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Final Game: Where is the Code? Evade the Hunter! (Final Part)

Outside the furniture store.

"No more running away. No more hiding." Victor ties the loose ends of his red t-shirt into a knot around his waist. "Time to face our one true nemesis in this game. That's you, JJ!"

As he warms up his arms and legs, Victor feels sweat dripping down the back of his neck. He was very nervous, all this time, he's been evading JJ and looking for clues, never taking risks or anything like that.

"That's just me. I don't fight, I don't challenge myself here. I'm the expert at hiding. But I can't anymore now. Phew, I have to give it my all! Sniff. I'm literally about to cry here."

Victor wipes away some tears before pulling himself together and walking towards the centre of the mall.

"I'm telling you, JJ, as soon as I see you. I won't run. I won't hide. I'll be fighting you. That's right." Victor looks directly into the lens of the camera his cameraman was holding next to him. "I'll be FIGHTING."

In another area of the mall, Chris is desperately searching for Otabek. He couldn't find any useful clues and wants to know if Otabek has.

"Otabek!?" Chris shouts while running down the halls of the second floor. He didn't care much about JJ right now. "Otabek!?"

Somewhere on the third floor, Otabek hears Chris calling his name. "Chris!? I'm on the third floor! I'm right here! Chris!" Otabek begins running towards the nearest escalator.

Amongst all the shouting, JJ begins running too. He follows the sound of Chris and Otabek shouting out to one another. The bells on his shoes jingles with each step he takes.

Jingle! Jingle! Jingle!

The sound of bells jingling reaches Victor's ears. Adrenaline rushes through as he runs towards the source of that sound.

"Bells, bells, bells! When there's bells, that means the hunter is nearby!"

Victor's running increases as he closes in on the source of the bells. At the same time, the sound of the jingling gets louder and louder, until…

"Ah!"

Victor accidentally lets out a scream the second he turns around the corner. On the other side of the corner, at the end of the hall, appeared JJ. The hunter begins running at breakneck speed towards Victor, who is cautiously assessing his plans and backing away.

He needs to rip JJ's nametag to get the entire code. But that is easier said than done, especially looking at the situation now.

JJ catches up to Victor and tries to reach behind him, but Victor fights back and pushes his hands away. They continue this brawl of hands and arms until Victor is backed up against the exterior of a store.

He waits until JJ tries to lunge at his shirt again, Victor jumps up and tries to grab JJ's black nametag on the back of his shirt. But he misses it by a centimetre.

This miss allows JJ to grab hold of Victor's nametag, causing him to pull his shirt down the opposite direction to prevent JJ from ripping his nametag off. Victor leans towards the ground until his entire back is lying on top of it.

JJ's hand didn't let go of Victor's nametag, but he couldn't rip it off either by now. The two men were breathless and sweating by now. Victor tries to buy himself some time for rest.

"Wait! Hey, hey, JJ."

JJ groans. "Oh no, not this again. Not more talking."

Victor snaps his fingers. "No, no, JJ. It's not talking. It's discussing. There's a fine line between it. I just want to discuss some things with you, let's handle this like mature adults. Ok?"

JJ sighs. There's no way out of this. "Alright. What do you want to discuss?"

"Let's discuss about why you're here today, JJ." Victor says in a shaking voice. "Did the director bribe you or something?"

"Seriously? I just went through a conversation similar with your boyfriend, don't make me experience the same thing again from your mouth!" JJ laughs.

Victor tries again. "Ok, then...how about we discuss about my love for pancakes and maple syrup! I just LOVE that delicacy! It's amazing. You know, I envy you JJ. Living in such an amazing and peaceful country. You're the best guy there is. Yes, it's true."

JJ shakes his head as he continues laughing. This is all too amusing. Seeing and hearing his victims begging for their lives even though it's certain he's going to rip off their nametags in the end.

A little down the hall, hidden behind the corner, Chris peeps into the situation in front of him. He sees a distressed Victor lying on his back on the ground and a smiling JJ standing before him, grabbing his shirt.

On the third floor, Martz also peeps down below her. "My god, Victor...good luck!" She whispers.

Back at the confrontation between Victor and JJ, JJ catches sight of something that Victor dropped during their fight. It was Victor's clue card. He leans down to pick it up out of curiosity.

Immediately, Victor leaps up and tries to rip JJ's nametag off again. But JJ quickly dodges the attack and prepares to fight back just as Victor retreats to the ground once again. He slides back a few feet to prevent any aggression from JJ.

