(Hope Locker Room)
Natalia sits in a corner holding a bloody towel. Erin Frost is in another area looking over at her friend, who is clearly not herself after the I quit match. CJ is laying down on the couch with taped ribs. Raptor Reigns sits in a chair in the corner. Anthony Dre is watching the show on the tv as the crew change the ring mats and clean up the blood and carnage. Detrick Cyrus watches, shaking his head. Will Ralston the room.
"Mate." Ralston calls out to Detrick, getting his attention.
"How's the Master?" Asked Detrick as he approaches.
"It's not looking good. The doctor says that his neck is cracked. He has a lot of head issues. He bled out too much. It is a miracle that he even finished the match after that Hollow Point and stabbing. He's in the hospital right now and they're trying their best." Will said, causing the mood in the room to drop to a even more gloomy level. Everyone heard. They knew what was going to happen. Detrick punches a wall creating a dent and cracking it.
"Dammit! I told him not to die!" Detrick shouts, his arm shaking.
"Take it easy Detrick." Erin spoke up. "Your mind needs to be clear before you fight Azriel."
Detrick removed his hand from the wall.
"Refocus your energy onto your match with Azriel. You need to be strong. You're the leader now. " Erin said
"Some leader." Came the voice of Raptor Reigns as he stood up from his chair and walked up to Detrick. "It hasn't even been a day and CJ lost to one of those thugs in Anarchy, Natalia nearly got killed and is in the middle of a mental breakdown and Master is about to die."
"Don't say that. He's strong." Ralston said
"Unlike him." Raptor said, looking at Detrick. Raptor then rips off his Hope Pendant and throws it on the floor. "I have other friend to meet up with. Your version of Hope is pathetic. I quit."
And with those words, Raptor Reigns left the room. Erin sighed as Detrick left the room, shortly after.
"Gods...all of you….give us the strength to pull through. I know that this is Master Pantera's Final Destination….don't let it be Hope's as well." Erin says closing her eyes.
"It is time for All Night Fight. Falls Count Anywhere. Weapons are legal. But you must keep your opponent down for a five count, as opposed to a traditional three count. Submissions do not count." David said
"You know what happened to Rey Pantera in the last match? I hope that happens to Ash in this one." Evan said
Contemplating, isolating
And it's stressing me out
Different visions, contradictions
Why won't you let me out?
I need a way to separate yeah
But I promise you that I'll make sure you never forget me
(Never forget me)
Now that you want it
Now that you need it
I'm too far gone
You're trying to blame me
But I'm not breaking
I'm telling you, I'm bulletproof
Believe me, I'm bulletproof
You make me so bulletproof
And now I'm too far gone
The crowd pops for the music signalling the arrival of Ash Russo. However, Ash isn't the person who comes out. Instead masked people start to file out onto the walkway, Each wearing a Anarchy branded hoodie. They had black gloves, dark black jeans on and wore plain white mask that only showed their eyes. They lined up across from each other, throughout the entire walk way. On the left side was men. On the right side was women. The all had one fist raised. The multi screen tron begins to turn red on select screens. Until we see an Anarchy logo and then Ash Russo finally walks out in a similar attire to the other people on the walkway. He starts to walk down the ramp. As he passes everyone they put their fists down. Ash Russo stops at the end of the Catwalk. Everyone turned to him and all of them raised their fists allowing the Anarchy Flag to drop from the ceiling. Ash then steps out and enters the ring. Ash Russo removes his mask and Hoodie to reveal his Anarchy shirt.
"Ash Russo has been on a warpath. This man has taken everything that Richard Montoya has thrown at him. Cobra Club, Devils Playground and more." David said
"Don't put him over. He's trash. He single handedly caused anarchy in my country by revealing the truth about Richard Montoya, which might not even be true." Evan said
The lights go out. When Darkness Spoke by Peter Gundrey begins to play. The arena is still pitch black suddenly a burst of fire shoots up as we see light from the fire illuminate the arena. Damian Crowe in front a now flaming flag as he looks down the ramp. The lights slightly turn up as Damian Crowe walks through the sea of Anarchy masked men and women. He steps down as the orchestral music plays. He steps on the ring apron and the lights go back to normal. He enters the ring. He is wearing Black wrestling pants (but the almost look like jeans but more flexible), Black elbow pad on right arm, and black taped wrists on both arms. He also wears a black sleeveless shirt with a crow symbol on back in red and white. The crowd cheers loudly as the music stops and the crowd is chanting "Re-ve-nant! Anarchy!" repeatedly.
"It is time for All Night Fight! The Revenant vs the Leader of Anarchy." David said.
