FIVE STAR TITLE MATCH:
REZIN (C) vs. GREAT SCOTT
Nick Stuart: It’s Five Star Title time, folks, and we’re in for a wild ride! In just a few moments, newly crowned champion, Rezin, will be putting his title on the line against fan favorite GREAT SCOTT, who won this title shot at Great American Nightmare by defeating Nate Colton and Balaam the Mask of Malice.
Richard Parker: How this simpleton has managed to get to this point is beyond my level of understanding.
Nick Stuart: You may not care for his personality, partner, but it’s hard to argue against GREAT SCOTT’s talent.
Richard Parker: He hangs out with a BEAR, Nick.
Nick Stuart: Well, I hang out with you, and sometimes I wish I was hanging out with GREAT BEAR instead. Let’s kick it over to Vince Howard for the intros.
Cut-to the ring, where Vince Howard’s ready and raring to go.
Vince Howard: Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time for your main event of the evening! Introducing first…
“Born For Greatness” by Papa Roach begins to blast over the speakers, as GREAT SCOTT emerges from behind the curtain carrying a nondescript championship belt over his shoulder. The PRIMEates go goddamned ballistic, and get even louder as GREAT BEAR steps out behind him, rocking out to some EDM on his sweet Beats By Dre headphones.
Vince Howard: …From the Greater Metro Area of Great Falls, Montana, being accompanied to the ring by GREAT BEAR, weighing in at 276 pounds…GREAT SCOTT!
GREAT SCOTT and GREAT BEAR make their way down to the ring, where GREAT BEAR starts doing awesome dance moves at ringside. Pretty soon, the entire crowd is dancing along with GREAT BEAR as everyone does the GREAT SCOTT!
GREAT SCOTT beams as he climbs up into the ring and goes up on all four ring posts, basking in the adulation of fans and holding up his championship belt.
The lights cut.
“I AM BECOME DEATH, THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS”
BANNG!!
Off the sound bite, an exploding pyro rocks the arena, leaving behind a rising mushroom cloud of smoke over the stage.
Ministry’s cover of “Search and Destroy” pumps in over the PA. The PRIMEview cycles through footage of nuclear explosions, weapons of war, burning cities, riots in the streets, and in-ring highlights of the Goat Bastard being his daring and dastardly self.
Blinding white light fills the entry-way as the silhouette of a man slowly strides out onto the stage. Then when the solo hits, the backlighting cuts out as a wall of FIRE rises up from the ground. The stage lights pop on to reveal Rezin standing on his stage.
The Escape Artist is greeted by a deafening chorus of boos from the PRIME faithful. He scans the jeering crowd for several moments, arms outstretched at his sides in a antimessianic show of defiance.
Around his waist hangs the Five Star Title, profanely worn upside down.
Richard Parker: …is he aware he’s got that on the wrong way?
Nick Stuart: I just assumed he was doing it intentionally, to send some sort of message.
Richard Parker: What message? That’s he’s dyslexic?
Rezin makes the trip down the rampway, cool and methodical, completely ignoring the fans heckling him as he walks down the aisle. He has a deathgaze locked in on the challenger waiting for him in the ring.
Reaching ringside, the Five Star Champion does a loop around the squared circle, looking like a crooked buzzard closing in on its prey. He’s unphased by bits of paper and styrofoam trash that bounce off of him from some of the overzealous fans standing at the barricade pepper.
To him, they are mere flies. His attention is solely on GREAT SCOTT, staring daggers back at him.
Nick Stuart: I gotta say, Rich, I don’t think I’ve ever before seen this level of composure and focus from the Escape Artist. He has a real aura about him tonight. Dare I say, he almost looks like…
Richard Parker: Were you about to say ‘a champion’, partner? Sure, he’s getting the swagger, but let’s see if he can get through the night without projecting any bodily fluids onto anyone first.
