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Redemption
Jessica
Lasiewicz
On Camera
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My sister
thought the redemption quest was done…she thought that by attacking me, that I
would see the fruitlessness in my quest to redeem my family name and that I
would let redemption die. That’s the
problem with me, I’m stubborn and I get it honest from both of my parents. There was no way in hell I was going to walk
away from this fight. If Marie wasn’t
going to listen to me then I just had to go to someone who would…
…my mother.
My mother is
a proud athlete who believes in our family but what she believes in more than
anything else is her children. I had to
put myself at risk but I made her see how evil Silas Mason really is. I made her see that she had to get out of
Silas World as soon as she could.
Now your
World is coming apart at the seams, Silas.
You had a diamond in the form of Angelica Jones and she’s left you in
the dust. Even if me, Angelica, and
Harmony all come up short at Rise To Greatness, you still don’t get her services
anymore. She’s done with you even if it
means the end of her career.
It’s over.
Now I’m
going to continue my quest for redemption and I will pry my sister Marie loose
from your grips even if it is the last thing I do! As for my mother, she’s ready to move on from
redemption to reviving her legacy, a legacy that was tarnished under Silas
World…she’s going to remind the world of how dangerous the dragon can really
be…
…and she’s
going to do it at the expense of Katie Steward.
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Second
Guessing
Off Camera
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Twelve year
plus veteran of the game, Angelica Jones has learned that there are many
subtleties that help create the perfect professional wrestler. Yes, one should
know how to wrestle, one should be intelligent in their approach, and
Angelica’s knowledge of how to wrestle and her intelligence inside of the
squared circle is beyond anyone else’s.
But there are other lesser known factors that come into play when it
comes to the perfect professional wrestler.
If you’re going into battle against someone and that someone can detect
that you are doubtful, that you are second guessing yourself, if that person
can sense that you are unsure of your own abilities, then that person could be
motivated to finish you. Thus it becomes
important for most professional wrestlers to put forward a confident front, it
becomes almost an art form for some professional wrestlers to appear confident
even when they are not.
Angelica
Jones has mastered the art of appearing confident during times when she would
otherwise be second guessing herself.
You might find it odd that a thirteen time world champion and member of
three pro-wrestling halls of fame would second guess herself but even the great
Angelica Jones has a problem when it comes to doubt. It seems as if her doubts and self-critique
has always followed her throughout her career.
When she won her first world championship she wasn’t sure she had it in
her to keep it on her own so she hired Samantha Hodgson as an agent to help
maintain her career. The partnership of
Hodgson and Jones as a one-sided affair with Samantha taking advantage of
Angelica at almost every turn. Samantha
knew Angelica would do as she was told primarily out of fear of losing
Samantha’s assistance and thus losing that crutch Angelica had come to rely
upon for so long.
It wasn’t
until Angelica’s wife, Lindsey Carter, came along that the relationship between
Angelica Jones and Samantha Hodgson came to an end. Carter manipulated Jones into dumping Hodgson
and signing on with Silas Mason instead.
Much like the Jones/Hodgson relationship prior, Angelica’s relationship
with Silas Mason was a one-sided affair with Silas Mason dictating the terms at
every turn.
Now things
have changed drastically. Angelica Jones
found out about what Lindsey Carter did and so she had her kidnapped. Lindsey Carter is now out of the picture, at
least for now, and Angelica Jones has abandoned Silas Mason. For the first time in Angelica’s long and
storied career she is without representation.
For the first time in Angelica’s career, the red-headed dragon from
Boston, Massachusetts is on her own.
Well, she’s
not completely on her own, she does have her sister Kayla Jones by her side, as
well as her daughter Jessica Lasiewicz.
Fellow Silas World alum, Harmony Fisher, is also fighting by their side
and it will be Angelica, Jessica, and Harmony fighting at Rise To Greatness
with their careers on the line against Regan Street, Sienna Swann, and Katie
Steward.
