Post by marina on Dec 5, 2012 23:25:04 GMT -5
Flashback: July 28, 2008
Life hasn’t always been roses for Marina Valdivia, as we’re about to witness here. Right now, she’s sitting by herself on a plane headed back to Los Angeles. She’s travelling with all of her coworkers from HCW, where she was working at currently. But, the Marina we see here is far different, both inside and out. She’s not blonde, she’s a dirty redhead. Her hair is all over the place, her face is pale and her eyes are bloodshot, but it’s not from drinking or drugs. Marina has been through nine months of pure torture ever since the Transylvania Screwjob back in the NIWF, but she’s been above it all and she’s been a kind and respectful person. Still, it has led her to emptiness.
Marina Valdivia (thinking): Why?
Why? That’s something that Marina has asked herself a lot lately. Why is her career so poor? Why must she continue to suffer setback after setback? Why does she keep going with this even though her heart keeps being shattered over and over again?
Marina Valdivia (thinking): Why did I lose that TV Championship match last night to Garrison Kane at Honor? Why?
The previous night, the ‘Goddess of Hardcore’, as she had unfortunately labeled herself back then, lost a hardcore match to Garrison Kane with the TV Championship on the line, finally ending a dreadful storyline that Jackson Steele concocted where the two were previously lovers, even though they had never dated in real life. All this plus the last nine months have made a once promising career a total wreck and with no end in sight, it appears that all the promise was for naught. It appears that perhaps, it wasn’t meant to be.
Marina Valdivia (thinking): I threw away my first love, my first dream, for THIS?
Marina reflects back on when life was good, back when she didn’t have any problems or any demeaning episodes in her life. She had everything! She had potential! She had fame! She had the world in her hands! But now she has none of it, and she breaks down into tears and sobs as she is feeling some deep, sorry regrets for what could have been. She had that Warner’s contract on her 22nd birthday, just two years prior. She rejected it for wrestling, and now, over 2 years later, she woefully regrets it.
Marina Valdivia (thinking): I’m never going to amount to anything. I don’t know what I am doing wrong, but I know that this is over for me. I can’t keep wrestling, but I’ve destroyed my acting credibility with all my wrestling shortcomings. What now? Where do I go from here? Is there any hope left for my wrestling career?
As Marina continues to sob, cry and live in regret for her downtrodden wrestling career, she has no idea that a security guard on the plane is standing right by her. Marina just lets out a yell that obviously pisses everyone off in an emotionally wrecking manner!
Marina Valdivia: WHY?
? WHYYYYYYYYYY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!
Guard: Ahem.
Marina turns to her left to see the guard.
Guard: Mr. Steele would like to see you in his private office.
Tears continue to flow down Marina’s face and she’s not even bothering with it. Her pride is next to nil at this point as the downward spiral that began with the screwjob has led to this.
Marina Valdivia: Right now?
Guard: Yes.
Marina is confused but she has no choice but to comply. After all, Jackson Steele is the owner of HCW. The guard leads her into his private office, which takes up the entire first class section of the plane. Steele is at his desk, a stern look on his face. Standing by him is Ryan Dangerous, at the time the assistant.
Jackson Steele: Have a seat.
Marina complies.
Jackson Steele: Marina, why the hell have you been crying the whole entire flight? I’ve gotten complaints all day!
Marina Valdivia: I’m sorry, I just don’t know what to do. My wrestling career is in pieces and ever since those bastards screwed me, it’s been downhill! I thought last night would be it, that it would end all the pain and suffering, but no….. I’m just a useless piece of shit now.
Jackson Steele: You got that part right at least.
Marina just looks away from Steele, having just taken such a harsh shot.
Jackson Steele: Where the fuck was the Marina that before all of that NIWF bullshit wanted to be ‘the best women’s wrestler in the world’?
Marina Valdivia: I don’t know.
Jackson Steele: You don’t know? Whatever. It doesn’t matter anyway. You know why Marina? Because I am just going to tell it like it is, as that’s how I am. Marina, you will NEVER amount to anything in this business.
Marina Valdivia: What?
Jackson Steele: Look at me damn it!
Marina complies.
Jackson Steele: You blew it Marina! When I signed you, I was hoping to make you an attraction. I was hoping that you would be the first female world champion we ever had, but the fans wouldn’t buy into that shit. But none of this is my fault, or Garrison’s fault, or the fans’ fault. Your career is in the gutter because YOU put it there and that’s why you’re useless. You’re never going to amount to anything especially since you STILL, after what, nine months now, have all this baggage from the NIWF! Why the fuck can’t you let that go Marina?
Marina Valdivia: It was the worst personal tragedy….
Jackson Steele: Even worse than a death in the family?
Marina Valdivia: Not to sound messed up, but… yeah…
Jackson Steele: You value this shit over your own family?
Marina Valdivia: It’s not like that at all. It’s, it’s…
Marina pauses to let out a few sobs. Steele is not amused.
Jackson Steele: OUT WITH IT BITCH!
Marina Valdivia: It’s the fact that… I have so much passion for this. I do want to be the best, but I know I don’t have what it takes to get there. If I didn’t have passion for this, I would have quit when the NIWF and ICWA both screwed me over. It’s just for the last 9 months, my passion has been rewarded with having my heart ripped out and crushed into pieces over and over and over. I was depressed when I was out with that concussion a while back. I love wrestling, always will, but now you’re telling me I won’t amount to anything?
Jackson Steele: That’s exactly right, you’re not going to amount to anything. You just let something that happened NINE MONTHS AGO, NINE MONTHS AGO, ruin your entire career. I hope you’re happy and if you think that Hollywood’s going to want you, hell no. You used to have the Hollywood look, not anymore. Besides, who the fuck would hire a failure of a professional wrestler anyway? Passion or not Marina, you’re still horrible. Nobody is ‘ripping your heart out’ you soft fucking cunt, you’re just doing that yourself. I’ll be honest, you’re a god damn liability to this company. Some people have what it takes, others do not. You Marina, don’t have what it takes.
Marina just slumps in her chair and cries some more, devastated. Now her own boss is telling her that she doesn’t have what it takes? She’s used to bosses abusing her, Jay C did it all the time in the NIWF with the horrid commercials that berated her, Adam Michaels did it when he screwed her out of the ICWA Women’s Championship and lied to her. Marina looks inside herself. What she sees is a heart torn to millions. Her stubborn passion is about to come out.
Marina Valdivia: No sir, you’re, you’re wrong. There’s still something left. I don’t know what, but…
Jackson Steele: SHUT UP! Just shut the fuck up Marina. I don’t want to hear it. You can have all the passion you want, but the fact is, you just can’t hack it in this fucking business! You’re of no worth or value to me, period. UHWF is a hell of a lot better without you than with you. So Marina, you want to know what the future is for you here? I’ll give you a hint.
Steele opens up the drawer at his desk and he pulls out a check. Marina’s eyes widen in horror as she knows what that check means. She’s seen it before, Steele pulling out the check, handing it to an unfortunate soul, and then telling him or her ‘you’re fired’. Marina panics, and her stubborn passion comes across again. She slides off the chair, lands on her knees, and is making a last ditch effort.
Marina Valdivia: Don’t fire me! PLEASE don’t fire me! My family doesn’t want me around! Hollywood’s not going to take me back with this awful reputation! Wrestling is all I have! Please, please don’t fire me! I’m begging you not to fire me! Give me another chance, please! Let me prove to you that I can make it! Please Steele…..
She slumps her head on the desk.
Marina Valdivia: Please…….
Marina’s eyes are redder than they were before she even stepped into the office. Steele is just hiding his face in embarrassment and nobody can blame him really.
