Part II

Location:  Caesar's Place, Atlantic City, New Jersey

My Heart is racing.  I'm not sure why?  I've lost before this shouldn't be a big deal.  Maybe that's not it though.  Maybe I'm mad.  This was Mason's shot at his first title and we fought our asses off to get to it.  Just to have the hole thing messed up by Comelightly.  What the hell was he thinking.  I could be mad at KRUNCH for resorting to such violence, but he took his opportunity.... can't fault him there.  God my head hurts, but at least my heart is slowing down.

Location:  25,000 feet above Indiana

          "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with the problems longer"

                                                                   - Albert Einstein

That's Einstein for you.  A man who never considered himself the best.  There is something to be said for that manner of modesty.  I mean lets face facts, the world will never know another Einstein.  An Ares, sure.... A Terrell Owens?  You bet, A Jade Diamond, John Bay, KRUNCH, Steve Grant?  Sure the world will replace these names with new faces eventually.  But never Einstein, that is lasting power.

I spin my finger over the surface of my I-Pod as "Thrills" by LCD Soundsystem starts up.  18 hours to Osaka.  21 all together.  Damn I hate long flights thank god for technology, I would need a hundred CD's for this thing.  I've been doing some research.  I want to know my enemy, I have obviously under estimated KRUNCH so I did some digging and now I have a better clue to who he is.  Lab Top Computer, also a travel must.  I've been reading a few Indy reports to see reviews of Duos Carnival.  M y favorite so far is Bill Apter's story on 1wrestling.com.  He hardly even talks about the many great matches that came from Duos, all he seems concerned with is when I'm going to get my arm snapped in two by John Bay.  Apter thinks that DRH was just the first to be betrayed.  Now I'm next in Bay's crosshairs.

Location:  Newark Liberty International Airport

7 am, what an awful hour to be awake.  My hangover hasn't even had time to form yet.  Checklist.... Lap top... check... I-Pod... check... tickets.... check... small bottle of Skyy.... check.  Alright ready to fly. 

Ares walks towards the security check

Guard:  Sir... you seem to have forgotten a bottle in your luggage.

Damn there goes my extra drinks for the day....

Ares:  Oh yeah, you can just throw that right away no worries.

I see the security guard drop the Skyy into his own bag on the side of the garbage.  Bastard.  Time for Osaka.

Location:  25,450 feet above Indiana

I must admit even I was surprised at the way John attack Helton.  It was far more vicious then I expected it to be.  But it changes nothing between us.  DRH's loyalty was obviously to Jonas Testament and to his Trinty.  It was not to John Bay and I.  Personally I'm thrilled that Bay has found his family.  Now I get a chance to get to know John Marnicci instead of just John Bay.  Bay is my friend and Apter is an idiot.  Simple.

I think the pressure at this altitude is causing head to bleed.  God damnit.

Location:  Lake George New York, 10 miles north of Ares' Home

En Fuego is seen stepping out of Ford F-150. 

Fuego:  I hope he is working....

En Fuego walks up the sidewalk towards the Lake George Police Department.  Fuego steps into the doors.

Fuego:  DOOZ!!!

A bunch of cops look at En Fuego

Fuego:  ummmm.... sorry.  I'm looking for a Detective Francis Jones...

Det. Jones:  Whose looking?

En Fuego looks to the left to see his old high school friend and current New York State Police Detective.  Both men smile a little.

Det. Jones:  Ohhh, its just you come on in.

Fuego walks into Detective Jones' office and closes the door behind him.

Det. Jones:  I can guess why you are here, can't I Dan?

Fuego:  I dunno take a guess.

Det. Jones:  You want to see the files on Cat's death.  Well let me save you the time.  You can't see them, and you don't want to see them.

Fuego:  I'll be the judge of the second part.

Det. Jones:  Dan I can.....

Fuego:  I need to know what happened.

Det. Jones:  .... aright.

Both men sit at the desk as the seen pulls away.

Location:  Kansai International Airport, Osaka, Japan

I saw this girl when I was getting on the plane in Los Angeles.  She was dressed in a business suit and had a pair of dark rimmed glasses on.  You know those times where the world seems to stop.  This is the first time I've been there in a long time.  The flight was Non-stop so she has to be here some where.  I have to stay focused for now.

Ares turns to leave the airport but runs into the girl he was just describing in his head.  And we mean run into.

Ares:  Sorry about that.

Girl:  Its ok..... umm I have to run....

The girl pick up her bag and quickly leaves .  Ares notices she dropped a business card.

Sun Aryan.  She lives in LA.  Figured girls over here don't dress like that.  This could be a better trip then I thought.  Time to get focused on KRUNCH and my PA title. 

Ares reaches into his bag and pulls a mask out of it which was given to him by Jushin Thunder Liger after a lose on a WCW house show.

Guess its time to show Japan why I'm the Franchise.