Jeff repeatedly tried to assure himself that Jenny and Tiffany were pretending to be dead. He decided that the only thing for him to do would be to continue the game.
"The quicker I find the rest of you the less time you'll have to continue this prank." Jeff shouted as he hit the bat against the locker doors.
When he reached the door he ran down the hallway. Shortly he was back out in the open field. The stadium lights were still on and no one was anywhere in sight.
"I HEAR THAT YOU LIKE TO LIVE EXTREME!" A deep muffled voice came from the announcer's booth.
"WELL GET READY FOR THE MOST EXTREME NIGHT OF YOUR LIFE! I HOPE THAT YOU SAID GOODBYE TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS BEFORE THEY WENT TO HIDE. BY THE WAY, IS JENNY DONE IN THE SHOWER?"
"Who the?" He ran up the stairs to the announcer's booth. To his surprise, no one was inside.
"This can't be real." Jeff leaned against the announcer's table for a few seconds trying to gain his composure. Slowly he lifted his head. His attention began to focus on two struggling shadows by the snack bar. Straight in his line of vision, shadows that overlapped an Eat at Joe's advertisement were fighting. One was a woman and the other was...
"Nah it couldn't be. But how many other people have costumes shaped like a baseball? I have to go and stop this madness now!"
Jeff ran as fast as he could down the narrow stairs. He stopped, about halfway down, when he saw a one-inch blade from a butcher knife go into the chest of the woman.
"This is crazy. We play jokes on each other all the time but none of us have the money or time to pull off something this elaborate. Is it possible that some deranged man is killing all my friends?" Jeff shook his head in disbelief and closed his eyes. When he opened them Bob was gone.
He ran to the snack bar and there, eyes open with an expression of horror, Stephanie was lying gutted like a fish.
"This can't be real! How is this happening?" He noticed the blood surrounding her body was darker and thicker than the blood that he had used for his prank.
"THREE DOWN AND THREE MORE TO GO JEFF! WHO WILL BE NEXT?"
"This is bullshit! Matt, Amy if you can hear me get you asses out her. I'm not kidding! Something is seriously wrong." Jeff was starting to panic. He wasn't sure if this was reality or a joke. Either way he just wanted to get the hell out of there and fast.
"Come on guys. Please come out!"
"WHY DON'T YOU TRY THE LOCKER ROOM? THERE IS A SURPRISE WAITING FOR YOU!" The muffled voice said through the loud speaker.
"Might as well see what it is." Jeff made his way back to the locker room. When he entered, he could still hear the shower going. As he continued further inside, he saw Tiffany still slumped on the ground next to the locker she fell out of. Slowly he moved around the locker room looking for this so called surprise.
"What does this asshole want me to find?" Jeff mumbled breathing hard.
He made his way across the room, looking to his left then to his right. About three feet away from him he saw something that glistened every time the flashlight passed. He went toward it and was definitely surprised. Against the wall, between two lockers, laid the skeletal remains of what he guessed was a teenager. It was too decomposed to tell the gender.
"I wonder if this is one of the missing kids that Steph was talking about?" He looked above the skeleton and saw a picture of him wrestling against Edge. Through his image was a knife.
"What is this supposed to represent?" Jeff said pulling the picture off the wall. "Joke or not, I've had enough!"
He walked out the locker room and back to the field, full of rage. His moment of fear was beginning to fade. As he got closer to the front row of the stadium seats, he saw Matt sitting down.
"Matt, thank God I've found you. Matt, hello can you hear me? That's odd why isn't he answering me?" Jeff could feel his heart racing. When he got close enough to Matt he quickly realized what was wrong.
"Oh no, Matt!" Jeff was horrified at seeing his brother, who he loved dearly, with his throat slashed.
"Jeff, Jeff! Something strange is going on," Amy yelled running toward him.
"Amy, behind you." Jeff was paralyzed with fear to do anything but shout.
Bob grabbed Amy from behind, turned her so she faced him and drove his knife into her stomach. Just as quickly as Bob shoved the knife into Amy's insides, he quickly pulled it out.
"We finally meet face to face Jeff Hardy. I know what you must be thinking, 'Didn't the legend say that Bob killed with rifles?' Well yeah I did but I find them too noisy for this occasion."
Jeff saw Bob come closer and closer. Jeff was shaking and didn't know what to do; suddenly he jumped up onto the guardrail in the first row, just as he did when he was wrestling.
"Don't come any closer or I'll Swanton Bomb your ass then knock that ball off your head with this bat!" Jeff said his voice slightly breaking.
"If you jump off that thing I'll just retaliate with a spear in mid air."
"What did you just say?" Suddenly it clicked the picture in the dressing room and the reference to the spear. "You asshole, Adam that's you, isn't it?"
"Got ya!" Adam said as he took off the baseball head.
"Boo." Matt hollered scaring the shit out of Jeff.
"This was a prank after all." Jeff sounded more relieved than angry.
One by one everyone started to make their way out.
"This was truly extreme hide and go seek." Stephanie said as she and Matt high five each other.
"I told you that you were going to get it bro. But you didn't believe me."
"I guess I need to introduce you to a couple of people." Steph said motioning for two men, who were standing in the background, to come forward.
"This is my cousin Jason. He works in the special effects department for Dimension films. All these wonderful gory props provided by my favorite cousin. And this is Robert Simpson. He owns the stadium."
"Sure do. The real reason this place was closed was that it never made any money. Always more trouble than it was worth. The Bob story was made up to keep the kids from trespassing. For the most part it has worked."
"I can't believe that you guys did this." Jeff was still in disbelief.
"We've been planning this for a long time." Stephanie said.
"We weren't going to even go through with this because we thought it was too evil. Then you pulled that stunt on us earlier and we changed our minds." Matt said with a big smile on his face.
"The look on your face was the best. By the way, where did you learn to count? Never knew that people cheat at hide and go seek." Adam said hysterically laughing.
"I'll admit it, you guys got me back. But you're all stupid if you think that this is over. Just wait until next year!"