Jackson Steele: And you wonder why you can’t fucking hack it here. Marina, you’re….
Marina Valdivia: NO! NO! NO! NO!
Ryan Dangerous, who has been silent on this whole issue, can’t take it anymore.
Ryan Dangerous: Hold on!
Jackson Steele: What the fuck Ryan?
Ryan Dangerous: I disagree with you Steele, I think Marina does have what it takes. She just needs to find the right path up here (points to head) and in here (points to chest).
Jackson Steele: I don’t give a shit Ryan, I don’t want her in my company.
Ryan Dangerous: Steele, if you want to fire her, fine. But you’d be letting go of someone that is very passionate and who really wants to be the best women’s wrestler in the world. She can do a lot for a company. I’ll cut you a deal, you keep her in this company, and I pay her salary out of my own pocket. I’ll relieve your burden of having to pay someone you don’t want, I’ll take care of that.
Steele has no idea what to think, but he laughs.
Jackson Steele: Ryan, you’re just wasting your time. Honestly. But, if you want to take her off my hands, great! She’s YOUR problem now! Marina, you’re useless to me! I don’t know what the fuck Ryan sees in you.
Steele just stands up and leaves the office. Marina’s still drowning in her own tears but ultimately a sigh of relief sweeps her, knowing that she gets to stay with the company.
Marina Valdivia: Ryan….thank you. Thank you so much for saving my career. I will be forever grateful…
Ryan Dangerous: Marina, I wasn’t going to let your career end that way. I see something special in you, I don’t know what it is, but one day you’re going to get there and you’re going to be remembered as one of the all-time greats. I know you have no idea what you want to do with yourself, but I can give you a hint that you need.
Marina Valdivia: What’s that?
Ryan Dangerous: Stand up and I’ll tell you. I hate seeing you like this.
Marina stands up.
Ryan Dangerous: Marina, if you want to make it in this business, you need to stop letting people, from the NIWF, to anyone, take advantage of you. You’re a great person, but you allow it to happen to much. I’ll let you figure it out, you’re smart. You’ll do just that.
Ryan nods before he also leaves the office.
Marina Valdivia: Yeah….I’ve let people take advantage of me…. I need to stop that….
Marina is left alone, dazed. However, what Ryan doesn’t know is that Marina would NEVER appreciate the fact that he saved her career from going bust, and he also doesn’t know that he may have unintentionally led Marina into a line of thinking that would cause her to turn her into the spiteful, evil, malicious woman that she is today. Still, whether you like her or not, anyone that questions her passion, whether it’s on this day, or in the present day, is completely ignorant and even fans that hate her can agree on that.
Present Day
The scene fades in and we’re inside of the Eiffel Tower, not the real one, but the structure that’s a part of Paris Las Vegas, on the Vegas Strip. Marina Valdivia and her manager Clarissa Vega are on the 11th floor of the structure, where a very glamorous restaurant is at. They can see a large majority of the lights on the Strip from where they are at. It’s a very glamorous view. They’re both done with dinner, but Marina was just telling the story of how she was during that day when she was ready to give up.
Clarissa Vega: You mean to tell me that you were crying and begging for your job?
Marina Valdivia: Yep.
Clarissa Vega: Wow, so you were Intensity Defined Gabbi Sparks before she ever broke into this business?
Marina Valdivia: Regrettably.
Marina has a chuckle at this. She’s clearly become a hell of a lot more confident in herself than she was all those years ago.
Marina Valdivia: If I could go back in time and beat the hell out of Redhead Marina, I’d fucking do it. Worst part of my career, EVER! My god, just even speaking about that time is an embarrassment to me.
Clarissa Vega: I love the irony about how Ryan hates who you are, but he more or less gave you the advice that led you to that.
Marina Valdivia: I know right? Shit! It’s all good though, we all know what we’re not here to talk about all that. This night is all about me and this night is all about me becoming the Wrestler of the Year!
Clarissa Vega: Exactly, but one thing that hasn’t changed about you over the years? Your passion! You just show it a different way than you did back then, a LOT better!
Marina Valdivia: People like to misunderstand me. Shame really. (laughs)
Clarissa Vega: I know. Marina, uh, you got cranberry sauce on your lips.
Marina Valdivia: SERIOUSLY? SHIT! Now I got to wipe it off, and all the lipstick with it. Thank god I brought the lip balm with me.
Clarissa Vega: I know right?
Marina Valdivia: I’ll be right back. Let me take care of this.
Marina rolls her eyes, grabs her purse and stands up. She walks all the way to the ladies room and she tries to get to a mirror as quick as she can. She does that and she sees the cranberry sauce detracting from her appearance. She takes a paper towel, runs some water over it, and then gets the cranberry off of her lips, and the lipstick she was wearing. Still, it’s a minor setback as she just reapplies it and it looks like nothing ever happened. She laughs before she tosses the paper towel in the trash. She fixes her hair a little bit, before she leaves the bathroom.
Marina Valdivia: That takes care of that.
Marina is about to go back to the table where she and Clarissa are sitting at. All of a sudden, she feels someone grab her from behind, at her shoulder.
Voice: You remember me right?
Marina isn’t familiar with the voice, but it’s a male voice that sounds very arrogant. Marina turns around, no fear at all. But she’s shocked when she sees who it is that stopped her in her tracks. It’s the same Warner executive that attempted to sign her to a contract on her 22nd birthday six years ago.
Marina Valdivia: I think I do…
McNulty: It’s Mr. McNulty, from Warner’s. Marina, it’s been so long since we’ve seen each other and since you rejected that contract on your 22nd birthday!
Marina Valdivia: How do you recognize me? I look a lot different now than I do then.
McNulty: It’s easy to recognize you when you’re one of the, if not the most recognizable name in that social filth known as professional wrestling. I have to admit Marina, you’ve done quite well for yourself being a big fish in a small pond. It’s a shame that you wouldn’t sign that contract, but no hard feelings, none at all.
Marina is very unsure about where this is going, but she’s a lot more confident and smarter than she was six years ago, so she keeps it cool.
Marina Valdivia: Even though I went into what you called a ‘social filth’?
McNulty: Honest to god! Though, I find it so ironic that you turned us down because you were going to be away from your family, and here you are, big wrestling star, away from her family very, very often. You’re willing to admit you were wrong back then aren’t you?
Marina Valdivia: Only if you admit that you were wrong about me when you told me that I had no passion and that I wouldn’t make it in wrestling. Let’s call a spade a spade!
McNulty: Alright, good deal then. It was just a heat of the moment thing really, I didn’t mean to say that.
Marina Valdivia: And I was young and stupid and didn’t want to let go of my family. Funny how things work out right?
McNulty: Oh yeah! We’re cool right?
Marina Valdivia: Yeah, we’re cool!
The two of them have a very good laugh about the past, but he’s so full of himself that he can go on and on for minutes. Marina stops laughing and gives him a look of hatred.
Marina Valdivia (thinking): This guy is full of SHIT! He disrespected my family and I’ll never forgive him for that.
McNulty finally stops laughing and looks back at Marina who quickly turns her expression into a smile.
McNulty: Plus, you’re such a great actress on that wrestling show.
Marina Valdivia: I’m not acting.
McNulty: That’s what they all say! Besides, we all know wrestling is fake anyway! You’re in the prime of your life, no need to be wasting it in wrestling any longer. I knew you were going to be here Marina, so I had to talk to you. I am prepared to offer you this…
He reaches into his coat pocket and pulls out a folded packet. He unfolds it and hands it to Marina, who looks at it and history is in fact, repeating itself. It’s a Warner Brothers contract. Marina just laughs.