Finally, the Goat Bastard ascends the corner steps with hard, pronounced steps, and scales the turnbuckle. Physically and mentally HIGH above, he unstraps the Five Star Title and holds it inverted overhead, inciting a roar of seething hate from the crowd!
After milking the moment for all it’s worth, Rezin resets himself onto the top rope and REZINSAULTS into the ring! He eventually finds his corner and paces in place there, eyes never leaving the challenger.
DING DING
Nick Stuart: And here we go… Rezin vs GREAT SCOTT, Five Star Championship on the line…
Richard Parker: I can’t wait for the GOAT bastard to smash GREAT SCOTT into oblivion.
GREAT SCOTT looks intensely into the eyes of the reigning Five Star Champion, who… actually looks game for a fight? The two competitors nod toward each other, and rush into the center of the ring…
POW!
AND GREAT SCOTT WAFFLES REZIN WITH A NASTY CLOTHESLINE THAT SENDS REZIN FLOPPING LIKE A FISH AROUND THE MAT! The crowd goes wild as the challenger reaches for a begging Rezin, pulling him to his feet by the hair and taking him up and over with a THUNDEROUS SCOOP SLAM! Rezin scrambles for refuge, and eventually finds it by rolling under the bottom rope and onto the arena floor, where he now has a chance to regroup!
Nick Stuart: What a slam by GREAT SCOTT there.
Richard Parker: Why, why does Rezin always have to suck at the beginning of a match?
As GREAT SCOTT panders to the crowd, Rezin pulls himself up by the ring apron and tries to get his bearings. GREAT SCOTT beckons to the champion to get into the ring as Ashley Barlow starts to count the champion out!
ONE!
TWO!
THREE!
Nick Stuart: Rezin seems to have decided he doesn’t want any of this tonight, and he wants out!
Richard Parker: Well, you know what they say, Nicky, he who decides to run away, lives to fight another day!
Nick Stuart: The crowd in the arena is giving Rezin the what for, but if he gets counted out Rezin would still be our Five Star Champion.
Rezin smirks at the crowd, before springing onto the apron and looking at his challenger as he lunges forth…
Nick Stuart: Here we go!
…and misses as he steps back down, drawing even farther ire from the Vegas faithful! He slowly steps back from the ring even farther, as Ashley keeps counting!
Nick Stuart: I lied.
SIX!
SEVEN!
GREAT SCOTT has had it, as he rolls out of the ring and STORMS toward the champion! As he rushes to Rezin like a locomotive, Rezin looks on in panic, before stepping aside and tripping GREAT SCOTT head-first into the guardrail, Rezin looks up with a smirk.
Richard Parker: Now THAT’S a little savvy from the Five Star Champ, and he just might be too good in the mind games department for this challenge!
Nick Stuart: Oh, you mean playing dirty tricks?
The champ picks GREAT SCOTT up and drags him back towards the ring, where he SLAMS the challenger’s face into the apron and sends him staggering. Rezin stays on the offensive, grabbing SCOTT’s head again and signaling towards the ring POST…
But GREAT SCOTT BLOCKS THE THROW! He nails Rezin in the ribs with an elbow, before grabbing the champion by the hair and SLAM him into the post face-first! The champion plops onto the ringside mat, and GREAT SCOTT lets out a mighty roar, before grabbing Rezin by the waist in a wheelbarrow position…
Nick Stuart: OHHHHHHHHHH MY, what a display of POWER from GREAT SCOTT!
…AND PLANTS REZIN ONTO THE GROUND WITH A SUPLEX!
Richard Parker: Not a smart move, though, Nicky, because he can’t win that title on the ground, he’s gotta get him back in the ring!
Almost as if he were listening, GREAT SCOTT picks Rezin up like a feather, and rolls him back in, under the ropes and following suit himself! The crowd goes wild as GREAT SCOTT gets back into the ring himself, and Rezin just lays on the mat, showing the slightest signs of life!
Nick Stuart: Business is picking up!
