What you see is not as important as what you do not

OOC note: Heels often lie but telling when they are lying and when they are telling the truth isn’t always easy. After all the best lies are believable and they know how to work a camera.

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::Neil and Gideon are in Gideon’s office in L.A. Neil is sitting back with his feet on the desk. There is beer cans around. Gideon has several folders on his desk. Neil looks bored as the camera men are setting up.::

Neil: What is all that crap G.

Gideon: Surveillance on Apocalypse, Judgement, Alex Seeves, and Matt Lanier. Since we are part of the Upper Echelon it is only fitting we do this by the books and prepare for the match.

Neil: It ain’t like we need to work hard to prepare.

Gideon: It is time to play the mind games now.

::Neil and Gideon are given the countdown. 5… 4… 3… 2… 1………::

Gideon: Good day. Do you realize just how many unsavory people we have on the roster? I have files on 4 of our members. I like to refer to them as the "FitzPatrick Administration version 2". Though I have heard them refered to by many other names but for the sake of the children watching I’ll refrain from saying what I think of Matt Lanier.

Neil: Let me say it. Lanier is nothing but a…

::Gideon holds out a hand interrupting Neil.::

Gideon: This is cable. Not a showing of Jerry Springer.

Neil: You aren’t any fun at all.

Gideon: We had Apocalypse, Judgement, Alex Seeves, and Matt Lanier under surveillance. Plus we had psychological profiles done. I’ll start off with Alex Seeves.

::Gideon tosses the folder in the garbage.::

Gideon: Much like his career. Nothing of interest or even worth noting.

Neil: Let me read Lanier’s

::Gideon passes the folder to Neil.::

Neil: Guy was a bed wetter to age 12. Guy couldn’t get a date for the prom so he took his mother and got booted out for slipping her the tongue. Then he tried joining the priesthood….

Gideon: WHOA!! Don’t even think about going there Neil.

Neil: I was only going to say……

Gideon: I mean it Neil. Do NOT!! Go there.

Neil: I can’t even say……

Gideon: You are right you can’t say that and anything else you were thinking involving religion.

Neil: what happened to freedom of speech?

Gideon: You are free to say what ever you want. It is my choice whether to make it heard or not.

Neil: Screw it Matt Lanier is nothing but a… [Edited for the younger viewers. Through good editing by Gideon’s production staff the only way to tell how long the tirade was is the 2 and a half minutes that elapsed on the clock on Gideon’s desk.] … and that is all I got to say about that [Edited for the younger viewers. This tirade was only 1 and a half minutes according to the clock on Gideon’s desk.].

Gideon: The most important thing is there has been no contact as far as we know between Tribulations and Matt Lanier. Now for the team known as Tribulations. Once we were able to take the Lanier factor out of the match this defense got a lot easier.

Neil: First thing we did was watched the routines. Noticed that Apocalypse hasn’t been doing much training. When I have a big match I like to hit the weights to sharpen up. Hell most of the guys do that out of routine.

Gideon: Makes you wonder. If you have problems with your legs that doesn’t have any effect on your training because most of the training is done with the upper body for the big men.

Neil: Yup. So we target the upper body cause he is avoiding the gym.

Gideon: Now we look at a tape of you getting ice the other day. Memory serves you are right handed. You were carrying the ice with your left and it didn’t seem as if you wanted to use your right arm at all.

Neil: May not amount to anything. I’ve dinged up my arm in a bar fight a few times myself. You ice it up and baby it. Still hurts. Explains why you haven’t been training.

Gideon: When I go for a submission it is by the Painkiller armbar. Let me explain the Painkiller Armbar a bit for those unfamiliar with it. It is derived from the Wakigatame armbar. The victim is laying on the mat face first, the attacker is to one side of the victim with their back to their body. The attacker locks their arms around one of the victim's arms so that the victim's elbow is locked. The attacker keeps the elbow locked and applies pressure to the arm, but also pulls backwards, that is, leans back across the victim's body, and applies pressure to the victim's shoulder as well. Yoshiaki Fujiwara and Little Guido adopted it. My version doesn’t focus on the shoulder. The purpose of mine is to hyperextend the elbow and put my weight across the shoulder merely to ground the opponent.

Neil: We work the right arm. If it is at 100% we just take longer to rip it down. If it isn’t at 100% then you are going to be hurt bad.

Gideon: There were no doctor trips to my knowledge. That could mean that it wasn’t serious or that it was serious but you didn’t get it looked at because you knew we would find out about it if it became public. No matter it is definitely worth focusing on.

Neil: I can lock up an arm with a Painkiller just as easy as Gideon. I can lock you up in the Rings of Saturn too.

Gideon: That is half of our game plan at the PPV. What is the half we have reserved for you Judgement? Time will tell but we aren’t guys that like surprises. I cracked you in the head with 3 chair shots. If I didn’t give you a mild concussion then I’ll just have to try harder.

Neil: Now we are done. Go away.

::The camera fades to black and the promo ends.::