Currently we
find the matriarch of the Jones wrestling family seated along in her dressing
room backstage at the Palace of Auburn Hills arena in Detroit, Michigan shortly
after Breakdown went off the air. The
dressing room is actually quite roomy, as Angelica and Jessica both share
it. Wooden benches line two of the walls
while blue lockers line the other two walls.
A Rise To Greatness poster is hanging on one of the walls and the floor
is a plain concrete one.
Angelica
doesn’t appear to be in the best of moods right now as she sits slumped over
with her head resting in her hands. Tonight
she already found out about the six person tag at Rise To Greatness, a match
where her career will be on the line thanks to Silas Mason, and she also has
found out about her upcoming match on the next Breakdown against Katie Steward.
The look on
the face of the Boston native tells the story of how concerned she is about
this whole ordeal. After all, this isn’t
just her career in jeopardy now, it’s her daughter Jessica’s as well. Jessica never asked for this, for any of
this. She’s a part of this because
Angelica drug her into it; yet another instance of Jessica paying for her
mother’s mistakes.
Her musing
is interrupted by a light knocking at the door. “Come in…?”
Jones turns
to find one of the arena workers stepping inside. “Excuse me, Ms. Jones, but your daughter is here to see you.”
A warm smile
creeps across the face of Angelica Jones.
Jessica is the one mostly responsible for Angelica getting up the
courage, the nerve, to leave Silas Mason and his World in the first place. Had it not been for Jessica Lasiewicz talking
some sense into her, she would still be Silas Mason’s goon to this very
day. She knows she owes her a daughter a
great deal, the least she can do is fight on her behalf at Rise To Greatness
and win.
“Send her in.”
The worker
exits and Angelica stands up and watches her dressing room door, expecting the
raven-haired Lasiewicz to come through those very doors at any moment. Boy is she surprised when her middle-child
does not make her way into the dressing room.
Instead her red-headed eldest child an IWC superstar Marie Annabelle
Jones steps into the dressing room wearing a black leather mini-skirt, black
high heeled pumps, a red sweater, a black leather jacket, and sunglasses. Her long red hair hangs unrestrained to
shoulder length.
“Oh, hi Marie…” Angelica’s voice trails
off ever so slightly “…umm, I wasn’t
expecting you.”
“Who were you expecting? Jessica?”
Marie snickers lightly. “Oh well,
you got me instead…mom…”
There is an
awkward tension in the room and it is completely understandable. Much like how Lindsey Carter manipulated
Angelica Jones into signing on with Silas Mason, it was Angelica Jones who
talked her eldest child Marie Annabelle Jones into signing with Silas Mason. It seemed appropriate enough, at first. Marie had been having difficulties of her own
with Samantha Hodgson and Angelica, seeing a lot of herself within Marie, felt
that maybe signing with Silas Mason would be a good idea. Keep it within the family, you know? Little did Angelica know that Lindsey Carter
had played her for a fool. Had she known
this, she would not have encouraged Marie to sign with Silas Mason.
“So what brings you out here to Detroit?”
Angelica asks, curiously.
“Is there something wrong with wanting to
see my mother compete?”
Angelica
shakes her head. “No, I guess not, but
the thing is I wasn’t in action tonight.”
“Oh, well is there something wrong with
wanting to watch my sister compete?”
The mother
frowns. “Jessica wasn’t competing either.”
“Ok, ok, fine, maybe I didn’t come here to
support either one of you.” The face of the eldest child grows serious. “Maybe I came here to talk some sense into
you!”
Angelica
should have seen this coming a mile away.
She should have expected it. She was the one who introduced Marie to Silas
Mason and to Silas World and yet she is leaving Marie alone in Silas World all
by herself. In a way, Angelica feels
somewhat bad, somewhat guilty, and yet it was Marie’s decision to stay. No one else’s.
“Sit down.” Angelica commands, pointing
to one of the benches with her right hand.
“Oh is this going to be one of those
mother-daughter talks that we’re so famous for?”
The sarcasm
is dripping from Marie’s voice and a sneer forms across her face but she doesn’t
sit down. She just stares across at her
mother who patiently waits for her daughter to comply with her request. Eventually when it becomes clear Marie isn’t
ready to comply…
“Please…sit down.”