GREAT SCOTT stares down Rezin as he struggles to rise, relying on the ring ropes this time to prop himself up.
Richard Parker: It’s not fair, Nick, Rezin was caught unaware of this whackadoo, and he’s at an unfair disadvantage!
GREAT SCOTT sees an opening and pushes Rezin onto the ropes before whipping him HARD into the opposite side, and rushing in for a clothesline, which Rezin ducks under, and on the rebound he goes low and NAILS GREAT SCOTT in the abdomen with a kitchen sink knee! GREAT SCOTT flips over onto his back, and Rezin follows up by dropping the leg across GREAT SCOTT’s throat for the cover!
ONE!
GREAT SCOTT manages to kick out pretty easily, and Rezin is annoyed, but unfazed! The Five Star Champion pushes himself back up to his feet, and takes to stomping on the back of his challenger!
Nick Stuart: Is it just me, or has Rezin been more “game” for these encounters since his match with Hayes Hanlon?
Indeed, Rezin reaches down and grabs GREAT SCOTT by the hair, before waffling him with a salvo of palm strikes and a few kicks to the legs, before pushing SCOTT into the ropes and whipping him. Rezin attempts to leapfrog his challenger on the rebound, but GREAT SCOTT CATCHES HIM AND KEEPS HIM IN PLACE!
Nick Stuart: THE GREAT SCOTT BOMB! REZIN IS LAID OUT ON THE MAT!
Richard Parker: Awww, man, I got a bad feeling about this doofus winning the title… I think I’m gonna be sick.
GREAT SCOTT throws his arms up and lets another yell loose, before going for the cover!
ONE!
TWO!
Rezin kicks out, but he’s still clearly rattled from being slammed to the mat! GREAT SCOTT grabs Rezin by the wrist, and YANKS HIM back to his feet, before pulling him into a crushing bearhug and pivoting into a THUNDEROUS belly-to-belly suplex! GREAT SCOTT with the cover!
ONE!
TWO!
REZIN JUST BARELY pushes out of the pin, agony clearly carved onto his face as GREAT SCOTT is on a roll and drawing from the cheers of the crowd! SCOTT smacks the mat with his hands, and beckons Rezin to get back up, before locking on a full nelson and looking to the crowd!
Richard Parker: Oh man, whatever GREAT SCOTT’s got planned isn’t gonna be good for the champ!
And Richard is right, as GREAT SCOTT hoists Rezin up before driving him back down with a NASTY release dragon suplex!
Nick Stuart: You definitely called that one, Richard!
Richard Parker: No bridge, all impact, as I like to say, and Rezin looks like he’s out to lunch!
GREAT SCOTT is fueled by adrenaline, and he lunges onto Rezin’s carcass for the cover!
ONE!
TWO!
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Nick Stuart: And Ashley Barlow over to tell SCOTT that Rezin’s foot is on the ropes.
Richard Parker: HAHA! Great work!
She tells him that the pin was broken up, and points to the ropes where Rezin’s left foot rests! GREAT SCOTT is a bit emotional, as he puts his hands on his hips and looks up to the lights while on his knees. Beside him, Rezin is just hanging on to consciousness, and the camera gets a good, close look at his loopy eyes as he rolls over onto his hands and knees, and GREAT SCOTT slowly gets to his feet and stalks to the corner, before stomping his foot and striking up the band!
Nick Stuart: Looks like GREAT SCOTT’s gonna play a tune for the Five Star Champion!
Rezin manages to get to his feet, albeit without any semblance of balance, JUST as SCOTT lunges forth with some GREAT SCOTT MUZIK!
However, Rezin manages to see the kick JUST in time, and sidesteps at the last possible MICROSECOND, before grabbing the challenger’s leg and tuck his head under SCOTT’s arms, using the momentum of the superkick to lift him up and spin him out onto the mat!
Nick Stuart: BLACK THUNDER!
