OCW After the Bell - Post Riot

[Jacob Trance]

El Parca stumbles back through the curtain, the cloth of his mask twitches in a way, a peculiar manner, that gives away his feelings. You know he’s smiling. He goes to turn towards the nearest stagehand to grab a bottle of water and instead feels like a boa constrictor has seized his entire body, the air hissing out through his lips.

 

Reese: You did it little buddy!

 

Parca doesn’t respond, being murder hugged by his tag partner

 

Reese: You got him! For a second it looked like he had three times the air you did buddy, but you dug in like an armadillo and stung him good.

 

Parca begins to turn the same colour as his mask.

 

Reese: Stung him like an ornery wasp!

 

The big, simple man, smiles and sets his tag partner down to the ground. Parca silently says a prayer to the Lord, Jesus Christ for sparing him.

 

Reese: I… I…

 

Reese grins, a big, huge smile, spread across his face like the sweetest of butters on toasted bread.

 

Reese: I’m fired up!

 

Parca pats his partner on the back.

 

Parca: Oh, Big Country, what did I tell you about surprise hugs? With those GUNS [Parca pats Reese’s whale like biceps] you can kill a man amigo!

 

Parca then embraces Reese in a normal hug.

 

Parca: But thank you my friend. That was something I needed to hear, I went out there tonight thinking to myself I can’t let myself down but! I also couldn’t let my best buddy down either.

 

Parca: It was an exhilarating match, but jeez did he not stop coming! I almost thought about throwing my boot at him!

 

Parca then finally gets a bottle of water as he guzzles down half of it immediately following the Main Event performance he had.

 

Reese scratches his left armpit.

 

Reese: Yeah but did you see? That guy no one likes Thomas Archer thought he was going to fight that handy type, the one that herds sheep, but instead he has to fight your mentor… Japan Ice.

 

Parca: Aisu.

 

Reese: Is that not what I said?

 

Parca starts to explain but gets cut off: No that’s…

 

Reese: It’s great! It’s…

 

Reese adopts the stance of anime legend, All Might.

 

Reese: PLUS RIOT ULTRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. The inspiration, it’s just… Oh my, it makes me want to just slam it, and slam it, and slam it. And Jehst versus Wrex, wow! Just two men fighting and slammin’ each other, beautiful!

 

Reese hisses in a breath.

 

Reese: And that contract signing… Next week, that beautiful storytelling wonder! I’m about as excited as a mongoose in a pit of vipers so I am.

 

Parca: Hmm.. so Archer gets to face Aisu eh? That’ll be interesting.. But what is more of a priority right now is you’ll be able to slam big guy.

 

Parca using probably 99% of his energy turns Reese around very slowly, cause he is a human boulder. Then points to a poster about 3 ft away from them.

 

Parca: See that? [The poster is a Turmoil 252 poster promoting Lucha Country vs Uncrowned] We get to go against the Uncrowned. Not that I’m too particularly excited to do such a thing but, what must be done has to be done!

 

Parca: I want you to know that I will be there 100% that night. Antonio chose Doc and made this decision himself, so I will make the decision to help kick his ass alongside my best friend, you!

 

Reese blushes, playing with his index fingers.

 

Reese: You mean that?

 

Parca nods.

 

Reese: Cool as corn on the cob?

 

Parca hesitates for a second, quite clearly having never heard that phrase before. He nods.

 

Reese: Then I’ll slam as much as a slam man could slam, if a slam man could slam.

 

Parca: This isn’t just some short term tag team Reese no no. This right here? This is the beginning my friend, the beginning of an era of total dominance. This is the beginning of the Lucha Country Era.

 

Parca then extends his fist out in to give Reese a fist bump.

 

Parca: Lucha Country Forever!

 

Reese bumps fist.

 

Reese: Lucha… Slammin’... Country.