Marina Valdivia: I’m under contract until New Year’s Eve 2015.
McNulty: Marina, it’s okay. Read the terms.
Marina has been through this before, and she reads off the terms.
Marina Valdivia: Let’s see, you’re offering THREE HUNDRED MILLION OVER 15 YEARS?
McNulty: It’s ten times an annual salary than what you’re making now.
Marina Valdivia: That’s always nice. Let’s see, unlimited family visits, nice. Creative control over any and all projects I become involved with, oh my! And as a signing bonus, you guys are even going to buy out the remainder of my THW contract. This is wonderful, I never knew that all of my years in the wrestling business would breed these rewards.
Marina has a smile on her face, and even though she doesn’t like the guy, deep down inside, she’s truly feeling this deal. After all, acting WAS her first love. But unlike the original offer years ago, she’s got so much more leverage. Her stock is higher than ever.
Marina Valdivia: Then again, I actually like wrestling.
McNulty: Really? Marina, listen to me. Those fans don’t care about you and you know it. They don’t respect you at all. Your wrestling colleagues don’t give a damn about you. Your bosses don’t care about you. The wrestling industry is using you for money and I know you don’t like being taken advantage of. Why do you want to continue down that pattern? Why are you going to allow these wrestling corporations to use you as a cash cow?
Marina Valdivia (thinking): Yeah…. He has a point….
McNulty: And we all know that once they find a replacement for you, they’d replace you on the spot. Come work for us, and we’ll GIVE YOU that respect that you crave and deserve! We’ll give you all the flexibility you want. With this contract, you’re set for life! We’ll take your stock and raise it higher! We won’t use you. This contract is everything you’ve ever wanted: you get to see your family when you want, you reunite with what you’ve described as ‘your first love’, and you would never, ever have to worry about making ends meet ever again! So leave the filth Marina, come home! Return to your original passion. If you do, you will no longer have to deal with the worthless tribulations of the wrestling business. Deep down, you know you wanted to come back ‘home’ one day.
Marina thinks about it and she’s thinking about her entire career in wrestling, from training, to the NIWF, to HCW, PCW, and THW, her world championships, her rivalries, all the times her fellow wrestlers gave her shit and disrespected her, every time the fans booed her success and cheered her misfortune. But this is her chance to kill two birds with one stone. This is her chance to get away from all that once and for all, and to return to her first love, the dream she had starting when she was just six years old.
Marina Valdivia: You have a pen on you?
McNulty: Sure. Here you go.
Marina Valdivia: This is like reuniting with a lost love…
Marina takes the pen and she’s about to sign it, but at the last second, something else enters her mind.
Marina Valdivia (thinking): Wait….
Marina starts to really think about this a little bit more. Now she’s going through the better times. She remembers being told in NIWF that she wasn’t going to amount to anything, and that she’d be beneath Kerrie Maddox, always. She remembers ICWA, when they screwed her. She remembers HCW when Steele told her that she was never going to amount to anything. She remembers some THW memories, like MG Newton calling her a has-been and others saying nasty things about her.
Marina Valdivia (thinking): I’ve overcome all of that, to be where I am in wrestling. There’s one thing, ONE THING that allowed me to push forward and overcome all of that hatred, doubt, ridiculousness, politics, everything….
Marina looks down, and thinks some more. She tries to discover that one thing that helped her push through all the obstacles she’s ever faced in her career. But then again, it IS 300 million, full creative control, and a return to a childhood dream. But then, she realizes it…
Marina Valdivia (thinking): PASSION! Passion allowed me to overcome EVERYTHING to get to where I am in wrestling. There’s been a lot more good than bad. Being a wrestler was meant to be for me. I’ve put up with the bad because I love this business. I’ve put up with the disrespect because that’s how PASSIONATE I am. Why give all of that up? NO! I can’t! I don’t care if it’s 300 million! I CAN’T give up wrestling! There’s still so much for me to do! I can’t! I shouldn’t! I WON’T!
Marina shoves the contract and the pen and shoves it in McNulty’s chest.
Marina Valdivia: HELL TO THE MOTHERFUCKING NO! SCREW YOU! SCREW YOU AND YOUR CROOKED WAYS! I would much rather put up with the bullshit I deal with in wrestling then work with a disgusting slimeball like you! FUCK YOU! Take your three hundred million and your disrespect toward wrestling and shove it up your corporate vagina! Bitch!
McNulty is shellshocked as Marina quickly turns around and walks back to her table. The entire exchange caused a scene that most people saw and there are a lot of dropped jaws, especially Clarissa. Marina sits down at her table again.
Clarissa Vega: WOW! You just turned down 300 million dollars just to stay in wrestling….
Marina Valdivia: I love wrestling a different way than people do, but I still love the fuck out of it. Still, I’m doing things MY way. Fuck what everyone else wants. I used to do what everyone else wanted, and it nearly ended my wrestling career at 24. I’m 28 now, I’m way too fucking smart to fall for anyone’s bullshit!
Clarissa Vega: Good for you Marina. Much respect! Others would have taken the money and ran. I ordered dessert by the way.
Marina Valdivia: Great! I’m up for it!
The two of them have a laugh, but McNulty hasn’t left yet.
McNulty (under breath): You haven’t seen the last of me Marina….
He leaves, and the scene cuts back to Marina and Clarissa talking and laughing about a few things before it fades to black.
Scene Three
The scene fades in again, just about a half an hour later after Marina had cut her promo on Miranda Rivers and Jakob Alexander of THW. She continues to travel the city on this wonderful Monday night and her mood is great. She’s not going to let anyone faze her, she’s never been like that. She walks along the Strip and she looks up. She has a smile on her face and we can see why. In her view is the famous casino resort in Las Vegas, “The Mirage”. She’s a couple of blocks away from it, but the top of the structure is clearly visible. She’s smiling like an idea has gone off in her head, and she turns her back to the resort, and again, she speaks her mind.
Marina Valdivia: I guess I have enough time for another promo tonight. But you know what, I find it so fitting that I am near a place called the Mirage and let me tell you people why that is. Because the word ‘mirage’ is the perfect word to describe EVERYTHING that people in PCW have been saying about me. Everything that all of you haters say about me in a sad attempt to bring me down is a MIRAGE! It’s not even CLOSE to being true and the fact is, people that compare me to Vincent Matthews are just grasping for straws because in reality, they don’t have the ability or the talent to make a fucking impact in this god damn business so they have to grasp for straws to try and bring down those that not only WILL make an impact in this business, but HAVE made an impact in this business. There’s a reason why I called PCW a bunch of losers on Twitter, because that’s what the supermajority of you are. You want to know the real reason why people like Danielle Lopez, James Baker and Jay Thunder want to bring me down with such nonsensical stupidity? It’s because they see me as a threat, an agent for CHANGE! That’s right, CHANGE! This company was the Heather and Danielle show for so long and of course, naturally, they get concerned because someone like me wants to come in and change all that. They don’t want me to come in and completely change the way things were, even though the way things were is a flawed approach to this company. It’s all a mirage! PCW is pulling the wool over your eyes. People debate over who’s the best between them. Here’s the answer: NEITHER of them are the best. I’M the best! I’m the THW World Champion AND the PCW Broadcast Champion. I’m the biggest threat to this company’s structure in a long time so Danielle, listen to me you worthless cunt, I am going to teach you how to cut a fucking promo.