“And what if I don’t wanna?”
Angelica
doesn’t like to be challenged, especially by her own children. The mother grabs her eldest daughter by the
shoulders and forces her ass down upon the nearest wooden bench. Angelica glares down at her determinedly.
“Now…sit…”
Angelica
sits down on the bench next to her. “We’re
going to talk about this.”
“No, you’re FORCING me to sit here and
listen to your crap.” Marie snaps back at her. “Much like how you forced me to join Silas World awhile back.”
“I didn’t force you to do anything.” Angelica
shakes her head, pointing a finger at Marie. “That was entirely your decision.”
“But you did encourage it!”
“Yes, I admit that I did encourage you to
sign with Silas Mason. It felt right at
the time.”
“So what’s changed?” Marie demandingly
asks. “Huh? What has changed so much that you had to
leave him? That you had to leave me?!”
“That much should be fairly clear to you,
Marie.” A smile forms across Angelica’s lips. “Besides, what’s wrong? Are
you beginning to doubt Silas?”
“Not in the least!” Marie exclaims,
reaching out and taking Angelica by her hands. “I’m here because I care about you…”
The mother
blinks several times out of confusion.
This wasn’t quite the response she was expecting from her enraged eldest
daughter.
“You care about me?”
“Yes!” Marie nods her head
enthusiastically. “Nearly a year ago I
was lost, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to please the fans, please Alana Starr, or
please Ethan Von Aaron. I even had
Samantha Hodgson as an agent for awhile and I thought I needed to please her.”
She reaches
out and places a hand on Angelica’s shoulder. “But you talked sense into me.
You showed me a better way. You
introduced me to Silas Mason.”
Angelica
lowers her head, bowing it out of shame.
She does remember the day she introduced her daughter to Silas Mason and,
looking back, hindsight being twenty-twenty, she wishes she would never have
introduced the two of them.
“Now I am here to return the favor.”
“How do you plan to do that?”
“It’s real simple, mom.” Marie insists. “Silas still owns your contract. You can say you’ve left Silas World all you
want…”
“I HAVE left Silas World!” Angelica
states defiantly.
“Right, well you can say it all day long but
it means nothing until he tears up that contract.”
Angelica
frowns. “What are you saying?”
“I’m saying you should return to Silas.”
Marie suggests. “All will be forgiven.”
Angelica
looks on at her daughter incredulously. “All
will be forgiven?! How the hell do you
figure that, Marie?!”
“I am going to ask him to let you back in
and forgive you as a personal favor to me.”
The elder
Jones shakes her head. “No…”
“No?!”
“Marie, you should know me better than
that. I am not going to crawl back to
anyone and ask for forgiveness, especially not him.” Angelica sighs. “And besides, even if I did, Silas Mason is
not the forgiving type.”
“Mom, you know that you are fighting a
losing battle.” Marie presses. “And
for what? For whom? Harmony Fisher? Jessica?”
Angelica
frowns. “Jessica is your sister…”
“And she put herself into this situation
where her career is now in jeopardy.”
Marie stands
up. “Look, Jessica and Harmony can deal
with the consequences of the decisions they made…you don’t have to…just come
home to Silas World.”
“I…” Angelica shakes her head “…can’t do that…”
“Then I guess we have nothing left to
discuss.”
Angelica
watches as her eldest daughter turns and walks away. She opens the door and exits, leaving
Angelica alone with just her thoughts and musings to keep her company. As much as she doesn’t want to admit it,
Marie is right. Marie is Silas Mason’s
newest crown jewel and she would no doubt have him eating out of the palm of
her hand. If Angelica wanted
forgiveness, if she wanted back in the World, all that would have to be done is
for Marie to give the signal to Silas and all would be back to the way it
was. And truth be told, that would
probably be the easiest course of action to take. But just because something is easy doesn’t
make it right. Angelica has had to learn
that the hard way growing up in this industry.
She knows that a battle against Silas World is looming over the horizon
whether she likes it or not.
