Monday, July 10th, 2000: Monday Afternoon Mutilation Card#12 - Match #3 Archangel Vs. Psycho Psychic Author: Ryan Hill Match: Hell in the Cell w/ Weapons. Rules: None. Titles: None. Commentators: Iaian McBride, James Colburn ____________________________________________________________ McBride: Okay. Let's get the next match underway! Colburn: Alright. This one is Hell in the Cell with Dark Angel verses Psycho Psychic. McBride: ...No. It's ARCH-Angel verses Psycho Psychic. Colburn: Archangel? Can he fight at all? McBride: He's better than you will ever be. Colburn: So, technically, you would have a lot more trouble fighting him than I would? McBride: That's right! You - wait a minute...Did you just insult me? Colburn: *sigh* Just call the damn match, idiot. McBride: I'll kick your @$$ for that remark. Colburn: The match! Call it already! (The cell is brought out into the centre of the field. The cell is connected to a solid concrete block. The crowd, who is sitting on the bleachers, is cheering their hearts out. A small viewscreen flickers to life that is showing Gothic in his black and white make-up and in his fighting clothes. He looks towards the camera.) Gothic: Okay, let's get this match started. Although I wish it was held at night instead of this sunny afternoon outside. *sigh* Oh well. Let's get our competitors out here. Let's start it off with the man who all cameramen fear, Psycho Psychic! (Psycho Psychic walks into view with the crowd cheering. Psychic looks towards some of the cameramen, who are shaking with fear. He's holding his titanium alloy staff with the goat's skull sitting on top of it. A door is opened, which leads to the cell. Psychic enters with no hesitation and begins practicing his techniques with his staff inside the cell.) McBride: I never thought he would come back to this fed. Colburn: What's wrong? Is little McBride scared of the big bad cameraman killer? McBride: If anything, you're afraid of him. Gothic: Will you two shut up? McBride & Colburn: Sorry. Gothic: Okay. Our next wrestler is the man with two personalities- McBride: Actually, it's just one personality for today. Gothic: ...Iaian, remember the rock in my personal training facility. McBride: ...Eep. Gothic: Anyway, here he is! Archangel! (Archangel walks out from the opposite side in his black and white trenchcoat. Kalista is walking beside him. The crowd stands up and cheers. Archangel is twirling a metal staff beside him as well. Another door is opened on the other side of the cell and Archangel removes his trenchcoat. He hands it to Kalista and enters the cell with Kalista standing outside the cage. Archangel stands on his side of the cell and gives a stare at Psychic. Psychic stops his exercise and looks back with an evil smile.) McBride: Okay. Looks like we're ready to begin. Colburn: Finally! Let's see some blood! McBride: ...Oh boy. Let's put on the mics. (Psychic moves towards the side with his staff twirling in front of him. Archangel puts his staff in front of him, watching Psychic with careful eyes. Psychic continues to circle him slowly while Angel watches him.) Psychic: C'mon! I want a fight TODAY! Angel: Trust me. You'll get one. (Psychic gets impatient and swings his staff towards Angel's head. Angel blocks it with his own staff, which shouts out a metallic clang. Psychic withdrawals and strikes again with the goat's skull. Angel moves aside and lets the staff pass through him. Archangel grabs the staff and tries to control Psychic, but Psychic gets a better hold and attempts to throw Angel over to the other side. He succeeds, but Angel manages to land on his feet. Angel then tries to grab it from Psychic's grasp, but Psychic decides to move towards him, which throws Angel a little off balance. Angel regains his balance, but Psychic grabs a hold of Angel's staff. It suddenly becomes a test of strength, but Psychic seems bored with the idea and decides to let go of Angel's staff while Angel's grip slips from Psychic's staff. Angel steps back, trying to regain his balance.) Colburn: C'MON! I want to see some blood! McBride: Dude, calm down. The match only started a few seconds ago. Colburn: BLOOD! (Psychic and Angel seem to be ignoring Colburn's cries as they carefully watch each other. This time, Angel strikes his staff towards Psychic's head, but Psychic parries with his own staff. Angel quickly ducks and throws a sweep using his staff at Psychic's feet, but Psychic manages to jump over it. Angel doesn't stop, however, and throws an uppercut to Psychic's chin. He then throws a left elbow, a short-ranged palm to his jaw, and