Post by Mark Brooks on Jul 29, 2019 20:59:42 GMT -5
THE POWER COUPLE
“a couple consisting of two people who are each influential or successful in their own right.”
“a couple consisting of two people who are each influential or successful in their own right.”
The cameras start rolling and they fade inside an MGM suite. The suite is rented to me, “Above Average” Mark Brooks and my beautiful wife Miss Michelle. We are inside the living room area of the suite and sitting on the couch watching television. Watching Trinity Wrestling’s house show from a few weeks ago as I am leaning forward with my forearms resting on my knees. I look down at the coffee table with a piece of paper sitting in front of me. it is the current card for Sin, hosted right here in Las Vegas’ MGM hotel and casino. I look over at the names and have the names separate by companies, gender, and size. I smile over my shoulder at my wife before leaning back on the couch. I catch her yawning while watching Terra Walker’s house show match. I break the silence when I start to speak.
mark BROOKS: We are essential what a power couple embodies. We are equivalent to the Obamas, Bill and Melinda Gates, Jay Z and Beyonce, and us—Mark Brooks and Miss Michelle!
I throw my arm over to Michelle’s back and thrusts her closer into my body as she motions with her finger at herself then to my chest.
mark BROOKS: We are successful on our own as much as we are successful as a couple. We have blossomed together and separately to only outshine, outmatch, and outwit our oppositions. Couples all over the world from Japan to Mexico to the United States have idolized us to such extremes that they have started to imitate us. They want to have what we have!
This time, I motion with my finger to my chest and then points my finger to the left at Miss Michelle who smirks.
mark BROOKS: Miss Michelle, are you ready for Sin?
I look over at the beautiful redhead standing beside me.
miss MICHELLE: I’ve never been more prepared a day in my life!
She looks over at me and leans across, kissing me softly on my cheek. I slightly blush and turn to the camera as my heart melts. Obviously, the world can see what she does to me.
mark BROOKS: This puppy is going to be an above average match and only the finest are going to cut it. No half-assed attempts at stealing the victory, no playing possum, no trying to hide beneath the ring, or sitting in the corner waiting for the perfect opportunity. Those who make it to the important top ten spots are going to have to fight. Fight for their survival. Fight for their places in the match. Fight for you’re the chance of calling themselves the World Champ.
I slouch back and start to move them into a round shape in front of my stomach.
mark BROOKS: My biggest pet peeve in this one is a potential foreigner could win the belt. Hell, a foreigner could win both titles, if we aren’t careful. Now, now, let me be perfectly clear about my statement regarding a foreigner winning. I don’t mean foreigner the same way you’re hinting. I’m not talking about it in respects to ethnicity or culture. I’m talking about foreigners in terms of wrestling companies. FWA, PHW, WWH, Progress, Prodigy, APW, and even worse—somebody who doesn’t represent a company at all: a free agent!
I have an irritated sneer on my face.
mark BROOKS: As a member of Trinity, I’m rallying up all my fellow brothers and sisters in agreement to get the bad seeds out. Who’s with me? I don’t care about our personal vendettas with each other or arrogance levels. Let’s get them out and make sure the titles stay in Trinity. Don’t let people like Noah Hanson, Kandi Washington, Justin Sayin, Duncan Aries, Irina Ivanova, and Kitty Petrova taint our great company by stealing the slot of our first Trinity’s champions. It won’t be good for the results. It won’t be good for those belts. It won’t be good for each and every single one of us and most importantly, it won’t be good for the lifespan of Trinity!
I bring my right hand up to my face and runs it over my mouth. I briefly bat my eyelashes as I blink.
mark BROOKS: I’m talking to Terra Walker, Pasha, Thomas Snow, Cole Kelly, Alex Scott, Melancholy, Emmit, Trapson, Colt, Jock, Pandora, Phoenix, and Lex—will you guys work with my wife and I? I’m not saying we have to best friends afterwards or even have to maintain respectful mannerisms toward each other. We have the numbers advantage. We can focus on getting those thirteen unlucky sons of bitches out of the battle royal, then tear the unholy out of each other. We can show the world Trinity Wrestling is not just here to stay, but we are looking to become the best damn wrestling promotion in the world! Who’s with me? Who wants to combine our superpowers and fighter for the greater good? For the reputation of Trinity Wrestling? It’s all about Trinity Wrestling, folks!
I look over to the beautiful red head again and she’s twirling her head around. I watch her red hair just flow in the breeze and it smells so good. She looks over at me.
miss MICHELLE: Baby, I think it is a fabulous idea! I know personally Kylie Monroe would love this idea. What chairwoman or man wouldn’t want to know their stars fought together to eliminate the outsiders? They are official participants in the match, so getting rid of the thirteen puts us all that much closer to the end goal. They would be stupid not to jump on board with us!
