Post by fullmetal on Oct 28, 2021 2:29:06 GMT -5
vs. Cloud9, Revolution Season 2 Episode 1
APOTHEOSIS POST-MATCH_________
(APOTHEOSIS 2021 - Chyron reads "YouTube Exclusive, After the Match")
Quick fade to the backstage area following the Triangle Elimination Tag Match. BLACK CRUSADE members PyreBird and JIRITSU are in the Designated Interview Area as Gretchen Devereaux eagerly awaits the "go" signal, which she receives.
Gretchen: "PyreBird and JIRITSU, after what we saw from you both at the end of the Triangle Elimination Tag Team Title Match, what do you two have to say for yourselves?"
PyreBird: "The same thing we said BEFORE the match, Gretchen. We made no secret of the fact that there was no way we were going to let Starr/Power walk out of that ring with the championship belts, regardless of whether WE were the ones to win them or not. ESPECIALLY so, since THEY were the ones to eliminate us from the match in the first place, depriving the paying fans of the match-up they WANTED to see, the Black Crusade taking on itself with Regan Voorhees caught in the middle growing increasingly paranoid as to Kalinda Kreigsdottir's partnership commitment."
Gretchen: "It sounds like you're just giving your strategy away."
PyreBird: "J and I have been saying from the beginning that as long as Regan is teaming up with Kalinda and not facing us, we're going to make sure she doesn't have any extra problems. And if Swine Flu happen to stand across the ring from us, J and I ALSO said that we are DEFINITELY going to be fighting Regan."
Gretchen: "But NOT Kalinda?"
PyreBird: "You see, THAT'S the part where there are issues of comprehension on the part of the beholder."
Gretchen: "So you two ARE going to fight Kalinda if you're in a match against her?"
PyreBird: "We're not saying we aren't."
Gretchen: "...Are you saying you ARE?"
JIRITSU: "We are not saying that either."
Gretchen: "So we're just going back in circles again."
JIRITSU: "We aren't telling any lies, if that's what you're worried about. We will not prevent Kalinda from aiding Regan if we face them in a match. That's all we will say on that matter."
Gretchen: "Fine. For now. Then maybe you can enlighten us on your plans for Season 2?"
JIRITSU: "Trios Championship. Officially."
Gretchen: "OFFICIALLY?"
PyreBird: "O. FI. CI. AL. Y. You've already seen him around, but the i's are dotted and the t's are crossed, and CLIMAX will be entering active competition as our Third."
Gretchen: "And your other two teammates, KATSUDO and SEIKI...?"
PyreBird: "Currently still signed as our 'ringside personnel' rather than 'active wrestlers'. If we need them to help us, they'll re-negotiate."
Gretchen: "Now, why is that?"
JIRITSU: "Obligations ELSEWHERE require them to remain uninjured during our appearances HERE. That's all we will say on the matter."
PyreBird: "Besides, they're right over there to make sure nothing happens to us right now."
Camera pan over to Gretchen's blind side as she turns to face CLIMAX waving at them with KATSUDO and SEIKI looking outward in the other directions, standing with their arms crossed.
Gretchen: "...How di--wh...b..."
PyreBird: "They've been there the whole time."
Gretchen: "But...g...wh..."
PyreBird smiles as she pats Gretchen on the shoulder.
PyreBird; "Nice talking to you, Miss Devereaux."
The quintet heads off-camera, leaving Gretchen still stunned as to how she didn't see the other 3 before.
Fade out.
MATCH PROMO SECTION___________
Fade in to the all-purpose room frequently used by the Black Crusade...brightly lit and garishly decorated with brightly colored balloons and ribbons hung all over the place. Basically, the room looks decked out for a kid's birthday party.
And just to fit the motif, the quintet of Black Crusade members are all wearing party regalia: sparkly bedazzled rainbow-colored robes, party hats.
LADERR THE UNBALANCED is positioned in the far corner of the shot with yellow Caution tape wrapped around it, the gigantic CLIMAX is wearing a bright red curly-haired clown wig over his mask, KATSUDO and SEIKI are wearing matching dollar-store clown masks over their regular ones, PyreBird has a honking rubber clown nose on, and JIRITSU is wearing...a disturbing-looking cheerful happy-face version of their regular mask.
JIRITSU: (spreading arms out grandiosely) "FUN! GAMES! MERRIMENT! Football is today! HALLOWEEN is soon! The birthday of Great Pumpkin Jesus is approaching!"
CLIMAX leans in to J and covers up a whisper into their ear, eliciting a surprised response.
JIRITSU: "WHAT? What are you talking about?? OF COURSE Great Pumpkin Jesus is real!"
