or will happen to him as long as I am around as long as you and me are friends Tiny, we are friends, aren’t we? You said so yourself that you would have been my friend and I think you are..and you don’t like it when someone insults your friends. Well Sammy has insulted me, he hurt my feelings Tiny, how could you let a big bully like that hurt your friend Ricky?
He bats his eyes a bit and we could see a glimmer of a tear there which he wipes awåay with a black gloved hand.
RICKY RHODES:
But you don’t have to believe me Timothy, because I am not here alone...bet you can’t guess who’s here with me!
We get a cut to a very familiar sock puppet peeking out from behind the desk and then speaking up.
MR. SOCKSWORTH:
HI TINY! I’VE MISSED YOU EVER SO MUCH! DON’T WORRY ABOUT ME, I AM FINE AND BEEN HAVING A LOT OF FUN HERE WITH MY FRIEND RICKY AND HIS FRIENDS NICO AND VINCENZO SO MUCH SO THAT I WAS GONNA HAVE YOU A LITTLE SURPRISE AT CORONATION BUT I JUST CAN’T WAIT THAT LONG IT’S BEEN SUUUUCH A LONG TIME SINCE WE TALKED THAT I’LL TELL IT TO YOU NOW, I WANT YOU TO COME OVER AND MEET MY FRIENDS. RICKY SAYS YOU ARE WELCOME TO JOIN TRINACRIA, HERE YOU CAN HAVE ALL THE HOTDOGS AND ICE CREAM YOU WANT AND THEY WON’T TELL YOU TO NOT TO PLAY VIDEOGAMES OR BOSS YOU AROUND LIKE LB OR BE MEAN TO YOU LIKE SAMMY! I MISS YOU TINY, STAY STRONG AND I HOPE YOU COME TO CORONATION TO SEE ME, I GOT SUCH WONDEROUS ADVENTURES TO TELL YOU!
We cut back to Ricky who smiles pleasantly.
RICKY RHODES:
See? He is just fine and happy. Now Tiny I know your brothers especially tha big grumpus Sam will try to tell you that I am a bad guy, that I am mean and I bully others and all such junk. But who’s being mean to who, really? I’m not telling people not to have hotdogs or enjoy themselves at wrestling shows. Sammy and LB tell you what to do, it’s only okay for you to be mad, sad or happy whenever they say it’s okay. They treat you like a child Tiny, I mean..Tiny. Your name is Timothy, you are not a child. You are a man. What I did with my friends at Revolution 5 was to show you just who your real friends are: Mr. Socksworth and me. I’m sorry you’ve had to sit down for this long and watch so much of things Timothy I truly am but I hope that this video helps you realize just who I am, that I am not what others say I am. I want you to be you, Timothy, to be able to do what you want and when you want, not when LB and Sammy say so. You are supposed to be their brother, not their pet or a puppy they can discipline command and make do tricks. Sammy says you will hurt me at Coronation he is making all sorts of nasty remarks of what you are going to do, yet I don’t think you really want to hurt me do you Timothy? Not a friend of Mr. Socksworth just like you. Ask yourself this Timothy. Would Mr. Socksworth ever be friends with a bad man?