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(The scene opens with Brian Fury standing in front of a PWA banner. Fury is in jeans and is shirtless but his ribs are taped and he has a bandage over his eye. Fury exhales and looks into the camera.)

Brian Fury: First off you have to understand that my goal is to be the World champion, pure and simple. Kevin Starr and Robert MacElroy tore down the house the other night and my plan is to beat whoever has the belt. I don’t care which one it is, honestly. But to get there I need to take care of some business first....

Last week I was jumped by a crew led by Nick Spoils. I have damaged ribs, cuts all over my body, and possibly some neck damage. The doctors didn’t want to give me medical clearance. They told me that my injuries were so severe that they wouldn’t “in good conscience” clear me to wrestle. Well I had to let them know that it would be in their best interests to clear me or they would have hell to pay from me!!! I got my clearance papers and now I’m gunning for Nick Spoils!

Nick Spoils is a man who can’t be trusted. He’s a snake in the grass and that’s why we split. All he cares about is money and he’ll use whoever and whatever to get what he wants. On Assault I took on Ragnarok and I will admit he’s a lot tougher and stronger than I thought but you don’t get to be one half of the Tag Team champions without being a bad dude. The thing is..... I had him beat! I had him beat so bad it to 3 MEN to distract the referee and break up the count. Spoils saw what was happening and he knew his man would be exposed so he did what he had to do and Ragnarok got the pin on me.

Now Damion Black has reversed the decision but I don’t care about that. Spoils, at the next Assault you and your goons are banned from ringside! That means I get Gehenna all to myself!! The only question in my mind is will I break him in half from the jump or will I take my time ripping him to shreds? You’ll be in the back watching your champion getting handled and there isn’t anything you can do about it!! If there is something left maybe I’ll get a partner and take those belts off your hands??

(Fury points directly at the camera.)

Spoils, let me be as clear as I can.....your men didn’t get the job done!! As banged up as I am, as much blood as I’ve lost, I’m still coming for you!! I’m gonna break your squad down one by one until you’re looking me in the eye and you have to answer the question......TAPOUT OR KNOCKOUT!!!

( The scene fades to black.)

Terry Schneider catches up with Pennyworth in the medical area after Assault.

TERRY: Mr. Pennyworth, could I have a moment of your time?

PENNYWORTH: Of course, Terry.

TERRY: How are you feeling?

PENNYWORTH: I'm just fine, Terry. Just waiting for the docs to give me the all clear, but I'll be quite all right. But if you don't mind, I think I know what you're actually asking me. You're curious about my thought process after the cowardly attack perpetrated by Akira Wyld and Brawler Beckett.

TERRY: Well, yes, actually.

PENNYWORTH: Well, I'll tell you. See, I said earlier that I was fine. But that's not quite right. I'm better than fine. I'm...content. Happy, even. See, that attack after my victory earlier tonight proved to me that I'm getting to Akira. It proves that he doesn't believe he can defeat me. I'm in his head, making him worry, making him concerned. He attacked me, supposedly to prove a point. But he attacked me after a hard-fought match, and after distracting me. Akira doesn't want to face me. He knows he can't beat me. He knows I have his number.

See, in his prime, Akira was great. A beast. A dominating force in professional wrestling. Rightly seen as one of the top fighters in the world. But that was then. This is now. Akira's time is up. His stock is falling. Mine is rising. And he's just desperately trying to hold on to the past, to prove to himself that he isn't falling apart. That he isn't washed up. But he knows, and I know, that when it comes down to it, Richard Pennyworth III is undefeated against Akira Wyld.

So, Terry. That's the long and short of it. I'm happy Akira attacked me tonight. It shows to me, and to the entire PWA Armada, that he knows he can't defeat me.

TERRY: That's quite a statement there from Richard Pennyworth. Thank you for your time, Rich.

PENNYWORTH: Anytime, Terry.

Nick Spoils face dominates the screen.

NICK: Brian Fury, my boy. I warned you. I told you to back off. But you insisted. And you paid the price. First, you were pinned inside the ring -- 1, 2, 3. Defeated, soundly and cleanly. Afterwards, well...payback can be a bitch.

Speaking of payback. I have had to open my wallet now, on multiple occasions, thanks to Damion Black. Black, when Gehenna faces Fury next week, the rest of us will stay backstage. You have the right to demand that for the match. But the fine is completely bullshit and uncalled for.

The match between Fury and Ragnarok was not a no disqualification match. You know Fury. You know his temper. And you know what he can do. So, obviously, I instructed Nakamura and Gehenna to keep an eye out, as I did. And when Brian started to reach for the sickle he likes to hide, I had to alert Bill White. The others undoubtedly saw the same thing I did. The fact that you didn't only speaks to the fact that you no longer have what it takes. We prevented a travesty during that match. And after the match, we simply defended our stablemate.

And then...AND THEN. You had the temerity, the audacity, the GALL. You came out and reversed the decision. You awarded Brian Fury a victory. You gave the win to the cheater. That was the wrong call. And you compounded it by fining each of us fifty big ones. Look, the money isn't a huge deal. It stings, sure, but the real issue here is that the fine was completely without cause, without merit.

Damion, I warned you the first time, when you stripped my clients of their rightfully earned titles, and harmed the chances of the Coldsnakes of their rightfully earned shot against Armageddon. That one turned out the right way, thankfully. You escaped. This time...you did not.

The scene zooms out, showing that Spoils is in front of a law office, named "Greene, Readd, & White". He holds up an envelope.

NICK: In my hand right now, Damion, is a copy of a lawsuit that my lawyers and I have worked up. Neither my clients nor I will be paying your fine. And the decision you made to award Brian Fury the victory will be ignored. Or you will be paying heavily. How heavily, you ask?

Spoils smirks.

NICK: Let's just say...I wouldn't bet the company if I were you. But on to more exciting things. Next Assault, my client Gehenna faces off against Brian Fury in a no disqualification submission match. If there was a match better suited to Gehenna's strengths than this, I haven't heard of it. The brutality. The rage. In the end, Fury's screams of pain. Honestly, Brian. When was the last time you made ANYONE tap out? Submission matches are Gehenna's specialty. The Hades Lock is an exquisite pain like none you have ever felt. So when the end comes this time, and you are tapping out, losing yet again to one of my clients...just remember that YOU asked for this. I wanted to bring you back into the fold, Brian. But you wouldn't have it. You say all I care about is money? Brian, all I care about is my clients. That's what you never learned. And when they say that they want to take you apart, piece by piece because you need an object lesson? I listen. I protect them, like I did with filing this lawsuit against the fine and the victory vacancy. And finally, I give them the chances they need to win, like I did with the 2-Time PWA Tag Team Champions, Armageddon. You had that chance, Brian. You squandered it. And Brian -- when this is over, and you're waking up from the pain, just remember one thing. Remember that you could have walked away. That this pain, the injuries -- they are all YOUR fault.

*The camera pans to Rex Camelot tending to the still-healing scar on his face*

CAMELOT: Pantaro... You have something that belongs to us.
At Rise of Kings, we were robbed. Robbed of the one thing in this company befitting a king. But after Spencer Watts' inhuman, inexcusable use of those accursed tables, we were forced to let the title fall into unclean, unworthy hands.
So now, Pantaro, we are coming for you. And we will not stop, we will beat you down, again and again, until you have no choice but to give up what you've stolen. Enjoy OUR title while you can, cat.