PyreBird: "J, that was a hallucination you experienced during that pumpkin spice peyote trip last year, we keep telling you that was just a REGULAR giant pumpkin with Jesus's face carved into it, put out by a hypocritically religious family."
JIRITSU: "何?! It was real!"
PyreBird: "It was a decoration, hun."
A beat.
JIRITSU: "That...certainly hangs a dark cloud over this Fun, Games, and Merriment that we had planned."
PyreBird: "It doesn't have to! Because Halloween may be a holiday steeped in all kinds of theft and misappropriation, but it's ALSO the night that the bridge between the worlds of Earth's Living and Earth's Departed opens up..."
LADERR: "I PREFER ARBOR DAY, MYSELF -- THE MASSIVE AND VENERATED NORSE WORLD TREE GIVES LADERR THE UNBALANCED AN AVATAR TO EXPERIENCE THE DISGUSTINGLY LIMITED FLESHY HUMAN PLEASURES AND PAINS FOR 24 OF YOUR EARTH HOURS." (a beat) "SOMETIMES EVEN BY CHOICE."
PyreBird: "Remember, people: consent is key."
JIRITSU: "And the reason we have even PLANNED this Fun, Games, and Merriment in the first place is to offer something pleasing to Cloud Ace and Cloud Donovan to raise their spirits and morale after we have beaten them on the Season Two Premiere of UPRISING Revolution!"
PyreBird: "Even though I keep telling you that this isn't the kind of 'good times' they're into..."
JIRITSU: "Nonsense! EVERYBODY loves a wholesome party! Balloons! Ribbons! Sparkles and Rainbows! We even have Sea Salt ice cream! Our clowns are friendly and not scary at all!"
CLIMAX, KATSUDO, and SEIKI turn their heads slightly towards J, then after a beat, they raise their arms in a grandiose banzai gesture.
(The three of them): "楽しい! ゲーム! 陽気!万歳! 乾杯!"
JIRITSU: "See? Totally friendly!"
PyreBird: "I'm sure a nearly 7-foot tall Amazing Technicolor Dream Clown isn't terrifying in the least!"
JIRITSU: "Cloud Ace and Cloud Donovan, we just want to offer you some Fun, Games, and Merriment, because when we step into the ring together, our intentions will be much more malevolent."
PyreBird: "We can even blow up balloon animals later and I'll crush them with my biceps!"
JIRITSU: "In fact, Kallie can crush an entire watermelon with her thighs."
PyreBird: "I trained leg day for a month straight to be able to do that! Imagine me doing that to your skulls!"
JIRITSU: "We can serve you pepperoni pizza and White Pepsi cola to make you feel better about your headaches and losing to us!"
PyreBird: "I'm partial to Salted Watermelon Pepsi, myself."
CLIMAX: "Adzuki bean."
JIRITSU: "That one certainly tastes better than it smells." (a beat) "We are not so scary, Cloud 9's. We are simply warriors from another realm with a mission to demolish all who stand in our way, to rip and to tear until we are satisfied. Is that so scary?"
PyreBird: (turning to J) "Some people seem to think so."
JIRITSU: "Well, if we intended on scaring Cloud Ace and Cloud Donovan, we would not have wrapped this whimsical 'Caution' tape around LADERR THE UNBALANCED!"
LADERR: "IT IS TRUE -- LADERR THE UNBALANCED WOULD BE WRAPPED IN THE MOST MENACING OF ADORNMENTS: SILVER TINSEL."
PyreBird: "What makes that the most menacing?"
LADERR: "BECAUSE IT IS NOT EVEN HALLOWEEN YET, AND LADERR IS ADORNED IN THE REMINDER OF CHRISTMAS!"
PyreBird: (shuddering exaggeratedly) "Christmas?? Before Halloween is even over? That's the scariest trick of all!"
JIRITSU: "I am sure Early Christmas must scare the Cloud 9's more than you and I stretching their limbs out of their sockets, right?"
PyreBird: "I dunno, J...I would put those at about 50-50...?"
JIRITSU: "So be it! Then instead of instilling fear with the premature endless repetition of Mariah Carey on the radio, we shall terrify you with the thoughts of having to eat this delicious pizza and soft drink and ice cream with arms that barely work, unable to fully lift your slices and cans all the way without the aid of a medical helper!"
PyreBird: "And terrify you even MORE with the thought that you'll have to do that when you LOSE, and you'll have to do that even if you WIN, because we sure aren't letting you two walk out that ring unscathed."
A beat.
CLIMAX: "FUN!"
PyreBird: "GAMES!"
JIRITSU: "MERRIMENT!" (a beat) "For US. For you...maybe...not so much."
