Sunday, at the Wrestling Is Intense show in Carbondale, IL, 17, the masked bizarro-world doppelganger of one Lightning Mike Quackenbush, reformed the Gekido and forced the company to close its doors at the end of the show. Obviously, some changes were in order. assailANT, as far as I know, is still assimilated within The Colony, and The Shard is off palling around with Jigsaw in the infamous sixth borough of New York,
Philadelphia Parts Unknown. I'd like to think of the two having picnics and going to museums and superkicking random passersby all to the tune of
this song.
The Gekido were shooed away with apparent finality at Under the Hood last year. Fire Ant, Green Ant, assailANT, and Quackenbush were defeated by Soldier Ant, deviANT, Jigsaw, and Shard in an atomicos match that saw Soldier break rank and actively help his team lose. Despite the victory, Shard and Jigsaw went their own way, assailANT embraced his Chikarametrically discerned new confines, deviANT faded into the background until the Colony: X-Treme Force debuted, and Soldier was left as a trooper without an ally, a ronin, if you will. In the tumult of every other action that has happened within Chikara in the relatively short period of time between then and now, Gekido could have been forgotten with ease.
Other big bads - Wink Vavasseur, the Titor Conglomerate, C:XF, Condor Security, Eddie Kingston, the Devastation Corporation - have all risen up in their place. Their debut and overarching apparent arc were greeted with disdain from a large portion of the fans to begin with; no surprise was required to believe that they would be as easily forgotten.