Chris decides that it's time for him to make his appearance too. "Hey, JJ. Long time no see."

JJ turns around and smiles at the appearance of the yellow teammember. "Chris! I haven't heard your voice since I ripped off Sala's nametag!"

Chris winces at that memory. The memory of failing to save Sala from being outed. Well, not this time! "Victor! Victor, can you get up!?"

Victor jumps to his feet immediately and slides agains the walls of the stores. "Yes! What do you want me to do?"

JJ stands on guard as Chris comes in closer. "Run! Follow me, Victor! Run!"

Without wasting a millisecond, Victor bolts from the wall he was leaning on and begins running towards Chris. Chris leads the way down the hall, a few feet in front of Victor. JJ sees that his victims are trying to escape and chases after them.

"Victor, come on! Just follow me! Just follow me!" Chris turns around and shouts.

Victor runs close behind Chris but JJ caught up easily. Seeing that his nametag is about to be ripped off again, Victor stops running and lies back on the floor.

"Sorry, Chris! I can't!" Victor cries as JJ stops next to him, laughing at the position Victor is currently in.

This time, JJ refuses for any talks or discussions. He goes straight to ripping off Victor's nametag. Mercilessly and without warning, JJ picks Victor up from the ground by his shirt and arm.

Victor tries to reach for JJ's nametag at the same time, but it was difficult from his position. And soon before he knew it, JJ had ripped off his nametag.

Chris, who was running back to try and save Victor, turned back around and escapes from this area after seeing Victor's nametag removed from his shirt.

VICTOR NIKIFOROV, OUT.


JJ puts the nametag on the stomach of an extremely distressed and tired Victor. He gently pats the nametag whispers a sincere apology before running after the escaping Chris.

But then he decides to go back and say one last thing to Victor. Kneeling next to the last red teammember, JJ shakes his hands.

"Sorry, Victor. I didn't hurt you, did I?"

Victor shakes his head. "No, no, I'm fine. It's cool. It's just a game after all."

"Alright good. Because I did promise Yuri that I'd out you next so he wouldn't be so lonely in the prison." JJ laughs before running off again.

"JJ, you're the best!"

The escaping Chris slows down to catch his breath. He leans against the entrance of another store while doing so.

Victor shouts out one last message to Chris before the crew man comes to take him away to the prison.

"Chris! The entire code is on JJ's nametag! You have to rip off his nametag! You have to!"

VICTOR NIKIFOROV, OUT.

The ache in Chris' heart doubles upon hearing those words come out from the announcement speakers. He smacks himself in the face, this time harder.

"How much do I suck?" Chris groans. "First, I fail to save Sala. And now, I fail to save Victor. I'm the worst!"

After a moment of regrets, Chris continues walking down the hall. His mind is racing a mile a minute, thinking of a plan to finish this game once and for all.

"Alright, so we're pretty darn close to the end. Victor says that the entire code is on JJ's nametag, so we just have to rip it off him." He cringes at the thought of it. "That's going to be a toughie. Let's see, I'm going to have to find Otabek. He's the only guy who has a chance of fighting JJ. And Martz too. Three against one will increase our odds of winning."

"Odds of winning against who?" A female voice suddenly asks.

Chris nearly jumps out of his skin until he sees Martz standing next to him. "Oh, it's just you."

"Yeah, it's me. You were mumbling about something. Is it a plan? Have you found a way to win?" She asks excitedly.

Chris nods. "Yeah. Listen to me, Martz. Victor found a clue that says the entire code is hidden behind the hunter's, aka JJ's, nametag. If we want to end this game, we have to rip it off."

Martz's eyes widen. "So we have to fight him? How?"

"That's where Otabek comes in." Chris adds. "He's the strongest guy amongst us. He's the only one who has a chance of doing it. We have to find him!


Several minutes of looking for Otabek…

"Otabek?" Chris half-shouts half-whispers.

"Otabek? Where are you?" Martz does the same.

"Otabek!"

They've been searching both the second and third floors for quite awhile now. But there were no signs of Otabek anywhere. Well, at least they haven't bumped into JJ yet.

JJ too, has been on the prowl for his last three prey. It's getting a bit difficult now, with the amount of players remaining being only three, and with the mall being so large. It takes some time for him to look too.

"Otabek?"

Jingle! Jingle! Jingle!

"Otabek?"

Jingle! Jingle! Jingle!

"Otabek?"

