“I guess now is my chance, I’ve put it off long enough. I’ve stood back and allowed all the others their chance to claim it. But not anymore. No longer will I sit back on the sidelines and wait. I won’t sit back and let everyone else make claim to the spot that rightfully belongs to me….. I am going to rise up. I am going to come to the plate. Slayer, Titan, Kash, Dante, and Cyrus all better sit the fuck back and watch. I am not walking away without the gold. I don’t care what the fuck happens. I am ready for this. It’s my time to shine. Two of you have had your run with the gold and you couldn’t handle it. The other three aren’t ready for the big times. So I say back the fuck up and let the King of Hardcore take it. I guess that on the thirtieth we will all get to see who is the man. Damn boy’s this is going to be fun.”

~{Cameras open at the lake front house of Chris Van X located on the outskirts of Philadelphia. The scene is outside on the docks and the wind is blowing vigorously. The last of the leaves on the trees are blowing off and it’s looking more like winter. Laying on one of the beach style chairs on the dock is the King of Hardcore Chris Van X. He has on a pair of white Adidas shoes with some black shorts. He has a pull over Old Navy sweater on and both hands are pulled up into the pocket. He has his black bandanna on covering his head. His eyes are closed as the camera sits for a moment watching the hardcore legend laying. Finally after a moment or two he begins to speak.}~

CVX: The hype, the excitement the build up…….could it be any bigger? Could it be any better?……. Sure it can, but it’s not. It is what it is and it’s nothing more……… for the time being at least. The XCW can’t sit up and say that it is in it’s brightest moment right now. It can’t shine out among the wrestling world and be able to say “look at us!” The XCW is in a small rut of sorts. It’s stuck in spot that it is desperately trying to get out of. The biggest thing it need’s right now it someone to drive the bitch out. Someone to get into the drivers sit. Drop it down into gear then pull it from the rut. It just need’s a leader, someone to step up. The question is who is going to step up….. Who is going to be the leader? Who will rise to the occasion and proudly stand center stage as the champion? I’ll tell you who it’s going to be the innovator of hard-GORE. The King of Hardcore. It’s going to be ME!…………..Chris……….Van……….X! It’s my time now,

~{Chris lays there motionless the entire time and finally breathes into the air. You can see the heat from his mouth float out into the cool air. He lays there then moves his hands back behind his head. He still has his eyes closed and look’s very calm.}~

CVX: Now everyone is wondering why is Chris Van X now finally coming to the big table? Why is he just now wanting to step up? Everyone is wondering since when does Chris Van X care so much? Well let’s just cut the shit and get down to the meat of the matter. It’s not about saving XCW, it’s not about pulling this federation up to the standards. It’s not about trying to put on a great show. I’m greedy,…… that’s right I said it I’m as greedy as the next son of a bitch. It’s about ME! It’s about what I want….. It’s about my chance to come up big and prove to be the best. Because when the dust is settled for good in the career of Chris Van X and I’ve climbed into the squared circle for the very last time and come home and hung up my boot’s I don’t want the critics to start running there mouths about this. I don’t want them stepping out and saying “Chris never got the big belt,” Or “He never was the champ.” Hell I could even deal with them talking about how I never beat Maddog in the ring. Or how that I’ve never done anything outside of the XCW and UWWF circle. None of that will bother me too much. But when the worlds title talk start’s I don’t want any of them to be able to have the excuse that I never held it. I don’t want to hear them say I didn’t make it to the top. Because not only will Chris Van x be making it to the top. I am going to beat the hell out of anyone else who even gets near. So to all the critics I say this, before your little brains begin to come up with some stupid ideas just know this Chris Van X is leaving no doubt in the mind of anyone that he is simply the greatest of all time. You can compare whatever you want on paper. Show me people from the early days and show me people from the next years. But when it comes down to it you will all come to one conclusion….. Chris Van X is simply the best in the game. So now I guess that question is answered. But hell I’m sure you dickheads will come up with more problems now wont you?

