The Usual Suspects are BACK~! for HD.

[Zack Malibu 0]

Where I come from isn't all that great

My automobile is a piece of crap

My fashion sense is a little whack

And my friends are just as screwy as me

 

COLE

COACH...Check it out! Look who it is!

 

COACH

Hearing that song again only means one thing...and these people are taking it very well!

 

As the lead singer of Weezer spouts the lyrics to "Beverly Hills", the catchy anthem provides entrance music for the two men headed down to the ring. One is extremely focused, determined almost to the point of anger, as he heads down the aisle. The other is a bit more animated, playing to the crowd and encouraging their cheers.

 

COLE

Malibu...he's got that look in his eye, and after what went down two weeks ago when Todd Cortez and Bloodshed tried to eliminate him before he could get to Bruce Blank, we can only wonder what he's got in store for them now!

 

COACH

Not to mention...it looks like Malibu and Leon Rodez have reunited. The Usual Suspects are BACK, baby!

 

Malibu heads right for the ring, stepping in and waving for the microphone, while Leon hops up on the apron, and then on the turnbuckles to play to the fans before hopping into the ring, taking his place at the side of the OAOAST's favorite son. As the song fades, the crowd goes quiet, but only briefly, as a heavy chant picks up.

 

US-UAL SUS-PECTS~! clap clap clapclapclap

US-UAL SUS-PECTS~! clap clap clapclapclap

US-UAL SUS-PECTS~! clap clap clapclapclap

 

COLE

Listen to this crowd! The former OAOAST World Tag Team Champions, standing united inside the ring once again!

 

Leon looks around, a huge grin on his face. He taps Malibu on the back and nods to him, acknowledging that the fanbase is taking their reunion very well. Malibu hesitates before speaking, looking around into the sea of fans chanting for he and his ally.

 

MALIBU

You know, I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here tonight, so I'll make the announcement first, just in case anybody back there isn't paying attention, and then I'll get to the explanation. The Usual Suspects are BACK IN BUSINESS~!

 

Despite already having picked up on it, the crowd erupts, as Leon pumps his fists.

 

MALIBU

Now, I'm sure a lot of you are wondering why. I'm sure people might be wondering why it took so long for me to look for backup in this war with The Wildcards. After time and time again, being left to die, bloodied, beaten and broken, why did I keep coming at them on my own? The truth is, and you all know this because I've said it before, is that The Wildcards are MY cross to bear...no one elses. I may have turned them loose on the OAOAST and their paths have crossed with our other stars, souring the attitudes of everyone in the company friend or foe...but at the end of the day, they're my responsibility. Scratch that, they're more than just responsibility now...they're my motivation, my reason for being here. They're the reason The Usual Suspects are standing before you once again as a cohesive unit. For MONTHS, I have sucked up the fact that I jaded the entire company that I helped build. I sat in dressing rooms alone, lingered backstage with not one person wanting to speak to me, all because The Wildcards were brought upon us by me. The night they turned on me inside the steel cage, nobody came to help me. The times I showed up to go after them, I had no help...I did that alone. However, when Bruce Blank went too far...when he went to my house and confronted Candie and...my...

 

Zack starts breaking up, having to relive the intense moment that his girlfriend and baby daughter were approached in their own home by the sadistic Bruce Blank.

 

MALIBU

BLANK! Everyone knows what you did by now. You wanted my attention, YOU GOT IT! You've got it, that stunt EARNED it, and you will have it until you're dying day, because I will NEVER LET YOU LIVE IT DOWN! You've become the biggest star in the wrestling world this year, whether it be the OAOAST, the SWF, HI-YAH, or anywhere else...you are THE MAN this year! Everyone is talking about Bruce Blank, the man who became a star not just at my expense, but at the expense of my FAMILY? My DAUGHTER? That shows a heart blacker than any I've ever seen, and that's saying something in this business. You KNEW I'd come at you head on after that point, and you were right, you son of a bitch. There was no denying what I wanted to do to you, what I still long to do to you...until you sicced the dogs of war, your two sidekicks on me. Two weeks ago on this show I called your name, only to be answered by Todd Cortez...the same guy who told me I could TRUST you. The same guy who met me in Japan and said that if I needed backup, he knew who to call on. He's the same guy who ran me into a wall two weeks ago, kicked my teeth down my throat, and was holding me down, ready to be carved open like a Thansgiving turkey...until THIS MAN, right here, put his career aside, his goals on hold, to come and help me. This man, Leon Rodez, didn't have to come and help me. He didn't have to approach me after the fact last week, and say that maybe it was time the team got together again. He didn't have to offer his help, but he did, and do you know why, Blank? Do you know why he came to help me? Do you know why before Angleslam, this ring was filled with people I fought against and alongside? Do you know why Anglesault, the namesake of this company, showed his face on television and in this ring after wanting to get away from it all, just to save my career? It's because of RESPECT, Bruce Blank! You ask Leon Rodez, you ask Anglesault, you ask The Hooligans, all men I've been on both sides of the fence with, and they will all tell you that at the end of the day, whether you love or hate Zack Malibu, you RESPECT HIM. I DON'T RESPECT YOU! NO ONE DOES! IF YOU WANTED TO MAKE A NAME FOR YOURSELF, THEN MAKE ME BLEED! PIN ME IN THIS RING! BASH MY HEAD IN WITH THAT DAMN BAT OF YOURS...BUT DO NOT, DO NOT GO AFTER MY FAMILY! DO NOT INTIMIDATE A 105 POUND WOMAN AND A NEWBORN BABY GIRL, BECAUSE YOU WILL LIVE TO REGRET THAT CHOICE! You're the biggest star in wrestling right now, and you have NO ONE'S RESPECT!

