Post by J on Jul 8, 2021 10:04:43 GMT -5
“Silver Lining”
/On Camera/
We are treated to a view of a gym somewhere. Gaston Gillet with supporting a muscle tank-top displaying his name in the glorious bold red, white and blue: GASTON GILLET-AMERICAN DREAM! We see him doing reps, deadlifts, squats and even some serious cardio work. Besides that we hear the bilingual barks of Arianna Manning on one side of him in English and Gaston’s older sister Christelle in French on the other. Pushing him harder and harder. It’s easy to see that the big man is far from his usual all smiles and sunshine self, bulging muscles and veins along with the groans and roars of a man pushing his mind and body even further by each set.
When he notices the camera Gaston snatches a towel and bottle of water wiping off some sweat and opening up the bottle.
GASTON GILLET
Few short days, that’s how much time there’s left for my first championship shot in years. I may not have been the big marquee name industry bigwigs are tripping over each other to sign but I am a solid package. I got the look, the physique, the mentality all you need for not just a great wrestler but a great champion!
He gulps down some water, we see drops of it around his lips as he shakes his head.
GASTON GILLET
Yet I am not the one all over the map, my name isn’t plastered on the posters from every possible show from any venue big and small and you know what? I’m fine with that folks. I don’t need to be everywhere, challenge for every championship or make it all about myself, but the places I have been in AND the championships I have held. Have mattered, have gotten my best night in and night out and that’s something so many wrestlers say these days but how many of you actually mean it, how many of you know it to be true? I bet not as many as they would like the fans to believe.
He heads over to do some bench presses. We once again hear Ari and Christelle bark at him as he sweats, roars and pushes himself on further. Few decent, reps with an astonishing amount of weights, few more, and few mo- his arms start to shake, yet the Marseille man’s pride won’t allow him to stop he has to push one more before letting his arms fall down and gingerly gets up.
GASTON GILLET
I know I promised an All American Asskicking at SOLSTICE and I feel like I let so many of you down, instead I got my head spiked and my own ass kicked. I was the first one out of that dome and the day after might have been one of the worst days of my life in this business. Terrordome is no joke. So while I would understand some of you to have your doubts whether I even belong in this match or my chances in it, but honestly? I thought better of Samantha Tolson than to dismiss me right off the bat the way she did. For someone as decorated and successful as she has been in this industry, experience and accolades well beyond her years, you would think that she if anyone would know better than to judge someone so easily, right? At least that’s what I thought.
He gestures at Ari who hands him some water and the towel. We don't see Gaston’s face for a moment before he appears again, his face surprisingly serious, a determined glare in his eyes.
GASTON GILLET
I know we had this little back and forth on socials Samantha. I know you explained the whole assumption debacle and we squashed it and while it may seem like I haven’t done my “homework” on you to you since most of your opponents probably spend more time studying your photoshoots than they do of your matches and championships, which is why is why you have to encourage them to check out how you did there, here, everywhere and just what championships you won. Yet you got the gall to even hint that I am “assuming” I will beat you. I’d go out on a limb and claim that I’ve suffered more hardships and setbacks in my personal and professional career than you have Samantha. I’d hazard a guess that if your life you publicize and post for everyone to gawk at isn’t just a sham and a mere smoke & mirrors display of what you want everyone to assume your reality to be..then you don’t have the room to come and pass judgement on someone like me to begin with. Especially considering how I came at you with respect, honesty and looking for a decent competitive match worth of being the Main Event it was originally slated and not to slander the amount of pictures you post or their content..
We see something darker in his eyes, the chep plastic bottle crumbles in the vice-like grip. Spitting out some of the remaining water. Arianna snatches up the towel from Gaston to wipe the floor barking at Christelle to get him a new towel and more water but Gillet himself seems to not notice any of this happening.