~{As Chris is laying there he reaches down to his side and grab’s his pack of cigarettes and lighter. He sits up in his chair and pull’s out a smoke. As he pop’s it in his mouth he look’s at the water as he lights the cigarette up. He takes a few drag’s off then blows the smoke into the air. He look’s at the camera.}~

CVX: Six men walking into the octagon match. Six men who are all hell bent on walking away as the new champion. Six men who will no doubt do anything it takes, sacrifice their bodies, their souls and their life’s in order to win. Six men who will go out to their booker and bet on themselves because they all know deep down inside that they will come out on top. Each and every one of them know that they have what it takes to rise up to the occasion, that they are capable of beating the other five men and coming out on top. But the truth of it all is that five men will walk away disappointed. Five men will not be able to go see there booker and collect the money. Five men will not be able to say they backed up their word, that they held strong to their truth and that they pulled through when it mattered….. Only one man will be able to do that, only one man will go take his money, one man will stand victorious above the rest. Only one man will be able to stand in the ring with his arm raised holding the XCW heavyweight championship. That man is none other than the man you are listening to at this moment.

~{Chris takes another long drag off his cigarette then blow’s the smoke up into the air. He sits there and plays with the cigarette for a moment as he watches the orange flame glowing in the night. Chris look’s back to the camera as he takes another puff.}~

CVX: Now the five men walking into House of Chains with me to come and do business are all going to be seen all week staking their claim as to why they will be the champions. As to why they will rise up to the occasion and pull through. But let’s be honest about it. We are all full of shit. You know we are, we are just running our mouths. The thing that really matters is how will we perform in the match how we will be inside the octagon. But come on to be honest we could be on our best game of our lives and if we are one of the two men starting the match off it still most likely wont be enough. Because after you have been fighting with one person then a second person is released that fresh body person already has the upper hand. Just imagine four fresh body people jumping on you after you have already been fighting ten minutes, then fifteen minutes, then twenty minutes and beyond. See it’s just not about beating your opponents it’s about outlasting your opponents. If you are one of the unlucky ones who get the short straw and has to start the match out you are already down one advantage. Your going to have to use your stamina in order to help you pull through…….But see if your one of the lucky ones or in fact if you are the lucky one and your chain loosens last. You will get to come in as the fresh man. The one who has had more time than any other to watch the match. See how things are done while being strapped to a chain. You are the fresh face that is bubbling over with speed, power, excitement. Your pumped up and have a great game plan in your mind since you have had the last half hour to watch the other men fight before you have to jump into the mix. That’s a huge advantage over the two men who started the match, and a big advantage over the three guys who still had to go into the mix before you. The odds of someone getting that last spot are some somewhere around sixteen percent. That isn’t exactly great chances.

~{Chris has taken the final drag off his smoke. He takes and flicks the butt off into a bucket he has on his dock. He then rises from his chair and walk’s over to the railing. Chris look’s out at the water for a minute and proceeds to talk as he places his hands back inside his sweater.}~

CVX: I’ve wasted enough of my breath talking about the possible outcomes and the chances of everyone. I better get along to my opponents before I end up boring myself to death. The five other men in this ring are Slayer,…… Kash,….. Dante,……Cyrus,…..and Titan. I’ve wrestled three of them before….. I’ve beaten two of them and pinned one. But before I get to my previous opponents let me start with the two new ones. Slayer and Kash…… Now Slayer I’m sure that you are going to come out and remind us all how you beat Acid not once but twice. That you where hand selected for a reason and that you are going to be the one that carries the XCW name for the new few months…… but Slayer lets come down to earth, you beat Acid by default the first time when your ass just got lucky enough and moved out of the way from his tea bag and he went crashing through the tank. The second time the man was in shambles in the back nearly in tears a emotional wreck and still you barely pulled off the win. So don’t try to bring that poor ass shit to the ring. And hell besides that what are they going to do strap the chain to your broke ass knee? Everyone saw how easily you tapped out to Black Haze because of it. Then hell if they strap it to your other leg that means you’ll have a double handicap…… Slayer let’s just be honest here, your ass got stuck in the deep end of the pool with the big kids playing sharks and gator and you found out that you are the only gator. Get ready to have your ass put under son. ……. Slayer can you rise to the occasion? Can you win this match? I think we both know the answer to that and I am the only one who will say it….No you don’t.

