ICW: AGGRESSION
Remember Aggression? It's been a long time, but the ICW powerhouse is back and ready to do battle in the ratings war once again. When we last left our Aggression superstars:
Eddie Guerrero fought Ultimo Dragon in a memorable match for the Cruiserweight Title. Dragon lost the belt and something more costly. Los Guerreros also won the managerial services of Lita, Dragons and Rey Mysterios long time ally.
Booker T, leader of the newly formed Nation of Domination, dominated Scott Steiner to retain the United States title. Booker T and the Nation are quickly becoming one intimidating heel faction.
Iron Man, the monster that aligned himself with Triple H as part of the Executioners, lost his bout with Rhyno when fellow Executioner Kevin Nash accidentally hit him with a lead pipe. Iron Man was furious and Nash was kicked out of the heel faction, but not before Iron Man vowed revenge.
Goldberg defeated The Rock in a barbed wire match for the Intercontinental Championship. The Rock had the match won, but Kurt Angle, believed to be the victim of a train wreck involving The Rock's car, interfered and Angle Slammed The Rock straight to hell!
Finally, in the mother of all twists, Stone Cold Steve Austin defeated Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship in a match in which Aggression co-General Manager and leader of the Executioners Ed Moorhouse was the special guest referee. If Austin won, Icon 01 would have to relinquish his control of Aggression and turn the brand over to Stephanie McMahon. If HHH won, 01 would have total control. The Icon accidentally hit his ally-Champion, and Austin took advantage and stunned his way to victory! But the next night on Aggression, the last night before the hiatus, Hunter and Austin fought in a rematch. Triple H screwed Ed Moorhouse and aligned himself with Stephanie McMahon, who then fired the Icon! Triple H was now champion again and a new McMahon-Helmsley era had begun!!
How will the ICW world react to this unholy alliance? Find out NEXT!
Last Night, 10:07 p.m.
Fade up on the back of a big leather chair.
A woman's voice is speaking...
??: Oh, don't you worry. I have everything under complete control...
The chair spins around. It's Aggression General Manager Stephanie McMahon. She's sitting at a desk in her office. She is on the phone.
SM: NOTHING can stop the newest reign in ICW. With Laskowski and Moorhouse out of this business and Tony, Shane and Erica creating so much CHAOS on two brands, Melissa's eye won't even be fixed on Aggression. We'll have ALL of ICW turned completely on its ear. And Melissa Johnson will SUBMIT to three names...
HELMSLEY...
SADOWSKI...
AND MCMAHON!
You just keep it up on Explosion and Chaos. We have everything under control here on Aggression.
Goodbye, Dad.
Stephanie hangs up. There is a knock at the door. Triple H and Iron Man walk in. Stephanie smiles.
SM: Good. You're both here. You'll want to witness this.
She picks up the phone.
SM: Hello? Get me Sean O'Haire.
(pause)
O'Haire? Welcome aboard. He's in the suite at the Hilton just down the road. Leave him a lifeless mess.
She slams the phone down. Triple H and Iron Man smile sadistically.
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Somewhere across town, ICW CEO Melissa Johnson is also on the phone.
MJ: .....Just be at Aggression tomorrow night. I'm promising you complete control. Oh....and please call Stone Cold Steve Austin. I think he's in trouble.
The next night
A security tape shows on the Iconotron. The picture is fuzzy. A man is barely visible. He is talking directly into the camera.
MAN: (laughs) A NEW era in ICW has begun! THE MCMAHON-HELMSLEY ERA! And I am happy to announce my alliance with them. Stone Cold Steve Austinyou were awoken in the night by a visitora killer. And by the end of the night, you wont be the only one that will have felt the wrath of SEAN OHAIRE!
OHaire tilts the camera down and walks away, revealing an unconscious Stone Cold Steve Austin lying on a hotel room floor in a pool of his own blood.
An electric, rocking new Aggression theme blares throughout the arena. The crowd is hot tonight and pyro is exploding all over the place! We are live and Mean Mark Clemson is cursing the diabolical unholy alliance between Stephanie McMahon and Triple H. How could they do that to an icon? Paul Heyman says that he knew all along that a McMahon will always outsmart an Icon and that it is about time that someone did something about Stone Cold Steve Austin.