 

Malibu takes a breath, getting too emotional for his own good. Leon offers to take the mic, but Malibu asks him to hold up a minute, and during the brief break, that's when the three most hated men in the company decide to stroll out.

 

BLANK

Well looky here, ain't this precious. Don't go gettin' all worked up on my account now, Zacky boy!

 

The crowd boos as loud as possible as Bruce Blank, Bloodshed, and Todd Cortez, The Wildcards, stand at the entranceway. Malibu immediately darts towards the ropes to go after them, but Leon snags his partner at the last possible second and drags him away, telling him to hold off and to not be lured into another fight just yet.

 

BLANK

Seems to me your partner is smarter than you are, Zack! You're little marriage there might work out for the best, if he can keep you outta trouble!

 

MALIBU

You want to say something to me? Get down here and say it to my face, you redneck piece of...

 

BLANK

Hey now Zacky, don't go draggin' my name through the mud after all those compliments! I mean, god damn, I'm flattered. The biggest star in wrestling this year, coming from the mouth of the man whose life I've personally made a living hell? A man who can't get the job done in the ring, who has to have someone flickin' light switches on and off so he can jump me from behind? A man who lost the respect...there's that word you love there, of his peers and had to endure beatin' after beatin' from me and my boys? Don't think a little suckin' up is gonna let you off easy, Zack. The problem with you is that you're too proud. You're gonna keep comin' at me because YOU HAVE SOMETHIN' TO GAIN! What do I have to gain by beatin' your ass again? I pinned you at Angleslam. I broke you mentally, and physically...so you tell me, Mr. Franchise, just what is in it for me if I get into the ring with you again?

 

Malibu, ready to react and not speak, is pushed back again by Rodez, who steals the mic from his own partner.

 

RODEZ

Let me do some of the talking now, Blank. See, the book is still wide open on you and Zack, but we're gonna jump ahead a chapter or two now. Everything Zack said is true...the locker room thought that Zack finally bit off more than he could chew, and that he should have to clean up his mess. God knows he tried. But there comes a time where you have to call a spade a spade. Where a man must admit he's wrong...and I'm not talking about Zack, because he's done that. I'm talking about me, personally. You see me out here and it's Leon the crowd pleaser, but that doesn't mean that I can't take a serious tone when the time comes. Having to sit back and watch what you did to this man, to his family...was one of the toughest things I had to do. It made me, and the rest of the OAOAST realize that no matter what Zack did, nothing could compare to the lines you crossed that night. But we let him have at it, figuring that Angleslam would have been the end of you...and it wasn't. Because you HAVE broken this man mentally. You HAVE made this man hurt, and bleed, and as a friend, I'm not going to sit by and let it happen! I'm not going to sit by anymore and watch you three slice him open and drag him across this canvas! I'm not going to let his heart get away from his head, and bite off more than he can chew again. It all boils down to that word again, Blank. RESPECT. I RESPECT Zack Malibu. I do NOT respect any of you!

 

The crowd roars, but The Wildcards brush off the insult, having heard it all before from other OAOAST stars.

 

BLANK

Blah blah, you ain't tellin' me nothin' I ain't heard before, boy. But just because you've got a hair across your ass about how we conduct business, don't mean nothin'. You're just like the rest of 'em. You think because you and Zack got a history, slap the ol' team name on yourselves again, that it's a different story? Don't kid yourselves.

 

MALIBU

Don't kid YOURSELF, Blank. Remember me? The same guy who doesn't stop coming? The same guy who stood in this very ring with a GUN IN YOUR FACE!?