swings his staff across the left side of his face. A small cut is made across Psychic's left cheek, which slowly leaks out blood. Psychic doesn't seem to notice until the blood trickles down his cheek. He wipes it out with his right hand, looks at it and licks it off. He then looks at Angel.) Psychic: *chuckling* Very good. You drew first blood. My turn! Angel: By all means. (Psychic attacks with his staff twirling on his right side. Angel has his staff ready in front of him. Psychic charges, but Angel runs towards the cage and leaps. Psychic continues to charge, but Angel leaps off the cage and flips over Psychic. He lands behind him and swings his staff around towards Psychic's head. It impacts, but Psychic doesn't seem to be phased. He turns around and throws his own staff towards Angel's face. It hits and Angel steps back to shake it off. Psychic charges again, but Angel sweeps him again with his staff. Psychic falls to the concrete face first. Angel raises his staff and attempts to throttle Psychic, but Psychic rolls onto his back and parries with his own staff. Angel tires to stomp him, but Psychic dodges it and swings his staff towards Angel's head. The goat skull smacks Angel square in the face, causing him to back off. Psychic uses the time to get up and prepare for the next attack. Angel is covering his nose with one hand while holding his staff with the other. He then removes his hand from his face, and blood starts trickling down from his nose. Angel wipes the blood off and looks towards Psychic.) Colburn: C'mon. I want to see some real blood! McBride: Alright! That's enough! Will you stop it with the blood craze! Colburn: No way! This is a Hell in the Cell match! With weapons! I want blood goddamnit! (Back in the cell) Angel & Psychic: SHUT UP! (Back at the announcement table) McBride & Colburn: ...Sorry. (Angel and Psychic let out a sigh and get into their fighting stances. Psychic twirls his staff forward and walks towards Angel. Angel shrugs and does the same with his staff, twirling it in front of him and walking towards Psychic. Psychic extends his staff with the skull in front and takes a swing across his chest. He misses, but Psychic doesn't stop there and swings it lower, towards Angel's feet. Angel leaps and Psychic misses again. Psychic then swings it up towards Angel's jaw. It hits and Angel backs away from the impact. Psychic continues his attack and drives the skull towards Angel's chest. Angel backs off a great distance, but he's still on his feet. Psychic doesn't waste any time. He then places the end of his staff on the ground, leaps into the air, and then he pushes his staff from behind, causing Psychic to fly towards Angel. Psychic places both his feet on Angel's chest, causing Angel to fly against the cage wall. Angel kneels down from the blow as Psychic recovers from his well-planned attack. Angel gets up and coughs up a little blood. He looks at Psychic while he spits out some blood from his mouth.) Angel: Very good. Looks like I'll have to be a little meaner now. (Back and the announcer's table) McBride: Meaner? Was he being nice the whole time? Colburn: Oh boy! I feel like there's going to be a lot of blood coming up! McBride: ...*sigh* You're hopeless. (Psychic gives out a little smirk and swings his staff at him at the head from above. Angel parries with his staff and attempts a sweep. Psychic steps away, but he suddenly charges at Angel with a body check. Angel is knocked towards the cage again, but he manages to stay on his feet. Psychic charges again, this time with the skull in front of Psychic and pointing towards Angel's chest. Angel moves aside and the skull crashes against the cage. Angel moves to Psychic's side and throws a roundhouse kick. Psychic takes the blow and steps away from Angel, but he shakes off the kick. Psychic swings his staff across the side of Angel's face. Angel's head jerks to the side from the blow, but he snaps it back forward and looks towards Psychic. Psychic swings below his knees, but Angel leaps from the attempted sweep. Psychic then swings from above and smashes Angel on top of his head. Angel goes down and Psychic tries another head attack. Angel sees this and swings his staff up, hitting Psychic hard between the legs. Psychic gasps in surprise and pain. He backs off a long distance and falls to his knees, holding his crotch.) McBride: Ah, J*sus! Colburn: Good Lord! Psycho Psychic certainly felt that one! (Angel gets up and gives his head a good shake. Psychic is still on his knees, but he's breathing slows down a bit. Angel takes the opportunity to swing his