HD: Not-so opening segment

[King Cucaracha 0]

If there's anything by anyone with Maggie involved, this should go before it really.

 

 

We're back at the back of the building again and much like earlier, a guy and a girl can be seen walking in, lost in each other's thoughts. However, this time, the guy and the girl in question are a more unorthodox 'couple'. "Silky Smooth" Leon Rodez, with his OAOAST 6-Man Tag Team Championship belt over his shoulder, chats away to OAOAST interview personality extraordinaire Maggie Nerdly who seems intriguing interested in what he has to say. As the duo near the door to enter the arena though, they're confronted by a trio of figures, they being Leon's tag partners D*LUX and his sister Jade Rodez, walking in the other direction. Leon's conversation trails off and he quickly scoots in front of a confused Maggie just before the trio can notice him.

LEON
Uh, so, in answer to your, uh, question Maggie, yes I am looking forward to my 6-Man Title defence this Sunday night at Zero Hour. I always look forward to any chance to go against The Enterprise. And I'm sure my tag team partners will agree on that count.

SHAYNE
Oh, most definately DUDE, we're gonna kick some ass in Memphis, Tennessee and we are...

JADE
Uh, Shayne, I don't think they're doing an interview.

Shayne, cut off in a rare moment of talking prime, sulks a little.

LEON
Well, sure we are! Why else would we, two completely unrelated characters in the land of the OAOAST, be talking to each other out here with no-one else around, hmmmm?

JADE
Uh-huh. So, where's her microphone?

LEON
Ah, see, here's the thing, see... uh... [i]budget cuts[/i]! Yeah, they just extended everybody's contracts. Eighty-four active wrestlers, wouldn't you know it! Lots of downpayments. So, out go the microphones. Always the first thing to go. I just hope they spare our nameplates.

JADE
Leon, I know.

LEON
Know what?

JADE
Maggie texted me last week. And you texted me three days ago.

LEON
No I didn't.

JADE
You didn't [i]mean[/i] to. But, assuming the words "BOOYAH CITY" mean something to you, although they certainly shouldn't since it's just nonsense, then you might just have sent to the wrong contact. Either that or Tyler happened to leave his phone on and I read it. I dunno.

With a wry smile, Leon fist-pumps with Tyler quickly if a little belatedly, before turning to Jade.

LEON
Yeah, well, I don't know why I was trying to keep it a secret from you anyway. You've got so much to make up for I could sleep with all the Nerdly sisters and still be in the moral highground compared to you. And, for your information, "BOOYAH CITY" happens to be a very meaningful inside joke between myself and two of my close friends. I think we both know where you were when that inside joke originated but as I promised to try my hardest to let bygones be bygones, I shall let that place go unmentioned.

Jade hangs her head a little.

MAGGIE
Wait, why did you sent these two a text message to let them know we had coffee last week?

LEON
Well, as I say, we're very close friends.

SHAYNE
You only had coffee? But I thought...

LEON
Not now Shayne, huh?

Head hanging over, Jade looks up with a smile.

JADE
So when we agreed that you'd lay off holding the past few months with The Enterprise against me in exchange for you being less of a wannabee lothario around my friends, that didn't include Maggie? Or, was it [i]just[/i] coffee?

LEON
Well, I mean... (looks at Maggie) yeah, but, uh... (looks at D*LUX) see then we, uhm... (looks back at Jade) look, there's really no safe answer here so, let's all just agree that I'm in the wrong and move on, okay? Besides, 'wannabee lothario' were your words. I don't even know what they mean.

JADE
Well, I think we're even. Come on guys.

LEON
Oh we are SO not even!

JADE
(walking away)
Oh yes we are.

LEON
Oh no we're not, you come back here! If you're running off to Ned...

JADE
That's not funny!

As Leon and Jade stride off bickering like any good brother and sister, Maggie is left with D*LUX.

TYLER
Come on, you can tell us.

SHAYNE
Booyah City?

MAGGIE
(a little sheepishly)
The overnight stop-over.

Letting out a loud cheer, Tyler and Shayne high-five. Maggie joins in with the high-fives too, albeit the teensiest bit embarrassed, as she's escorted off by a clearly detail seeking D*LUX.