AfterBurn for Vertigo E66

[FGA Office]

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[Fujiko Mine]

Backstage, we see one half of the FGA United States tag team champions, Fujiko Mine looking disappointed at a monitor. Her tag team championship is uncharacteristically wrapped around her waist, and her arms folded over her expansive chest. She lowers her head until Spencer Burke approaches her.

Spencer Burke: Fujiko, you just witnessed Seth Iser attack your tag team partner, blinding her with red mist. Yet you remain back here. Why?

Fujiko shakes her head shortly, not breaking her gaze with the space below the monitor.

Fujiko Mine: Everyone is so eager to know when Izzy is going to turn on me. They keep monitoring the space between my shoulderblades, waiting for Izzy to place a knife there. They mentioned it throughout the Dynamic Duos tournament. They did it all throughout the leadup to Revelations. Erin and Sara did their best to try and play egos against each other...and where did that lead?

She tilts her head up and towards Spencer, who waits for her answer. Unfolding her arms, she reaches back with her left hand and unstraps the title on her waist. She then displays it for Spencer and the camera.

Fujiko Mine: It lead here.

She places it across her right shoulder.

Fujiko Mine: And while Izzy and I are a team, we want to handle our business separately. She wants the Pride championship back, and I want the FGA World championship...which should already be here.

She points to her left shoulder.

Fujiko Mine: And so far, we’ve been attempting those things alone. But after tonight? Perhaps we shouldn’t be.

Fujiko moves her gaze back to its original position.

Fujiko Mine: People haven’t been talking about Izzy betraying me because they are waiting for Izzy to revert to her ‘true nature’. They aren’t waiting for Izzy to ‘get sick of me’. They are hoping Izzy does it because they fear what the two of us will do when we are fully committed towards a singular goal. They got a taste of it when we won these. But perhaps they need to see what happens when we really give it our all. Seth preaches about honor, when it is clear he never had any to begin with. And he’s scared. He can talk all the crap he wants to about me, but I beat him and turned him away when I was Pride champion. Seth knows that alone? Izzy can take him. He has to try and weaken her to even stand a chance. But what happens if XENA and myself start watching Izzy’s back outside of tag team matches? Hm...

Spencer nods, but then shifts his stance.

Spencer Burke: Any further thoughts on you challenging Evan Envi?

Fujiko gives up a humorless laugh.

Fujiko Mine: Hearing Evan repeat what our general manager had already told me was music to my ears, Spencer. Evan knows that he lost in more ways that just disqualification at Revelations. He tapped out to me. He decided that the pain he was in was not worth being the FGA World champion anymore. Luckily for him, Richard saved him. But that won’t be the case at Only the Strong Survive. Despite others trying to worm their way in, it’s inevitable that this match just comes down to Evan and I. And this time? There will be a winner. No more endings via disqualification. No more Ricky Valero stealing what belongs to me. Just Evan Envi finding a dead end, and having to turn and face the Inevitable...

Fujiko has a wolfish grin on her face, but she does not move her head towards the camera. It is just a hungry grin before she turns and exits the scene.

[Delikado]

Major Dick Pict, FGA official businessman, is walking around like he’s waiting for someone, when that someone rolls up on his scooter imitating a car horn as his intro.

?: Veep, veep, Mr. Dick!

It’s Prince Otto Sonsson followed by a handful of his personal royal bodyguards. The young man sniffs haughtily as he stands in a pose on his scooter and seeks to impress/intimidate the tubby Dick.

Major Dick Pict: It’s “Major Dick”, sir.

Prince Otto Sonsson: And it’s “Your Highness”, Major.

Major Dick Pict: Right…Anyway, Your Highness, I’ve done what you requested, despite my not totally understanding. Delikado and Susan Kent are in line as the #1 contenders for the FGA Tag Team titles. I also went ahead and got Delikado a match with a former tag team champion, Mark Bisley.

Prince Otto Sonsson: Good. Toodles.

He starts to ride off on his scooter before Major Dick clears his throat.

Major Dick Pict: W-Wait! All of this with Delikado and his hostile lawsuit-threatening managers, I’ve kept it from the GM and any “powers that be” at my own risk. What’s going to come of it? Why reward their kind with such a golden opportunity? I…I gots to know!

Prince Otto pauses, as if to consider it himself, then snickers.

