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Tony was leaning on the wall on his cage.

They were still in his cage, but now they were on display. About two hours ago more men came in and started building another cage. This one was about three times as big as the one the one they were in now and they had laid down cardboard as well. After the fight cage was finished the workers started to set up tables and chairs. Then they gave everyone in cages an outfit with unique color themes. Tony was red and blue where as Garret on the other hand had gold and green. After they changed the viewing started. At first Tony only saw a few men walk in. They looked at some of the fighters but seemed to be just looking. After these men made their rounds a steady flow of people started to come into the warehouse.

Tony had watched the people as they came and went from his cage. He found himself watching them in the same fashion that they were looking at him. He didn't see himself as the one trapped anymore, now he saw them as the ones who were trapped. Trapped in their suits and there life styles of money. It was like he was looking into a mirror of his past life. He saw a few people that couldn't be older then seventeen sadly some of them were girls. He started thinking about his past and how he too had been sucked it to their world. A world where there are no rules or laws because money was more powerful. He started to look at the people not with a cops thought of mind but with pity like how a former addict looks at a current addict. They bought their suits to attract woman who are there for the suit not the man, or they are here because they were paid to be making the suit useless. They buy the car for the feeling of power when really the car forces them to have to drive it instead of the other way around. The work to have a happy life but after years of the life's corruption the to switch and you are thought that your work is your happy life. It's just like the movie Fight Club teaches. You own your possessions but over time they start to own you.

"You see it too don't you?" Garret said as he too watched the people. "It's funny really most of these people are here cause they believe they are liberating their trapped soul when really there just drowning with people suffering for the same disease. And what's so funny is that their true liberation there true cure is a few feet away locked inside that cage."

"You're talking about the fight cage right?" Tony asked.

"A place where a man can become king, similar to the coliseum in Rome really." Garret said.

"I can see that." Tony said as he looked over at Garret.

"You do I can see it. You have changed these last couple of hours. I can see it in your eyes. You want this fight to happen. You don't care who it's with thought that's important you want this fight for yourself." Garret said getting excited.

"What do you mean Garret?" Tony asked. He was wondering what he meant by the fight being for him.

"I think only you can figure it out. But I can help you find it. OK when you first got here what was this cage to you Jordan?" Garret asked.

"Ummm a bad hotel room? I don't know" Tony said not really sure how to answer it.

"Wrong it was and is still a cage. Jordan what was the cage to you when you got in here?" Garret asked.

Tony smiled at the idea of him going into the cage willingly. Just for now he had to stick to his cover he thought. "We I felt a little trapped I guess, I mean caged basically."

"Yes caged because this cage owned you. That is how you thought of it at fist but now it's different isn't it? It's the other way around isn't it? Now this cage is your cage. And that fight cage is your new castle." Garret was speaking fast and in a tone only describable as ecstatic.

As Tony thought about what he had just been told the truth exploded in his mind. His cage? When did he start thinking like that? Did it matter Garret was right. This was his cage. Tony smiled one of the biggest smiles he ever had. He new everything he needed to know. He was going to fight. And he couldn't wait to throw the first punch.

I know this is a small chapter but I had an extremely had time putting my thoughts on paper. I mean I wreaked my brain over how Tony would take this situation and what it would do to him. In all the times he had been in this situation he had been with someone the whole time. We almost never see Tony fully alone in the world so I started to think what the cage would do to Tony. I felt that Tony was a person who is able to make the best of anything. But I also felt he would start to collapse into himself. So with that in mind I want to ask you a question. This time the food for thought is related to the story.

Food for thought-

Is Garret Small real? Or is he just in Tony's head?