Promo: BEMANI CROZZ WIZARDS IN DA HEEZY~

[Guest Thoth]

Backstage, after Storm has ended and the crew is cleaning up, Thoth has his foot placed on a counter, tying his regular shoes together. On the counter to the side of him is his newly-won SWF Tag Team Championship belt. He steps off, and places his other leg, lacing up the show, when he sees his new tag cohort and fellow champion, Ced Ordonzes, amble by. He has his belt aorund his waist, and is so proud of himself, he’s oblivious to the rest of the world. His chin held high... his arms at his sides, but bouncing. You know... bouncing arms.

 

“Oi, Ced!” He turns and sees his partner. “Hey Thoth... what’cha doin’?”

 

The Balancer sighs. “Oh, nothing much. Planning on hitting a good shower and getting to sleep, you know?”

 

“Yeah, I know,” says Ced. He pauses, looking at the ground while shuffling his foot. “You know, you don’t...”

 

“I don’t... what?” asks Thoth, impatient. “Don’t have enough money, don’t have a five-star hotel room, don’t belong in the main event picture...?”

 

“It’s just that...” Ced responds slowly... “You really don’t... go out much, do you?”

 

Thoth finishes tying his shoe, pulling the lace taut as he turns to look Ced in the eye, and in the nicets tone he can muster at the time, says, “You know, I just don’t feel like going out, that’s all. Okay?”

 

“Whoa! Whoa!” Ced holds his hands up, palms out. “I didn’t want to get off on the wrong foot! I mean... we’re champs now! And I... just thought...?”

 

“What, are you asking me on a date?”

 

Ced slaps himself in the forehead. “No... fuck no... ah, fuck it. There’s an arcade, down on Woodland Street, it’s open late night...”

 

“Yeah,” says Thhoth nonchalantly as he picks up his belt.

 

“...And it’s got 7th and 5th... and I heard they’re testing Extreme...”

 

“They what now?!” Thoth drops his train of thought. “Why didn’t you say so?”

 

“Well, I thought you and uh... it was...”

 

“Come on, man! Get the car!” So Thoth and Ced got the car... and then they got in the car...

 

DRIVE DRIVE DRIVE DRIVE DRIVE

 

“Here we are.” Ced turns off the ignition, and both men step out of the car. Thoth pulls on his jacket, stretching the fabric out.

 

Two men. Standing tall. Beating upstream against the flow of life. Playing Dance Dance Revolution.

 

There is no sweeter freedom in life.

 

There is a line and a crowd surrounding the 7th Mix machine, and Thoth and Ced go to investigate. Indeed, their worst fears are confirmed. He’s playing Dynamite Rave. And he’s doing the thing.

 

“How in the hell does he have a crowd?” asks Thoth?

 

“This ain’t California,” replies Ced. “They probably gawk at Standard. Thoth frowns. “I’ll show them a thing or two.”

 

As the song finishes and the poor sod gets offstage, another person starts to get on, taking his quarter and starting to put it in the slot... but he’s brushed aside by a big muscular man, with red hair. And that man, in turn, is brushed aside by Thoth. The other people in line instinctively start to complain, but when they see the SWF Superstars in their midst, they back down.

 

“Thanks,” says Thoth, half-serious. “I just wanted to get some play time in before I went back to the hotel.” He puts in two quarters, and picks Era as his first song, loosening up his arms. Ced stands on the side, nodding to the beat as Thoth displays some good turns and moves for a Heavy-level song. When the tempo slows down, he gets a rise from his audience by turning around, not looking once at the screen as he hits the slow-beat steps. The tempo picks back up as he turns, and finishes with aplomb. The tempo drops again, and as he prepares to finish, a heckler says, “Thoth! You suck! Silent should’a kicked your ass!”

 

“Oh really?” replies Thoth, scooping up the heckler and cradling his leg. He waits, as the final arrow scrolls up the screen, then drops the poor guy on his head, right on the down arrow... and the machine responds with ‘Good.’

 

“Good? Good?” exasperates Thoth.

 

“You’ve got to drop him quicker, replies Ced.” The nameless hackler gets dragged off the machine as Ced and Thoth start to leave.

 

“Nothing like a heckler to ruin your day.”

 

“Yeah, really. Well, I’ll drop you off at your hotel, Thoth... see you in the morning?”

 

“Yeah, I’ve got your cell.”

 

“Okay. Let’s get out of here. Marvel vs Capcom 2 is broken.”

 

On the drive back...

 

“We should call ourselves the Bemani Cross Wizards.”

 

“Okay... I like it.”

[Guest Ace309]

Wow.... I'm damn impressed. Way to take a thrown-together team, use practically the only thoing you have in common, and add another aspect to the already-multifaceted Thoth. It continues the development of Ced that started right before he left the first time (purple tights, UPS girl, ne?), and that's really nice.

 

Here's hoping I see more from Dork Dork Revolution...

 

er...

 

the Bemani Cross Wizards.

[Guest Edwin MacPhisto]

NEW BEST TAG TEAM NAME!!!

 

I will officially be stopping back in now to read every Ced & Thoth tag match.

[Guest CED Ordonez]

Click here to see how in the blue hell the tag team name was coined. Scroll down to my random DDR comment spawned from a random Cutthroat beating then get a kick out of Tom's Nostradamus-like vision of the future. It was actually a improvisation on Thoth's threat to bring out a DDR themed wrestler. Dig those 6 month old references, dammit!

[Guest El Luchadore Magnifico]

We can write promos about DDR??

 

Why wasn't I informed of this?!

 

Long live the Bemani Cross Wizards...

[Guest Ace309]

Dude... just because you CAN doesn't mean you SHOULD.

[Guest Kibagami]

Damn. I leave Thoth unattended and Clan-less for a month, and I get...DDR?

 

God bless us all, right in the mouth.

 

S.

[Guest 5_moves_of_doom]

We jobbed the title to Belgian Crap Wizzers?

 

*shakes head in disbelief*

 

[Guest Kitsuneko]

Jeezus. You give freestylers a bad name. ^^ The title rules, but... *sigh* back to your crack I see. Being DDR, of course.

 

And if Unlimited is the last mix... I will die. I will just die.

 

...long live 4th Plus.

 

And... me. Cause I'm in. Working on my screening match. Yay~

 

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[Guest El Luchadore Magnifico]

KITSU-CHAN~!

 

And yes, 4th Mix Plus DOES rule. Screw Max2.

 

BTW, it was changed to "Dance Dance Revolution Extreme".

[Guest Kitsuneko]

Whatup Mag. *BIG HUG* (Yes. It is the return of the huggles. Ph33r. IN anycase...

 

Yea, I'm working on my screening, I'll have it in in a couple of days.

 

[Guest CED Ordonez]

kit...su..ne...ko, that's a mix of "fox" and "cat", right?

 

-CED "Learning Japanese...Through Anime!" O

[Guest Thoth]

Actually, It's "kitsune" and "ko." Thusly, fox child.