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It’s starting to feel like more and more people are beginning to linger outside the show.hoping to catch a glimpse of the showman that is Firefly. Almost as if on cue, the hooded man appears from wherever he was hiding with megaphone in hand.

♪Hellooooooooooo CMV Universe!♫

My darlings I have returned, and never before has my heart felt so full. I’m starting to see it now, unlike my father, you all remember me and you cheer for me and you want me, and soon I will make you love...need me...unable to live without me.

That’s all I ever wanted. To feel like I belonged somewhere. I always wondered what it would be like to have a place that I could truly call home. Then one day I found that place. Inside of the ring. I learned to wrestle, and I got pretty good. I hated the pain and the long nights on the road stuffed into a two-door car with four other people being forced to listen to country music because the driver wants to feel like he’s in Texas and can’t handle that he thousands of miles away from the people that he loved.

That’s why I keep the ones I love close by. I have a secret. They offered my a contract! They said that they heard my pleas, were moved to tears by my powerful lyrics and they wanted more, more, MORE! But they only wanted me, not the full army or even a handful of soldiers. No one that I could trust to watch my back.

Guys, they wanted me to brave this cold, cruel, brand new world alone. And I couldn’t. I’m too weak for that. But Toxiera always had the strength to hold me up. And if my journeying here meant parting ways, then I’d rather walk the ragged roads until the rocks wore away the soles of my shoes and left blisters on my feet.

♪There doesn’t have to be just one set of footprints
There doesn’t have to be a gap between our hands
Your pain and sorrow, let the ocean’s heavy waved rinse
As we make brand new memories in the sand♫

I beg of you general managers. Open the doors and let us in. I’m far more selfless than I am selfish and I’d rather leave it all behind--the promise of a new life, a better tomorrow, and the comfort of riding a legendary career into immortality--than be forced to be someone that I am not.

With a sad, somber expression in his eyes. Firefly lowers the megaphone and walks off.

Outside of the Battle Scars arena is Firefly, speaking through a microphone to those online waiting to get inside. Unlike the first time, people seem to be paying more attention to this guy. There’s just something about him, the way that he walks and talks--or maybe it’s just because he’s yelling through a megaphone--either, he’s been able to grab their attention, and it’s starting to feel like people actually care about the man. In fact, when he starts off with what seems to be his signature line, some of the more “in-the-know” fans say it along with him.


♪Helloooooooooooo CMV Universe!♫

It truly tickles me to see you all out here ready to have the time of your lives! Look at you all: you’re beautiful! Truly lovely people that makes me proud to walk the same earth as you.

But there’s a problem my freaks and freakettes. They won’t open their doors. They won’t let my by the campfire. They won’t make room for me on the queen-sized bed. I...I just want to be in there fighting. Fighting like all the rest. I want the blood, I need the sweat, I crave the tears. I desire everything that comes with being a CMV superstar.

Now it feels like they’re mocking me. Tormenting me. How could such torture be allowed? You’ve all heard the news. You’ve all seen the carnage. You all know that things will never be the same. There will be two shows. An unprecedented path this company has yet to walk down. How could there not be room for me?

♪There are two shows
And I am one man
Only the lord knows
If I am part of their plan♫

This heart has beat several lifetimes over, and never before has it yearned for something like I want nothing more than to wrestle with the company. They want me to come alone, but I can’t. I can’t be alone anymore.

The boat has crossed to the other side, and we’re there on the shore, hoping the village hasn’t decided to shun us. For we’ve done no wrong. Alone. I can’t be here alone. I can’t do this alone. I just need a friend. My friend. My dear Toxierra, who has awakened a love within me that I never thought possible.

I’m ready to acquiesce, to not bring my army, but just a single soldier. The last thing we want is to burn this company  to the ground. We just want to be apart of something special. To treat you all to something special. We want to entertain and bring joy to your lives and this company is the platform to do just that.

♪I need my soulmate by my side
Take us both or have none
But keep this in your minds
For you, the latter won’t be “fun”♫  

With that  message delivers, Firefly saunters off.

The character by the name of Firefly, who held a press conference the other day to announce a return (despite never being in the company) is shown standing outside of the arena, megaphone in hand.

♪Helloooooo CMV Universe!♫

When I woke up in a gutter at 3:27 PM this morning, I took in a deep breath, smiled and said to myself:

♪Wow! How great it is to be alive!
How sweet it is for my heart to beat!
Into this pool of joy I will gladly dive!
For my return will truly be a treat!♫

As it turns out, there have been some complications, as they told me. Some...some kind of misunderstanding! Oh, what a shame. It was supposed to be tonight, everybody! I promise! I swear! Then they pulled the rug right out from under me and laughed as I tumbled to the ground like my dear old father used to when he’d come come smelling of liquor, women and shame after spending a night drinking.

Haha! A night?! Just kidding it was more like my entire childhood! But if I still feel like a child, so giddy, so optimistic, so full of hope. Does that mean daddy dearest is still out there with his face buried in some two-bit whore, a bottle of Red Stripe held in one hand, his last dollar that he got from selling my clothes and my toys on the street corner I walked by barefoot on my way to school?