The first of
what will no doubt be many fights over the horizon will be a one on one match
against Katie Steward on the next edition of Breakdown. No stipulation, no gimmicks, just Jones
against Steward. But Angelica is on her
own now for the first time in her long and celebrated career. That in and of itself is enough to raise
doubts within Angelica’s mind about whether or not she can be victorious,
doubts about whether or not she can get the job done without Silas Mason.
A knocking
at the door interrupts Angelica’s train of thought. “Go away, Marie…”
“This isn’t Marie.” The voice states. “And I’m not going away.”
Angelica
grins from ear to ear. She knows that
voice oh so well. It’s her sister...
“Well don’t stand out there all day!”
Angelica exclaims loudly. “Come in, Kay!”
The door
opens and Angelica watches as Kayla Jones, her younger sister, enters the
room. Angelica shoots right up and
immediately rushes over to meet her sister with a tight embrace. After breaking the embrace Kayla and Angelica
take appraisal of one another…
“You look great, sis…”
Angelica
says this while admiring her sister’s attire consisting of denim capris, a red
t-shirt, and tennis shoes. Her long red
hair pulled into a ponytail in the back.
“Back at you…” Kayla remarks.
Angelica and
Kayla walk over to the bench where she and Marie had just been sitting a few
minutes earlier. Kayla sits down first
followed by Angelica. Kayla can tell by
the look on her older sister’s face that something is wrong and immediately
presses for answers.
“So what went wrong between you and Marie?”
“Why do you automatically assume something
went wrong?”
“It wasn’t THAT hard to figure out.”
Kayla smirks knowingly. “I saw my niece
storming out of this dressing room pouting like the spoiled brat she’s become.”
“She has become a bit full of herself
lately, hasn’t she?”
“She has an ego the size of Texas.” Kayla
retorts without missing a beat. “And
that’s not an understatement.”
“Still, just because you’re arrogant doesn’t
mean you can’t be right.”
Kayla tilts
her head to one side, studying her sister carefully for a few moments.
“What do you mean? What is Marie right about?”
“I think you know exactly what I mean.”
“Great…” Kayla rolls her eyes “…look, sis, you need to get a grip and you
can’t let whatever it is she said get to you.”
“You don’t even know what she said.”
Angelica says as she shakes her head. “You
have no idea…”
“Try me.” Kayla challenges.
The elder
sister looks on at her younger sister.
She can detect the concern in her eyes.
They haven’t always agreed on everything but they have always been there
for one another, primarily because they have only had one another throughout
their entire lives. This is no
different. Angelica knows that Kayla
would not lead her astray.
“I have never been alone in this
industry. For almost my entire career I
had Samantha Hodgson managing the business aspect of my wrestling career and
then when I dumped her I hooked up with Silas Mason. Now I dumped him and I’m alone for the first
time ever.”
“So?”
“Think about it, Kay, do you really think I
can get it done on my own?!” Angelica asks, almost shouts. “I couldn’t win the Shot of Adrenaline
Tournament and I had Silas Mason in my corner.
I couldn’t win the United States Championship and I had Silas Mason in
my corner. Now he’s gone and I have no
one…”
Angelica
sighs, shaking her head “…no one…”
“First of all, you are looking at this all
wrong.”
Kayla begins
speaking as she consolingly and lovingly takes her sister by the hands and
squeezes them tightly.
“It’s true that you didn’t win Shot of
Adrenaline and that you didn’t beat Ravyn for the US Title. But did you ever stop to think that maybe
Silas Mason and his World were just a distraction and that’s why you lost? Or maybe…just maybe…your success or failure
has nothing to do with Silas Mason at all...”
She reaches
out and places a hand on her shoulder “…and
it has EVERYTHING to do with you.”
“Me?”
Kayla nods
her head. “You just need to train and
prepare and do your homework and the next time you get an opportunity, it won’t
pass you by. You need to accept
responsibility for your actions. You
can’t pass the buck and you don’t need an agent who will make excuses for you.”
