Branded Superstars 5
November 2, 2008
 Caption: Training Facility, Unknown Location
(FADE-IN: About a dozen men are standing side-by-side in front of a wrestling ring. SHARC enters the shot from the far end of the lineup. He stares down each man briefly before passing onto the next. Once he reaches the end, SHARC spins around, snaps his fingers, points at the tallest man in the line, and points at the ring. The other wrestlers take seats in chairs around ringside while the TALL MAN does a Brock Lesnar-like vertical leap onto the apron and catapults himself into the ring over the top rope. SHARC propels himself into the ring under the bottom rope and walks up to the man.
Sharc, at 6-2, is about 7 inches shorter than TALL MAN. SHARC sizes up TALL MAN, before unloading with a slap across his face, producing a misty cloud of sweat. There is an outburst of shock from the ringside spectators as TALL MAN rubs his left cheek.)
SHARC: Let's get wild.
(TALL MAN grabs SHARC by the throat with both hands and tosses him over his head. SHARC lands hard on the mat. TALL MAN doesn't even wait for SHARC to get up. He goes right on the offensive, stomping away on SHARC's torso and head. TALL MAN kneels down to unleash rounds of mounted punches into SHARC's skull.)
SHARC: Is that it? You're a bigger (BLEEP) than Pepper!
(SHARC punches TALL MAN. This, naturally, annoys tall man.)
SHARC: You'll never be anything in this business unless you show me something! Now! DO IT!
(TALL MAN grabs SHARC by the hair, whips him to the ropes, and catches him for a stiff-as-all-hell spinebuster. There is an audible groan from SHARC, but after a couple of seconds, he rolls over and pulls himself up using the ropes. He charges at TALL MAN. Spinebuster. Groan. SHARC pulls himself up again.)
SHARC: HARDER!
(SHARC charges again, and TALL MAN hits a third straight stiff spinebuster. This time, there is no groan, however. SHARC simply rolls over and refuses to use the ropes to get up this time.)
SHARC: Next!
(SHARC stands in place, waiting, as TALL MAN backs up to the opposite corner. TALL MAN charges and damn near kicks a hole through SHARC's torso with his right foot. The hard blow sends SHARC flying backward into the corner. SHARC rebounds from the turnbuckles and lands on his face. SHARC doesn't move for several seconds, but then coughs as oxygen returns to his lungs. SHARC grabs for the nearest rope and finds it after a couple of misses. He pulls himself up and retakes his mark.
SHARC uses his right hand to tell TALL MAN to bring the pain again. TALL MAN does. SHARC again hits the turnbuckles from the insane impact of the kick, but he holds to the top rope this time with both arms. SHARC mouths something, but no words come out. TALL MAN charges again and SHARC runs toward him for the equivalent of a head-on collision between cars. There is a thunderous SFX: THUD as SHARC lands on his back on the mat. SHARC doesn't move. TALL MAN stares down at SHARC. SHARC is smiling. He rolls himself heels-over-head and returns to a vertical position.
SHARC: You have one more chance before I cripple you worse than Wone.
(One table slides into the ring. Make that two. No, three. TALL MAN sets all three up in different corners, creating a table triangle of sorts. SHARC steps forward.)
TALL MAN: Are you sure?
SHARC: There's no safety word.
(Kick. Wham. TALL MAN grabs at a bent over SHARC and lifts him up for a gutwrench powerbomb)
SFX: CRUNCH!
Offscreen Voice: Holy (BLEEP).
(TALL MAN holds on and powers SHARC out of the splintered wreckage of table number one, still in the powerbomb position.)
SFX: CRUNCH!
Offscreen Voice 2: Oh my god. Elijah has no idea what he's in for. Sharc is insane!
(TALL MAN holds on and powers SHARC out of the splintered wreckage of table number two, still in the powerbomb position.)
SFX: CRUNCH!
(One of the wrestlers slides into the ring to check on SHARC. Nothing for several seconds. Then SHARC grabs him by the face to pull himself up and find the camera.)
SHARC: Pepper! I have one thing to say to you about booking me against Elijah. Thank you! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
(Sharc falls back into the splinters and laughs maniacally as we FADEOUT.)
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