Rotten to the Core

Tick and Arthur appear on the titantron, walking backstage. The crowd erupts with cries of "spoon". It's not long before they are stopped by Nicole.

Nicole: Tick...

Tick: What seems to be the problem, young lady?

Nicole: No, Tick, I was hoping we could share some words.

Tick: We don't need to share words, young lady, they belong to everyone. You can't put a price on them, you know, well, unless you're one of those people who writes books, but even then, the library, what splendor can be discovered there!

Arthur: I'm sorry Nicole, this is why we don't do backstage interviews.

Tick: Young lady, your keen senses be needed!

Tick covers his mouth and whispers to Nicole:

Tick: You don't think you could direct us to the ring do you?

Nicole: Sure Tick, just go straight to the end of the corridor and turn left.

Tick: Many thank yous fair lady. SPOON!

And with that, Tick sprints of down the hall.

Nicole: Oh, no, the GM is going to kill me... TICK! I MEANT RIGHT!

Tick reaches the end of the corridor, and turns left, and with a loud crash, smashes through the wall. A few moments later he is seen crossing the corridor, heading in the correct direction.

The titantron fades to black, then Tick's music starts; dum dwee, dum dum dum dwee da...

Tick runs from backstage, and slides into the ring, picking up a microphone.

Tick: Spoon!

Much of the crowd join in.

Tick: Many of you would have seen the villainy that befell Tonten, Argo and I last week on Down Under.

Boos from the crowd.

Tick: No, no, it's okay. You see, I was after that belt for one reason, and one reason only, to become a target, so that the evils of this federation would turn their sights on me, and let the honest folk wrestle without fear of spontaneous collision with foreign objects. Well, it seems that I didn't need the belt. I have a glow you cannot see, and it brought out the rotten apples here like moths to the flame. I have a heart as big as the moon, as warm as bathwater, and GD, this soap has your name on it. SPOON!

Tick drops the microphone, rolls out of the ring, and heads back to the locker rooms.