Danielle, SERIOUSLY, you thought I wasn’t going to listen to your promo and NOT realize that you weren’t talking about me? Now before you go off and say ‘you’re insecure for listening’, I want to say that YOU are the insecure one because YOU are the one that just HAD to take that cheap pot shot at me calling me BORING and PASSIONLESS which makes NO sense whatsoever and you did what I was describing earlier which was grasping for straws. I’m boring and passionless? When you say that Danielle, it’s a mirage! It’s a mirage like your entire career. At least I had the fucking guts to come to PCW. I don’t see you anywhere NEAR a THW ring because you KNOW you can’t hack it there you hypocritical fucking BITCH! You’re so comfortable sucking James Baker’s dick and staying in PCW and while you’re doing that, I came here to PCW to make things happen. I’ve become a better Broadcast champion than you ever were and you want to call me the worst champion ever? FUCK YOU and let me tell you why. I SAVED this championship. On top of that, I restored the prestige and brought it even higher when I won the THW World Championship. You’re so cheap, trying to say I’m worse than Jessica Harmony, which is funny because YOU LOST TO THE FUCKING BITCH IN THE FIRST PLACE! You want to call me boring? Bitch, you only say that because I won’t conform to the PCW standard that everyone follows and that’s kissing your ass. You only say that because I bring something DIFFERENT to the table. You? Fuck no. How are you and Heather different, when you’re both the same fucking thing! The only difference between you two is that one woman is fucking James Baker and the other one isn’t. You’re both as vanilla of women’s wrestlers as it can get. You Danielle, think that this business is about honor and tradition. BORING! This business is about winning at all costs Danielle.
And you, of all people, want to call me passionless. Let me throw you a number. 127. When I wrestle here in Las Vegas tomorrow night, it’ll be the 127th consecutive THW show that I have wrestled in spite of all the risks of injury, in spite of all the disrespect of the fans, in spite of being away from my family and THW does WEEKLY shows and I show up every fucking week despite ALL of that, and I fucking wrestle. You? You’ve only been in ONE match in the past two months in a BIWEEKLY company and you want to call ME passionless? I wrestle every fucking week you fucking cunt, you? You only wrestle when you fucking feel like it. Fuck you! You want to call me passionless? I rejected a 300 dollar deal to return to acting. THAT is passion for this business. I overcame the WORST obstacles possible to become the best women’s wrestler in the world. THAT is passion. You want to talk about passionless? LOOK IN THE FUCKING MIRROR BITCH! If you had any fucking passion, you would have come up with MUCH BETTER shit to throw at me during that blind dis then calling me ‘boring and passionless’. You wouldn’t be wrestling only when you feel like it and you would actually be branching out your reputation outside of PCW but you don’t want to do that because you really don’t give a fuck about this business. You know that you can’t win anywhere without James in your back pocket. Exhibit A, your Ring of Beauty career. How did that work out? You’re nothing but a bitter, jealous coward. You were too scared to even drop my fucking name during your cheap shot. I not only dropped your name, I basically just called you out. So get your facts straight you cheap cocksucker, because you’re nowhere close to my level and you fucking know it too. The only thing “lethal” about you is how much of a disgrace you are to women in this business like me, like Miranda Rivers, like Gabbi Sparks, women that actually MATTER!
Marina pauses for a minute, trying to catch her breath after that passionate expression that she just let out. Deep down in her heart, she knows it’s all true. She’s not going to let anyone tell her how to think or how to act. She’s angry over the fact that someone would dare call her passionless after everything she ever went through to get to where she is now.
Marina Valdivia: From a former Broadcast champion, to someone who aspires to be a Broadcast champion. Jay Thunder. You know what Jay, I am not going to talk about your passion because you’re still a new face to this business and the jury is still out on you but I am going to say this: when PCW was talking about this big opponent for me, I thought I was finally getting competition. Hell, at one point I was even hopeful that I was going to be taking on Mariano Fernandez! But nope, Jay Thunder, a rookie. Then again, that’s PCW for you, nothing but a total letdown. I will say this as well jay, for doing what you did, you’re just as big of a coward as Danielle is. You attacked me from behind like SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE DONE OVER THE YEARS! Jay, you want to know what happened to those people. I came back and I fucked them up and you have a piece of that coming your way. You want to sit there and gloat about what you did to me at Rapture, go ahead and gloat, because that’s as close as you are going to get to the PCW Broadcast Championship. Of course I act like I’m everything, because I AM everything. I’m undefeated. I’m the Broadcast Champion! I went on to become a world champion while holding that championship. I’ve been in this business for over five years and I deserve better than what PCW has been giving me.
Let me tell you something Jay, three years ago, when I first joined THW, the company didn’t really have someone they could look to as their big star. Sycho was the world fucking champion for crying out loud and the roster was full of HCW alumni and Bloodbath rejects. THW wanted to be big and they were not going to be big without me. At Honor Role 1, I wrestled in the match that put THW on the map as the wrestling superpower that it is today, it was me against Miranda Rivers for the THW World Championship, the Dream Women’s Match of the Decade! THW has never looked back from that. THW needs me Jay, they wouldn’t be able to be where they are today without me. Think about where THW would be right now if I never signed, the landscape across the wrestling business would be so much different. I’m not some regular brick that you can kick off the wall Jay. Without me, women wouldn’t get any god damn attention in this business. It’s because of me that women like Miranda Rivers and Gabbi Sparks are on the map right now. I’m the reason why those PCW wannabes Danielle and Heather even aspire to be the best, but they won’t get there because they’re not good enough. I was the one Jay, that revolutionized the way people saw women in this business. As soon as I became the HCW World Champion, my first world championship, the gender barrier in wrestling was OVER! I did that! I made a difference. What the hell do you want to bring to the table Jay? What is it that will set you apart from the others? I haven’t seen it Jay and while you may be a rookie your time to set yourself apart from the rest of the pack is closing and closing fast.
I’ll give you one thing, you ARE the biggest competition I’ve faced so far, which speaks volumes of how sad this company has treated me since I came here. You know PCW doesn’t know what the fuck they’re doing with a wrestling superstar when their best competition this far is a rookie. But you know what Jay, regardless of talent, regardless of potential, every rookie is bound to make a huge mistake that’s going to get them killed and Jay, when you called me and my entire career a fluke, there was that mistake. Beating Gabbi for the title was a fluke? Fast fact Jay, in world title matches against her, I won five out of seven. Championship defense a fluke? I guess you never studied me because if you did, you would have known that in my last title reign, I defended that world championship successfully in a three way TLC match, the second title defense in as many weeks. I am not a fluke Jay, I think you have me mixed up with PCW’s “world champion”, who by the way, IS a fluke! Unlike her, I AM for real. If my entire career was a fluke, I wouldn’t have won the world championship twice, let alone four times. Like Danielle, you need to get your facts straight and then get right back to me Jay. Oh and that whole Vincent Matthews thing? Seriously, can someone PLEASE tell me why PCW is full of straw graspers! By the way Jay, since when did something die and give you the right to judge someone’s career a fluke? Pay your dues kid, because you clearly haven’t and thus you don’t deserve to call someone a fluke, especially when it makes no god damn sense whatsoever.
You might be a “prodigy”, but I’m a master! When it comes to women in wrestling Jay, it doesn’t get any better than me because I am the standard for women in wrestling, I represent everything that women’s wrestling is about. I have the class, I have the dignity, I have the credentials. You have a LONG way to go in this business to even consider yourself a contender for ANY singles championship. You’re a loudmouth, cowardly punk Jay and when I’m done with you, you’ll be burning in hell with your father. When I’m through with you and when I continue to ride the wave of change that’s sweeping THW, you’ll have no choice but to hail the one and only Glamour Queen, BITCH!
Marina turns back and sees the Mirage again, laughing.
Marina Valdivia: Jay Thunder, that building behind me, is what perfectly describes your Broadcast title dreams!