Prince Otto Sonsson: Vat vill come of it? I vill put zee FGA on the global map of vrestling! Zis place vill become an international juggernaut zee likes of vich NO federation has ever reached! Take a look at Sweden and know I am not lying. And to do zat, I vill require a client zat is not only unique and carrying championship gold, but is also submissive—I ask, voo better zan an old Kooban in a vheelchair, voo vakes up only by zee ring magic to amaze and rock zee masses, but is otherwise utterly at my mercy? He vins his matches, as I am sure he vill defeat your…”Bisley” creature. Then just give him zee chance to vin zee gold, as again I am sure he vill given zee history I have looked into on zee Delikado, and he, how you say in English, is “perfecto”?

Major Dick Pict: What about Frik Snackey? He wanted to destroy Delikado and his gang last I heard. Has he changed his ways…?

Now Otto glares with disgust at the mention of his associate, the man who helped bring him here to begin with.

Prince Otto Sonsson: Zee Snackman is in zee middle of his “Vor Games” vit zee Kooban Kado. I vill let zat play out a bit longer.

Major Dick Pict: His…”Vore Games?”

Prince Otto Sonsson: Yes, a battle or something. All I know is he vill not vin.

Major Dick Pict: ….Ohhhh, “war games”, not “vore games”, haha!

Prince Otto Sonsson: Vat’s zee difference?

Major Dick Pict: Well vore is….nevermind, it’s not relevant to our talk. Anyway, how do you know Snackey won’t defeat Delikado in this battle? The size and power difference is like night and day!

Prince Otto Sonsson: Vell I do not get your veather analogy, but I have been making plans, insurances if you vill, zat when zee time comes and zey fight, power and size be damned…Snackman vill fall. His vegan snack candy crusade has made him too insolent of my royalty and cannot be abided by. Especially since I am to become King in a short vhile.

He soaks in this announcement with a satisfied smile and follows it with a sweeping gesture.

Prince Otto Sonsson: “Introducing King Otto Sonsson, manager extraordinaire of FGA Vorld Vrestling Empire’s one and only Kooban Tag Team Champion, Delikado. He defeats all his enemies and rides zee epic scooter of countless facets!” Ahhh, is “zee sex!”

Major Dick initially seems impressed at the vision Prince Otto is painting of the changes to come for FGA, until something crosses his mind and drives him to speak up.

Major Dick Pict: Hold it. How can YOU manage Delikado when he’s already got those two sue-happy, child-insulting, loudmouth managers Sofia and Ewan in his corner?

Rather than looking like he’s had a wrench thrown in his grand schemes, Otto just laughs with greater joy.

Prince Otto Sonsson: Order Sissy Sex, my dear silly Major Dick!

Major Dick Pict: Wha…What’s that?

The Prince merely taps near his right eye as he grins deviously.

Prince Otto Sonsson: You vill see in due time. My men vill bring you the necessary information as zee zero hour approaches, because you still have a part to play in zee resolution to come. Rest assured, though, Delikado’s troublesome managers vill not be around much longer. Zey are just two of the dominos zat vill fall on the path to greatness, for me, for you, for zee FGA! Dominos knocked over…by a scooter! Yahahahahaha! Until zen!

With that, the Prince zips off on his scooter, followed by his bodyguards. Major Dick Pict watches the young, ambitious future monarch speed off into the night and shrugs to himself.

Major Dick Pict: “Order Sissy Sex?” Has he been talking to my wife…?

A young urban punk runs up and throws gang signs.

Punk: OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

He promptly departs as Major Dick shouts him off.

Major Dick Pict: That wasn’t for you to comment on with your…sounds…sir!

The Major grumbles as he puts his hands in his pocket and walks off kicking some pebbles as he leaves with a head full of knowledge about Prince Otto’s plans for Delikado. Of course, with this insight, there’s also just as many questions, all apparently to be answered in due time.

Meanwhile the scene fades over to a static shot of Delikado himself, alongside Sofia Monzón and Ewan Jakeway, heading into a future the likes of which none of them can be expecting. To the trio, Bisley and the tag champs Fujiko and Izzy, as well Frik Snackey to a fair degree, are the only threats seen ahead, but sometimes it’s that peripheral problem that turns out to be the biggest threat of them all…WILL OUR HEROES FIGURE THAT OUT IN TIME?!?! I’ll never tell. Until I ultimately do. Cut to black.