A sly grin
forms across Kayla’s face. “And that
brings up my second point…”
“You have two points?” Angelica
chuckles. “This should be good.”
“Yes, I DO have two points to make, because
you keep whining about being alone when nothing could be further from the
truth. No, you don’t have Samantha
Hodgson and no, you don’t have Silas Mason.”
Kayla
motions to herself. “But you do have me…”
“What do you…”
Angelica is
about to ask Kayla to elaborate upon her point but then it slowly starts to
sink in as to what her younger sister specifically means. Kayla recently founded her own wrestling
booking agency. Jones Wrestling
Incorporated. Kayla herself is at its
head and among its founding members are the reigning GCW World Tag Team Champions
Gabriella Austin and Hayley Gold. Jones
is looking to expand her agency into new horizons and new territory. Would it be awkward to have her sister as an
agent? Yes. Would it be fun to have her sister as an
agent? Yes!
“Kayla, that’s…”
She stops as
yet another realization slowly begins to wash over her. The smile that had been on her face turns
into one of disappointment as she shakes her head.
“…not gonna work.”
“Why not?”
“Silas still owns my contract.”
“Not for long.” Kayla says with a
confident grin on her face. “When you,
Harmony, and Jessica win at Rise To Greatness, you’ll be free!”
“If we win…”
Kayla
reaches out and embraces her older sister in a tight hug. “You will win!”
“I’m glad one of us is confident…”
“Sis, you won thirteen world
championships…you have been inducted into three halls of fame…not one of those
accomplishments had been earned by Silas Mason.” She pokes Angelica in the
chest. “YOU earned them on your own!”
“I know, but…”
“No buts…” Kayla shakes her head “…you earned them by yourself and it’s high
time you reminded the world of just who in the hell Angelica Jones really is!”
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Redemption
Kayla Jones
On Camera
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Those of you
who know me well enough know that I am not one to mince words. I tell it like it is, because right is right
whether it is popular or not. As far as
my sister is concerned, she hasn’t always been the most popular of wrestlers on
the planet. Oh she’s well known, there’s
no questioning that, but “popular” just isn’t the right word. The word I would use to describe my sister
would be infamous, because everyone knows her.
Everyone knows who Angelica Jones is.
Throughout her career she has always been a lightning rod. I would compare her to Hillary Clinton or the
Confederate battle flag, you either love them or you hate them, there isn’t
much room for an in-between.
A great deal
of that divisiveness comes from the fact that she has made many mistakes in the
past. In her defense, she was
well-intentioned. But she made mistakes
nevertheless. One such mistake was named
Samantha Hodgson. She kept that mistake
around for a very long time and you couldn’t imagine the relief our entire
family felt when we learned Angelica was about to get rid of Hodgson…
…but then
she brought Silas Mason into the mix. My
sister just replaced one mistake for another.
I’m not here
to make excuses for her mistakes. Silas
Mason is just that…a mistake…and Angelica is prepared to deal with the mistake
she made once and for all, because she is back and this is no longer just about
her legacy, this is about redemption and she is going to redeem her legacy and
her name. She is going to remind
everyone that she got to where she is today not because of Samantha Hodgson and
damn sure not because of Silas Mason…
…she got
here because of her own talents and her own abilities. Katie Steward had better recognize that my
sister isn’t just another blowhard who talks about how great she is, she isn’t
just another lunatic ranting about how she’s going to maim her opponents…
…Angelica
Jones means every word.
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Redemption
Angelica
Jones
On Camera
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We see a
green marble floor. The clicking of
heels across a marble floor is heard.
The clicking noise grows louder and louder until we can see delicate
feminine feet with red painted nails encased in strappy open toed high heel
shoes steps into the scene. The feet
come to a rest and immediately the camera goes upward and pans outward so as to
get a full view of this lovely woman.
The woman, wearing a tight little black strapless dress and with long
red hair, is none other than Angelica Jones.
“My long and storied career, despite the
many championship wins and hall of fame inductions, has still been marred,
tainted, tainted by men and women standing behind me, being protected by me,
taking credit for everything I did.