Marina laughs some more, before she departs from the scene. A final shot of the Mirage is taken before the scene fades to black.
Life hasn’t always been roses for Marina Valdivia, as we’re about to witness here. Right now, she’s sitting by herself on a plane headed back to Los Angeles. She’s travelling with all of her coworkers from HCW, where she was working at currently. But, the Marina we see here is far different, both inside and out. She’s not blonde, she’s a dirty redhead. Her hair is all over the place, her face is pale and her eyes are bloodshot, but it’s not from drinking or drugs. Marina has been through nine months of pure torture ever since the Transylvania Screwjob back in the NIWF, but she’s been above it all and she’s been a kind and respectful person. Still, it has led her to emptiness.
Marina Valdivia (thinking): Why?
Why? That’s something that Marina has asked herself a lot lately. Why is her career so poor? Why must she continue to suffer setback after setback? Why does she keep going with this even though her heart keeps being shattered over and over again?
Marina Valdivia (thinking): Why did I lose that TV Championship match last night to Garrison Kane at Honor? Why?
The previous night, the ‘Goddess of Hardcore’, as she had unfortunately labeled herself back then, lost a hardcore match to Garrison Kane with the TV Championship on the line, finally ending a dreadful storyline that Jackson Steele concocted where the two were previously lovers, even though they had never dated in real life. All this plus the last nine months have made a once promising career a total wreck and with no end in sight, it appears that all the promise was for naught. It appears that perhaps, it wasn’t meant to be.
Marina Valdivia (thinking): I threw away my first love, my first dream, for THIS?
Marina reflects back on when life was good, back when she didn’t have any problems or any demeaning episodes in her life. She had everything! She had potential! She had fame! She had the world in her hands! But now she has none of it, and she breaks down into tears and sobs as she is feeling some deep, sorry regrets for what could have been. She had that Warner’s contract on her 22nd birthday, just two years prior. She rejected it for wrestling, and now, over 2 years later, she woefully regrets it.
Marina Valdivia (thinking): I’m never going to amount to anything. I don’t know what I am doing wrong, but I know that this is over for me. I can’t keep wrestling, but I’ve destroyed my acting credibility with all my wrestling shortcomings. What now? Where do I go from here? Is there any hope left for my wrestling career?
As Marina continues to sob, cry and live in regret for her downtrodden wrestling career, she has no idea that a security guard on the plane is standing right by her. Marina just lets out a yell that obviously pisses everyone off in an emotionally wrecking manner!
Marina Valdivia: WHY?
? WHYYYYYYYYYY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!Guard: Ahem.
Marina turns to her left to see the guard.
Guard: Mr. Steele would like to see you in his private office.
Tears continue to flow down Marina’s face and she’s not even bothering with it. Her pride is next to nil at this point as the downward spiral that began with the screwjob has led to this.
Marina Valdivia: Right now?
Guard: Yes.
Marina is confused but she has no choice but to comply. After all, Jackson Steele is the owner of HCW. The guard leads her into his private office, which takes up the entire first class section of the plane. Steele is at his desk, a stern look on his face. Standing by him is Ryan Dangerous, at the time the assistant.
Jackson Steele: Have a seat.
Marina complies.
Jackson Steele: Marina, why the hell have you been crying the whole entire flight? I’ve gotten complaints all day!
Marina Valdivia: I’m sorry, I just don’t know what to do. My wrestling career is in pieces and ever since those bastards screwed me, it’s been downhill! I thought last night would be it, that it would end all the pain and suffering, but no….. I’m just a useless piece of shit now.
Jackson Steele: You got that part right at least.
Marina just looks away from Steele, having just taken such a harsh shot.
Jackson Steele: Where the fuck was the Marina that before all of that NIWF bullshit wanted to be ‘the best women’s wrestler in the world’?
Marina Valdivia: I don’t know.
Jackson Steele: You don’t know? Whatever. It doesn’t matter anyway. You know why Marina? Because I am just going to tell it like it is, as that’s how I am. Marina, you will NEVER amount to anything in this business.
Marina Valdivia: What?
Jackson Steele: Look at me damn it!
Marina complies.
Jackson Steele: You blew it Marina! When I signed you, I was hoping to make you an attraction. I was hoping that you would be the first female world champion we ever had, but the fans wouldn’t buy into that shit. But none of this is my fault, or Garrison’s fault, or the fans’ fault. Your career is in the gutter because YOU put it there and that’s why you’re useless. You’re never going to amount to anything especially since you STILL, after what, nine months now, have all this baggage from the NIWF! Why the fuck can’t you let that go Marina?
Marina Valdivia: It was the worst personal tragedy….
Jackson Steele: Even worse than a death in the family?
Marina Valdivia: Not to sound messed up, but… yeah…
Jackson Steele: You value this shit over your own family?
Marina Valdivia: It’s not like that at all. It’s, it’s…
Marina pauses to let out a few sobs. Steele is not amused.
Jackson Steele: OUT WITH IT BITCH!
Marina Valdivia: It’s the fact that… I have so much passion for this. I do want to be the best, but I know I don’t have what it takes to get there. If I didn’t have passion for this, I would have quit when the NIWF and ICWA both screwed me over. It’s just for the last 9 months, my passion has been rewarded with having my heart ripped out and crushed into pieces over and over and over. I was depressed when I was out with that concussion a while back. I love wrestling, always will, but now you’re telling me I won’t amount to anything?
Jackson Steele: That’s exactly right, you’re not going to amount to anything. You just let something that happened NINE MONTHS AGO, NINE MONTHS AGO, ruin your entire career. I hope you’re happy and if you think that Hollywood’s going to want you, hell no. You used to have the Hollywood look, not anymore. Besides, who the fuck would hire a failure of a professional wrestler anyway? Passion or not Marina, you’re still horrible. Nobody is ‘ripping your heart out’ you soft fucking cunt, you’re just doing that yourself. I’ll be honest, you’re a god damn liability to this company. Some people have what it takes, others do not. You Marina, don’t have what it takes.
Marina just slumps in her chair and cries some more, devastated. Now her own boss is telling her that she doesn’t have what it takes? She’s used to bosses abusing her, Jay C did it all the time in the NIWF with the horrid commercials that berated her, Adam Michaels did it when he screwed her out of the ICWA Women’s Championship and lied to her. Marina looks inside herself. What she sees is a heart torn to millions. Her stubborn passion is about to come out.
Marina Valdivia: No sir, you’re, you’re wrong. There’s still something left. I don’t know what, but…
Jackson Steele: SHUT UP! Just shut the fuck up Marina. I don’t want to hear it. You can have all the passion you want, but the fact is, you just can’t hack it in this fucking business! You’re of no worth or value to me, period. UHWF is a hell of a lot better without you than with you. So Marina, you want to know what the future is for you here? I’ll give you a hint.
Steele opens up the drawer at his desk and he pulls out a check. Marina’s eyes widen in horror as she knows what that check means. She’s seen it before, Steele pulling out the check, handing it to an unfortunate soul, and then telling him or her ‘you’re fired’. Marina panics, and her stubborn passion comes across again. She slides off the chair, lands on her knees, and is making a last ditch effort.
Marina Valdivia: Don’t fire me! PLEASE don’t fire me! My family doesn’t want me around! Hollywood’s not going to take me back with this awful reputation! Wrestling is all I have! Please, please don’t fire me! I’m begging you not to fire me! Give me another chance, please! Let me prove to you that I can make it! Please Steele…..
She slumps her head on the desk.
Marina Valdivia: Please…….
Marina’s eyes are redder than they were before she even stepped into the office. Steele is just hiding his face in embarrassment and nobody can blame him really.
Jackson Steele: And you wonder why you can’t fucking hack it here. Marina, you’re….