Silly party horns sound and confetti pops as everybody raises their arms welcomely and grandiosely once more.
Fade out.
END.
APOTHEOSIS POST-MATCH_________
(APOTHEOSIS 2021 - Chyron reads "YouTube Exclusive, After the Match")
Quick fade to the backstage area following the Triangle Elimination Tag Match. BLACK CRUSADE members PyreBird and JIRITSU are in the Designated Interview Area as Gretchen Devereaux eagerly awaits the "go" signal, which she receives.
Gretchen: "PyreBird and JIRITSU, after what we saw from you both at the end of the Triangle Elimination Tag Team Title Match, what do you two have to say for yourselves?"
PyreBird: "The same thing we said BEFORE the match, Gretchen. We made no secret of the fact that there was no way we were going to let Starr/Power walk out of that ring with the championship belts, regardless of whether WE were the ones to win them or not. ESPECIALLY so, since THEY were the ones to eliminate us from the match in the first place, depriving the paying fans of the match-up they WANTED to see, the Black Crusade taking on itself with Regan Voorhees caught in the middle growing increasingly paranoid as to Kalinda Kreigsdottir's partnership commitment."
Gretchen: "It sounds like you're just giving your strategy away."
PyreBird: "J and I have been saying from the beginning that as long as Regan is teaming up with Kalinda and not facing us, we're going to make sure she doesn't have any extra problems. And if Swine Flu happen to stand across the ring from us, J and I ALSO said that we are DEFINITELY going to be fighting Regan."
Gretchen: "But NOT Kalinda?"
PyreBird: "You see, THAT'S the part where there are issues of comprehension on the part of the beholder."
Gretchen: "So you two ARE going to fight Kalinda if you're in a match against her?"
PyreBird: "We're not saying we aren't."
Gretchen: "...Are you saying you ARE?"
JIRITSU: "We are not saying that either."
Gretchen: "So we're just going back in circles again."
JIRITSU: "We aren't telling any lies, if that's what you're worried about. We will not prevent Kalinda from aiding Regan if we face them in a match. That's all we will say on that matter."
Gretchen: "Fine. For now. Then maybe you can enlighten us on your plans for Season 2?"
JIRITSU: "Trios Championship. Officially."
Gretchen: "OFFICIALLY?"
PyreBird: "O. FI. CI. AL. Y. You've already seen him around, but the i's are dotted and the t's are crossed, and CLIMAX will be entering active competition as our Third."
Gretchen: "And your other two teammates, KATSUDO and SEIKI...?"
PyreBird: "Currently still signed as our 'ringside personnel' rather than 'active wrestlers'. If we need them to help us, they'll re-negotiate."
Gretchen: "Now, why is that?"
JIRITSU: "Obligations ELSEWHERE require them to remain uninjured during our appearances HERE. That's all we will say on the matter."
PyreBird: "Besides, they're right over there to make sure nothing happens to us right now."
Camera pan over to Gretchen's blind side as she turns to face CLIMAX waving at them with KATSUDO and SEIKI looking outward in the other directions, standing with their arms crossed.
Gretchen: "...How di--wh...b..."
PyreBird: "They've been there the whole time."
Gretchen: "But...g...wh..."
PyreBird smiles as she pats Gretchen on the shoulder.
PyreBird; "Nice talking to you, Miss Devereaux."
The quintet heads off-camera, leaving Gretchen still stunned as to how she didn't see the other 3 before.
Fade out.
MATCH PROMO SECTION___________
Fade in to the all-purpose room frequently used by the Black Crusade...brightly lit and garishly decorated with brightly colored balloons and ribbons hung all over the place. Basically, the room looks decked out for a kid's birthday party.
And just to fit the motif, the quintet of Black Crusade members are all wearing party regalia: sparkly bedazzled rainbow-colored robes, party hats.
LADERR THE UNBALANCED is positioned in the far corner of the shot with yellow Caution tape wrapped around it, the gigantic CLIMAX is wearing a bright red curly-haired clown wig over his mask, KATSUDO and SEIKI are wearing matching dollar-store clown masks over their regular ones, PyreBird has a honking rubber clown nose on, and JIRITSU is wearing...a disturbing-looking cheerful happy-face version of their regular mask.
JIRITSU: (spreading arms out grandiosely) "FUN! GAMES! MERRIMENT! Football is today! HALLOWEEN is soon! The birthday of Great Pumpkin Jesus is approaching!"
CLIMAX leans in to J and covers up a whisper into their ear, eliciting a surprised response.
JIRITSU: "WHAT? What are you talking about?? OF COURSE Great Pumpkin Jesus is real!"
