Lifecycle

[Stuart Ratliff is in the WWX Headquarters watching a replay of Ravage from Monday night]

Max: Now, I know you're thinking that there hasn't been a tag team in a long time that has been worthy of holding the gold around their waist. It may still be fresh in your mind that the last pair to hold it was Stuart Ratliff and Desmond White; however, they weren't the last team that truly deserved it. Go back further, if you really think about it, there haven't been many teams that have DESERVED to hold the gold. That's going to change...right now. Bring them out!
 
Skyla: What are these two planning?
 
[Two stagehands quickly hustle from the backstage with a pair of velvet bags. They quickly slide the bags into the ring and hustle backstage.]
 
Max: As of now, you are now looking at the newest Tag Team Champions of the WWX, Capital Punishment.
 
Lance: But wait Max, don't we need to prove ourselves as a viable tag team?
 
Max: You're right my good friend. 
 
[Max turns to the ramp as he continues to speak.]
 
Max: If there is a tag team worthy or any pair of wrestlers in the back that think they can beat us and wear the titles, come out now or forever hold your peace.
 
[A few seconds of booing interlaced with silence goes by.]
 
Max: Well, I guess that settles it, we're the champs!
 
[Lance and Max both pick up the velvet bags and unsheathe the tag titles. They both sling the titles over their shoulders as they both begin to wear a huge smile on their faces.]
 
Lance: You know, we look pretty damn good with these titles.
 
Max: I concur.
 
[Boos continue to shower them as they celebrate their "victory."]
 
Lance: Remember to all those that want to come at us, when you cross Capital Punishment, you get a lethal injection of reality.
 
“My Own Summer” hits as the crowd jeers once again, but is quickly cut as “Fire & Ice” blasts through the PA system, causing the arena to erupt in cheers.

LANE: Is this who I think it is?

Fans erupt when they see Kevin Dudley emerge on entrance ramp, holding what appears to be one half of the real WWX Tag Team titles.

SKYLA: It’s the “Jamaican Sensation” Kevin Dudley!!

Moments later, the arena comes unglued as the Interim CEO himself emerges, holding a mic in one hand and the other tag title in the other.

LANE: IT IS!! FIRE & ICE!! KEVIN DUDLEY & OUR INTERIM CEO!! REUNITED AFTER A YEAR!!

Xavier waits for the crowd to calm down before he goes to speak

XAVIER: Capital Punishment. Lemme get this straight here. The two of you form a team, come out here with replica tag team titles and proclaim yourselves to be the tag team champions when you haven’t even faced a single team yet. So your claim that you two are the tag team champs are null and void, as well as those replica tag titles you hold.
LANE: That’s just like Xavier to ruin the fun for our tag champs.

SKYLA: But they’re not and even Xavier said so.

XAIVER: You see, I was going to make a proper announcement about the tag team titles, but you messed it up. Wait, I can still make that announcement. Effective immediately, the WWX Tag Team titles are hereby reinstated.

Fans cheer wildly as Xavier and Kevin hold the tag titles high.

SKYLA: While Kevin is a former tag team champ, Xavier has acquired the tag titles on two occasions: once with Nero Moore and then with Kevin Dudley.

XAVIER: However, the tag team champions will NOT be Capital Punishment, but it instead the last team to hold the tag team titles, Stuart Ratliff and the reigning Conquest Champion, Desmond White.

Stuart: First off I would like to thank the CEO for realizing who the tag champs are and not letting the Chumps of Punishment take what is ours. Granted me and Desmond have been out doing individual projects certainly with me doing a major upgrade to get WWX's Information Security on the right track after the past few years.  But seeing this crap means that me and Desmond have work to do to get everything straight within the WWX Tag Team Division.

Assistant: Mr. Ratliff, the underlings are trying to get a hold of you.

stuart: Can you take a bloody message.



Anyways, once they determine when the match is, trust me that I will be ready to defend. So will Desmond. That is how this business is, true preparation getting ready for the next match, for whatever will come our way. And to whoever wants to face us, be prepared to be struck down and make foolish decisions until they are taken out back to be lifecycled for something that is better.