"Damian Crowe has taken many men and women to justice. Tonight will be no different. Except more violent than usual." Evan said
The bell rings and the two go right at each other with rights and left. It is an all out brawl. Crowe knocks Ash down, but Ash gets right back to his feet only for Damian Crowe to clothesline him down. Crowe starts to stomp on Ash, sending Russo rolling to the outside. Ash is on his feet as Crowe attempts a Baseball Slide. Ash moves out of the way as Crowe lands on his feet on the outside. Ash then grabs Crowe from behind and runs him back first into the steel steps. Ash then drives his right knee into the face of Damian Crowe as he sits against the steel steps. He picks him up and Irish whips Crowe into the guard rail. Ash runs at Damian, but Crowe runs forward and catches him with a clothesline. Ash smacks his back against the floor. Ash then climbs onto the guard rail as Crowe crawls away. Ash Russo runs across the guard rail and catches Crowe with a diving leg lariat to the back of the head, sending Damian's face against the ring floor. Ash Russo stands up and walks around the ring and towards the stage. He climbs up to the catwalk and waits as Damian Crowe crawls over and uses the guard rail to stand up. Ash Russo runs off the catwalk, leaps over the guard rail and fans, before connect with a running dropkick on Damian Crowe!
A loud "Holy Shit" chant is heard as Ash Russo and Damian Crowe lay on the floor for a few seconds. Ash starts to move as he uses the guardrail to get up. He notices Damian Crowe also using the guardrail to get up. Ash then slides across the guardrail and catches Damian with a Toe Kick. Ash then jumps from his sitting position on the guardrail with a 450 splash. Ash sits on his knees and drives his knuckles into Crowe's head, before standing up. Ash walks over to the ring and lifts up the ring apron. He looks underneath, before pulling out a ladder. Damian Crowe stands up on his feet. Ash Russo runs at Crowe with the ladder and sandwiches him between the ladder and Guard rail. Ash leans the ladder against the guard rail. He then dragged Damian up and puts him on the leaning ladder. Ash enters the ring and runs off the ropes, going for a Suicide Dive! But Damian Crowe dodges and Ash crashes into the leaning ladder. Ash ricocheted off the ladder and slumps down the rungs of the ladder and onto the ring mat.
"Ash Russo's most recent dive has backfired. " David said
"I hope he broke his neck." Evan comments
Damian Crowe drags Ash up by his hair and delivers a right hand. Damian then drags Ash Russo into the ring before entering the ring. Damian delivers a leg drop to Ash. He then gets up to his feet, before walking around and picking up Ashs leg. Damian flips him around and puts Ash in a Heel Hook. Damian starts to pull on his foot, twisting it. Russo uses his other foot to kick Crowe on the chin. Crowe let's go allowing Ash to roll away into the corner. Damian gets up holding his chin as Asb Russo is on his feet already. Ash dashes across the ring at Damian, but Crowe catches him with a Jumping High Knee! Ash crashes to the ring mat with velocity. Damian then backs up in the corner and waits for Russo to stand. Damian goes for the Shotgun Dropkick to the chest, but Ash sidesteps. Crowe crashes to the ring mat. Ash sits Damian up and delivers a stiff kick to the spine, before reaching down and putting him in a waistlock. Ash Russo then lifts him up and delivers a bridging deadlift German Suplex! He has Crowe in a pinning position
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Ash Russo exits the ring and looks underneath the ring. Ash Russo then pulls out a regular table and sets it up on the outside. He turns around to see Damian Crowe do Plancha over the top ropes and onto Ash. Ash Russo falls over the table and lands onto the other side. Damian stands up and reaches over the table to grab Ash as he tries to use it to stand up. Crowe smashes Ash's face against the table a few times, before dragging him on top of the table. Damian then puts him in a Double Underhook and pulls his body off the table, so only Ash's feet are on the table. It seems like Damian is going to attempt a Reapers Curse (Double Underhook DDT) off the table. But Ash gets his feet off the table and rams Crowe's back against the ring apron.
"Ash avoided what could've been end of the match." David said
"Darn. I wanted to see his head bounce off the floor like a BASEketball." Evan said
Ash leans against the table as Crowe leads against the ring apron. Crowe strikes first with a right hand, but Ash throws a mid to the midsection that double him over. Ash jumps up onto the ring apron and runs across it to hit Damian with a running knee strike to the face, but Damian catches his knee before it connect. Damian pulls on Ash's leg to take him off the ring apron and catches him with a High Knee! Ash Russo is hit right on the jawline and falls back onto the table. Damian then adjusts Ash Russo so he lays on the table in a proper position. Crowe then enters the ring and stands only a couple feet away from Ash Russo. Damian Crowe hits a Slingshot Splash out of the ring and onto Ash Russo, through the table. The crowd chants "Holy Shit!' as Crowe hooks a leg.