’I can’t believe how beautiful she is when she’s trashing…’ I think to myself as I just stare at her. Her red hair flows down her back. I look back at the camera and folds my hands into each other.
mark BROOKS: I’m not saying we need to be best friends, but we don’t need to break each other down. Everybody is so quick to make an enemy that they forgot what is truly important. The fans deserve to witness something historic. They deserve to see one hell of a battle royal for the grandest title in Trinity Wrestling’s history! They also get to witness the first-ever event held by Trinity Wrestling. There are so many moments to be made on this night and nobody is looking at the greater good. Nobody sees the importance of this event, this match, and the history you can make. Everybody just wants their grubby little hands on the title. They don’t care who they physically or verbally hurt; they don’t care who’s careers they make irrelevant. They only care about themselves. That would be acceptable next week or the week after, but this week—it should be Trinity’s wrestlers against the world.
I raise my right arm up with my finger out and starts to circle it round to symbolize going around the world.
mark BROOKS: I’m going to try my hardest to make this match above average! I want to take a 2.0 lineup and booking, and multiple it by 2. I want to make it a 4.0 and I’m going to do it on my own, it looks like. That’s fine. I’ve never been one to beg and plead for people to join me. I would love some help, but it means I just have to do a little bit more work. I have to try a little harder and that’s fine. The staff will notice my hard work. It won’t go unnoticed. They are going to see I have the interest of the company I am employed by. They are going to realize I am one of the few Trinity’s wrestlers who have the interest of Trinity’s gold.
I hold my hand over my forehead and lean my head back against the couch as I temporarily close my eyes in disbelief. I shake my head and just start talking to myself. Miss Michelle is apparently back to the house show and ignoring me.
mark BROOKS: Look at big Drake. A man who I have beaten in the past and literally pinned him in the middle of the ring. He wants to go down in the history as the man with the most eliminations, but he’s doing it so Kandi Washington can reap the benefits of his hard labor because she’s freaking lazy! She’s below average and the sad thing is, she thinks she’s some Queen. Queen, my ass. You two can go back to that little rundown PHW with your tails tucked between each other’s legs. But when you go back there, you’ll be going emptyhanded because I refuse to allow you, Drake, or even Madison the right to win either of the Trinity’s titles! Right, babe?
I nudge her small bicep as she’s startled. She looks over at me and starts to nod.
miss MICHELLE: Of course baby. She claims she doesn’t enter many of these kinds of matches because people hate her. She’s scared is her real reason, but you know she’s always been jealous at the fact I was the foundation to the PWF’s bombshell division. She was so mad that I build PWF’s bombshell division from the ground up and when she came back, it was already historical. She entered an established division and had to work her way up to the top. She wasn’t even a factor in deciding the inaugural bombshell’s champion because of her bad attitude! Noah can verify that for you, if you’ll like. Kandi claims to be a legend, but when you have to keep reminding people you’re a legend—you’re a fraud!
She just burned Kandi and I go to poke her shoulder, but she’s so hot—I nearly burned my finger.
mark BROOKS: Ow baby, you just burned that scrawny little wannabe!
I shake my hand as I pretend to cool my finger off.
mark BROOKS: Enough about her. One thing I can’t seem to figure out is why Alex Scott has an issue with me. Why he’s so bent out of shape over something that happened years ago? It’s like let it go! I thought Canadians were supposed to be easy going, but you’re proving that theory wrong. If you don’t want to work with me to make sure a Trinity’s wrestler wins because you’re holding a grudge, then fine. Hold the grudge. If it does come down to you and me, I will have no choice than to take that grudge and make you choke on it. Stop. Stop your little girlfriend from going after my wife. My wife will mop the floor with that inexperienced little tart! You both are holding senseless and pointless grudges against us. Why? What did we do that was so bad? You can’t answer because we didn’t do a damn thing to you! I think you were just envious at the fact we have always ben above average your careers while you guys were just suffering from mediocrity.
I just have a big grin on my face. The credits for the house show are playing as Miss Michelle looks over at the camera and me. she flips the hair over her head and smiles. She sets her hand on my shoulder and starts massaging me aggressively.
mark BROOKS: I’m not going to disrespect anybody in this match and call them divas, performers, or rookies because everybody in their own right has earned the credit to be a wrestler. I’m not saying non-Trinity guys should win or take our titles, but they, too, have done extraordinary things. I want to say some of the finest wrestlers that Trinity represent in this battle royal are amazing. I’m honored to be able to say I’m in the same match as guys and girls like Pasha, Terra Walker, Thomas Snow, Trapson, Pandora, Phoenix, Lex Collins, and Cody Larson to name a few. This match is going to consist of hard hitting, action packed, and memories formed from start to finish. The eight names I have just mentioned, along with mine and my wife’s, are the ideal top ten! And that top ten would be ABOVE AVERAGE while everybody left out falls short!
Before I can hold up three fingers, Michelle beats me to the punch and she follows it up with, “oh yeah baby.” The scene fades to black.