(Open to Dean) Comes Down To Us...

[Gabriel Wingue]

Gabe is chilling backstage in a half put together interview section, just sort of waiting around. A quick check of the camera shows that it is in fact off and not recording meaning that Gabe was waiting for something. Gabe checked his watch, and shook it to check if it was broken. He glanced back down at the unmoved hands and sighed.

"C'mon, where the hell are you."

Gabe had been harassing the stage crew for the past couple of hours and learned that Dean always came into the arena through one near which was litterally ten feet or so away form where this interview stage was being built. He sat there for what seemed like an eternity waiting for his former rival, ignoring the stage crew as they ran around like little gophers.

Gabe started getting lost in his thoughts thinking a little bit about everything going on around him, his mind briefly flashed back to moments he and Dean had been involved in from the past. He remembered being on the ground, in a pool of blood, who's it was could be anyone's guess.

[ZXWWF: Pick Your Poison, Oct. 14, 2007]
He remembered he was trying to lift himself up but his body felt as though his arms and legs had just been severed. His eyes were glazed over but he could see a figure standing above him, barely balanced... and seemingly meaningless words echoed in his head.

8... 9... 10!

And then there was a faint ringing, and the figure collapsed along with himself, unconscious.

Gabe shook his head and stood up, walking a little ways over so he could peer out through the curtain at the ring they were still setting up for the show. Gabe was very ready for this, he'd waited far too long. Dean had got the best of him many a time, but this time, Gabe was going to take it. The one time Gabe really got the better of Dean, he didn't even earn it.

[ZXWWF: Season 4 Premiere]
Gabe could see Dean taking the title down but he was just too weak to stop him, he desperately grabbed at the ladder hoping to wobble it, or shake it, or anything to stop Dean from once again showing him up.

Then Dean fell, this crazy female ninja chick took him out, and helped Gabe to his feet. Gabe could barely stand, but then the bell rang. And the announcer called the match in his favour. Gabe held his title up triumphantly, still staggered and aching.

"God, that win was awfully shallow, especially now that I know it was Amanda. That being said, we stole the show those times, we always stole the show... didn't we Dean?" Gabe threw the name out, almost certain by this point that Dean was behind him, waiting.

[Maddoxxx]

And so he was, with his gear and the signature smirk on his face but still civil enough to welcome an old rival back to the fold

Well I'll be damned...it's the Modern Warrior himself.

Dean extends his hand to Gabe in order to give him a proper welcoming to perhaps a new chapter of his career

It's been long overdue, wouldn't you say?

[Gabriel Wingue]

Gabe shakes Dean's hand amicably.

"And by long overdue, you mean for you to lose one to me."

Gabe smirked, he knew that Dean losing was pretty much a shot in the dark. If he was gonna win this match he was going to have to do something pretty impressive.

"A lot has changed Dean... you don't know what you're in for. I've gotten." Gabe raises his hands into sarcastic fingerquotes "Better."

Gabe walks past Dean and pats him on the back, reminding him that the respect is still there.

"Anyway, I'm heading back to the hotel. See you tomorrow."

[Maddoxxx]

As Gabe walks away, Dean wears a slightly confused look

That's it? That's all you have to say? I expected more out of you once I heard you were coming back on the scene.

Gabe turns around at the very sound of his voice

You're right about one thing, though. A lot has changed since we last got it on. While you were busy being M.I.A, I was busy ending careers.

Just ask Shia. He was my first victim. Dean wears a smug look that almost makes Gabe want to deck him right there, is if he wanted to do it for Shia himself

You can stand here and claim to have gotten... mocks Gabe by the same fingerquotes "Better", I've gotten more ruthless, more technical and most of all...remorseless over time.

You, me, your crazy ass ex wife and the whole world knows that I kicked your ass back there...and I can't wait to do it again.

Dean motions his arm to the surrounding space that is GZWA

See Wingue, look around you. It's a whole new playing field with a whole cast of characters running around.

Dean then switches from cocky to grim

Don't get buried under it.