Wednesday, February 20th, 2019 – Winter Park, FL

Ced sat in the locker room on the bench looking down at the ground with his mind focused on tonight. He was wearing his ring gear. Tonight, he was focused on getting back the title that the Velveteen Dream had beat him for in seconds. The title that was supposed to be key to Ced achieving a legacy to remember. And a title that was supposed to use to gain the attention of every single fan in the NXT Universe.

The time that he had spent with Kala at All-Star Weekend in Charlotte this past weekend couldn't distract him from his conquest. His conquest to get the title back from Velveteen Dream. That title that made him feel complete. If he couldn't do it for himself. He had to do it for her and do it for his family. His phone rang breaking his focus causing him to look to his side and grab the phone that sat next to him. He looked at the screen and somewhat smiled as he saw it was Kalani trying to facetime him. He swiped to answer it and smiled once he saw the beautiful face of his girlfriend.

"Hey babygirl." Ced greeted as Kalani looked at him with a smile on her own. She currently sat in his Electric Blue 2016 Cheverolet Corvette in her white tank top with her light blue Daisy Dukes. Her hair was up in a ponytail.

"Hey baby Watcha doing?"

"Nothing much sitting in this locker room waiting. Where you going in my baby?"

"I'm going to get my tattoo done at that shop you went to."

"Oh, you going to Charly's. Tell him I said hey and tell him to take good care of you or I'll kick his ass."

"It's fine babe he will. Don't do anything too dangerous tonight I want to cuddle with my baby."

"You know I'm getting used to you cuddling here and you're always leaving your stuff behind. Why don't you just move in with me? I mean I got enough room and you can even keep the house in LA. I mean we could use the real estate."

Babe I don't know. I think we'd be moving too fast if we move in together. I just don't want a repeat of last time we dated."

"Baby we won't have a repeat of last time because we're more mature than we were years ago and we both know what we want. Hey it's fine if you don't want to move in with me, I understand. "

"It's not that I don't want to move in with you it's just I don't want anything to ruin our relationship. I love you too much for that."

"And I love you too. I need to get my head focused on my match so I'll see you when I get home."

"Okay baby love you." She said as she hung up the phone. He sat the phone down next to him and started to look back down at the ground getting focused on his match.

(!)

Ced stood in the interview area with his new t-shirt on with his arms folded as he had a frown going on his face. Cathy Kelly stood in the camera shot waiting for Ced to walk into the shot.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome my guest at this time. The former NXT North American Champion and the man who will face The Velveteen Dream in his rematch for the Championship: Ced." Cathy Kelly said as Ced walked into the camera shot.

"Ced tonight you're gonna be facing off the Velveteen Dream in a match for the title that you lost last week in mere seconds. What's your strategy for your match against the Dream?"

"My strategy?! I have only one thing on my mind and that's get my title back by any means necessary. Now the Dream likes to play mind games with people but he can't with me. My mind isn't something that the Dream wants to mess with tonight. I'm already pissed off and I don't need anything else to fuel my anger. So tonight, my strategy is to use this anger and destroy The Velveteen Dream." Ced said as he walked out of the camera shot seething with anger.

(!)

"Rise of the Young Ones" by Cliff Lin Hits

The titantron in the arena showed a black screen with a red lion on the screen on the top of the lion's head was Ced. The lights in the arena were all in darkness as Ced then walked through the curtains and stood on the stage while the lights were low. The lights soon turned into a different array of colors. The titantron now was a black screen with the red lion logo underneath the red letters that spelled CED in big red letters with a shiny white barrier.

Ced looked up and took a sip of water before he spit it out in a mist like form before he started to walk down the ramp like a man on a mission.

Ced was walking up until he was hit in the back of the neck with a forearm that sent him rolling down the ramp. Once he got to the ringside area, he got up onto a knee to see Johnny Gargano walking towards him while the fans cheered him loudly. Ced ran towards Johnny and started a brawl (KO and Sami style) with Ced eventually getting the upper hand. Ced tried to throw Johnny Gargano into the ring post but Ced was instead thrown into the post face-first. The fans cheered as Johnny Gargano started to taunt Ced. Ced had crawled over to the barricade and had used it to get himself up to his feet. He had been busted open because of the impact between his head and the ring post. Johnny reached under the ring and grabbed a steel chair out from under the ring. He tried to hit Ced over the head with the chair but Ced jumped out of the way and this allowed Johnny to hit the barricade instead. Ced rolled into the ring obviously still reeling from the impact of the ring post.

Tomasso Ciampa came running down the ramp with his Championship title in his hands. Johnny started to focus on Tomasso Ciampa who he started to brawl with (KO and Sami style). Just then security came running down the ramp trying to split the two men apart. Ced seeing the opportunity got up to his feet with blood flowing down from the top of his head. Ced backed up to the ropes before he took off and jumped over the top rope looking for a splash taking down both Tomasso and Johnny along with the extra body of the security guards. Outside of the ring there laid a pile of bodies including the NXT Champion, Johnny Gargano and Ced.

A/N: So, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. This chapter was meant strictly for storyline purposes. The whole Gargano squash on last chapter was meant for a storyline between the two and I wanted to add Tomasso to the mix to spice it up and make it correlate with WWE programming at the time with a little bit of a change.

Later Guys and Gals!