CVX: Then Kash, the member of Team Clarkson, the sole active member. Took him not one but two chances to make it into this match. Losing in his first effort, and in his second he managed to pull out a victory from some former washed up WWA trash. But Kash you may be the primed man in Team Clarkson. You might be calculated by the president as the man to carry the gold. But the biggest problem in the plan is you don’t have the big match experience to step it up when it matters the most. Your lacking the true skills that a real beast posses. Kash you’ve jumped into the lions den and your nothing more than a hyena. Your going to get eaten alive and when your ass gets laid out by someone and they count to three, you will then walk to the back and Jeremy Clarkson will look at you and then he will know what a mistake he made by allowing you to try and fight under the Team Clarkson name. Kash your best suited for fight against Black Haze and other unimportant fool’s. Your ass just isn’t big enough to cash any checks you write and come House of Chains you will know that you don’t belong in the ring with us. Can you do it Kash? Can you rise to the occasion? No…. of course you can’t.

~{Chris takes and gazes into the water. He then turns and walk’s over to his chair he was sitting in moments ago and fixes the back of it where it is sitting up. He takes a seat in it and places his hands back into his sweater.}~

CVX: Now the other three men in this match who I have had the pleasure of climbing into the ring with before. Dante….. Let’s start with you….. One of the WWA invaders who saw fit to jump ship. You knew that the war between XCW and WWA was one sided and that WWA stood as much of a chance as the Kansas City Royals did of making the world series. But since you have come over to the XCW you have yet to do anything impressive. You have yet to back up your speech. You haven’t been able come in and prove your worth. But now the biggest stage of them all. Your in the main event. The pay per view main event. The World Title is on the line. You have a chance to shut us all up. To beat five of the very best XCW has to offer in one match. But Dante can you do it? Can you beat us? Or are you just talk? Or you just gums flapping in the wind? You couldn’t even beat Cyrus in order to make it to the match. You just got in because Clarkson knew the bigger the names in the match the higher the ratings. Dante you failed miserably at beating me. Hell even after Maddog came in and busted my head wide open with the glass jar you still couldn’t manage to win…… so what make’s you think you can do it this time? What make’s you think you are going to make this any different from the other losses? Dante I don’t think it will and at House of chains I plan on exposing your weakness. I plan on proving that you where nothing but hype from the get go……your little feud with Cyrus may make many think that you are worthy of this spot in this match. But hell son Zach Robbinson feuded with Cyrus and I wouldn’t even let that little shit carry my suitcase. Dante your short history in the XCW is ugly, and to be honest I don’t see the next few weeks looking that much better. Dante House of Chains is coming soon can you do it? Can you rise to the occasion?…… I doubt it Dante,….. I seriously doubt it.

CVX: Now Cyrus let’s jump over to you…… One of the two former XCW World Champions in this match. The longest reigning XCW champion in history…… The face of XCW during the invasion. But oh how times have changed. Your not the same Cyrus that was once the champion. Your not the same man who was on top of the world. You’re a shell of what you use to be. After Mortis Magnus screwed you out of your title you went out to the parking lot and got struck by a car. Ever since then you just haven’t measured up. You haven’t been able to compete on the same level….. So why should House of Chains be any different? Why should it change everything? Why should you be able to breakthrough now? Cyrus we have faced before and both times haven’t been pretty for you. Once I busted you wide open and beat you in a first blood match. The other time I nearly snapped your neck in half as I gave you a pile driver through a barb-wire board. I may have not gotten the win that time but even you know that the only reason you got pinned was because I laid you out. But when this bell rings and if it be me and you starting it off or us coming in as the last two people either way at some point we will stand face to face. When we do you must know that I am capable of beating you within a inch of your life and beyond. Because Cyrus the only thing that has changed since the last time we stood face to face is the fact that I have gotten a lot better and that you have gotten a lot worse. Cyrus I feel sorry for you in all of this I really do. You where Clarkson’s champion. You where the leader of XCW, and in a matter of one hour you went to the bottom of the barrel and not a single soul cared. Cyrus at House of Chains when your roll of chains is released and you are allowed to enter into the mix, the best thing for you to do may be to just lay down and let someone pin you easily. Because if not all you are going to do is cause more harm and more suffering to yourself……Cyrus are you going to do it? Are you going to rise to the occasion?……don’t worry Cyrus no one expects you to.