Jingle! Jingle! Jingle!

Chris and Martz stops in front of a corner and slowly extend their heads around it, seeing who is waiting for them on the other side.

Was it Otabek? Or JJ?

It was Otabek!

Chris breathes a sigh of relief and Martz sits down on the ground, fanning herself. Otabek and Chris runs up to each other, embracing one another in a warm hug.

"Where have you been?" Otabek asks. "So much is going on, I feel like I've missed so much!"

"You have missed a lot, buddy." Chris pats him on the back. "Listen, Victor found out the way to win this game. We have to rip off JJ's nametag."

"What? Why?"

"Because that's where the code is hidden. If we rip it off, we can finally unlock the safe and win the gold medal!" Chris explains.

Martz stands up. "Of course, considering that we're successful in ripping off JJ's nametag."

"Hey, there's three of us and one of him!" Chris encourages. "We'll make it through!"

The three remaining players all looked at each other in fear and determination. They've made up their minds. Time to finish this!

"JJ!" Chris shouts.

"Mr. Canadian Bigshot!" Otabek yells.

"Jean-Jacques Leroy!" Martz adds.

They continue shouting JJ's name and descriptions of him endlessly. All for the sake of getting that hunter out of the shadows and into the light, where they will fight him.

"JJ! Come out and face us!" Chris howls.

Unbeknownst to them, JJ heard their calls to battle. He was hiding in behind the counter of a fast food restaurant in the food court. Quietly debating over whether or not to make an entrance, JJ decides on his final decision.

"Alright. If it's a battle they want, it's a battle they'll get." Rubbing his hands together, JJ sees the last three players walking down the food court and right past his hiding spot.

He quickly jumps out and runs up behind them, attempting to attack with a surprise. But Otabek turns around just in time to prevent that from happening.

"Whoa! Whoa!" Chris cries.

Chris and Martz turn around and moves back a bit. Otabek also moves back as JJ steps forward a bit.

"Why hello there, JJ." Otabek greets.


JJ carefully examines what he sees before him. It's three against one, but he has the advantage of being more experienced in nametag ripping. He has a chance of winning. It's really just Otabek he has to worry about.

If this is a one on one with Otabek, JJ could probably handle it. Maybe…

"Hello there, Otabek." JJ holds his hand for him to shake. "It will be an honour to fight with you."

Otabek shakes his hand, but just as they made contact, JJ tries to pull Otabek in! Seeing that the handshake was a trap, Otabek quickly forces his hand out of JJ's grasp and backs away to a safe distance.

Chris laughs nervously. "Hey, come now. No more tricks. OHHHH!"

JJ lunges towards Chris without warning, but luckily, Martz pulls him back before he could be grabbed. Chris sighs in relief and pats Martz gratefully on the head.

Oh it's on! The fight is on! JJ rubs his hands together again one more time. Chris clenches his fists. Otabek bends his knees, preparing to run forward. Martz stays light on her feet, ready to jump back at any time.

JJ makes the first move and lunges towards Chris once again. Chris dodges his attack by himself this time, giving time for Otabek to lunge towards JJ while he was still vulnerable.

But JJ sees that Otabek is trying to attack him while he is focused on Chris and quickly defends himself. Throwing Otabek off of him, JJ is taken by surprise when Martz suddenly jumps behind him and attempts to make a grab for his nametag.

However, she misses it as JJ twists his body around to prevent her from grabbing the edges of his nametag. Landing back on her feet again in front of JJ, Martz runs behind Otabek for safety.

JJ backs up a bit, knowing that he's in a bit of trouble here. This fight is going to a lot more difficult than his previous confrontations with the other players where it was only one on one encounters.

And it seems like this time, JJ would have no choice but to use the method of talking to buy himself time.

"Not bad guys. I'm impressed." He remarks. "Otabek, you do weight training in your spare times too?"

Otabek nods. "Yeah, I do, I—hey! Stop trying to distract us!"

JJ shrugs. "Worth a shot."

Otabek makes the move this time, reaching for JJ's left arm. JJ quickly moves it out of the way, at the same time, Chris tries to grab his right arm, but JJ also saw that coming. However, he did not see Otabek come in to grab the collar of his black t-shirt.

Trying to free himself from Otabek's grip, JJ twists and turns in order to get free. But in the process of doing so, JJ ends up ripping his own shirt to shreds.

