002: Surgery Is Expensive

[ajstark]

March 11th, 2013
The Ritz-Carlton New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisana
1:43 PM

It had been a few days since anyone had heard from AJ Stark, he was taking the road trip to the location of Thursday’s Take Down, where he would make his debut against former Sin City Champion, Bliss. Inside a five star hotel inside the city of New Orleans, AJ is simply sitting on a bed reading the book he had in his position from his time in Louisville, The Edgar Allan Poe Mysteries. He seemed engulfed in the book as he reads and he smiles as he reads it, possibly wondering how such a sweet, innocent woman could be into the gory writing styles of the master of macabre. As he sits there reading, wearing a plain black t-shirt and jeans, a knock comes to his door. He sighs and puts the book down on the night stand before getting up and going to the door, opening it, revealing his business manager, and former General Manager of MPW, Madd Katt.

Madd Katt: Where the hell have you been, I’ve been trying to get a hold of you.

AJ Stark: Where I told you I’d be, here, reading, and then at the gym from four to six getting my basic work out done.

Madd Katt: Well, while you’ve been relaxing and taking it easy, Bliss did a little release on you, basically calling you a flash in the pan.

AJ Stark: And? When it comes to Take Down I’ll prove her wrong, what’s your point?

Madd Katt: My point is, I think you’re taking her to lightly because she’s a woman.

AJ shakes his head a slight grin on his face as he runs a hand through his hair.

AJ Stark: That’s what everyone seems to be thinking, but that’s not the case, she could actually be a six foot seven, three hundred and fifty pound monster, and I would prepare the same way, I’m more than ready to take on anyone, maybe you and the rest of the world need an introduction of just who the hell I am.

Madd Katt: Maybe so, but I can tell you this much, she’s not taking you serious, basically saying you have no power to speak of and making some comments about you trying to be Iron Man.

AJ Stark: Cute, you know I heard those jokes all through High School until I joined the football team and gave them a reason to stop. What is she, the company gossip? She have some little video blog or something where she tries to be little people every week, because if that’s the case, this no power Iron Man as you tell me she put it will break her worse than Drake Hunter breaks her, and let’s face it, with as hostile as she is towards him, she must have been broken by him.

Madd Katt: I don’t know about all that, but I can tell you that she seems to think that MPW doesn’t need any heroes, that it isn’t broken and that you will end up like everyone else who has tried to go up against The Age of Arrogance, broken.

AJ shakes his head and he looks out into the hall and pulls Madd Katt into the hotel room. He shuts the door and goes into the mini fridge pulling out a small bottle of water.

Madd Katt: She thinks now that she is definitely with AoA, she’s pretty much untouchable, and for the most part she probably is.

AJ Stark: No one is untouchable, I mean come on she obviously had some self-esteem issues as a child, or in her teens, why else go around calling herself the original goddess? You know who an original goddess is? Women like; Margaret Hughes, Amelia Earhart, or even Isala Van Diest.

Madd Katt: Who?

AJ Stark: The first female actress accepted in America who reached fame, the first female aviator who had a solo flight, and the first ever female medical doctor and scientist.

Madd Katt: Why do they get the reign of goddess?

AJ Stark: They were firsts, they were pioneers, and they led the way, not slept the way, or claimed they made the way, What’s Bliss ever been first in, an orgasm contest? There have been countless women whom have taken on men and preferred the competition long before she did. Really there’s not an original bone in her body, maybe a few foreign ones every now and again, but not an original.

Madd Katt: Maybe I under estimated on serious you are taking this match, I’m sorry.

AJ Stark: Noted, but why did you stop by, you could have tried to yell at me on the phone.

Madd Katt: First, if you’re anything like Luke, which you probably are, you would have hung up, and second I scheduled some interview time for you.

AJ Stark: Location?

Madd Katt: Where ever you want them to meet us.

AJ Stark: Good, I have a few ideas, let me just grab my jacket.