GASTON GILLET
It may not be the Main Event anymore but if I have anything to say or do about it. I will deliver the fans in attendance and around the world a Main Event worthy match even if it is at the expense of my own health and wellbeing, I did it before and I can do it again. Because a big time superstar legend like yourself may get these kind of chances frequently so much so that you might even just go through the motions, phone it in while heading to the ring and thinking just what to have at your next cookout or what of your favourite bikinis should you wear for the new post..you are used to the good life Samantha, it’s automatic for you and I envy that. I envy that you can have a luxury such as these two completely different personas, one that is loved and worshipped for your shoots and fawned over by the fans and peers alike. Then the other is this serious and determined legend who pops in any time you feel like someone questions or judges you for having it easy. I don’t question or judge you Samantha, you have done great! You’ve done exceptionally well for your age especially and you look the part, but for someone like me. Someone like Gaston Gillet, chances like this, matches like this, don’t come by that often. I have to train and work my ass off for every damn match I am in and do you think the peers backstage wait in cue to kiss my ass about how great I am doing? I suppose you wouldn’t care but the answer is “no” Samantha. No they don’t and here’s an accolade you could add to your list. You had me fooled, I thought you could have been the person you portray to the fans, I thought you could have treated someone like me as an equal even if I don’t do that many shoots or held that many titles or worked that places. I always and forever gave the fans and the promotions everything I had in me. Every. Single. Night. Can you say that Sam? Lounging at your pool or posting cheeky shots from the beach? Can you say that you always gave every single one of the places that put your name on the card your very best, to them and their fans?
Christelle comes back with the towel and water and we see Arianna just gawking at Gaston in shock.
GASTON GILLET
So this Saturday at Revolution 14, July 10th at the home of UPRISING at the greatest damn place not just in Reno but the whole world a place I can call home, Silver State Ballroom. I’ll get my chance to be at your prestigious level, I can have a match, a Samantha Tolson Experience and even if I give it my own, if I promise for the people to make amends of my past mistakes and push you beyond what anyone in UPRISING has done so far? I still might fail, I still might fall, I still might lose..have done it many of times before for people who saw themselves bigger stars than you and you know what Sam? I’ll cherish even that match. I’ll pick myself back up and get back to training for another match another shot that may never even come. Because I can’t give up, I can just stay down..that is not the American way, that is not how I am and maybe some years down when they put out god knows how manieth installation of Best Of Samantha Tolson Anthology out on the market, our match could be there and I can show it to everyone and say “that, that’s my last shot at a championship, it was the biggest night of my whole career in Reno..”
He sits there in silence, seeming like he wanted to hock some spit.
GASTON GILLET
..but for you that was just another Saturday, another foolhearted buffoon thinking they could beat you. A match you probably won’t even remember in a few years because by then you will be a multiple time champion somewhere and a hall of famer somewhere else, living in a even bigger mansion with a bigger pool and people will still love you, because they always wil, right?
He glares at the camera and we hear the crack of a bottle when Christelle opens up the bottle handing it towards her brother, Arianna’ pushes it away her eyes locked into Gaston’s
GASTON GILLET
Anything can happen this Saturday Samantha. Anything, if there is one thing you can count on when it comes to UPRISING is that anyone can beat anyone at any given night and those of us who go into matches boasting, bragging, beating our chest may end up slunking back to the night our proverbial tails between our legs, happened to me at SOLSTICE, and you know what Samantha? It can happen to you too. If not this Saturday, if not against me, then some other saturday against someone else but should I win at Revolution? You can take a little solace in the fact that at least you lost to someone who came at you with respect, who just wanted to do his very best and succeeded. They say every cloud has a silver lining..well if I should win the Silver State Championship from you this Saturday, then you can at least be sure that the belt will be in the possession of someone who cares about this place, these people and the chances he’s given. A Real Silver State Champion and not someone who would rush away to the middle of nowhere to defend it in a high school gym. The fans deserve the best Samantha that is what we can agree on I am sure, so if I can’t beat you and you retain then you have to be the best damn champion you can be, because then you will owe that not just to them, not to Jax in the office, but to me..because I pushed you beyond and gave you my all and if you are the last shot at a championship I am getting, you better be worth it, win or lose!
He stands up looking right into the camera.
GASTON GILLET
I’ll see you Saturday, bring your best because I am bringing you everything I got.
Christelle offers him the opened water bottle, Gaston looks at her.
GASTON GILLET
No thank you, I’m not thirsty..
With that he walks off and we see Christelle glugging down the water before the camera clicks off.