Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2017 17:35:25 GMT -5
FADE IN:
INT. THE ULTRAVIOLENT COMPLEX – SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – JULY 11TH, 2017
Backstage, Raze walks with Octavia trapped between her arms. She tries to fight and tries to free herself from the bear hug that Raze has locked in, but her effort is going nowhere. She stops struggling and just hangs in Raze's arms like a defeated rag doll.
Just in front of them, walking up ahead is Orion.
ORIONPINE: “All tuckered out now are ya?”
Octavia lifts her head, and with her mouth blows a stand of her orange hair out of her face.
OCTAVIABLOOM: “Let me down.”
ORIONPINE: “I don't know if that's a good idea baby girl—“
OCTAVIABLOOM: “Put me down!”
Octavia freaks out in Raze’s arms, kicking her feet, wiggling her shoulders, and banging her head.
ORIONPINE: “Such a feisty one!”
Orion laughs.
ORIONPINE: “But ya wasting ya time. I once seen this guy bear hug a bear, thinking it was a goddamn teddy bear, and ya know what?”
Raze chuckles now, her hold still firm on Octavia.
OCTAVIABLOOM: “Oh shut up!”
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INT. THE ULTRAVIOLENT COMPLEX – SAN DEIGO, CALIFORNIA – CONTINUOUS
The door swings open, and Ryker storms into the area; which many may refer to as the locker room. To his right, he notices Raze planted on his ass, sulking in the corner as his nose is bloody, and he is holding his shin.
To his left, Orion holds a chair up. Using it to fend off the fired up Octavia. Orion spots Ryker.
ORIONPINE: “Yo homie, ya need to put your bitch on a leash!”
RYKERRYLEE: “What the fuck ‘Tavia!”
Octavia looks away from Orion, her glare of death now locked on Ryker. Orion uses this moment and high tails it out of the corner that Octavia had backed him into.
RYKERRYLEE: “What has gotten into you?”
OCTAVIABLOOM: “Into me!”
Octavia throws the chair at Ryker. He throws up his arm and blocks it.
OCTAVIABLOOM: “What has gotten into you!”
ORIONPINE: “Listen homie, shit like this; it draws heat and Ares, he doesn't like heat.”
Octavia and Ryker both turn their attention to Orion.
OCTAVIA & RYKER: “Shut up!”
ORIONPINE: “Just sayin’ homie.”
Ryker now glares at Orion, who gets the hint. Orion walks to Raze and helps him up, and the two together leave Ryker and Octavia alone.
The door closes behind their exit. Ryker turns back to Octavia, and she cold clocks him in the jaw with a left, followed by her right. Ryker just absorbs the two punches.
RYKERRYLEE: “You done?”
Octavia readies another but doesn't follow thru.
Silence.
OCTAVIABLOOM: “I know you think I'm crazy, thinking I'm try to latch onto something that isn't there, but I'm not, something just isn't right about the whole situation. I just can feel it, something is off.”
RYKERRYLEE: “I don't think you are crazy; well, partially crazy, yeah, but not full fledge crazy.”
OCTAVIABLOOM: “Ha-Ha. Can't you for once just take something serious?”
RYKERRYLEE: “I am.”
OCTAVIABLOOM: “Oh really? Walking around acting like nothing fuckin’ matters, partying and drinking, acting like a complete idiot?”
Ryker shakes his head as he picks up the chair that Octavia had thrown at him. He takes a seat and starts picking at the wraps on his hands.
RYKERRYLEE: “Don't you get tired of it? Fuck, for the last four years we’ve had nothing you know. No place to live, just hitching rides city to city, searching for underground fights that barely paid enough for us to eat. Sleeping under bridges or on park benches. Shit got old ‘Tavia, real quick and maybe I'm just enjoying myself, you know.”
Beat.
RYKERRYLEE: “The dudes come out of nowhere, offer us money, more money than we’ve had in the last four years. Place to sleep and a job, a job that will get us on the map. So maybe I just want to enjoy it ‘cause we both know that nothing lasts in this world nowadays. You only ever get a taste and then it's gone.”
Octavia's anger disappears and she takes a seat on the floor.
OCTAVIABLOOM: “I’m just scared.”
RYKERRYLEE: “Scared of what?”
OCTAVIABLOOM: “Losing you.”
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INT. GYM – SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – JULY 16TH, 2017
Octavia leans on the railing of the second-floor balcony. Down below, just underneath her, Ryker wrestles inside the ring against two smaller masked wrestlers.
MALEVOICE: “Do you love him?”
A man, wearing a fancy suit and fedora steps up beside her. He leans on the railing and watches Ryker.
OCTAVIABLOOM: “Excuse me?”
MALEVOICE: “Oh, pardon my manners.”
He turns and extends his hand.
MALEVOICE: “Merrick Miles, how do you do?”
Octavia does not shake his hand, but instead stares at it and then looks away.
MERRICKMILES: “Ah, so that is Ryker Rylee, yeah. Hmm, from what Orion described, he is not what I had imagined.”
OCTAVIABLOOM: “Orion’s an idiot.”
MERRICKMILES: “A feeling we share.”
OCTAVIABLOOM: “Are you another sent from Ares?”
Merrick turns away from Octavia, a smile cracking on his face.
MERRICKMILES: “Yes.”
Down below, Ryker and the unknown wrestler lock up inside a grapple.
MERRICKMILES: “Didn't think he took this serious.”
OCTAVIABLOOM: “Like I said, Orion is an idiot, And… He has a huge match coming up at World War, against two former champions in a Hangman’s horror match; if he wins, he will be in line for a shot at the ultraviolent championship. So yeah, he’s taking it serious.”
Beat.
OCTAVIABLOOM (Whispering): “Finally.”
MERRICKMILES: “What's with the two masked men?”
One of the masked men climbs to the top turnbuckle down in the ring.
OCTAVIABLOOM: “Linc and Aliyah, they are high flyers, something that Ryker has not encountered in his rather short up and coming career yet.”
Merrick looks to Octavia now.
MERRICKMILES: “So the up and comer Ryker Rylee, vs two former champions. I like that headline.”
To the left of Merrick, Orion stands a distance back.
MERRICKMILES: “Ah, well Octavia, I must bid you farewell for now, business calls.”
Merrick tips his hat and gives Octavia a wink. Merrick walks away but stops.
MERRICKMILES: “Oh. You never answered my question.”
OCTAVIABLOOM: “And you probably won't answer the questions I have.”
MERRICKMILES: “Touché. We all have a part in Ares plan, even you Octavia.”
Merrick disappears.
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WORLD WAR PROMOTIONAL VIDEO
The footage is black and white, and begins cycling through old clips of World War I and World War II.
RYKERRYLEE (V.O): “It doesn't matter how much experience you have, what championships you’ve captured. Since I've been here, I've proven this time and time, over again. No matter what the odds were, my arm, my hand was raised after the three count. I've proven that I have the focus to stand in the ring with two other opponents, on three separate occasions, claiming victory. I’ve shown I can take what punishment is dished out to me, and keep going and going. Outlasting all that have entered into the ring with me. By night's end, Aliyah and Linc will hang from the top rope and it will be me on my way to gold. It's my time now, both of you, yours is over.”
END.