Blog: Worker Ant (10.14.14)
I remember that night at the Palmer Center: 5.25.14. We had just beaten the King of Trios medals off of The Colony: Xtreme Force. They never deserved to have them in the first place. Wink just gave it to them because they were his pet project. We were the real deal. The real Colony. And we finally had our medals back.
Except, I didn’t deserve the one I was holding. I didn’t earn it. Soldier Ant did. Just like I was now filling the legacy of Worker Ant, I was here representing The Colony. But I never put that medal around my neck. Matter of fact, my first thought was about how I was going to get it back to the man who put in the hard work to win it.
Then came this year’s King of Trios. I’d been pumped to get a chance to get in there with my boys. Earn my own medal. Make The Colony the first two-time winners of this tournament. We even got as far as Night 2 when the supports were bulldozed from under our feet.
I wasn’t completely surprised to see Soldier Ant attacking one of our own. He showed everybody what side he stood on at "You Only Live Twice." We all go through that moment when we’ve got to make a critical decision at where our loyalties lie. I made mine at National Pro Wrestling Day. Then he made his.
Soldier Ant chose The Flood.
I don’t know what made him turn on his band of brothers, but I’m not one to make excuses for people who’ve decided to become our enemy. Soldier Ant won’t catch us unprepared again. He used to be a leader within The Colony, now he’s nothing but a mindless grunt in an army of human shields protecting their sick bosses. Just another wall to be knocked down.
Soldier Ant, this battle is unfinished Colony business. Time to go to work. You're dismissed.
-WA
Blog: Jakob Hammermeier (10.7.14)
Respekt.
Ever since day one Jakob has made it evident that he has only had one goal: Respekt.
None of you respected Jakob. Not the BDK, not the CHIKARMY, und especially not Gavin Loudspeaker! You all pitied poor ol' Jakob, didn't you? I DON'T NEED YOUR PITY! Pity is for the weak und helpless. Save it for each other.
Jakob has been overlooked since the first time he stepped into that CHIKARA ring. A mistake for which many will pay. Ares being the first to pick up the tab. How you disappointed me, Ares.
I waited, and waited, and waaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiittttttttted. 475 days Jakob waited. Pinpointing exactly how to move against mein former mentor, the "mastermind" of the BDK, Ares. Did you sense for even a second the plot against you? JAKOB WITH THE EYE OF TYR?!?!?! Hah! Let's allow this lesson in oversight to be the BDK's parting gift to you, Herr Ares.
Make no mistake CHIKARA. Jakob, the rightful ruler of Der Bruderschaft Des Kreuzes will once and for all extract his Respekt. I will not beg for it. I will take it.
-JH
Blog: Mike Quackenbush (10.3.14)
Two weeks ago, CHIKARA lost two of the newest members of our family, Equinox and Create-A-Wrestler. Before that, The Latvian Proud Oak, his Baltic Seige partner The Estonian ThunderFrog, Kobald...even deviANT from the GEKIDO. All of them destroyed by the man/monster, that has plagued and plotted against us. I'm referring to the leader of The Flood, Deucalion. Too many have fallen to this psychotic villain. The Flood have run roughshod over CHIKARA.
And it’s all my fault.
I take full responsibility for the losses to the people in my charge. That guilt is mine to bear. At National Pro Wrestling Day, I was merely a spectator. I witnessed the fight between CHIKARA and The Flood like everyone else. I was proud of what these men stood for and the valiant effort they made to push back the largest army of invaders CHIKARA has ever faced. I knew it wasn’t the end of this battle, but I felt certain The Flood wouldn’t try such a direct attack again.
I was wrong. I was wrong and someone paid the ultimate price.
No sooner did CHIKARA owner Robbie Ellis appoint me Director of Fun (back at "You Only Live Twice,") by CHIKARA owner Robbie Ellis I made it a point to let everyone in the locker room know I was committed to them, and most importantly, their safety. However, when The Flood returned at the close of the event I imagined it would be a repeat of NPWD. But I was wrong. This time, they would bring their deadliest weapon - their leader, Deucalion. A savage engine of destruction that absorbed Kobald’s spear as if it were nothing. Then Deucalion took the light from Kobald's body and left him crumpled motionless in the middle of the ring.
Anyone questioning why CHIKARA didn’t spill out of the locker room in Boston when Deucalion emerged again can blame me. I stopped them from rushing headstrong into another battle. It all happened in the blink of an eye. The orders to pull ThunderFrog from the ring went unheard over the clamoring of the crowd. We couldn’t communicate the danger in time and once again I had destruction on my hands.
Then came CHIKARA’s most recent event, the massive King of Trios 2014, where Kid Cyclone and his classmates defied their trainers' mandate and called Deucalion out. The hubris of youth lead them to slaughter. And like sand, the charges I swore to protect slipped out of my grasp.
It was then I realized that the harder I tried to hold these brave warriors back, the more I made them powerless to defend and protect themselves, to protect our home. My days of leading the charge onto the battlefield are now in the rear-view mirror. I cannot stand the thought of the recently-reborn CHIKARA losing another star...we cannot sustain another loss. We cannot.
I must step out of their way. Let them take the fight to our foes. There’s no lack of valiant locker room leaders to lead the charge. Our Grand Champion, Icarus, the man who stoked the embers of CHIKARA until it rose from the ashes, is only the tip of the sword.
It was Edmund Burke that said “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Those who fight for CHIKARA must be empowered to wage war, or The Flood will wash us away. Now we must fight, unrestrained. We cannot be deterred. We cannot fail. We cannot.
#WeAreCHIKARA
-MQ