Lawsuit! 3

[Stylin' Kyle Roberts [REBEL]]

(Scene: Back in Michael Greene's office. This happens the afternoon before the events of Friday Night Whyte.)

KYLE ROBERTS: So, I've given you the rulebook for the federation. Have you looked over it?

MICHAEL GREENE: (focused on watching the tape of the hardcore match) So, this is all fake, huh?

KYLE ROBERTS: WHAT? Bruce just hit Axe with a baseball bat! How can you fake hitting someone with a baseball bat? Look, the kid's twitching on the mat!

MICHAEL GREENE: So, I've read through the rulebook, and I watched all the NAPW shows you put on tape for me.

KYLE ROBERTS: Including yesterday's Action!? Where Ravager beat a pin count by having his foot on the ropes?

MICHAEL GREENE: Yeah, I saw that one too.

KYLE ROBERTS: AND?

MICHAEL GREENE: Now, Kyle, I'm not sure how to say this.

KYLE ROBERTS: (leaning over the desk, mere inches from Greene) Say what?

MICHAEL GREENE: Well, um, you have no case.

KYLE ROBERTS: (dead calm) Pardon me? Did I just hear you correctly? Did you just tell me that I've got no case?

MICHAEL GREENE: Well, yeah.

KYLE ROBERTS: Could you tell me how you arrived to that conclusion?

MICHAEL GREENE: Kyle, did you actually READ the rulebook?

KYLE ROBERTS: You mean the one I took from the office this morning? The one I gave you before lunch? I MIGHT have flipped through it, but it's full of boring legalese. Why?

MICHAEL GREENE: Kyle, the rulebook specifically states that in a hardcore match, rope breaks don't exist.

KYLE ROBERTS: WHAT? Where?

(Greene shows Roberts the specific section. Kyle's face loses all its colour.)

KYLE ROBERTS: So this means?

MICHAEL GREENE: That if you decided to sue the NAPW, you'd lose. Horribly. You'd probably be laughed out of court.

KYLE ROBERTS: I'd lose?

MICHAEL GREENE: Unless you were on Judge Judy. (Kyle's face lights up.) Although I wouldn't advise that either. She might REALLY laugh in your face. (Kyle's face falls.)

KYLE ROBERTS: So you're not representing me?

MICHAEL GREENE: Kyle, I know when a case can be won. And I know when a case has no chance of winning. This case fits in the latter category.

KYLE ROBERTS: Oh. Well, gee, thanks a LOT, Greene!

MICHAEL GREENE: I'm sorry. Oh, but one thing.

KYLE ROBERTS: (at the door) What?

MICHAEL GREENE: Could you get me Ravager's autograph? I like the whole hard-assed white-collar worker image he's got going on.

(Kyle glares at Greene, slams the door.)

MICHAEL GREENE: "Michael Ravager, attorney-at-law!" I like the sound of that...

(fade out)