Marina Valdivia: NO! NO! NO! NO!
Ryan Dangerous, who has been silent on this whole issue, can’t take it anymore.
Ryan Dangerous: Hold on!
Jackson Steele: What the fuck Ryan?
Ryan Dangerous: I disagree with you Steele, I think Marina does have what it takes. She just needs to find the right path up here (points to head) and in here (points to chest).
Jackson Steele: I don’t give a shit Ryan, I don’t want her in my company.
Ryan Dangerous: Steele, if you want to fire her, fine. But you’d be letting go of someone that is very passionate and who really wants to be the best women’s wrestler in the world. She can do a lot for a company. I’ll cut you a deal, you keep her in this company, and I pay her salary out of my own pocket. I’ll relieve your burden of having to pay someone you don’t want, I’ll take care of that.
Steele has no idea what to think, but he laughs.
Jackson Steele: Ryan, you’re just wasting your time. Honestly. But, if you want to take her off my hands, great! She’s YOUR problem now! Marina, you’re useless to me! I don’t know what the fuck Ryan sees in you.
Steele just stands up and leaves the office. Marina’s still drowning in her own tears but ultimately a sigh of relief sweeps her, knowing that she gets to stay with the company.
Marina Valdivia: Ryan….thank you. Thank you so much for saving my career. I will be forever grateful…
Ryan Dangerous: Marina, I wasn’t going to let your career end that way. I see something special in you, I don’t know what it is, but one day you’re going to get there and you’re going to be remembered as one of the all-time greats. I know you have no idea what you want to do with yourself, but I can give you a hint that you need.
Marina Valdivia: What’s that?
Ryan Dangerous: Stand up and I’ll tell you. I hate seeing you like this.
Marina stands up.
Ryan Dangerous: Marina, if you want to make it in this business, you need to stop letting people, from the NIWF, to anyone, take advantage of you. You’re a great person, but you allow it to happen to much. I’ll let you figure it out, you’re smart. You’ll do just that.
Ryan nods before he also leaves the office.
Marina Valdivia: Yeah….I’ve let people take advantage of me…. I need to stop that….
Marina is left alone, dazed. However, what Ryan doesn’t know is that Marina would NEVER appreciate the fact that he saved her career from going bust, and he also doesn’t know that he may have unintentionally led Marina into a line of thinking that would cause her to turn her into the spiteful, evil, malicious woman that she is today. Still, whether you like her or not, anyone that questions her passion, whether it’s on this day, or in the present day, is completely ignorant and even fans that hate her can agree on that.
Present Day
The scene fades in and we’re inside of the Eiffel Tower, not the real one, but the structure that’s a part of Paris Las Vegas, on the Vegas Strip. Marina Valdivia and her manager Clarissa Vega are on the 11th floor of the structure, where a very glamorous restaurant is at. They can see a large majority of the lights on the Strip from where they are at. It’s a very glamorous view. They’re both done with dinner, but Marina was just telling the story of how she was during that day when she was ready to give up.
Clarissa Vega: You mean to tell me that you were crying and begging for your job?
Marina Valdivia: Yep.
Clarissa Vega: Wow, so you were Intensity Defined Gabbi Sparks before she ever broke into this business?
Marina Valdivia: Regrettably.
Marina has a chuckle at this. She’s clearly become a hell of a lot more confident in herself than she was all those years ago.
Marina Valdivia: If I could go back in time and beat the hell out of Redhead Marina, I’d fucking do it. Worst part of my career, EVER! My god, just even speaking about that time is an embarrassment to me.
Clarissa Vega: I love the irony about how Ryan hates who you are, but he more or less gave you the advice that led you to that.
Marina Valdivia: I know right? Shit! It’s all good though, we all know what we’re not here to talk about all that. This night is all about me and this night is all about me becoming the Wrestler of the Year!
Clarissa Vega: Exactly, but one thing that hasn’t changed about you over the years? Your passion! You just show it a different way than you did back then, a LOT better!
Marina Valdivia: People like to misunderstand me. Shame really. (laughs)
Clarissa Vega: I know. Marina, uh, you got cranberry sauce on your lips.
Marina Valdivia: SERIOUSLY? SHIT! Now I got to wipe it off, and all the lipstick with it. Thank god I brought the lip balm with me.
Clarissa Vega: I know right?
Marina Valdivia: I’ll be right back. Let me take care of this.
Marina rolls her eyes, grabs her purse and stands up. She walks all the way to the ladies room and she tries to get to a mirror as quick as she can. She does that and she sees the cranberry sauce detracting from her appearance. She takes a paper towel, runs some water over it, and then gets the cranberry off of her lips, and the lipstick she was wearing. Still, it’s a minor setback as she just reapplies it and it looks like nothing ever happened. She laughs before she tosses the paper towel in the trash. She fixes her hair a little bit, before she leaves the bathroom.
Marina Valdivia: That takes care of that.
Marina is about to go back to the table where she and Clarissa are sitting at. All of a sudden, she feels someone grab her from behind, at her shoulder.
Voice: You remember me right?
Marina isn’t familiar with the voice, but it’s a male voice that sounds very arrogant. Marina turns around, no fear at all. But she’s shocked when she sees who it is that stopped her in her tracks. It’s the same Warner executive that attempted to sign her to a contract on her 22nd birthday six years ago.
Marina Valdivia: I think I do…
McNulty: It’s Mr. McNulty, from Warner’s. Marina, it’s been so long since we’ve seen each other and since you rejected that contract on your 22nd birthday!
Marina Valdivia: How do you recognize me? I look a lot different now than I do then.
McNulty: It’s easy to recognize you when you’re one of the, if not the most recognizable name in that social filth known as professional wrestling. I have to admit Marina, you’ve done quite well for yourself being a big fish in a small pond. It’s a shame that you wouldn’t sign that contract, but no hard feelings, none at all.
Marina is very unsure about where this is going, but she’s a lot more confident and smarter than she was six years ago, so she keeps it cool.
Marina Valdivia: Even though I went into what you called a ‘social filth’?
McNulty: Honest to god! Though, I find it so ironic that you turned us down because you were going to be away from your family, and here you are, big wrestling star, away from her family very, very often. You’re willing to admit you were wrong back then aren’t you?
Marina Valdivia: Only if you admit that you were wrong about me when you told me that I had no passion and that I wouldn’t make it in wrestling. Let’s call a spade a spade!
McNulty: Alright, good deal then. It was just a heat of the moment thing really, I didn’t mean to say that.
Marina Valdivia: And I was young and stupid and didn’t want to let go of my family. Funny how things work out right?
McNulty: Oh yeah! We’re cool right?
Marina Valdivia: Yeah, we’re cool!
The two of them have a very good laugh about the past, but he’s so full of himself that he can go on and on for minutes. Marina stops laughing and gives him a look of hatred.
Marina Valdivia (thinking): This guy is full of SHIT! He disrespected my family and I’ll never forgive him for that.
McNulty finally stops laughing and looks back at Marina who quickly turns her expression into a smile.
McNulty: Plus, you’re such a great actress on that wrestling show.
Marina Valdivia: I’m not acting.
McNulty: That’s what they all say! Besides, we all know wrestling is fake anyway! You’re in the prime of your life, no need to be wasting it in wrestling any longer. I knew you were going to be here Marina, so I had to talk to you. I am prepared to offer you this…
He reaches into his coat pocket and pulls out a folded packet. He unfolds it and hands it to Marina, who looks at it and history is in fact, repeating itself. It’s a Warner Brothers contract. Marina just laughs.
Marina Valdivia: I’m under contract until New Year’s Eve 2015.