JJ, Chris, Otabek, and Martz's faces were all in shock at the sight of the ripped black t-shirt that now hangs only by a thin strip of fabric on JJ's shoulder. The sound of laughter soon erupted amongst the four players battling for the fate of the game.


A few minutes later…

"Alright so, during our fight. JJ's shirt was accidentally destroyed." Chris explains while facing the cameraman. "So, we gave him a new RED t-shirt of the red team!"

Chris steps back, revealing a smiling JJ in a new red t-shirt, waving at the camera lens. "So now, we're going to resume our fight and we're going to try and be a little more careful. 'Cause the director wasn't too happy when she saw the shredded black t-shirt!"

Three, two, one. Resume fight!

Otabek and Chris attacks simultaneously, forcing JJ to back up little by little. JJ is unable to attack either player by now, and is only going into defensive mode. That's the best he could do.

Meanwhile, Martz is lurking in the back, waiting for her time to enter the fight. Otabek attacks JJ again, but JJ grabs Otabek's hands and tries to reach in for his nametag. Chris runs in to try and grab hold of JJ's nametag.

But Otabek manages to free his hands again from JJ's grasp, allowing JJ to defend himself against Chris. The three men returned to their preparation stances again, anticipating an attack from one another.

Martz uses this moment to jump in. Sneaking in from behind, Martz grabs JJ by the back collar of his shirt and manages to grab the edge of his nametag! JJ squirms and turns around, desperately trying to shake off the teenager from his back.

Otabek attacks again, trying to keep JJ from moving around too much, but this causes JJ to dodge the attack, causing Martz to lose her footing and let go of JJ's nametag. JJ grabs Martz by the arm and with one hand, and with other hand, reaches behind her back.

Chris sees what JJ's about to do and rushes into preventing it from happening. Too late. JJ rips off Martz's nametag in the blink of an eye and pulls the young girl in for a hug, patting her on the head.

MARTZ MIZUKI, OUT.

"Martz, please don't cry," JJ begs. "If you do, your guardian, Ollie will kill me."

"I'm not crying. I'm not." Martz stutters. "You can let go of me now. And don't worry about Ollie. She won't take things too far, this is just a game after all."

Chris and Otabek each give Martz a hug and words of encouragement. "You were really good, Martz. You were pretty close."

"Yeah, keep practicing those moves," Otabek adds.

The crew man appears on the scene to take Martz away from the fight and to the prison. "Thanks, guys! It's up to you two now! I have faith in you!"

As soon as the crew man and Martz disappears from their sight, Otabek and Chris resumes their fight with JJ. Otabek attacks extra hard now, causing JJ to block even more. Chris tries to get in close, but it's difficult with JJ's flailing arms.

Eventually, JJ grabs Otabek's hands again. Otabek desperately tries to shake out of his JJ's grasp, but this is exactly what JJ wants. Using the shaking to his advantage, JJ suddenly lets go of Otabek's hands and reaches behind him to grab his nametag.

He was successful! JJ's hand clenches onto Otabek's nametag, but Otabek wasn't ready to be out just yet!

Using this chance with JJ's hands busy grabbing his own nametag, Otabek also reaches out behind JJ to grab his nametag! Chris supports Otabek from behind, holding JJ's hands in place so that he couldn't rip off Otabek's nametag or move his hands back.

Otabek shakes his head at Chris and nods towards JJ's shirt. Chris understands what Otabek wants him to do.

Moving quickly, Chris runs behind JJ and grabs his nametag. He manages to get both hands on the edges of the black nametag, but before he could rip it off, JJ releases his left hand from Otabek's nametag and reaches behind Chris.

In one fell swoop, JJ single-handedly removes Chris' nametag! Otabek manages to free himself from JJ's grasp when he let one hand go of his nametag to remove Chris'.

CHRISTOPHE GIACOMETTI, OUT.

Realizing that HE'S literally the LAST PLAYER REMAINING, Otabek leaps back to his in incredible speed and thrusts both of his hands behind JJ, successfully grabbing his nametag on his first try!

Even JJ is shocked by this sudden increase in power from Otabek! JJ barely reacted in time to his sudden attack, but was still able to retaliate...well sort of. JJ reaches out to grab Otabek's nametag but fails to get a good grip on it.

Adrenaline rushes throughout Otabek's body as he puts all of his might into pulling JJ's nametag down from the velcro.

RRRRIIIIPPPPP!

The sound of an object being removed from velcro almost sounded like the trumpets after a battle has been won!

