Team Xtreme was in Regal's office having the man just finish reprimanding them for talking to Shane McMahon and now Jeff is the one being punished with a match against none other than the Big Show. The youngest of the team was not pleased one bit as he listened to the curses leaving Matt and Amy over this outcome.
"Why am I the one getting punished when I didn't even say anything in the office?" Jeff asked as they reached the locker room Team Xtreme shared.
"Because you are the baby of our family and what better way to punish all of us than to have to watch Big Show pound you into the mat." Matt explained to his brother who looked nervous at hearing this.
"Matt, stop it. Don't be so nervous, Jeff." Amy assured with her hands on Jeff's face like only a big sister would. "You will be fine out there since we'll be at ringside to support you the whole match."
"Thanks for the comfort. Now I should get changed for the match." Jeff said and went into the locker room.
He went straight to where his bag was on a bench and took out his mesh rash guard, cargo pants, and boots to start changing into them. When done changing, Jeff put his clothes in the bag and tried to stretch himself out for the match as he hears a knock on the locker room door. Jeff opens it to see Randy standing outside with a smirk and the smaller allows Orton to come in as he starts dampening his hair.
"Like your hair. Red looks good on you." Randy says to Jeff who still looks nervous over this match he's in.
"Thanks."
"Who are you wrestling?" Randy asked as he takes a seat on the bench and sips from a soda he snatched from catering.
"Big Show." Jeff answers to see Randy spit soda onto the floor.
"Are you kidding me?" Randy asked in shock. "The guy versing you. No offense Jeff, but you're the size of a little kid compared to him."
"Not helping." Jeff sighs as he runs hands down his face.
"Okay." Randy realizes he said the wrong thing and gets up from the bench to walk over to Jeff to remove the smaller's hands from where they covered his face. "You will be fine out in the ring and think of this as a challenge that could prove how great of a wrestler you are."
"I don't know about this." Jeff bit his lip.
"You can do this." Randy tells his friend while not realizing he's holding Jeff's wrists still.
A knock on the door and Matt telling him his match was up makes Jeff move out of Randy's grip. He quickly thanks his friend for the encouragement before rushing out of the room to join his brother and Lita in the walk to the ring. When the Hardys' music played, Jeff goes out onto the stage ahead of the older two with all his nervousness over the match hidden away. Jeff knew he wouldn't beat Big Show with strength, but possibly his speed could give him a little advantage in the match. Rushing down the rest of the ramp, Jeff slid into the ring and through Big Show's legs to hear the bell be rung and he bounced off the opposite ropes to try a tackle on the large man. Only Big Show easily lifted the boy above his head with ease and just dropped him for Jeff's front including his face to bounce off the mat. Pain surged through Jeff as he saw the man getting closer to continue the assault before he could defend himself, Big Show tossed him right into the opposite corner for a loud smash to vibrate in the air. Big Show then grabbed Jeff to smash the boy's head into the mat and Jeff sat on his knees clutching his head in pain. The assault on Jeff was torture to Matt and Lita with them not knowing how they could help the youngest who didn't deserve to be punished when he really had done nothing wrong except being with them. Even when Jeff caught the large man with a dropkick it did nothing before he was back on the mat, laying there in pain. Having seen enough of his little brother being beaten for his own fault, Matt got on the apron to distract Big Show and now the large man was after him. Lita got on the top turnbuckle to be caught by Big Show and about to be chokeslammed if Jeff hadn't at that second slammed a forearm smash into the large man. This cost the boy a slam into the mat and Big Show got on the top rope looking to do is own flying in the match. Luckily Jeff had instinct kick in and rolled out of the way of Big Show's leg drop and quickly moved to land a Swanton Bomb on the large man after Lita had hit him with a Moonsault and Matt with a leg drop. Jeff was too exhausted to move off Show after hitting the move and found himself making the cover with Matt and Lita helping him keep the large man down. At the bell ringing with Jeff as the winner, Big Show kicked up to send Jeff rolling out of the ring and had to have his brother, Lita, and even the ref help him up the ramp. The two older Team Xtreme members saw Big Show making a chase after them and they grabbed Jeff to rush him through the hallways. Big Show could be heard shouting for the Hardy Boys, but the three weren't going to stop running.
"In here." Matt instructs and Amy guides Jeff inside the locker room.
"What the hell?" Mark turns to them from where he stands in only his leather pants and shirtless.
"Big Show. Chase. Jeff win." Amy pants as Matt slams the door shut.
"Big Show is after you because Jeff won against him." Glenn says to see the three nod.
"And how do you feel?" Mark asked Jeff who was leaning on Amy.
"Pain." Jeff whispers to be caught by his brother when his legs give out.
"Sit him down on the bench." Glenn instructs as they heard Big Show getting closer.
Big Show makes the mistake of slapping the locker room door open and a smirk goes on his face at seeing the three wrestlers that he's after. Though he then sees the Brothers Of Destruction who doesn't look pleased with the break in of their locker room and a punch from Kane slams Big Show out of the room to crash into the table against a wall. In a blur, the Brothers Of Destruction are on him pounding away with Big Show unable to defend. At one point Kane had a chair and was smashing it on Big Show while watching this from the open doorway was Team Xtreme.