McNulty: Marina, it’s okay. Read the terms.
Marina has been through this before, and she reads off the terms.
Marina Valdivia: Let’s see, you’re offering THREE HUNDRED MILLION OVER 15 YEARS?
McNulty: It’s ten times an annual salary than what you’re making now.
Marina Valdivia: That’s always nice. Let’s see, unlimited family visits, nice. Creative control over any and all projects I become involved with, oh my! And as a signing bonus, you guys are even going to buy out the remainder of my THW contract. This is wonderful, I never knew that all of my years in the wrestling business would breed these rewards.
Marina has a smile on her face, and even though she doesn’t like the guy, deep down inside, she’s truly feeling this deal. After all, acting WAS her first love. But unlike the original offer years ago, she’s got so much more leverage. Her stock is higher than ever.
Marina Valdivia: Then again, I actually like wrestling.
McNulty: Really? Marina, listen to me. Those fans don’t care about you and you know it. They don’t respect you at all. Your wrestling colleagues don’t give a damn about you. Your bosses don’t care about you. The wrestling industry is using you for money and I know you don’t like being taken advantage of. Why do you want to continue down that pattern? Why are you going to allow these wrestling corporations to use you as a cash cow?
Marina Valdivia (thinking): Yeah…. He has a point….
McNulty: And we all know that once they find a replacement for you, they’d replace you on the spot. Come work for us, and we’ll GIVE YOU that respect that you crave and deserve! We’ll give you all the flexibility you want. With this contract, you’re set for life! We’ll take your stock and raise it higher! We won’t use you. This contract is everything you’ve ever wanted: you get to see your family when you want, you reunite with what you’ve described as ‘your first love’, and you would never, ever have to worry about making ends meet ever again! So leave the filth Marina, come home! Return to your original passion. If you do, you will no longer have to deal with the worthless tribulations of the wrestling business. Deep down, you know you wanted to come back ‘home’ one day.
Marina thinks about it and she’s thinking about her entire career in wrestling, from training, to the NIWF, to HCW, PCW, and THW, her world championships, her rivalries, all the times her fellow wrestlers gave her shit and disrespected her, every time the fans booed her success and cheered her misfortune. But this is her chance to kill two birds with one stone. This is her chance to get away from all that once and for all, and to return to her first love, the dream she had starting when she was just six years old.
Marina Valdivia: You have a pen on you?
McNulty: Sure. Here you go.
Marina Valdivia: This is like reuniting with a lost love…
Marina takes the pen and she’s about to sign it, but at the last second, something else enters her mind.
Marina Valdivia (thinking): Wait….
Marina starts to really think about this a little bit more. Now she’s going through the better times. She remembers being told in NIWF that she wasn’t going to amount to anything, and that she’d be beneath Kerrie Maddox, always. She remembers ICWA, when they screwed her. She remembers HCW when Steele told her that she was never going to amount to anything. She remembers some THW memories, like MG Newton calling her a has-been and others saying nasty things about her.
Marina Valdivia (thinking): I’ve overcome all of that, to be where I am in wrestling. There’s one thing, ONE THING that allowed me to push forward and overcome all of that hatred, doubt, ridiculousness, politics, everything….
Marina looks down, and thinks some more. She tries to discover that one thing that helped her push through all the obstacles she’s ever faced in her career. But then again, it IS 300 million, full creative control, and a return to a childhood dream. But then, she realizes it…
Marina Valdivia (thinking): PASSION! Passion allowed me to overcome EVERYTHING to get to where I am in wrestling. There’s been a lot more good than bad. Being a wrestler was meant to be for me. I’ve put up with the bad because I love this business. I’ve put up with the disrespect because that’s how PASSIONATE I am. Why give all of that up? NO! I can’t! I don’t care if it’s 300 million! I CAN’T give up wrestling! There’s still so much for me to do! I can’t! I shouldn’t! I WON’T!
Marina shoves the contract and the pen and shoves it in McNulty’s chest.
Marina Valdivia: HELL TO THE MOTHERFUCKING NO! SCREW YOU! SCREW YOU AND YOUR CROOKED WAYS! I would much rather put up with the bullshit I deal with in wrestling then work with a disgusting slimeball like you! FUCK YOU! Take your three hundred million and your disrespect toward wrestling and shove it up your corporate vagina! Bitch!
McNulty is shellshocked as Marina quickly turns around and walks back to her table. The entire exchange caused a scene that most people saw and there are a lot of dropped jaws, especially Clarissa. Marina sits down at her table again.
Clarissa Vega: WOW! You just turned down 300 million dollars just to stay in wrestling….
Marina Valdivia: I love wrestling a different way than people do, but I still love the fuck out of it. Still, I’m doing things MY way. Fuck what everyone else wants. I used to do what everyone else wanted, and it nearly ended my wrestling career at 24. I’m 28 now, I’m way too fucking smart to fall for anyone’s bullshit!
Clarissa Vega: Good for you Marina. Much respect! Others would have taken the money and ran. I ordered dessert by the way.
Marina Valdivia: Great! I’m up for it!
The two of them have a laugh, but McNulty hasn’t left yet.
McNulty (under breath): You haven’t seen the last of me Marina….
He leaves, and the scene cuts back to Marina and Clarissa talking and laughing about a few things before it fades to black.
Scene Three
The scene fades in again, just about a half an hour later after Marina had cut her promo on Miranda Rivers and Jakob Alexander of THW. She continues to travel the city on this wonderful Monday night and her mood is great. She’s not going to let anyone faze her, she’s never been like that. She walks along the Strip and she looks up. She has a smile on her face and we can see why. In her view is the famous casino resort in Las Vegas, “The Mirage”. She’s a couple of blocks away from it, but the top of the structure is clearly visible. She’s smiling like an idea has gone off in her head, and she turns her back to the resort, and again, she speaks her mind.
Marina Valdivia: I guess I have enough time for another promo tonight. But you know what, I find it so fitting that I am near a place called the Mirage and let me tell you people why that is. Because the word ‘mirage’ is the perfect word to describe EVERYTHING that people in PCW have been saying about me. Everything that all of you haters say about me in a sad attempt to bring me down is a MIRAGE! It’s not even CLOSE to being true and the fact is, people that compare me to Vincent Matthews are just grasping for straws because in reality, they don’t have the ability or the talent to make a fucking impact in this god damn business so they have to grasp for straws to try and bring down those that not only WILL make an impact in this business, but HAVE made an impact in this business. There’s a reason why I called PCW a bunch of losers on Twitter, because that’s what the supermajority of you are. You want to know the real reason why people like Danielle Lopez, James Baker and Jay Thunder want to bring me down with such nonsensical stupidity? It’s because they see me as a threat, an agent for CHANGE! That’s right, CHANGE! This company was the Heather and Danielle show for so long and of course, naturally, they get concerned because someone like me wants to come in and change all that. They don’t want me to come in and completely change the way things were, even though the way things were is a flawed approach to this company. It’s all a mirage! PCW is pulling the wool over your eyes. People debate over who’s the best between them. Here’s the answer: NEITHER of them are the best. I’M the best! I’m the THW World Champion AND the PCW Broadcast Champion. I’m the biggest threat to this company’s structure in a long time so Danielle, listen to me you worthless cunt, I am going to teach you how to cut a fucking promo.