Otabek has done it! He has ripped off the hunter's nametag! Chris and his escorting crew man stops walking towards the prison to see the results of the battle. Chris' jaw drops when he saw Otabek clutching the black nametag with the JJ's name written in white letters on it.

"Whoo! That's amazing! You really are the Big Black Bull!" Chris applauds.

Otabek holds up his arms in victory before walking up to JJ to shake hands. JJ smiles greatly as they made contact.

"Good fight, good fight. That was very good."

"Thank you." Otabek releases his hand from JJ's. "Ahem. Anyways, if you don't mind. I think I'll be taking my prize now."

JJ turns around. "Yeah, sure go ahead. Don't worry, it's not a trick set up by the director. It's the real thing."

"Glad to hear that." Otabek replies.

There on the back of JJ's shirt, on the velcro where his nametag used to be, was a smaller tag with four numbers written in maroon on it.

Otabek removes the number tag and waves it to Chris. "I got it, Chris! I got the code! We win!"

Chris looks at the numbers displayed on the tag held inOtabek's hand: 6519.


At the front entrance of the Eaton Centre.

Otabek runs all the way to the entrance of the mall. It gave as a great surprise to him that he still remembers the way to the entrance, despite all the places he's been to throughout this game.

But it was all worth it in the end.

There in the middle of the great lobby, was the table with the large golden treasure chest lying on top of it. The combination lock was still there, waiting for something to unlock it.

Otabek stops in front of the table and picks up the combination lock. He looks at the number tag again to make sure he's entering the right numbers.

"Six...turn, turn...five, turn...one...semi-turn...and nine!"

Click! The combination lock opens as Otabek pulls it down. Removing the lock from the hinge, Otabek excitedly opens up the golden treasure chest, ready to take out its stolen content.

Inside the chest, on top of a little wooden display was the beautiful gold medal. It shone under the bright fluorescent lights of the mall which made it look even prettier. Otabek proudly takes it out of the chest and presents it in front of all the cameras.

"Behold. The ISU's top notch gold medal! Found at last!" He cries.

"Yay!"

"Yeah!"

Chris and Sala appears behind Otabek with their ripped nametags in their hands. They ran up to Otabek and nearly knocked him over with their hug.

"I knew you could do it!" Chris exclaims.

"You are the most amazing, the strongest, the most loyal, guy I've ever met!" Sala gushes.

More applause came on as the rest of the main producers enters the room along with Director Leaves, who seems to be in a much better mood now. She smiles at the winners of this episode, the yellow team.

"Congratulations, team yellow. You have found and unlocked the ISU's top gold medal. The ISU is forever in your debt, they want to thank you for your services." Director Leaves explains, this time without the megaphone.

Suddenly, several crew men appear behind the yellow team, escorting the rest of the players from the prison to the front entrance. They all applaud and cheer upon seeing Otabek with the gold medal.

"Congrats, Beka!" Yuri. P high fives him.

"That must have been a really epic fight!" Phichit exclaims. "I can't wait to watch this episode when it airs!"

"Your welcome." Victor replies.

"For…?" Otabek is confused.

Victor turns to stone. "Didn't Chris tell you? I was the one who discovered the clue behind where the code was hidden! On JJ's nametag! It was me!"

Otabek nods. "Ohhh, right! Well, thank you, Victor!"

"Good teamwork, everyone!" Martz cheers. "Good teamwork."

"This was pretty fun actually." Yuri. K remarks. "Despite me wanting to quit countless times...still fun!"

Director Leaves smirks. "So you're all ready for the next episode?"

"Yeah!" All the players cried.

"Glad to hear that." The director smiles warmly. "But first, let's thank our two guest players today, Georgi and Sala!"

"Woohoo! Yeah!"

"And to JJ, who so graciously offered to be the merciless hunter of the final game!"

"YAAAHHHH! JJ!" About half of the players cheered.

Except for Yuri. P, who offered a slow clap as the former hunter enters the scene, smiling and greeting the players with hugs.

"Yeah, thanks guys!" JJ cries. "For forgiving me when I had to rip your nametags, you all know it's nothing personal. It's just for the views."

"You sure did a good job of that." Victor rolls his eyes.

"Did what he had to do. And a good job of it too." Chris adds.

Director Leaves picks up her megaphone again. "Alright, everyone! And that concludes this episode of Hurry Up, Skaters! Thanks for watching and we'll see you all next week! (not literally..)"

All the skaters cheer at the same time. "HURRY UP! SKATERS!"

End episode.


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