~{Chris sits up and grab’s his pack of cigarettes and lighter. He places them in his sweater pocket and then gets to his feet. He begins to make the long journey up the steps to his house. As he walks he look’s at the camera.}~

CVX: Titan oh Titan, How must we make you understand…. The little Mania headquarters means shit to the rest. I stand here today and tell you that if anyone of those pussies wants to bring there ass out of retirement I say lace up your boots and meet me in the ring. Fuck Mania and fuck the supremacy championship……. And just in case you don’t understand it let me spell it out…… F…………U………..C……….K……….M………A……..N…….I……A! It’s over and gone and I know for a fact not a single soul cares about it anymore besides the small realm of washed up shit like yourself, Bonez, Smitty and Ben Jackoffson. So don’t bring that shit to my kitchen table….. You rambled on and on about how Chris Van X has never beaten you….. Well son let’s be honest have you ever beaten Chris Van X? Sure you got to raise your hand in a match I was in. But hell everyone under the big orange sun knows I am the only reason you where able to get the pin fall. After your pussy ass was hiding off to the side I beaten Cyrus down and then and only then where you able to come over and win….. Hell son in that very tournament I came back to beat Danny Polar and Jeremy Clarkson in two of the sickest and twisted matches you have ever seen. You claim that no one deserves this title more than you? Well I say if that’s so let me forfeit the match now and save myself from the fight. Because you sucked so much dick to get where you are it’s bound to help you out now isn’t it? Shit Titan you don’t deserve the milk from the cows tit you drink with your coco puff’s every morning. Don’t you dare bring that shit to my table son. Don’t you dare…… I’m going to slap your ass so hard the paint will fall off the wall’s at the mania headquarters. Hell I could go on and on ripping your poor ass apart but the thing that makes me so happy is that come October thirtieth when that octagon door closes and your ass is stuck inside you can beat the last fucking dollar mania ever gave you that I am going to beat the ever loving shit out of your broke down ass. I will not play any games with you and I will not leave a single question unanswered as to who the better man is. I will beat your ass, I will beat Slayer, I will beat Kash, I will beat Dante and I will beat Cyrus. Titan you will know that Chris Van X just punked your ass out and that he sure as hell is big enough to do it again…… Ever since you came back I have heard nothing but crying, whining and complaining….. It reminds me of being married. You talk about the titanic era? Well son incase you don’t remember the Titanic sunk on it’s maiden voyage and I plan on being the fucking iceberg and finishing the job. Come House of Chains Titan can you rise up? Can you rise to the occasion and defeat the five of us?….. So don’t even think for a second you can. Because if you do I will promise to god to bust your head open so far that the blood will be splattered to the upper deck. Come house of chains Titan we will find out what your made of….

~{Chris has reached the back porch of his house and he swings his front door open. He stop’s and look’s back at the camera for just a moment.}~

CVX: Now don’t make any mistake about it, I’m not walking into House of Chains thinking this is going to be a cake walk. I do know that there are five men who would rather do nothing less than be the one that pinned Chris Van X….. but we all know that there’s not a prayer in the world big enough to make that happen. Chris Van X will not be defeated. He will not be stopped. He will rise to the occasion and stand victorious. I will have my arm raised and I will have the XCW World Heavyweight Championship around my waste. So Titan,…..Cyrus,…..Dante,……Kash,…… Slayer get use to it boy’s. I will be the next champion.

~{Chris gives that confident smirk at the camera and stare’s at it for a moment. He then slam’s the front door shut and then the light outside goes out. The camera fades to black as you see his shadow disappear into the house.}~