AJ finishes off his small bottle of water and he goes into the next room where he emerges a few moments later wearing a leather motorcycle jacket, black with beige stripes on it. He grabs the book he left on his bed side night stand and he and Madd Katt are out the door in the next minute. Where are they going? That’s anyone’s guess, but whatever they’re doing, you can bank that Bliss isn’t going to like it.

March 11th, 2013
The Offices of Calvin M Johnson, MD
New Orleans, Louisana
3:30 PM

When scenes come back, AJ and Madd Katt are standing in what seems to be a surgical room. In between AJ and Madd Katt stands what most people would assume is a surgeon. The area is dim but you can make out a few details, like the surgical table where a patient would lie, an instruments table where you can see the light almost sparkle off of the scalpel and other instruments, and silicone breast implants?

AJ Stark: Bliss, you’ve sat there tried to get under my skin, and it hasn’t worked, you sit there and say MPW doesn’t need another hero, but you fail to realize, I’m not a hero, I’m the anti-hero, no one in MPW wants me here, especially those guys on the bottom of the card who have been trying to get where I am in my first match, the main event. AoA doesn’t want me here, and for good reason, my being here presents a problem for all of you, male or female alike. You sit there on your high horse acting like you were born perfect and trying to knock me down a peg with some high school level intellectual jokes like calling me iron man or that I only call myself a behemoth because of my size. Sure I’m big, all the more to crush you with during our match on Thursday, a match that I will win by pin fall or submission, doesn’t matter either way, but that is how it will happen, the AoA isn’t going to know what hit them.

Madd Katt: That’s right, and you sit there and you call me a dried up fossil, but I could probably wrestle circles around you, then or now.

AJ Stark: You know nothing of respect or honor, nor do you know what it means to be loyal, hell I see shades of your true colors already, you’re jealous of your boyfriend Drake Hunter because he has something you want.

Madd Katt: Preach it AJ!

AJ Stark: That’s beside the point though, you know I tried to watch what you said about me in your little visit to the comic book store but a lot of it lost with the tits and ass of it all, sure sex sells, but how much did you pay for it all in order to flaunt it on national television to pretend your something special when in fact all you are is an insecure little girl.

Madd Katt: Hence why we have the respected plastic surgeon of New Orleans here, Doctor… Uh what’s your name again?

Dr. Johnson: Johnson, Calvin Johnson, MD.

AJ turns his attention towards the good doctor and he greets him with a handshake and a smile.

AJ Stark: Thank you doc for sparing some of your valuable time to talk with us here about some prices.

Dr. Johnson: Not a problem, feel free to ask anything.

Madd Katt looks at AJ and then the doctors head and he seems a bit confused.

Madd Katt: First question, is that a taupe?

AJ looks at Madd Katt as if he had just mentioned the giant elephant in the room, however he just shakes his head and carries on.

AJ Stark: ignore him, the guy who trained me, dropped him on his head a few dozen times. The real first question, say my buddy MK here wanted to get some breast implants…

Dr. Johnson: That all depends on his wife’s cup size.

AJ Stark: Not his wife, him, say he wanted to go from being flat to a decent c, how much do you think that would cost him?

Dr. Johnson: Well medically speaking, I’d have to advise him he would have to go through extensive counseling before I could ever preform such a procedure., after that it would cost at least say 12 grand depending what practice you would go to, and that’s only for some of the decent work.

AJ Stark: Oh ok, I guess even though that’s a little outrageous, vanity is really a pain, how is it that that is a holy virtue when people spend an arm and a leg to buy it? Anyway, What about some botox and say ass implants?

Dr. Johnson: That is a little more doable, botox, though poisionus, can retrack the aging process tightening skin and firming it, as for posterior implants, I’d say because of the less dangerous route of the procedure he’d in total without the breast implants would need to come up with about fifteen grand.

AJ Stark: Ok, I see, and now you being a professiona;l, you would be able to spot any work, even if an ace surgeon did it right?

