MASKED SHOOTER: "You know where you are?"
RONNIE LASSITER: "In the middle of the ring."
MS: "No. You are about a quarter-of-a-meter off-center, nearer the ropes than a corner, off to your right. Center up."
***Lassiter shifts.***
MS: "Too far. Readjust."
***With a frustrated huff, the bigger, younger man takes another step.***
MS: "Wrong way. You'd cost us another count."
RL: "From here? No way!"
*** The Shooter grabs hold of Lassiter's wrists. Startled, Lassiter gains leverage on his instructor's arms, pulls him in for a suplex, and executes it perfectly into a pin.***
RL: "One, two, three!"
MS: ***Still pinned.*** "Nope."
RL: "The Hell you say."
MS: "Look."
***Lassiter rolls off and lifts the blindfold enough to see that the Shooter's left foot is on a bottom rope. In frustration, Lassiter rips the blindfold off and chucks it out of the ring.***
MUSTANG PETER: “That’s a ropebreak, Ronnie.”
RL: "This is bullshit!"
MS: "Izzatso?"
RL: "Yeah, 'zatso!'"
MP: “Take it easy, guys…”
MS: "Well, you're right, it is bullshit. You were reckless out there last week. We should have had that match won several times, but you were careless with your ring awareness."
RL: "Aw, don't gimme that. I-"
***uncomfortable silence***
MS: "What?"
RL: "I've been carrying you for months, Shooter. Look at the footage. I could have been working on a singles career. I've done damn well in singles matches … myself! And it seems like every time we have an opportunity to get somewhere, you get pinned! And I can't get my own career going, because I am- I'm shackled to you! You train me, you put me in holds that make my eyes bleed, but it is always in here, always with you in control! Out there? Under the lights? I'm getting nowhere with you! Your training … has been good, but I can't go anywhere with you as dead weight!"
MS: ***solomnly*** "You think you got me figured, huh?"
RL: ***looms over Shooter*** "I never wanted to believe it, but it's true! You've been riding my coattails for one last run of glory! Well … that's done!"
MS: "You know it all because you're tired of being given corrected?"
RL: "I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT I KNOW!"
https://youtu.be/J73sYhaID_0
*Lassiter, breathing heavily, looks down at his former mentor. He looks like he is about to say something, but shuts his mouth and quickly turns and rolls out of the ring. Without a word, he leaves the gym. Peter squats down to check on the masked man, but …*
MS: "Get. Out."
*Peter, uncertain, gets up and leaves. *
MS: "Hell … I ain't never gonna learn …"Statistics: Posted by Ameronth — Tue Oct 15, 2019 1:56 pm
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