PyreBird: "J, that was a hallucination you experienced during that pumpkin spice peyote trip last year, we keep telling you that was just a REGULAR giant pumpkin with Jesus's face carved into it, put out by a hypocritically religious family."
JIRITSU: "何?! It was real!"
PyreBird: "It was a decoration, hun."
A beat.
JIRITSU: "That...certainly hangs a dark cloud over this Fun, Games, and Merriment that we had planned."
PyreBird: "It doesn't have to! Because Halloween may be a holiday steeped in all kinds of theft and misappropriation, but it's ALSO the night that the bridge between the worlds of Earth's Living and Earth's Departed opens up..."
LADERR: "I PREFER ARBOR DAY, MYSELF -- THE MASSIVE AND VENERATED NORSE WORLD TREE GIVES LADERR THE UNBALANCED AN AVATAR TO EXPERIENCE THE DISGUSTINGLY LIMITED FLESHY HUMAN PLEASURES AND PAINS FOR 24 OF YOUR EARTH HOURS." (a beat) "SOMETIMES EVEN BY CHOICE."
PyreBird: "Remember, people: consent is key."
JIRITSU: "And the reason we have even PLANNED this Fun, Games, and Merriment in the first place is to offer something pleasing to Cloud Ace and Cloud Donovan to raise their spirits and morale after we have beaten them on the Season Two Premiere of UPRISING Revolution!"
PyreBird: "Even though I keep telling you that this isn't the kind of 'good times' they're into..."
JIRITSU: "Nonsense! EVERYBODY loves a wholesome party! Balloons! Ribbons! Sparkles and Rainbows! We even have Sea Salt ice cream! Our clowns are friendly and not scary at all!"
CLIMAX, KATSUDO, and SEIKI turn their heads slightly towards J, then after a beat, they raise their arms in a grandiose banzai gesture.
(The three of them): "楽しい! ゲーム! 陽気!万歳! 乾杯!"
JIRITSU: "See? Totally friendly!"
PyreBird: "I'm sure a nearly 7-foot tall Amazing Technicolor Dream Clown isn't terrifying in the least!"
JIRITSU: "Cloud Ace and Cloud Donovan, we just want to offer you some Fun, Games, and Merriment, because when we step into the ring together, our intentions will be much more malevolent."
PyreBird: "We can even blow up balloon animals later and I'll crush them with my biceps!"
JIRITSU: "In fact, Kallie can crush an entire watermelon with her thighs."
PyreBird: "I trained leg day for a month straight to be able to do that! Imagine me doing that to your skulls!"
JIRITSU: "We can serve you pepperoni pizza and White Pepsi cola to make you feel better about your headaches and losing to us!"
PyreBird: "I'm partial to Salted Watermelon Pepsi, myself."
CLIMAX: "Adzuki bean."
JIRITSU: "That one certainly tastes better than it smells." (a beat) "We are not so scary, Cloud 9's. We are simply warriors from another realm with a mission to demolish all who stand in our way, to rip and to tear until we are satisfied. Is that so scary?"
PyreBird: (turning to J) "Some people seem to think so."
JIRITSU: "Well, if we intended on scaring Cloud Ace and Cloud Donovan, we would not have wrapped this whimsical 'Caution' tape around LADERR THE UNBALANCED!"
LADERR: "IT IS TRUE -- LADERR THE UNBALANCED WOULD BE WRAPPED IN THE MOST MENACING OF ADORNMENTS: SILVER TINSEL."
PyreBird: "What makes that the most menacing?"
LADERR: "BECAUSE IT IS NOT EVEN HALLOWEEN YET, AND LADERR IS ADORNED IN THE REMINDER OF CHRISTMAS!"
PyreBird: (shuddering exaggeratedly) "Christmas?? Before Halloween is even over? That's the scariest trick of all!"
JIRITSU: "I am sure Early Christmas must scare the Cloud 9's more than you and I stretching their limbs out of their sockets, right?"
PyreBird: "I dunno, J...I would put those at about 50-50...?"
JIRITSU: "So be it! Then instead of instilling fear with the premature endless repetition of Mariah Carey on the radio, we shall terrify you with the thoughts of having to eat this delicious pizza and soft drink and ice cream with arms that barely work, unable to fully lift your slices and cans all the way without the aid of a medical helper!"
PyreBird: "And terrify you even MORE with the thought that you'll have to do that when you LOSE, and you'll have to do that even if you WIN, because we sure aren't letting you two walk out that ring unscathed."
A beat.
CLIMAX: "FUN!"
PyreBird: "GAMES!"
JIRITSU: "MERRIMENT!" (a beat) "For US. For you...maybe...not so much."
Silly party horns sound and confetti pops as everybody raises their arms welcomely and grandiosely once more.
Fade out.
END.