Dr. Johnson: Most likely, but some doctors are very good.

AJ holds out his hand towards a now embarrassed and irate Madd Katt whom takes a copy of the MPW magazine out and opens up to one of the available posters inside of Bliss.

Dr. Johnson: Oh very nice, well judging by this picture, she is in very good shape, though if she did have any surgery I wouldn’t be able to tell you obviously, patient doctor confidentiality and I know how it feels to be sued, however I can probably say that the chances of someone in your line of work having gotten cosmetic surgery are very likely.

AJ Stark: I see well thank you for that bit of information doc, that’s all we needed.

The doctor nods his head, shaking the hands of both AJ and Madd Katt before leaving the room and AJ and Madd Katt resume their focus towards the camera.

AJ Stark: So we have a good idea about approximately how much you’re worth and that’s not including all the other types of cosmetic surgeries you probably “endured”, so don’t judge me, and don’t sit there and try and act like you’re better than me, because you’re not, and you will find that out the hard way.

Madd Katt: Not to mention the company you keep speaks loads about who you are.

AJ Stark: Oh and one more thing Bliss, you made a mistake, you thought I was picking on you, and calling you ignorant, no, I was saying I was, and because of how I was acting, you might have HAD a chance, but since MK here pulled my mind out of the one sided thinking that my code of honor has me a bid to, I see you in full view, not a man, not a woman, a warrior of the ring, just like me, we’re equals for that, but when I beat you, and I will beat you, and you are crushed by the great behemoth, the avenger, you will see that you’re the one that is truly being ignorant about who you’re facing sitting, saying I have no power, why? Because you’re afraid and none of your comic book jokes, or attempts at making fun of my weight or name could ever, EVER make an impact on how bad you are going to lose, Bliss, AoA, and anyone else who decides to view me as a threat instead of a solution to the AoA problem, if you thought you had it bad before…. It’s just gotten worse!

AJ smirks and he places his fist in his hand as he stares at the camera for a moment before walking off screen and Madd Katt follows and you can hear him saying “Why the hell would you use me as an example”. AJ seems to think he has combated everything Bliss had to say and made some leeway into how he sees her going into this match on Thursday, as a very expensive punching bag there just for him to advance in the ranks whether anyone likes it or not.

March 11th, 2013
New Orleans Athletic Club
New Orleans, Louisana
5:23 PM

AJ is inside a gym and he is running on a treadmill, doing a basic cardio work out. He seems pretty intent on what he’s doing, listening to the music he has on his phone wearing a sleeveless shirt and some basketball shorts. As he runs he hears his text tone in his head phones and he slows his machine down to a walk and he picks his phone out of his pocket and he looks at it, a message from Madd Katt.

“Did some checking around, can’t say I found the owner to that book you picked up in Louisiana, you said her name was Tricia, right?”

AJ hops off the machine and he grabs his towel dabbing at his forehead before answering back.

“Yeah and don’t get me wrong love the book, but the girl I want to return it to her.”

AJ moves slowly sits and takes a can of monster energy out of his bag and popping the top, taking a swig when Madd Katt texts him back.

“Alright, I’ll keep looking for this mysterious Tricia who likes Edgar Allan Poe, but no guarantees, just do me a favor and keep your head in the game.”

AJ looks and he shakes his head and smirks slightly.

“The only way I don’t walk out of Take Down with a win is if she manages to pick up a 747 and hit me with it, but you and I both know she can’t do a thing like that.”

AJ locks his phone and he takes a breath sighing and he dabs at his head with the towel and then sips his monster again before collecting his items and putting his stuff back in his bag, zipping it up. On his way back to the locker room he finishes off his monster and tosses the can just outside the locker room where he would change and then go back to his hotel while he awaited Thursday Night Takedown where he will debut against The Original Goddess; Bliss and promises that she will be the first of many victories in his career with MPW.