HWA Message Board: Flashing Lights and Broken Dreams

pup-pet
n.
One whose behavior is determined by the will of others:

(Butch): You still really think you’re all that, don’t you Ronnie? Still dodging around the facts made up of all the years of grumping and groaning to get what you want, whining about ethnic minorities and the whole world being against you, masking everyone’s memory of a truly gifted and talented athlete, but instead focusing on me. If I’m not relevant now, why take the time to even address me Ronnie? I must have irked something in you after our last back-and-forth to deserve such undivided attention? And now, just like everyone else, like Heinrich, Logan, Vanessa, like everyone, you’ve jumped on the bandwagon and claim I’m some sort of puppet.

Butch shakes his head with a light chuckle.

(Butch): How mistaken, misguided and naïve you all are. A puppet cannot do anything for itself, its actions are predetermined by the puppeteer pulling the strings and it has no control over what it does. That description does not tailor to me, Mr McNeil. There are no strings on my arms, legs, hands etcetera. There is no one making me say or do the things I am doing. I am a grown man, able to make my own decisions and face the consequences of those decisions on my own back. And again, your naivety is fully exposed once again. You think I tuck-tailed and ran after my retirement and came back to Senester for one last hurrah.

Butch shakes his head once again, chewing on his bottom lip, an ironic smile slightly painted on his face, irritated this time.

(Butch): Ronnie, in fact, everyone; you really have no clue. You can’t possibly fathom why I stand by Senester’s side now. You may not understand, like or condone it now, but I am more a man than anybody on this goddamn roster. I am standing on the shoulders of giants with the work that I am doing, and when the dust settled and the truth is finally revealed, you’ll be the ones who will be judged and abused. You’ll beg for forgiveness, you’ll ask for mercy. And I’ll simply whisper “No”. But again, I digress.

Butch smiles callously before he returns to the task at hand.

(Butch): You make me laugh Ronnie, really, you do. I know how talented you are, and I know you know it too, Christ knows the entire roster is never allowed to forget “how good Ronnie McNeil is” but you actually think you’re Senester’s equal? You think you’re made of the same stuff that makes Senester the man he is? You think you can go to the lengths that Senester goes to? You may be a unique in-ring tactician Ronnie, even so far as a Ring General, if you will but Senester is just better. There’s nothing you can say or do that change that. You can lament of how Senester shunned your talents for Dredge’s, chose Buff as his one-time equal and not you, coveted Hans as his beloved Baron. It won’t change anything and it won’t change anything at Havoc. Even as a champion, you’re still second best to Eddie so what makes you think people actually care you believe you’re a better champion just because you’ve got a blue chip on your shoulder and you’ve got some aura of accomplishment surrounding you. Only records speak the true truth, Ronnie and the records state that you are standing on the second podium, on penultimate rung of the ladder.

And as for your so-called “records”. *Scoffs* I really don’t like being drawn into a verbal back-and-forth about who beat who and who did what to who, but you started this. The real records state that Butch Parker did not compete at Ring Master 2007, which as you so gloriously pointed out, was the year before you won the tournament. Butch Parker was deemed unable to compete due to injuries suffered at the hands of the then-reigning HWA Tag Team Champions, Dante’s Inferno. So I’m curious as to where you got this information from or maybe you were just playing as yourself on HWA Havoc 2007 on the Xbox 360 or something? And my second World Championship victory? If defeating both yourself and Belial after wrestling for a good two hours in one of the most brutalising wrestling environments, isn’t deserving, then I don’t know what is. In fact, I sincerely remember afterwards you personally congratulating me on my victory, even going as far to say “the better man won”. What changed Ronnie? Did shedding all those blood, sweat and tears to get back to the top of the HWA mountain, defeating all comers on your side of the tournament bracket only to be toppled by The One Man Tartan Army, leave a bitter taste in your mouth? If you can’t win the World Title, then nobody deserves it? Or am I just putting words in your mouth now Ronnie?

Butch once again shakes his head mockingly.

(Butch): Enough of this, this “I’m better than you”, “no, I’m better than you”, is becoming tiresome. At Havoc, the questions will be answered and the motives made clear. Chaos and destruction will be a thing of beauty and after your lying on your back staring at the flashing lights and having broken dreams, we’ll all see how flawless you really are. We’ll see if you still share the sentiment that even if you win, you lose. We’ll see if you can take having your own bullshit shoved back down your throat and you can tell me how it tastes. At Havoc, you will look into the eyes of God, and you will shudder, the ground will shake beneath your feet as I lay you, Buff, Talon and Hans, to rest.

Believe that.