"Next time knock." Undertaker tells the beaten man before heading back in the locker room with Kane.
"Thanks for the help." Amy sighs as the three young wrestlers sit on the floor.
"We only did that because of too many people walking into locker rooms they're not supposed to be in." Mark says referring to Malenko going into the woman's when Amy was taking a shower, which had Kane wanting to set the man on fire for.
"We should go change." Matt holds a hand out to Jeff to help his brother to his feet.
"I thought I was hurting before, now I have the desire to collapse in a bed and not move for a week." Jeff says with a groan and Mark decides to walk Jeff back to Team Xtreme's locker room while Amy and Matt went to locate Jericho, Jay, or Adam.
Jeff enters the locker room take a hot shower in hopes of relieving some of the pain in his body after the pay per view and now his previous match. He was drying his hair with a towel after having gotten dressed into his earlier clothes when he heard the door open and assumed it was just Matt or Amy coming in to grab their stuff. The boy steps out of the shower room barefoot with a towel trying to get his hair from being soaked to stop in shock. In his locker room sitting on the bench was Stevie Richards who looked to be comfortable.
"What are you doing in here? Lita isn't in the shower if you're here to be a pervert, but I'll tell you what locker room she's in." Jeff was planning to give Kane the chance to light this man on fire.
"I wanted to see if the rumors are true about you, Jeff. Tell me did you never hit puberty where you would have received at least-"
"I'm not a girl Richards. Now get out." Jeff says very calmly and drapes his towel on the back of a folding chair.
"Look. We all know you are too attractive to be a male or do you just got too much of a feminine figure to have guys attracted to you." Stevie explains as Jeff looks to ignore him.
"Unless you want a beating like last time someone snuck into a locker room, you should get out now." Jeff sees the door behind Richards opening and Randy stepping in.
"Just tell me the truth and maybe I'll leave."
"You win Richards." Jeff sighs. "You see I think you figured me all out."
Slowly Jeff steps closer to the man to make sure his focus was only on him and not Randy sneaking up behind him with an unpleased look in dark blue eyes. A finger runs along Stevie's covered chest and the dyed red-haired boy gives a small smirk to the man.
"I mean you dress like a slut and basically leaving most of the men wondering if you're male or female." Richards laughs to see Jeff wink.
Before Richards can even react, Randy gave an O-Zone to the man and Jeff puts his wrestling gear in his bag before grabbing it to leave. Randy rushes after his friend to see Jeff not look at all mad over the fact that someone had entered his locker room while he was taking a shower. It is weird that he's never really seen Jeff lose his temper and really after what just happened, Jeff should be fuming.
"Are you at all mad?" Randy asked finally needing an answer.
"No. Richards got what he deserved and the only reason he did it was to try getting a way to mess with Taker." Jeff explains as they walk through the hallway.
"I wanted to rip his head off over what I heard him saying to you. How do you stay so calm?"
"Don't know. Never really was one to have a short temper, but I guess Taker always needed someone to help him cool down."
"Seriously Jeff. Tell me what your relationship is with the Undertaker." Randy needed to finally be told or he might explode with the theories in his head.
"It's actually a long story." Jeff rubbed the back of his neck.
"I'm in no rush."
Jeff dug through his bag to pull out his cell phone and in his photos was one of Mark holding a baby that looked to of been just born with the hospital blanket wrapped around the infant. A sad smile was on Jeff's face as he showed the photo to Randy who still couldn't figure out what this was about or why Jeff had this photo. One thing he noticed that was different about the Undertaker was the man didn't have dark hair, but instead strawberry blonde.
"This photo was taken almost twenty-one years ago." Jeff told Randy.
"Who is Undertaker holding?"
"Me." Jeff laughed for it to sound sad. "The reason Taker is protective of me and I'm always around him is that I'm his nephew. He's my uncle on my mom's side and he was visiting when I was born and my mom wanted him to hold me."
"What about your mom?"
"She passed away from brain cancer when I was little. Sometimes it's hard to remember her and I knew there was something odd about me in the Hardy family. I was the only one with blonde hair when my mom and dad have dark hair like Matt. Guess I had to take after my uncle with that difference."
"Jeff, I'm sorry about your mom."
"I don't really talk much about the whole thing with my family. After she passed away, Taker began watching me a lot for my dad and Matt really didn't want anything to do with the man so he stayed with our dad."
"So is Kane your uncle too?" Randy asked to see Jeff smirk.
"Family works in strange ways." Jeff just says and hears an engine. "Taker is coming. I'll see you around Randy."
On a motorcycle, Mark pulls up beside the two boys with his eyes on Randy as if warning the third generation wrestler to not think about using Jeff to get to the main roster. Jeff slung his bag over his chest before taking the open spot behind Mark on the motorcycle and he held on to the man. A small wave was given to Randy as Mark pulled away from the other boy once sure Jeff wouldn't fall off the motorcycle. Randy watched the motorcycle leave his sight and couldn't believe what Jeff had just told him, which he could understand the smaller not really wanting many to know.
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