Tonight is night one of a new era in ICW History
GOLDBERGS MUSIC HITS and the crowd POPS HUGE!! The Intercontinental Champion steps through a wall of flames, belt around waist, growls all the way to the ring.
Mean Mark explains that Stephanie ordered Goldberg to defend his title moments ago. But whom is he going to fight?
Goldberg stands in the ring facing the entrance ramp and taunts an unseen and unknown foe.
CAN YOU DIG IT? SUCKA?!
BOOKER T, the United Stated Champion, and Faarooq and Coach, his Nation of Domination cohorts, stand at the top of the ramp!!!
BT: Hold on, Goldie, hold on. Dont get too excited just yet. You aint fightin me. But that doesnt mean you off da hook. Allow me to introduce you to your opponentthe newest Aggression Superstar and the BIGGEST, BADDEST Nation member in the world...
MARK HENRY!!
Mark Henry lumbers out and walks down the entrance ramp. Goldberg, angry, spitting and snarling, stands ready, his hands on his knees.
Henry enters the ring and stares down Goldberg, who is now keeping one eye on the rest of the Nation, who have flanked either side of the ring.
Goldberg attacks Henry with furious chops and whips him into a cornerand the Nation swarms into the ring.
Having him outnumbered, Booker T, Faarooq, Mark Henry and even Coach relentlessly beat on Goldberg, bludgeoning his skull. Goldberg is defenseless. The bell is ringing with a fury, but no one is attempting to break up the fight.
After some time, a voice booms over the arena. Its Stephanie McMahon.
SM: Okay, okay, okay, okay!! Thats enough!! Thats enough for now. Welcome to a new Era in ICW! Goldberg, it was my pleasure to send this welcoming committee to you so you could appropriately celebrate your role on MY AGGRESSION! Your roleas the Nations little BITCH!
But dont worry Goldberg. Your fate could have been worse. You could have been Steve Austin!
You see Goldberg, with the McMahon-Helmsley era and the Executioners aligned with the Nation, pieces of garbage like you and Austin have no place here. All you will do is get in our way. And that is why we are taking you out. Id fire you Goldberg, but then you wouldnt suffer. So instead, you will be mercilessly beat down. Night after night.
IN PRISON!
ARREST THAT MAN!
With that, an army of police officers march down to the ring and strap a straightjacket and gag on Goldberg. They tie him down to a stretcher, very Hannibal-esque, and cart him off.
SM: I've only just begun!
Backstage
Rhyno is sitting by his locker when a loud crash is heard and a chair comes flying toward him. He jumps out of the way and looks up. Its Kevin Nash.
R: What the hell, man?
KN: Dont you understand?? You and me?? Were next!!
R: Nash, relax. We can hold our own.
KN: Hold our own? I know them, Rhyno. I was an Executioner just days ago. They're LETHAL. They'll HAVE US HUNG!
R: Listen, I hate them just as much as you do. I think if we have our own alliance, you know, watch each others backs, we wont have the same fate as Austin and Goldberg. You in?
KN: If it means breaking Triple H and Iron Man, I'm in.
R: Take out the Executioners?
KN: Take them out.
R: THE DIESEL AND THE MAN BEAST!
KN: The Diesel and The Man Beast.
R: Now let's kick their asses!
MATCH:
Eddie Guerrero (w/Chavo, Lita) v. Christian (w/Edge)
Good match. Eddie is Cruiserweight Champ and Christian is one half of the World Tag Champs. The match ends in a DQ when Dragon and Mysterio come out and attack Los Guerreros, who won the services of their friend Lita at the last Aggression-only PPV.
Dragon and Mysterio clear the ring, but Los Guerreros escape with Lita.
MATCH:
La Resistance v. The Bar Room Brawlers
Bradshaw and Sandman, the beer-swilling duo that is always looking to pick a good fight, dispose of the French Tag Team rather easily.
BACKSTAGE
A Limo pulls up in the parking lot. It's ICW CEO MELISSA JOHNSON!
The Lights go out and THE ROCKS MUSIC HITS!