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Kick out at 3!
"If this was a normal match, then Damian Crowe would've won. But it's not. In an All Out Fight, a five count is required to win. No submission. No DQ's. Just a five count." David reminds the fans
"Damian Crowe took a risk and it didn't pay off completely, but he's getting there." Evan said
Damian Crowe looks under the ring and pulls out his signature Black baseball bat, getting a huge pop from the crowd. Damian then points at Ash Russo who is starting to get up. Suddenly someone jumps out from the crowd. It was one of the masked people from Ash's entrance. The person runs at Crowe, but Damian jabs the bat into the gut of the person. The person drops to both knees as Ash gets to his feet. Ash watches as Damian then slams the baseball bat over the back of the person. Damian grabs the hood of the person and drags them up. Damian then removes the hood and mask to reveal Lacey Alvarez.
"Yes! Yes! Yes!" Evan says as Damian looks at Lacey's face
"Quit having an orgasm! I don't think Damian was expecting it to be Lacey and neither was Ash." David said
Damian still has ahold of Lacey as Ash is fully up and aware of what happened. Damian pushes Lacey down on the ground and points at Ash. Ash looks pissed and runs at Crowe. Damian swings, but Ash slides underneath and goes under the ring apron. Crowe turns around and sees him slide underneath. Crowe walks over with a baseball bat and he gets hit in the eyes with some type of liquid. Ash Russo comes from under the ring holding a tank of gasoline, which is clearly what blinded Damian. Crowe is holding his eyes as Ash Russo bashes the tank over his head. Crowe falls down the floor as Ash Russo douses him in the gasoline as the crowd is watching with a great interest. "You wanna put your hands on Lacey? I'll fucking ruin your life!" he shouts as Ash pulls something out of his pocket. A box of matches! A mixed reaction of excitement and fear can be heard as Ash lights it. The ref and even some fans beg him not to, but Ash drops the match on top of Damian Crowe, lighting the Revenant on fire! The ref immediately rings the bell!
"He's on fire! Someone get the fire extinguisher!" Evan pleads as Crowe, for the first time, has his voice heard. It was screams of pain and agony as his hair, arms, chest and legs were on fire and burning his skin.
"The ref has stopped his match at 14:58. Ash Russo wins, but he went too far. But for Ash Russo, it's never too far." David said as Ash drops to his knees watching Damian burn. Lacey crawls over to Ash, who nuzzle's him while smiling at the sight of the burning Damian Crowe. Finally people start to put out the fire.
"Ash Russo lost it when Lacey was attacked by Damian. Now Crowe has burned to Ashes." Evan said, before Ash notices the baseball bat and grabs it.
"Oh no….No more Ash...You already burned him alive. There's nothing left for you." David said before Ash stands up and slams it down onto the back of Crowe. Ash then jabs the top of the bat into the spine of Crowe. He then does it again and again and again. Medics try to stop him, but Ash threaten them with the bat. He then drives the bat into Crowe's spine one last time as Lacey gets to her feet, watching Ash lose it. Ash drops the bat.
"Fuck you. Fuck your president." Ash shouts as he peels back the covering to reveal the concrete underneath. Crowe reaches out for Ash, but Ash kicks him straight in the head. He bends down and picks him up by the hair, looking him right in the eyes. "You're not the hero. You're the villain who says he doing this for the greater good. The greater good isn't Richard Montoya. The greater good is me avenging every lost soul that died, because he couldn't be President on merit alone. The greater good is me getting revenge on him for everything he took away. The greater good….. is the end of the Revenant."
Suddenly Ash Russo turns Crowe around and lifts him onto his shoulders. Ash turns toward the concrete, before pushing Damian's leg behind his back and grabbing his head. Burn to Ashes (One Winged Angel) connects on the Concrete! Ash sits down as Damian's head and neck crashes against the concrete floor. Russo just sits down as doctors quickly approach. He can hear them shouting about broken necks as a stunned silence falls on the arena. We see a stretcher come out, but that's when the lights go out. When they come back on, Ash Russo is sitting on the concrete floor but Damian Crowe is no longer there.
"Where's Damian?" Evan questions
"Gone...his neck has to be broken, but he's nowhere in sight. Was this the end of the Revenant like Ash alluded to?" David questions as Ash finally gets to his feet. Suddenly a minority of people start to chant 'Anarchy!' as Ash starts to walk away and up the catwalk as Lacey follows behind.