 

COLE

Oh God, he's not supposed to say that!

 

COACH

I thought we were past that!

 

Blank's demeanor drops, but not Malibu's. He's furious.

 

MALIBU

Yeah, remember that? Remember how I've tried to tear your eyes out? How I've cut you open with your own weapons? All because every time I hear my daughter cry, I see YOUR FACE IN MY HEAD! How every time I go to hold my girlfriend, she wants me to hold her just a little bit tighter because you've KILLED their sense of privacy! My family doesn't feel safe in my own home BECAUSE OF YOU, so why should you feel safe ANYWHERE? This goes beyond The Wildcards and me, Blank. At the end of the day, it's about you and I, but your boys can't seem to go their own way on this one. So now I've got the backup, and the ball is in your court. You might have nothing to gain by getting into the ring with me again, but you've got nothing to lose either. You can either meet us head on at World Without End, picking one of your boys to come with you, or you can keep looking over your shoulder for me. You can end it face to face, Blank, so what's keeping you? You want to kill me off? COME AND GET ME! DO IT! KILL ME OFF, BRUCE! DO WHAT YOU SAID YOU WERE GONNA DO! C'MON BRUCE, YOUR THE BIGGEST STAR IN WRESTLING! DON'T DENY THE FACT THAT YOU HATE THAT I'M STILL STANDING!

 

Blank is scowling, trying to fight the urge to reply to Malibu, but Zack keeps egging him on, until finally...

 

BLANK

YOU WANT ME AGAIN, PRETTY BOY!? YOU WANT TO FEEL PAIN WORSE THAT WHAT'S IN YOUR HEAD, OR WHAT WE'VE DONE TO YOU PHYSICALLY? You and your friend there, think runnin' your mouths off is gonna intimidate us? When have we ever been about the talkin'? We're about ACTION, Zack. Like busting a man open, like slicing his forehead open, like going after those he loves because HE CAN'T PROTECT THEM! You want me that bad, Zack? You think Leon Rodez is gonna protect you? You think a Usual Suspects reunion is going to delay your demise? I DO NOT THINK SO! Because it ends, appropriately, at World Without End. Your world is going to come crashing down around you...THE BOTH OF YOU, because at that event, Zack Malibu and Bruce Blank will be standing across the ring from each other. No need to have rules and regulations, because you know they ain't about to be followed. See, I'm seeing it very clearly now. One of the OAOAST's greatest tag teams against a team that has not only wreaked havoc upon the OAOAST, but has set a precident across the wrestling world...one of pure violence and mayhem. BRUCE BLANK AND BLOODSHED, THE DEAD PRECIDENTS! THE SAME TEAM THAT TORE THE SWF APART! TWO MEN WHO HAVE MADE IT HARD FOR YOU TO SLEEP AT NIGHT! A BONAFIDE DREAM MATCH, ZACHARY, TO BID YOU FAREWELL, BECAUSE I WILL RIP YOUR HEART OUT AND SEND IT TO YOUR DAUGHTER IN A SHOEBOX! YOU HEAR ME, BOY! YOU BROUGHT IT ON YOURSELF...YOU AND RODEZ! IT'S ENDING, ZACK! THE PAIN WILL ALL BE OVER SOON, BUT GETTING TO THE END IS GONNA BE THE TOUGHEST TEST YET! I'M GONNA BLEED YOU DRY!

 

Blank is spitting all over the place, his threats heard loud and clear through his thick Southern drawl. Malibu, fuming, paces himself, choosing for once to not let the rage inside him get the best of him...although Leon keeping Zack at bay from The Wildcards' taunts do help matters. Blank, Bloodshed and Cortez, the latter two who remained silent while the venom was spewing out of Blank's mouth, all disappear behind the curtain, offering one final stare back at the reunited duo set to avenge Malibu's family.

 

COLE

What a blockbuster that was! We'd seen Leon Rodez start to welcome Zack back into the fold after months of letting Malibu go it alone, but tonight it was made official...The Usual Suspects are BACK!

 

COACH

Not only that, but they threw down the gauntlet within seconds, luring Blank and Bloodshed, who were once known as the Dead Precidents "elsewhere", into a match at World Without End!

 

COLE

You heard Blank as well, saying that it's pointless to make it a straight up match, because not one of those men is going to adhere to any rules or regulations set forth. That's going to be a bloodbath!

 

COACH

No doubt, playa.

 

COLE

True dat.

 

COACH

Huh?

 

COLE

Sorry, did I step on your toes with that one?

 

COACH

Man...just cut to break, will ya? Tryin' to steal my schtick...you crazy?