The crowd always pops for The Rock at first, but he is a diabolical heel, and they quickly turn on him as he displays his trademark, anti-fan arrogance on his way to the ring. He has a microphone.
R: FINALLY
(pause)
R: FFFFFFFF..
(pause)
R: FINAAALLLY..Oh, The Rock isnt here for catchphrases tonight. The Rock is here on business!
(BOOOO!)
R: Kurt Angle. The Olympic Champion. Does your sorry ass think that for one second The Rock believes that your left for dead ass showed up during The Rocks match with Goldberg to screw him over?
(POP!)
R: No! The Rock wont ACCEPT THAT! Kurt Angl, The Rock put you in the trunk of his car and parked the car in the path of an oncoming train! Kurt Angle is supposed to be dead! Is Kurt Angle a cat? Does he have nine lives? Well, slap The Rock stupid!
The Rock has Goldberg beat. The Rock has Goldberg sweating in his own blood! The Rock is about to pin Goldberg and retain the Intercontinental Championship! But Kurt Angle runs down to the ring and gives The Rock not one, not two, BUT THREE ANGLE SLAMS!
Well, Angle, The Rock says this.The Rock says that at Lethal Injection in three weeks you bring your dead carcass to the ring and let The Rock whoop your ass ALLLLLL over the arena!
IF YOU SMELLLLLLL.
ITS TIME TO PLAY THE GAME!!!!
TRIPLE H'S MUSIC HITSHe enters the arena flanked by Stephanie McMahon, Iron Man, and Sean OHaire.
H: Now Rocky, dont get too excited. Were not here to send you to the poker like we did Goldberg. Were here to extend our thanks.
R: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Thanks? The Rock doesn't want you to thank him!
H: Hear us out Rock. We're here to thank you in advance for your alliance.
R: The Rock aligns himself with no one!
H: Then we are thanking you for your allegiance!
(The Executioners start walking toward the ring.)
H: Think about it, Rock. You are in good standing here. Just don't piss us off, or O'Haire here will make sure you dont get upjust like Austin. You see, we are an unstoppable force, Rock. The Executioners aligned with the Nation of Domination and the most electrifying man in sports entertainment today?
R: The Rock needs no one else.
H: (Now in the ring, nose to gigantic nose with The Rock) Don't TEST me, Rock. You want your shot at Angle? We'll deliver you Angle. Just give us your word. Give us your word that you'll work with us, not for us, and you'll get Angle...and ANYTHING you want!
R: You'll deliver Angle?
H: At Lethal Injection.
R: Then you have The Rock's word.
(They shake hands)
H: I knew you wouldn't be able to resist, Rock.
(Crowd giving them major heat)
H: You see, that sorry excuse of an Icon that used to run this circus made a mistake. Icons should know better than to cross paths with me. Icons should know better than to get in more than knee-deep with a McMahon. Moorhouse was in over his head. And when the board was setand the pawn was in placethe Icon fell for it. WE OWN THIS PLACE NOW!
We're cleaning house. We're getting rid of the trash. No more Goldberg. No more Austin. Were making room for killers like Iron Man here. And assassins like O'Haire. And people like you, Rock. And were going to go down the list. One-by-one. Nash. Rhyno. And Kurt Angle. And when we are through, the McMahon-Helmsley era will be synonymous with one word: DOMINATION!
(Just then)
KURT ANGLE'S MUSIC HITS AND THE CROWD GETS ELECTRIC HOT!! Triple H is livid; Rock wants to fight.
KA: I think it's about time you shut the hell up Triple H! I've about had it up to here with all of this junk going on here tonight! I mean this is out of control!
H: What's the matter, Kurt? What are you going to do about it? You're making a big mistake right now, Kurt. You don't want to do this.
(Iron Man and O'Haire leave the ring and walk slowly up the ramp toward Angle.)
KA: Oh, I do want to do this, it's damn true. And those two buffoons that are waddling up here dont scare me, either!
H: Is it a fight you want Kurt? Then you have one!
(Angle charges toward Iron Man and O'Haire, but the brawl doesn't even have time to develop when MELISSA JOHNSONS MUSIC HITS!)