Richard Parker: Gotta hand it to Rezin, Nick, he’s the champion for a reason, because he manages to see opportunities like that one, and he TAKES them!
Ashley Barlow is on the case for the pin!
ONE!
TWO!
…
Nick Stuart: AND A KICKOUT BY GREAT SCOTT!
Richard Parker: Thought he had him there.
GREAT SCOTT, with a burst of adrenaline, manages to roll out of the sitout pin, and lands on his hands and knees as a drained Five Star Champion falls splat on his back! The challenger slowly pushes himself back up to a standing position, as Rezin himself slowly gets onto one knee, and SMACKS GREAT SCOTT across the face with an open palm!
Nick Stuart: That might not have been a good call on Rezin’s behalf, because he’s just made GREAT SCOTT mad!
Richard Parker: GREAT SCOTT needs some sense smacked into him, I don’t hate it.
Sure enough, GREAT SCOTT seems to have been knocked out of any trance he might have been on, and is looking on at the Five Star Champion with a look of rage as he hits Rezin with a HARSH forearm to the mush and pulls him back up to his feet! GREAT SCOTT whips the champion into the near corner, but Rezin manages to catch himself and climb up the turnbuckle, and launch himself at GREAT SCOTT with a full-force Rezinsault that takes him down and in a North-South position for the cover!
ONE!
TWO!
Nick Stuart: GREAT SCOTT KICKS OUT AGAIN! Rezin is clearly frustrated!
Rezin snarls at nobody in particular, as he eyes the corner again and starts planning his next move!
Nick Stuart: I don’t know what Rezin has planned, but I do NOT think he’s going to think it through!
Richard Parker: TOP ROPES ARE BAD! GET DOWN!
Rezin pushes through, and makes it onto the top rope, while waiting for GREAT SCOTT to rise to his feet, and stuns the crowd with a flip!
Nick Stuart: REZINRANA!
Rezin lands on GREAT SCOTT’S shoulders and is about to finish the dazzling hurricanrana, but GREAT SCOTT manages to hold on tight and keep him mid-air, before trudging toward the turnbuckle, and SETTING REZIN ONTO THE TOP ROPE!
Richard Parker: Oh, no! Is this weirdo going to finish Rezin off?!
GREAT SCOTT follows Rezin to the top, and signals for the SCOTTACANRANA!
Nick Stuart: This could be it!
The crowd goes wild, only to be deflated when Rezin headbutts the challenger and knocks him back and off the ropes! GREAT SCOTT staggers on the mat, and Rezin dives off and hits GREAT SCOTT with a flying body press, but he rolls off before he can make a tight cover!
GREAT SCOTT staggers back to his feet, just in time for Rezin to let a CLOVEN HOOF KICK rip…
BUT GREAT SCOTT GETS A HOLD OF REZIN! He has him cradled in his arms like a small child, and Rezin is PANICKING! Seeing an opening, Rezin chuckles at Scott, before shaking his head and tapping his cheek!
Nick Stuart: Rezin might be thinking black sludge again!
GREAT SCOTT remembers what happened at the last ReVival and manages to put a meaty hand over the champion’s mouth, keeping him from spitting any gunk out! In fact, the camera picks up a swallowing motion at Rezin’s neck, and it isn’t long before Rezin is COUGHING up the goo safely away from the challenger’s eyes!
Richard Parker: Oh, gross.
Nick Stuart: Rezin’s looking desperate, trying to break free!
Rezin tries to get away but GREAT SCOTT has a death grip on him, and the champion is helpless as GREAT SCOTT lowers him onto the mat, and gets him in a precarious position before…
WHUMP!!!
Nick Stuart: SAITO SUPLEX! SHADES OF SONNY SIL–
Richard Parker: –MISTER SILVER, SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT LIAISON OF PRIME!
Nick Stuart: –VER.