Ah, Daddy. How fun it was to get to know you!

But not as fun as it will be when my partners in crime, as they say, join my side. See, papa, I’m not alone anymore. I’m not ashamed anymore. I’m not your little boy anymore!

No, no, [♪nooooo-oooooh♫/i]

I’m a big boy now, in my big boy pants, and I love you even more than I did back then. But not as much as the people love me. Oh, my adoring audience, how kind they are to me. How pleased they’ll be when this company opens the door and gives me my spot by the campfire.

For some reason, the doors are still locked. I tried guys, I really did. But they grabbed me by the front of my shirt, looked me in the eyes and they told me that they don’t have the room! There are just too many bodies already inside and they won’t get rid of them. So I turned to them. I turned to the people who vowed to walk by my side, and I told them that it wasn’t meant to be.

They heard from my mouth that the boat that I built to carry us across the tumultuous sea of this business that some many have drowned trying to cross...just wasn’t big enough for the dozen of us. So I had to choose. I had to decide who would shine and who would fade. I had to play GOD with their lives, and I [i]loved it.

I bid them farewell, and on our final day together we took that boat to the shore, built our own campfire. The music blared through the speakers, the food turned over the crackling flames and the laughter put smiles on the faces of angels. And the singing...the singing! My, oh, my the voices could bring a tear to the dryest eyes that haven’t known moisture since the war ended and the battlefields cleared. And the songs we sang….

♪Tonight we part ways to walk intertwining paths
Worlds apart, yet still breathing in harmony
In our dreams, together we’ll forever laugh
As the chosen few journey home to CMV♫

Ladies and gentlemen, we’re on our way, and I swear on the grave of the hooker that ruined my parents’ marriage that CMV will start to feel normal again.



He laughs races off.

A lectern is set up outside of the arena attracting a small crowd still lingering outside before the show is set to begin. The location and timing of this is odd. You’d think anything major related to CMV would be announced inside of the arena in front of a much larger crowd, not to mention the show is minutes away from starting.

Only those looking to grab last minute tickets, or sell theirs, is still lingering out here. The crowd starts buzzing as a voice comes through some shoddy speakers set up at the base of the stage, making the person being introduced sound relatively important...relative compared to the average joes standing out here, of course.

There’s some light applause, that makes a golf clap sound deafening--at the very least we have some well-mannered members of the CMV Universe here to witness...whatever the hell this is. A fellow in a red suit, the coat sporting twin tails that fall down to his calves, steps in front of the lectern. His smile seems to cover half of his face, whatever his reasons for being here, he seems genuinely enthused to be out here in front of these dozens of people.

Oddly enough, there’s a microphone right in front of him, but he reaches down to grab a megaphone.

Firefly
♪Hellooooooooo CMV Universe!♫ What an absolute thrill it is to be out here! It brings a tear to my heart to see that you all braved the weather to come out and see me!

The people there look around, understably a bit confused. It’s actually a beautiful day outside.

Firefly
It’s like that time daddy dearest showed up at my high school graduation just to remind me of all the times he said that I wouldn’t make it that far. I know it was him because he only gave me one black eye the night before! ♪Oh daddy, why’d you make mommy go away?♫ The beautiful thing is that it all led right here to you guys! Back where I belong. I know that some of you don’t remember me. And it’s okay. I forgive you. I love you. I love that even after all this time you’ve all shown up here because you haven’t forgotten who I am.

♪The firefly that saves you from the dark
And drives away all of your fears
I made it all go away with the kiss that left a mark
The burden of failure is ours to share♫

A man in the back wipes away a tear.

Firefly
I’m here today because I saw how much fun everybody is having. So many people have shown up with their friends and are having the time of their lives. Why, why why should I miss out on all of the merriment. Why should you all be deprived of seeing just exactly what I have to offer this lovely world of ours. Some would say that I was never here...tsk, tsk, tsk...they weren’t looking in the right place.

Somehow this fellow has been able to hold onto the people’s attention for this long.

Firefly
My friends, are so much better than what you’ve all had to settled for, and I promise you all that they’re on their way...only they don’t know it yet. I might have just remembered to put their invitations in the mail this morning. But have no fear, the campfire’s going strong and there’ll be plenty of room for them when they arrive. ♪Plenty of food. Plenty of water. Plenty of bodies.♫ I know, I know guys, it should’ve been tonight. The mistake is mine and I accept all the blame. But it’s okay, because I forgive myself. I promise you all that we will be worth the wait, and I don’t always break my promises.

It’s the passion. That’s what’s keeping the people drawn in. Half the things he’s saying may be going over their heads, but damn it, listening and watching him speak is an experience all in itself.

Firefly
♪The sweetest things, we’re often denied
There’s no dearth of anger or pain
I’m back with more of the joy I supplied
So you always stay dry in the rain♫

He laughs heartily before hopping off the stage and happily walking away..