Danielle, SERIOUSLY, you thought I wasn’t going to listen to your promo and NOT realize that you weren’t talking about me? Now before you go off and say ‘you’re insecure for listening’, I want to say that YOU are the insecure one because YOU are the one that just HAD to take that cheap pot shot at me calling me BORING and PASSIONLESS which makes NO sense whatsoever and you did what I was describing earlier which was grasping for straws. I’m boring and passionless? When you say that Danielle, it’s a mirage! It’s a mirage like your entire career. At least I had the fucking guts to come to PCW. I don’t see you anywhere NEAR a THW ring because you KNOW you can’t hack it there you hypocritical fucking BITCH! You’re so comfortable sucking James Baker’s dick and staying in PCW and while you’re doing that, I came here to PCW to make things happen. I’ve become a better Broadcast champion than you ever were and you want to call me the worst champion ever? FUCK YOU and let me tell you why. I SAVED this championship. On top of that, I restored the prestige and brought it even higher when I won the THW World Championship. You’re so cheap, trying to say I’m worse than Jessica Harmony, which is funny because YOU LOST TO THE FUCKING BITCH IN THE FIRST PLACE! You want to call me boring? Bitch, you only say that because I won’t conform to the PCW standard that everyone follows and that’s kissing your ass. You only say that because I bring something DIFFERENT to the table. You? Fuck no. How are you and Heather different, when you’re both the same fucking thing! The only difference between you two is that one woman is fucking James Baker and the other one isn’t. You’re both as vanilla of women’s wrestlers as it can get. You Danielle, think that this business is about honor and tradition. BORING! This business is about winning at all costs Danielle.
And you, of all people, want to call me passionless. Let me throw you a number. 127. When I wrestle here in Las Vegas tomorrow night, it’ll be the 127th consecutive THW show that I have wrestled in spite of all the risks of injury, in spite of all the disrespect of the fans, in spite of being away from my family and THW does WEEKLY shows and I show up every fucking week despite ALL of that, and I fucking wrestle. You? You’ve only been in ONE match in the past two months in a BIWEEKLY company and you want to call ME passionless? I wrestle every fucking week you fucking cunt, you? You only wrestle when you fucking feel like it. Fuck you! You want to call me passionless? I rejected a 300 dollar deal to return to acting. THAT is passion for this business. I overcame the WORST obstacles possible to become the best women’s wrestler in the world. THAT is passion. You want to talk about passionless? LOOK IN THE FUCKING MIRROR BITCH! If you had any fucking passion, you would have come up with MUCH BETTER shit to throw at me during that blind dis then calling me ‘boring and passionless’. You wouldn’t be wrestling only when you feel like it and you would actually be branching out your reputation outside of PCW but you don’t want to do that because you really don’t give a fuck about this business. You know that you can’t win anywhere without James in your back pocket. Exhibit A, your Ring of Beauty career. How did that work out? You’re nothing but a bitter, jealous coward. You were too scared to even drop my fucking name during your cheap shot. I not only dropped your name, I basically just called you out. So get your facts straight you cheap cocksucker, because you’re nowhere close to my level and you fucking know it too. The only thing “lethal” about you is how much of a disgrace you are to women in this business like me, like Miranda Rivers, like Gabbi Sparks, women that actually MATTER!
Marina pauses for a minute, trying to catch her breath after that passionate expression that she just let out. Deep down in her heart, she knows it’s all true. She’s not going to let anyone tell her how to think or how to act. She’s angry over the fact that someone would dare call her passionless after everything she ever went through to get to where she is now.
Marina Valdivia: From a former Broadcast champion, to someone who aspires to be a Broadcast champion. Jay Thunder. You know what Jay, I am not going to talk about your passion because you’re still a new face to this business and the jury is still out on you but I am going to say this: when PCW was talking about this big opponent for me, I thought I was finally getting competition. Hell, at one point I was even hopeful that I was going to be taking on Mariano Fernandez! But nope, Jay Thunder, a rookie. Then again, that’s PCW for you, nothing but a total letdown. I will say this as well jay, for doing what you did, you’re just as big of a coward as Danielle is. You attacked me from behind like SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE DONE OVER THE YEARS! Jay, you want to know what happened to those people. I came back and I fucked them up and you have a piece of that coming your way. You want to sit there and gloat about what you did to me at Rapture, go ahead and gloat, because that’s as close as you are going to get to the PCW Broadcast Championship. Of course I act like I’m everything, because I AM everything. I’m undefeated. I’m the Broadcast Champion! I went on to become a world champion while holding that championship. I’ve been in this business for over five years and I deserve better than what PCW has been giving me.
Let me tell you something Jay, three years ago, when I first joined THW, the company didn’t really have someone they could look to as their big star. Sycho was the world fucking champion for crying out loud and the roster was full of HCW alumni and Bloodbath rejects. THW wanted to be big and they were not going to be big without me. At Honor Role 1, I wrestled in the match that put THW on the map as the wrestling superpower that it is today, it was me against Miranda Rivers for the THW World Championship, the Dream Women’s Match of the Decade! THW has never looked back from that. THW needs me Jay, they wouldn’t be able to be where they are today without me. Think about where THW would be right now if I never signed, the landscape across the wrestling business would be so much different. I’m not some regular brick that you can kick off the wall Jay. Without me, women wouldn’t get any god damn attention in this business. It’s because of me that women like Miranda Rivers and Gabbi Sparks are on the map right now. I’m the reason why those PCW wannabes Danielle and Heather even aspire to be the best, but they won’t get there because they’re not good enough. I was the one Jay, that revolutionized the way people saw women in this business. As soon as I became the HCW World Champion, my first world championship, the gender barrier in wrestling was OVER! I did that! I made a difference. What the hell do you want to bring to the table Jay? What is it that will set you apart from the others? I haven’t seen it Jay and while you may be a rookie your time to set yourself apart from the rest of the pack is closing and closing fast.
I’ll give you one thing, you ARE the biggest competition I’ve faced so far, which speaks volumes of how sad this company has treated me since I came here. You know PCW doesn’t know what the fuck they’re doing with a wrestling superstar when their best competition this far is a rookie. But you know what Jay, regardless of talent, regardless of potential, every rookie is bound to make a huge mistake that’s going to get them killed and Jay, when you called me and my entire career a fluke, there was that mistake. Beating Gabbi for the title was a fluke? Fast fact Jay, in world title matches against her, I won five out of seven. Championship defense a fluke? I guess you never studied me because if you did, you would have known that in my last title reign, I defended that world championship successfully in a three way TLC match, the second title defense in as many weeks. I am not a fluke Jay, I think you have me mixed up with PCW’s “world champion”, who by the way, IS a fluke! Unlike her, I AM for real. If my entire career was a fluke, I wouldn’t have won the world championship twice, let alone four times. Like Danielle, you need to get your facts straight and then get right back to me Jay. Oh and that whole Vincent Matthews thing? Seriously, can someone PLEASE tell me why PCW is full of straw graspers! By the way Jay, since when did something die and give you the right to judge someone’s career a fluke? Pay your dues kid, because you clearly haven’t and thus you don’t deserve to call someone a fluke, especially when it makes no god damn sense whatsoever.
You might be a “prodigy”, but I’m a master! When it comes to women in wrestling Jay, it doesn’t get any better than me because I am the standard for women in wrestling, I represent everything that women’s wrestling is about. I have the class, I have the dignity, I have the credentials. You have a LONG way to go in this business to even consider yourself a contender for ANY singles championship. You’re a loudmouth, cowardly punk Jay and when I’m done with you, you’ll be burning in hell with your father. When I’m through with you and when I continue to ride the wave of change that’s sweeping THW, you’ll have no choice but to hail the one and only Glamour Queen, BITCH!
Marina turns back and sees the Mirage again, laughing.
Marina Valdivia: Jay Thunder, that building behind me, is what perfectly describes your Broadcast title dreams!
Marina laughs some more, before she departs from the scene. A final shot of the Mirage is taken before the scene fades to black.
