Posted by BC on 4/19/2002, 2:55 pm PARENTAL ADVISORY WARNING : This pay-per-view event may contain scenes of graphic violence, nudity, and foul language. Parental advisory is advised. [Fade out from black... and into the jam-packed, darkened Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Canada. Fans are buzzing loudly, and lighters are lit everywhere, as we look down from the roof of the arena past several NPW, CAL and STAND banners. The set is new : while the NorthernTron, is set up as usual, the stage is much wider, with both sides of it set up for musical equipment. Two lighting towers on the back of the stage have been set up behind each of the band areas, standing around 25 feet high. In the darkness, several small figures are piling out of the back to one set of musical gear, strapping instruments on. Suddenly...] VOICE OF ARIEL MACE : Ladies and gentlemen! Please welcome to the A.C.C., playing their hit single "I Stand Alone" from the soundtrack to "The Scorpion King"... Universal Republic recording artists.... GODSMAAAAAAAAAACK! [As the band begins to wail, and pyro shoots up from the stage, the NorthernTron comes to life, beginning to play the video opening as the band plays the pay-per-view's theme live. Viewers at home are cut immediately into the video, and occassionally shown shots of the band playing live inside the arena.. as NPW presents THE STAND! #Now I've told you this once before [The video segment begins to unfold. As the logo for The Stand fades out, black and white scenes with backlights are shown of tonight's superstars, all taken inside the confines of a dirty, gritty-looking warehouse and rubble-laiden lot. Timmy Fantastico ["I will Stand, esse" his voice whispers] is shown first, arms crossing his chest, standing in all his chinless glory with the CAL World title around his waist in a background of crumbling concrete and with a swinging lightbulb overhead. Sal Paradise stands behind a determined-looking Coach Stackovich as smoke wafts over the scene ["I... we will Stand", Coach promises]. The snarling face of the NPW champion Direwolf comes into view ["I will Stand", he growls lowly at us] as a slow-moving ray of light crosses his hard features, and Think Tank Turner, hands on his hips, stands in a ruined-out scene in his unitard ["I will Stand."], smiling slightly.] #I stand alone - GIVE IT UP TORONTO! [The sunglass-wearing and smiling faces of Lonny Bash and Louie Z swing upwards to the camera as they cradle the NPW Tag Team titles under their arms ["I will Stand.. EXTREMELY!", Louie's disembodied voice promises, as Bash chimes in a "BLING! BLING!" of his own]. Gregor Demonstone, the blonde and muscled god, stands behind his seated brother Kurgan who rests his hands on his knees. The fans give a spur-of-the-moment pop to Kurgan, who lifts his head from the rubble he sits upon, looking with his brother into the camera ["I will Stand... one last time", the big man offers.]. Ashley Hendricks, resting against a crumbling wall, looks slowly over to us ["Ah will Stand".] as her jeather jacket crinkles arounf her crossed arms, and Dominic Demonstone, Chapel clinging to him, stands in a darkened corner of this place ["I will Stand", he tells us], ambient light barely illuminating his ghostly face.] #You're always hiding behind your so called goddess [Rob Brimstone looms over the camera, his back almost completely to us, the Northern Heritage strap over his shoulder. He turns his head grimly ["I will Stand...."] and stares darkly into the lens. Across the way, a wildly-swinging lightbulb illuminates the face of TJ Killingbeck, looking up from under a black toque from where he is seated upon a rock ["Muahahaha.... I *will* Stand."], while his crazed sister Molly, a poor boy cap with an Untouchables logo on it stands behind him, hugging his neck and giggling quietly. Bud Morgan, looking especially craggy and old in the black and white footage, crouches on his haunches, looking down at a fifth of Scotch in his hand before lifting his middle-aged head to us ["Aye will Stand, yessir," he promises]. Calvin Astroth, shaking in a corner of granite and concrete with a look of crazed fury on his face, looks at us with wild eyes ["I will kill BUD MORGAN... and I will Stand."] #I stand alone [Danny Vicious, his huge frame illuminated by white light, fills up a doorway in the destroyed place ["I will Stand."]; Marty Sugar, leaning against a wall with his hands thrust deep into his pockets, looks over to the lens with a stoney gaze ["I'm gonna Stand", he assures us all.] Brock Slater, the massive monster, sits against a wall, lefting his drooped head slowly and glaring at us from under his eyebrows ["I.. will... STAND!"] as Ric Hard, standing confidently with Butter's hand on his shoulder and Clicky looking up at him, nods knowingly into the lens ["HE WILL STAND!", Butters confirms.] #And now its my time (now its my time) [The scenes change to in-ring action : Timmy Fantastico is dropping Sal Paradise off the top rope with a Fantasticoplex. Think Tank Turner scoops Brock Slater up into The Answer. Direwolf levels Fantastico with an Alpha Male Choke Slam through an announce table. Sal Paradise takes down Brock Slater with the sleeper. Brock Slater drills a limp Calvin Astroth with the Lockdown. Ric Hard slaps the Lochs of Liverpool on Slater. Calvin Astroth takes Bud Morgan through a table with the Smashtroth, and Bud Morgan lands his stalling fisherman's buster on Astroth off the bottom rungs of the NorthernTron.] [The Demonstone Clan doubble press-slam Big Tyme and Owens O'Reilly. Lonny Bash nails the Panic Button on Gregor. Louie Z hits the Brainiac on Dominic Demonstone. Ashley Hendricks locks Dominic up in the Mississippi Manhunter. Dominic returns the favour with a Dark Gift. Rob Brimstone nails TJ Killingbeck with a Thunder From Above on the concrete floor, and Killingbeck hits Morgan with his Six Feet Under.] [As the band wraps up the song, Timmy Fantastico and Sal Paradise's faces are placed side by side, as are Think Tank Turner's and Direwolf's.... Hendricks and Demonstone... Extreme Incorprated and The Demonstone Clan... Brimstone, TJ and Molly in between them... Astroth and Morgan...Vicious and Sugar... Slater and Hard. The faces roll faster and faster and faster, rushing by until...]
[The countdown begins. 10... 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... fade to black.]
NORTHERN PRO WRESTLING
Presents
THE STAND
Live and only on Pay-Per-View
You can't control me
If you try to take me down you're gonna break
Now I feel your every nothing that you're doing for me
I'm picking you outta me
you run away#
Inside
I stand alone#
So what you don't think that we can see your face
Resurrected back before the final fallen
now they've arrest until I can make my own way
I'm not afraid of fading#
Feeling your sting down inside of me
I'm not dying for it
I stand alone
Everything that I believe is fading
I stand alone
Inside
I stand alone #
It's my time to dream (my time to dream)
Dream of the sky (dream of the sky)
Make me believe that this place is invaded
By the poison in me
Help me decide if my fire will burn out
Before you can breathe
Breathe into me#
#I stand alone
Inside
I stand alone
Feeling your sting down inside of me
I'm not dying for it
I stand alone
Everything that I believe is fading#
#I stand alone
Inside
I stand alone
Inside
I stand alone
Inside
I stand alone
Inside#
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