"Ash Russo did it….he conquered Devil's Playground….He ended the Revenant….can anyone stop him?" Evan said
"Richard Montoya hopes so." David said
(Video Package)
Only One King by Jung Youth starts as we see Detrick Cyrus pinning Furno Moxley and getting his hand raised after the match. It then flashes to Azriel pinning CJ Hawk and standing over him as a boy
As a boy, always knew I'd
One day have the courage to be king
Time flew and I grew up
Now I'm ready for the promise that it brings
"I'm going to be honest. At Glory Road, I thought I had a better chance at beating you with Jason there. I thought that I could pin him and win the ACW World Championship." Detrick narrates
"But you didn't" Azriel's voice follows
Azriel is seen hitting Detrick with Death's Embrace, before pinning him with his foot on his chest. We then see Azriel being handed the ACW World Championship and raising it as black pyro goes off in the background
You only wanted me to screw up
But that's something that you're never gonna see
Everything that you hoped for
It was only in a dream
Now I go on a roll on the road
And I know that I'm never breaking down
I control all the flow in my soul
Pull the sword out the stone in the ground
She always said it'd be someday
Seeing castles in the clouds
And one way or another
When I step in the room, everybody better bow
"You were never meant to be Ultimate Hope" Azriel said
"But I am." Detrick said
"I was not ordered to fight you head on. I just came to give you some clarification on what the King of Despair means." Malice said as he walked over to Cyrus with papers in his hands. Detrick takes them and looks over at two thick stapled together stacks of paper. Both of them had his name.
"This is the test I took to get into Hope. Why's there two of them?" Detrick question
"Look at the handwriting. One of them is yours. One of them is Jason's. One had a perfect score. One had a failing fifty six percent. The perfect score belonged to Jason. He wrote your name instead of his. You aren't the Ultimate Hope. You were never meant to get past the first stage, but Jason sacrificed the biggest opportunity of his life for you." Azriel explains.
"No…. This doesn't make sense." Detrick said, looking at Azriel.
"Your friend watched you succeed through the years, knowing that it should've been him. This isn't a mind game before our match. This is the truth. Jason Sabre is the whole reason you are in the spot you are. He opened the door for you, while you closed the door on him time and time again." Azriel said.
So be careful how you talk to me
'Cause there's only one king
And there's only one crown
And there ain't enough room for us both on the throne
"And now I own Hope." Detrick Said
"And I will always be the King of Despair in front of you." Azriel said.
"No. He helped you get in with his intelligence, but you were the one who proved that you belonged through other skills. Anyone can pass a test. But not everyone can lead." Rey said, before pulling something out from his pocket.
"The White Panther?" Detrick questions.
"This necklace has a special gift. I was wearing it when I met you and it told me that you were the one that was meant for this spot." Rey said, before looking back at him. "At Final Destination, my time will come and I will fight my last battle against Jason Sabre. I know that it will be tough for you to watch, but you must forget about your past relationship with him and move on, knowing he's the enemy. Detrick, at Final Destination, you will win the ACW World Championship from Azriel. It's destiny. At Final Destination the torch will be passed and you will take your spot on top of Hope."
"What do you mean?" Detrick asked
"You're ready Detrick. I'm stepping down as the leader of Hope and passing it on to you after Final Destination. This is your organization now." Rey said, before pulling Detrick in for a hug. "I'm proud of you son."
So it's 'bout to go down
So you better start running
So you better start running
So you better start running
Because I'm coming right now
'Cause I'm coming right now
"You Hurt me, you put me in the hospital, you tried to play mindgames but it won't work…" Detrick said
"So I'll beat him with my bare hands like I've done before." Azriel said.
We see a shot of Azriel jabbing a knife through Detrick's hand, before switching to him being chokeslammed through a glass table.
"King of Despair." Azriel said
"Ultimate Hope." Detrick said
"Final Destination!" Both said
(Ad Break)
(Longnecks & Rednecks Bar & Grill)
A 6 foot man Latin-American man with tan skin, a lean, athletic build, long black hair, black eyes, and some facial hair. He smiles as he sees two men stand are seen. The camera pans out to reveal Raptor Reigns and Furno Moxley.
"Long time no see Aiden." Raptor said.
"I was waiting for you two to realize the mistakes you've made in your life." Aiden said, as he hands them both shots.
"Screw Hope…" Raptor said
"Screw Nyx and screw being at the mercy of the law..." Furno said
"It's time for us to become the law." Aiden said
"The Hounds of Justice are back….and we'll deliver justice for whoever has the most digits in the check." Furno said as all three clank their shot glasses
"Believe that." Raptor said as all three downed their shots.
ACW Season 2: Broken Bonds
Episode 1-4 & ACW Betrayal: Mexico City arena in Mexico City, Mexico
Episode 6-9 & ACW Destiny: Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York
Episode 11-13, & ACW Glory Road 2: Arena Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico
Episode 15-19: Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA
Final Destination 2: Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, Mexico