Rezin is shattered on the mat, and GREAT SCOTT has a glow in his eyes! He pumps up the crowd, and digs deep down, pulling Rezin up by the beard and locking his head between his knees, before hooking the arms for the SCOTTAGREE! However, Rezin droops to the mat, sandbagging as GREAT SCOTT tries to hoist the champion back up to his feet, but Rezin just won’t come up. Frustrated, SCOTT lets go of the arms and reaches down to grab Rezin…
BUT REZIN LANDS A STEALTHY LOW BLOW WHILE WRAPPING SCOTT IN A SMALL PACKAGE ROLLUP AT THE SAME TIME! ASHLEY BARLOW WITH THE COUNT!
ONE!
TWO!!
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GREAT SCOTT just barely manages to explode out of the pinning predicament, but is clearly in a bit of pain at the moment, which Rezin takes advantage of by lining up his shot before bouncing off the ropes and LEVELING HIS CHALLENGER with a Cloven Hoof Kick! Rezin is looking around deliriously for the corner, but he makes it and looks down at his opponent!
Nick Stuart: That kick nearly took GREAT SCOTT’s head off!
Richard Parker: He’s wasting time though, he should’ve gone for the cover and put this to bed.
As GREAT SCOTT struggles to get to his feet, Rezin sees an opening and high-tails it to the nearest corner and climbs onto the top rope, first taunting the jeering crowd before lining up his shot as SCOTT slowly rises.
Rezin: REZINRANAAAAAAA~!
He waits for GREAT SCOTT to walk right into range of his somersault hurricanrana, but as if on instinct, GREAT SCOTT lunges towards the nearest ropes, knocking the Five3 Star Champion off balance, and crocheting himself right onto the turnbuckle!
Richard Parker: OHHHHHH, MAMA! REZIN WILL BE SINGING CASTRATO FOR A MONTH!
Nick Stuart: I’m shocked you even know what that is, Rich.
Richard Parker: I am a man of culture and many surprises, Nicky ol’ pal.
The crowd goes wild as Rezin holds his groin in agony, and GREAT SCOTT sees the opening he needs, and climbs up the ropes to meet the champion face-to-face!
Nick Stuart: Could this be the SCOTTACANRANA?
Richard Parker: Goddammit, Rezin, get your shit together!
GREAT SCOTT lets out a mighty yell, before leaping up and wrapping his legs around the champion’s head…
WHAM!!!
The crowd buzzes, as GREAT SCOTT lands on his feet and looks behind him on the mat…
…only to see nobody there! He impulsively looks at the top turnbuckle, where Rezin, with hands full of ring ropes, has managed to stay put! SCOTT pushes forward, only to be pushed back by a Rezin kick to the chest. GREAT SCOTT is now clearly angry, as he makes a MAD dash to the corner, only to be stopped by Rezin’s desperate clutches…
WHAM!!!
As the Five Star Champion manages to hook his arms around his challenger’s head, and step off the ropes for a leverage-assisted version of Into The Void! The champion is running on pure adrenaline now, as he rushes over for a cover!
ONE!
TWO!
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THREE!!!
DING DING DING
Vince Howard: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! Your winner, and STIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLL! FIVE STAR CHAMPION OF PRIME… RRRRRRRRRRRREZIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!!!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Rezin momentarily lays on the mat in disbelief before starting to laugh. He gets himself to a sitting position as Ashley Barlow raises his hand and hands the Five Star Title to him. He yanks the belt away from the official and stands up, lifting the gold strap over his head and reveling in the jeers.
Nick Stuart: What a match to end ReVival! Rezin retains the Five Star title by the skin of his teeth. GREAT SCOTT has nothing to be ashamed about here, he put on a masterful performance.
Richard Parker: Yeah, but it wasn’t enough for the little nerd. Too bad so sad.
Nick Stuart: Folks, we’re out of time. Join us again in two weeks for ReVival 13, where Brandon Youngblood will defend the Universal Title against Phil Atken! Goodnight!
FADE
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VOID