staff across Psychic's left cheek again. Psychic falls towards his right from the blow and lies on his side. His cheek begins bleeding again, but the cut is more severe than the last time. Psychic eventually gets up with the help of his staff and faces Angel with an angry look on his face.) Psychic: That was not very nice, hitting me across the face while I was kneeling in pain! Angel: Oh well. You should be glad I didn't kill you. Dark Angel would've taken that chance. Psychic: Then maybe it's time I took that opportunity! Or at least send you to the hospital in critical condition! (Psychic then places his hand on the goat's skull and inserts his thumb into the right eye socket. He presses something in the socket, and a metal spike protrudes out of the skull's top. Psychic then swings it towards Angel with the spike facing towards his chest.) McBride: DUDE! He's got a spear! Colburn: YES! Now we'll see some real blood! McBride: ... (Psychic charges with the spear pointing towards Angel. Angel moves to the side and puts his armpit under the spear. Psychic tries to pull it off, but Angel simply moves towards him as Psychic pulls back. Psychic tries to regain his balance by moving forward, but Angel palms him hard in the chest. Psychic coughs a little, but he doesn't seem phased. Angel throws a hook to his head, then a jab with the same fist. Psychic doesn't let go of the spear. Angel tries a thrust kick to the sternum, but Psychic moves to the side and throws a heavy backfist to Angel's nose. Angel backs off and covers his nose again, which gushes out more blood. The spear is free from Angel's grasp and Psychic goes for a charge with the spear towards Angel. Angel ignores his nose for the moment and grabs the spear with both his hands. Then, with an extreme amount of strength, he lifts the spear near the spiked end and manages to lift Psychic off his feet, over Angel's head and sending him crashing to the pavement on his back. Psychic lies on his back in surprise and in pain. Angel manages to take the spear out of Psychic's grip. Angel takes a look at the spear while wiping blood off his face.) Angel: Hmmm...very interesting weapon. I think I'll give this a try for a while. (Angel then drops his staff and twirls the spear around. Psychic grabs Angel's staff and stands up with a very angry look.) Psychic: I'll tear your arms off to get my spear back! Angel: ...Okay. (Psychic charges with the staff spinning in a blur on his right side. Angel parries, but Psychic swings it across his face. He just knicks Angel's nose, but Psychic then drives one of the ends at Angel's chest. Angel moves back and tries to catch his breath. Psychic tries to swing across Angel's face again, but Angel manages to catch it. Psychic pulls it out of his grip, but Angel then takes the spear and stabs it against his right foot. Psychic jerks his foot out and curses in pain. His foot makes a small puddle of blood as he stands on it.) Colburn: Oh yeah! Bleed, baby! Bleed! (In the cell) Psychic: Don't make me come out there! (In the announcer's table) Colburn: Oops. Are the mics still on? McBride: *laughing* You're going to die once he's out. (Psychic turns his attention to Angel again, who's twirling the spear and running towards him. Psychic swings the staff across his chest, but Angel stops short from the blow. With Psychic's back facing Angel, Angel clubs him on the back of his head with the skull. Psychic turns around and doesn't seem phased from the blow. Angel tries a sweep, but Psychic leaps from the attack. However, Psychic manages to leap so high that he manages to grab the top of the cage and hangs from out of harms way. Angel tries to strike up, but he suddenly realizes that Psychic is hanging from the top of the cell. Angel looks up in confusion, but he tries to strike him with the spear. Psychic sees and opening and lets himself drop. He crushes Angel to the ground with his entire body weight, but he drops the staff. Psychic gets up and takes his spear from Angel. He also tries to take Angel's staff, but Angel manages to roll over it and stand up with his staff ready.) McBride: Well, he got his spear back, at least. Colburn: Check out all the blood on the floor! McBride: I see it, old man! Now sit down and stop drooling! (Psychic swings the skull across his head, but Angel manages to duck. Psychic then drives the spear towards Angel's right thigh. Angel tries to dodge, but the tackle phased him a little too much, and Psychic manages to draw blood from Angel's thigh. Angel yells in pain, moves away from Psychic and holds his leg to stop the bleeding. Psychic