The champs are back!

[Stylin' Kyle Roberts [REBEL]]

(Josh Reynolds is backstage minutes before Monday Night Fights, telling the online NAPW.ca audience all about tonight's card.)

JOSH REYNOLDS: And that's why Apocalypse/Lobo is going to be a match to watch. Now how about that main event tonight? D! and The Mo- (Josh looks off camera.) Holy crap! It's the New and Improved D-X!

(Enter the tag team champions, dressed in street clothes. Of course, for Bruce "the Beast" Richards, that means a charcoal-grey suit, and for Stylin' Kyle Roberts, a green silk shirt and black slacks.)

BRUCE RICHARDS: Hello, Josh. How're things?

JOSH REYNOLDS: My god! Nobody's heard ANYTHING from the New and Improved D-X since Joker's Wild!

KYLE ROBERTS: Tell you what, Josh, next time, YOU can be a part of NAPW's most brutal match to date! We'll make sure that you're right in the thick of things, falling from ladders, being speared from 20 feet off the ground, getting hit in the back of the head with a solid steel chair...

BRUCE RICHARDS: (chuckles) Yeah, that was fun.

KYLE ROBERTS: Truth is, Josh, we have to give our props to the other two teams in that ring with us. You know you're among the elite of New Alberta Pro when you give the six of us the opportunity to show why we're the top teams in the division. And when you add ladders, chairs, tables, ferrets, and everything from Mama Richards' curio cabinet, well, that's when we get...creative.

BRUCE RICHARDS: The Crimes, Dudes, we've gotta hand it to you, you guys gave it your all last week at Joker's Wild. The crowd was on their feet virtually the entire match. It could have gone any way. But you guys just didn't make it to the top of the ladder like Kyle and I did. It was THIS close.

KYLE ROBERTS: Hell, we were so impressed with The Dudes and The Crimes LAST week, we wanted to experience it again, this time, from the outside of the ring. Behind the barricade. Watching from ringside! (shouts offcamera) You hear that, guys? The champs are back in the NAIT gym! You better put on one big match and impress us!

JOSH REYNOLDS: You guys aren't scheduled to wrestle tonight.

BRUCE RICHARDS: Very astute observation, Josh. A match like the ladder match sure takes a lot out of you. And Commissioner Winchell, out of the goodness of his heart, gave us the chance to rest this week. So we're taking advantage. The fact that Rex, Static and the Dudes want the chance to compete tonight is admirable.

JOSH REYNOLDS: Now, I see by the rankings board that there's no actual Number One Contenders for your titles. Do you think this match will determine who will face you next for those belts?

KYLE ROBERTS: If the Crimes and the Dudes want to have a competition for that match, go ahead. However, I'd like to give one team the chance to grab that spot. Bruce and I had been wanting to face them for a while now.

JOSH REYNOLDS: Well, who would THAT be?

BRUCE RICHARDS: The Delivery Men. We love those guys.

KYLE ROBERTS: We don't give our autographs to just ANYONE! Only people who stand in lines when the NAPW decides it's time for us to meet our adoring public. And for the low, low cost of five dollars! But seriously, if there's any team who think that they have the cojones to challenge us for these belts, come on DOWWWN! You're the next contestants on YOU'RE GOING TO GET YOUR ASS HANDED TO YOU!

JOSH REYNOLDS: Wow, this is turning into the longest interview segment we've ever had with you two. And I'm the one who's here to report it!

BRUCE RICHARDS: We've been gone a week, in one of the busier weeks in this federation. Are there any other questions you have of us, before we head to our ringside seats? I'm getting tired of standing here.

JOSH REYNOLDS: Kyle, Amy was definitely one of the people who got involved in the ladder match. How's things on that front?

KYLE ROBERTS: Look, Reynolds, anything concerning my girlfriend and my private life is MY business. However, she was just defending her man after he got THROWN OFF A FREAKIN' LADDER by some psychotic cheerleader. It's the stuff of country songs. Or at least, the stupid ones you hear here in Alberta. What's that one song that deals with similar themes? You know, the one that talks about a girl who stands by her man through thick or thin?

JOSH REYNOLDS: Stand By Your Man?

KYLE ROBERTS: No, the one that deals with the guy being a complete asshat, and she'll just keep on being with him.

JOSH REYNOLDS: Stand By Your Man.

KYLE ROBERTS: Aw, there's no use talking to you. No, I'm talking about that one song, the one where-

VOICE FROM OFFSTAGE: There they are! My boys! My homies!

BRUCE RICHARDS: For the love of...

(The "Bad Boy" Joey Malone runs towards the New and Improved D-X.)

JOEY MALONE: I've been looking all over for you two! I haven't seen you since we went to celebrate after Joker's Wild! But you never came to that bar you told me the party was at!

KYLE ROBERTS: Oh, really? I could have sworn the victory party was being held at The Roost.

BRUCE RICHARDS: (smirks) Get lucky last week, Joey?

JOEY MALONE: What? Well, there was that one girl who showed a BIG interest in yours truly! Man, the legs on that lady! And tall too!

KYLE ROBERTS: Joey, what do you want?

JOEY MALONE: Well, hey, I wanted to hang out, you know, with my buds! Check out the T-shirt I made!

(Joey opens his jacket to reveal his shirt: "The New and Improved D-X: Bad Boyz 4 Life")

KYLE ROBERTS: Um, you passed that through Luke and Ryan, the guys in charge of merchandising, right?

JOEY MALONE: What? Why?

BRUCE RICHARDS: That, my friend, may be considered copyright infringement. It is, after all, one bootleg T-shirt.

JOEY MALONE: Ooooh, the guys at the NAPW office are gonna be pissed. (Joey runs off.)

KYLE ROBERTS: What's up with him? Run in for some major suck during our ladder match, and now he's our new best friend? He LOW BLOWED a LADDER!

JOSH REYNOLDS: Guys, to get back on track, here, what do you have to say about being FIRED by Chris Casino?

KYLE ROBERTS: Is it our fault that Casino is jealous of our success? I swear, back in between our tag champ status, and HE was the NAPW Heavyweight Champ, everything was just fine! Fast forward a month later, he loses the belt in a steel cage to D!, and we tried our best to made sure that everything was completely fair, when Moose Millar shows up! Have you ever stared down a moose? I have once, in Banff. He wasn't too happy that I was filming him, and chased me around a field!

BRUCE RICHARDS: The point is, Casino saw us with the belts, and decided to cast us out due to a lot of envy on his part. Were we surprised? Definitely. Were we disappointed? Sure, who wouldn't be? Are we going to bitch and moan about being tossed out of his clique? No. He's made his decision, and we respect his choice. However, he's going to have to deal with the consequences of firing us.

KYLE ROBERTS: In a FIFTEEN-FOOT HIGH STEEL CAGE!

JOSH REYNOLDS: What?

KYLE ROBERTS: Sorry, got a little carried away there...No, if Casino wants to make the Rat Pack smaller and lose the biggest draw of the group, so be it. He's just failing to realize that we were the only thing keeping him in force. He lost the advantage he had: Strength in numbers.

BRUCE RICHARDS: Now, Reynolds, do you have any other questions for us, or can we go out there and watch Monday Night Fights?

JOSH REYNOLDS: No, guys, thanks. (D-X walks off to the stage, Josh turns back to the camera.) Well, you got it here, folks! An exclusive interview with the three-time Tag Team Champions, the New and Improved D-X, live on NAPW.ca!