Whether that person was Samantha Hodgson or Silas Mason there has always
been someone in my career trying to take credit for everything good that I
accomplished in my career and whenever I failed it was never their fault. Never their fault. Always mine.”
“My first mistake was believing them. It took until now for me to realize that
people like Hodgson and Silas are not just a stain upon this industry but a
damn cancer that threatens its very existence because they care about
themselves. You can’t be a good agent if
you care only about yourself. A good
agent looks out for the well-being of their clients.”
Jones holds
up two fingers. “My second mistake is
similar to the first. You see, in my
career as a professional athlete I have made believers out of everyone I set
foot into the ring with. Supreme
Championship Wrestling acknowledged my greatness by acknowledging my past. My debut night in SCW, I remember the replays
and not one of the announcers pretended that I was some rookie in my first go
at wrestling. They knew who I was, they
respected who I was, and they acknowledged my greatness and all of the
greatness that I would henceforth be bringing to SCW.”
“Merrick Wiseman had damn sure better
acknowledge my greatness, because his career was shortened considerably after
an encounter with me! And that was just
one fatality on the road to Shot of Adrenaline, a tournament I came within an
eyelash of winning because I...am…great…but while I was busy making believers
out of everyone else in SCW, I neglected to make a believer out of the most
important person…”
She use the
thumb on her right hand to motion to herself “…myself.”
“Everyone believed in me. My sister believed in me. My daughters believed in me. Hell, even the fans believed in me, which is
why they hated me being in Silas World so damn much. But I didn’t believe in myself. And that’s exactly what I needed to do. I needed to start believing in myself. I needed to that my success had nothing to do
with Samantha Hodgson, it had nothing to do with Silas Mason, and that it had
EVERYTHING to do with me being great.”
“Every success is because I’m great, every
failure is because I fucked up or my opponent was just plain better that
night. It’s as simple as that. Hodgson and Silas have nothing to do with
what happens to me inside of that ring.
I needed to realize that and now that I do realize that I can leave
Silas World and move on with my career.”
The redhead
shakes her head. “Oh but I can’t, can
I? I have to deal with my past. I have to get rid of the excess baggage known
as Silas World. There needs to be an
exorcism and the exorcism begins on Breakdown with you, Katie Steward.”
“So you’re a goddess, huh? Funny, there was a time I called myself The
Golden Goddess and, truth be told, inside of the wrestling ring I am
divine! I am god and this is my world
and people like you are just damn lucky to be living in it, Katie!”
A sly grin
forms across her face. “But you’re not
getting the golden goddess…”
Jones shakes
her head “…you tried to break my sister’s
neck, you tried to break my daughter’s neck, so I’m not going to be satisfied
with just humiliating you. That’s too
good for you. Instead you get The
Dragon. You get the monster. You get my
violent dark side that enjoys the bloodletting and the pain.”
“Beating you in and of itself would
humiliate you somewhat, because you are still arrogant. You have no reason to be arrogant because
your career under Silas Mason has gone so far south down the toilet that it’s
begun to smell like shit. Being beaten
by someone like me should help your career for the simple reason of who I am,
but you’re too damn arrogant to figure that out. So yes, beating you would humble you a little
bit, but ultimately it would not do the job.
Ultimately it would not be what you deserve.”
“What you deserve for following your little
puppet master around like a good little storm trooper is to be broken in half
and that is what I plan to do to you on Breakdown. I will maim you, I will watch the blood pour
out from every orifice, you will lie at my feet as a beaten and bloody mess,
completely unrecognizable to the rest of the company.”
“And where will your precious Silas Mason
be?” Jones shrugs her shoulders. “Who
knows? What I do know is that he won’t
be anywhere near that ring. He knows
better than to get in my way when I’m in this mood. But if I am giving him too much credit…I’ll
snap him like a twig as well…because if you think I care about repercussions right
now then you’re wrong. Dead wrong. Angelica Jones has left the building, ladies and gentlemen,
and you are dealing with The Dragon now, the monster who will consume Silas
World in a ball of flame.”
