Post by Quinn Castillo on Aug 25, 2022 0:20:26 GMT
Away Game
My first Wrestleverse win was “memorable”.
Beating a game fighter like Axis didn’t come easy. He’d even be right to say it only happened because I had help, both natural and supernatural, from Samantha Voxx. Some fetish magic and a top rope dropkick from her and he was the one staring at the lights. Was it fair? Nah, but the rules in a triple threat match are loosey-goosey enough so that I can go home to my people and rightly say my win was “clean”.
I earned that Surprise Prize at Eternal #2 and feel no shame about it.
That said, any time you want to run it back Axis you let me know. You’re owed that.
And Samantha Voxx? I owe you nothing. Stories always talk about the price of magic, and how witches like to use their spells in ways that seem like it’s helping the average guy, but in the end there’s always a cost. The classic ‘monkey’s paw’ tale.
From where I stand though I never asked for your help and never bargained with you for nothing. There’s no debt to be paid. The slate’s clean.
Moving on then. The Surprize Prize I won at Eternal #2 is a chance to win Wrestleverse’s Project Moonstone. Those are pretty big stakes, since winning it gives you a title match for the championship of your choosing in the promotion. Whether you want to find a partner and go after the Parallel Belts, contend for the Eternal Title, or shoot for the Moon and fight for the Wrestleverse Championship, all those options are available if you win the Moonstone.
Needless to say this is a big opportunity for me. Project Moonstone makes you the Number One Contender in Waiting, a threat to anyone that holds gold in Wrestleverse. It makes you a big time player in the fed immediately, and that’s the role I want.
In my first match in Double You Vee it took the entire field to eliminate me in that Battle Royal, and while it sucked to be tossed I got to admit to feeling a rush when everybody in that match realized that they had to do it. That they had to put aside their differences long enough to remove the biggest, most obvious threat in the match.
I want to chase that feeling. I want to have the Moonstone so every title holder has their head on a swivel, wondering who I’m going to cash it in on, and when.
Project Moonstone’s real power is access. It’s the Skeleton Key to the Kingdom, and at New Ground I’m making it mine.
It won’t be easy, given the stips of the match. To win Project Moonstone you have to travel to the Moon, find some pyramid, grab the stone and teleport back to Earth.
That’s all outside my field of experience. I’m no Guardian of the Galaxy. Training in the Foundry never involved fighting in zero gees and shit maybe without any oxygen. I can scrap with the best of them but putting this fight on the Moon classifies this match as an ‘Away Game’ for me.
Making it even more of a challenge is who I’m facing. Max Hopper is all about the strangeness that makes up Wrestleverse. A trip to outer space is a run to Dunk’s for the rest of us. He knows all the lore, and based on both his matches in the company ‘beaming up’ is old hat for him.
Me? I’m wondering if I should pack my long johns for the trip.
Hopper’s going to be motivated too. He’s wanted to unravel the mystery of Project Moonstone since Day One. It means something to him beyond the title shots; shit that is above my pay grade frankly.
And honestly? I can’t say Project Moonstone wouldn’t be better off in his hands, if a lot of the rumors I’ve been hearing are true.
Thing is, though: I never fight unless it’s to win. Doesn’t matter if it’s on unfamiliar terrain. Doesn’t matter if it’s against a body who is better prepared and maybe better suited to hold the prize. All that matters is the fight.
And there is nobody in Wrestleverse who scraps as hard as me. I joined this company because it operates outside of my comfort zone. I’m not going to let a million mile trip to someone else’s home field spook me. There is no doubt or pause in me. Once we get up there- on the Moon- and that bell rings, I’m taking it to Max Hooper. I’m going to put the boots to him like I would if there were planted back here on old Terra Firma. I’m going to figure out what I need to do to beat him and bring the Moonstone home.
Max: appreciate the offer for a ride. I’m going to take you up on it since travel options are limited. Kayfabe Airlines didn’t even return my call. But you’re taking your flying saucer back alone. And you can do whatever you got to do- set phasers to kill, turn on your heartlight, use the fucking’ Force, whatever tricks you’ve learned as someone who’s got experience in this kind of adventure- they won’t be enough to stop me.
This won’t be a Killing Moon for you, Max Hopper, but it is gonna hurt.