moves forward and swings the pointed spike across his face. A long, but shallow cut is made across his cheek. Blood slowly oozes out of the cut from Angel's already bloody face. Angel tries to ignore the pain from his leg and watches Psychic raise his spear and swings it down towards his head. Angel parries, and with the other end, he swings it up to hit Psychic under the chin. Psychic backs away, but Angel strikes him from above his head. Psychic bends down, holding his head. Angel then walks up to him and knees his face. Blood flies out of Psychic's face as his head jerks up from the blow. Angel then throws a cross to his chest, then he moves towards Psychic and throws two elbows to his face. More blood sprays out to the side as Psychic takes the blows. Angel then takes both his palms and drives them through Psychic's chest. Psychic steps back a few steps, but Angel takes him down with a flying roundhouse to his head. Psychic lies on the ground while his blood trickles from out his lips.) McBride: J*sus! Archangel is quite a fighter. Colburn: Man! So much blood! Look at the floor! McBride: Dude, you really have to stop this blood lust. It's making me sick. Colburn: In that case, I'll keep it up then. McBride: Goddamnit! (Psychic struggles to get up, using his spear to help him up. Angel notices the pain back in his right thigh and he notices that he's losing a lot of blood. Psychic gets up and looks at Angel with glazed eyes. Angel looks back with clearer eyes and swings his staff towards Psychic's head. Psychic ducks and sweeps him to the ground with the end of his spear, sending Angel down to the ground on his back. Psychic then lifts the spear and drives it down with the spiked end heading towards Angel. Angel rolls out of the way, but the spike manages to scratch his side. Very little blood comes out however, and Angel gets up and ignores his new injury. Angel swings again, but Psychic ducks again. Angel then swings it around himself and hits Psychic's chest. Psychic simply grunts it off and tries to stab him again. Angel moves to the side, but again his side is scratched. Again, Angel ignores the injury. Angel throws a cross to Psychic's face, but Psychic moves to the side and throws a cross of his own towards Angel's face. Angel takes the blow, but he doesn't move aside this time. He throws a cross again, and again Psychic moves his head from the blow. Psychic throws another cross, but Angel grabs his wrist this time. He steps aside and puts Psychic into a wrist-lock. With Psychic's back turn towards Angel, Angel throws a thrust side kick to the back of his knee joint. Psychic goes down just as Angel lets go of his wrist. Angel then swings his staff to the back of Psychic's head, and Psychic falls face first to the ground.) McBride: He's down. I think this match is over. Colburn: Looks like it. Psycho Psychic isn't getting up. (Suddenly, Psychic twitches his arm out and struggles to get on his feet. He turns towards Angel with a bloody face.) McBride: NO WAY! He's still up! Colburn: Goddamn! He looks pretty messed up too. (In the cell) Angel: You still want more? Psychic: Yes, more. More of you blood! (Psychic charges with his spear spinning in front. Angel parries, but Psychic still charges through, sending Angel back a far distance. He coughs out the blow just as Psychic charges again with the spear pointing towards him. Angel runs towards the cage wall and leaps towards it. He plants his feet against the cage and leaps from the wall again. Psychic sees the attack coming and attempts to parry it, but he's too late. Angel throws one roundhouse to his chin, then the other leg hits Psychic's head. Then when Angel lands back on the ground, he takes the end of his staff and drives it towards Psychic's chest. Psychic takes the blow hard and falls on his back. He exhales slowly, then falls out of consciousness.) McBride: That's it. It's all over. Colburn: That was one hell of a match! McBride: Dude, seriously, I know a shrink who can help you with that blood lust of yours. Colburn: I don't need one. What's wrong with seeing a little blood on the floor and enjoying it? McBride: ...Nevermind. I give up. (The cell doors are open and paramedics drag out Psycho Psychic, who appears to have regained conscious. He's put into an ambulance and it drives out. Archangel also exits, but the pain in his leg has returned, and Kalista helps him out of the cell and into an ambulance. It also drives out.) Colburn: Man! I can't wait to see the match between DAND and Gothic! McBride: Oi! More blood. Well, you're in luck. That's coming up next.