When Martha said that the mouths of many reporters were wide open. Ash then looked at Martha and Mystiq and signaled them to go ahead. After they were gone one reporter asked, "Mr. Wilson what is your take on this controversy."
"I think there is no controversy. these are just fake groundless rumors, there is no reason to take a stand against them."
Another reporter asked, "What could be the reason behind these rumors?" This reporter was arranged by Uncle Sam and he was from the rival company of Cyrus's.
"Reason? What do see when you look at me?" Ash questioned and continued, "I am a young man who recently inherited a nearly bankrupt company from my mother. I have dreams much bigger than the sky and above all, I have the capability to achieve them."
After saying that he looked at the reporter from CSL and continued, "When someone has both dream and capability they become thorns in someone's eyes. And above all that I even have even offended that someone. Then of course my movies will have fake rumors and controversies."
"Mr. Wilson, Are you accusing that someone is targetting you?" One of the reporters asked.
Ash looked at the reporter and said, "If that is not the case then what else can explain these corrupt NGOs protesting against my movie." Ash pointed at the protesters and then took out a paper, and continued, "This is the list of NGOs which filed a complaint against me to the CSP, and when I did some research about them the results were shocking. Most of these NGO's higher-ups are charged with corruption and a few have charged as serious as money laundering."
"And right now theaters have boycotted my movie. By this, I am not the only one who will be facing a loss. Those theaters will also lose money so if it's not for someone targetting me they will never accept those losses."
After that Ash looked at the CSL reporter and said. "They can try their best to suppress me but they forgot one thing I am a citizen of the United States of America, The land of freedom. I am free to make a movie and release it. They can't suppress me because the free people of the USA will never let it happen. My movie will be released, and people will watch, and it will even make a big profit too."
After saying that he turned his back on the reporters and started walking toward the theater. The reporters still wanted to ask more questions to Ash so they called him from behind but he didn't hear it all and kept going.
Soon Ash arrived at the theater and the movie started. While on the outside the reporter got a big catch this time. Most of the reporters who came here tonight were arranged by Samual Wilson and they were rivals of Cyrus. They just found dist on Cyrus. Samual had already tipped them about how Ash was thrown out of his mother's property and was given to his step-brother.
All these rumors were started by Butch but he alone didn't have this much money or capability so he was backed up by James. Butch was the one who came up with this plan and told James. But now Ash had turned this whole situation with just one interview.
James and Butch started the rumors on the internet and in some small magazines but they never expected that it would come to bite them like this.
Right now all mainline news media was talking about the war between the father and son, Ash and Cyrus. And the blame was on Cyrus right now.
Ash had very carefully used the words freedom and Suppression. And soon his words had reached every household in the USA. It was just like, the bigger you are the more enemy you have.
By the next morning, this topic was trending everywhere. And various hashtags started to pop out like,
# JusticeforMissSunshine.
#Stopsuppressionfollowfreedom.
Soon the matter reached the ears of Cyrus. By the time he knew about it was already trending. And it had grown so big that it even started affecting the shares of his company. So he immediately started the damage control. He called James and asked,
"Are you behind it?"
"No, dad. It's not my idea. It's all that Butch's plan."
Cyrus's gaze turned ice-cold as he once again asked James, "Tell me everything you have to do with this mess."
James got scared from Cyrus's gaze and said, "It's all Butch... I.I... Just provided him with financial support.
Cyrus once again looked at James and said, "Ash was right about one thing. You should stay away from those kinds of dogs." James was surprised by Cyrus's words but Cyrus continued, "Go back and reflect on yourself. You are grounded for a month."
James's neck hung down as he said, "Yes, Dad. I understand," James felt humiliated that he was completely defeated by Ash this time.
After James was gone Cyrus started defense protocol. Cyrus was a very intelligent man, he immediately understood the problem. The problem was that the public's perception was against him and in favor of Ash. He knew that if he wanted to change the public's perception he has to show them that he wasn't suppressing Ash but actually supporting him, and show the whole fiasco as a misunderstanding between him and Ash.
So the first thing he did was shift the whole blame on Butch. He released much evidence against Butch and filed a case against him for defaming his son, Ash.
Then he ordered to fire off that reporter from the red carpet event and forced him to release a statement that Butch told him to ask that kind of question. He made sure that everything was in public.
Then he had lifted all the restrictions on Ash's movie.
Even though it had helped Ash greatly This also improved his situation to the former level as well.
When everything was over Cyrus couldn't help but say, "Great work kid, this is 1-0 for you but it won't be easy for you because next time since you will be facing me."