MJ: Everybody stop right where you are and listen to me please or I will start to hand out suspensions!
H: Johnson, you have no right to be here!
MJ: I do and I will have every right to take that belt off of your waist if you don't shut it, Hunter!!
(ooohhhhh!)
MJ: Now listen. This has gone too far tonight. I should have intervened when I found out what happened to Austin, but it was too late. The McMahon-Helmsley era isnt the only change that will be happening on Aggression. I figured that it would be best to keep a balance of power going here on Aggression. Stephanie, I cannot deny you your position of General Manager. But I can bring some kind of order to your reign.
SM: What the hell are you trying to pull, Johnson?
MJ: Now, I cannot always be responsible for keeping my eye on three federations at once. I can only do so much and my hands are already tied on what is happening in Explosion. But I can do something about Aggression for now.
Stephanie, next week, right here on Aggression, you may want to show up early to make an impression on your NEW BOSS...
(Stephanie is throwing a fit in the ring)
MJ: Next week, as CEO of this company, I will be hiring a new VICE PRESIDENT OF WRESTLING OPERATIONS!! And Stephanie, you will REPORT DIRECTLY TO THE NEW VICE PRESIDENT!
SM: WHAT? ARE YOU INSANE?
MJ: Not before what I am about to do next. The new VP will need some help in maintaining order around here. So without further ado, let me introduce you to Aggression's own SPECIAL ENFORCER!!
(Long pause, followed by...SHRIEK! CRASH!)
MICK FOLEY'S MUSIC HITS! IT'S MICK FOLEY! THE CROWD MEGA SUPER POPS! THE EXECUTIONERS ARE LIVID!
MF: (after raising a fist to the crowd) Now Stephanie, Ms. Johnson here informs me that as new Special Enforcer on Aggression, I have the sole responsibility of keeping you in check. And how will I do that? By having the FINAL SAY ON ALL MATCHES BOOKED HERE ON AGGRESSION! That's right, all matches must have the seal of approval by Mrs. Foley's baby boy, or they do not count!
MF: And my first order of business is to inform you, Rock, that at Lethal Injection...you WILL get your match against Kurt Angle. What's more, the match will be A LAST MAN STANDING MATCH! And Triple H, THE WINNER BECOMES THE NUMBER ONE CONTENDER FOR YOUR TITLE!
(MEGA POP! At this point, HHH is fuming and taking it all out on Stephanie, spewing vulgarities)
MF: And as for tonight, O'Haire, Iron Man...I suggest you get ready for your tag team match tonight -- AGAINST KEVIN NASH AND RHYNO!
(POP!)
MF: Oh...AND HAVE A NICE DAY!
(Special Enforcer Foley, CEO Johnson, and Angle leave the arena while The Executioners and The Rock are left arguing with each other in the ring!)
MATCHES:
Scott Steiner d. Lance Storm in a boring match.
Al Snow d. Rikishi in defense of his Hardcore Title.
MAIN EVENT:
Rhyno and Kevin Nash v. Iron Man and Sean O'Haire
Amazing match with tons and tons of power moves. We pick it up at the end of the match
O'Haire dodges a GORE attempt by Rhyno just as an untimely move by Nash causes him to get in his teammates way. Nash suffers the Gore and is out cold.
Executioners capitalize. They begin to beat down a helpless Rhyno rather violently as Triple H makes his way down to the ring.
HHH cheers on his hit men as they methodically beat down Rhyno. The referee has lost control of this one and attempts to send Triple H packing, but the Champ enters the ring and chases the referee out the other side and back up the ramp.
The beating continues, but FOLEY is down from the back with ANGLE and they chase the Executioners out!
HHH, heading back up the ramp with OHaire and Iron Man, have words for Foley and Angle, but the two are unaware of THE ROCK, who is in the ring and is right behind them.
Foley turns only to meet a ROCK BOTTOM! Angles offense is short lived as Rock sends him against the ropes and then lands a SPINEBUSTER on the Olympic Champ!
Triple H, O'Haire, Iron Man and Rock now stand in the ring together, arms raised, having had the last laugh tonight
But who will be named Vice President next week???
