Play The Game

The man is drinking his coffee when he suddenly gets a call from someone. He picks it up and he hears the voice of a woman at the end of the line. "Hello, Eve. Why did you call me?" the man asks. "I got your letter about canceling the experiment if it fails again. Am I correct?" Eve says sounding a little tired. "Yes." The man replies. He continues by saying; "I have little hope the experiment will succeed especially after we've been doing this for 3 years. If this final batch fails I ask that you end the experiment.". Eve pauses before replying. "Very well however if this should be the final test we might as well make this one a bit more interesting.

The man was confused by what she said. "What do you mean Eve?" The man asked. The man can hear Eve chewing on something but ignores it. Eve pauses for a bit longer this time before responding. "What do you think about going public about our experiment?" Eve says. The man was shocked by what he just heard Eve say. He slams his hand onto his desk before responding. "Are you insane?! We must not let the public know about this experiment. The outcry will be absurd! Why would you even suggest something like this?!" the man yells. Eve starts laughing hysterically at the other end of the call. She calms herself down before replying. "Sorry but if you want to end the experiment you have to accept it. There's no "but's" you do it or you wait until I order you to end it." She hangs up on the man. The man in a fit of rage throws his phone to a wall destroying it. Olivia enters the room and saw the man enraged. "Judging by how you look it didn't go well?" Olivia asks. The man calms himself down before sitting back down on his chair. "She agreed but only under the condition that we go public about the experiment." the man replies. "What?!" Olivia replies surprised by what she just heard. "Is she mad?! That will put us in a serious bind." Olivia adds. The man stares at the screen before replying. "Prepare the equipment. We'll go live in four days."

3 days have passed. Chris, Maria, and Harry are doing their normal routines. Suddenly Chris gets a phone call from his best friend Sam. They talk for a while and Sam left because he is going on a vacation with his parents. Chris says his farewells on the phone and ends the call.

Chris uses his phone to waste some time but he soon gets uninterested and decides to go for a walk. He puts on his shoes and heads for the door when Maria stops him.

"Where are you going?" she asks. Chris opens the front door before turning to face her. "I'm going out for a walk," he replies. Maria is confused by Chris's sudden decision to go for a walk. "Why?" she asks again. Chris is uninterested in explaining himself so he cuts the argument short. "Because I want to." He replies. Before Maria could say anything else Chris walks out and shuts the door behind him and went out for a walk.

He walked for a few hours until it was dark then he decided to go back. He was now quite far from the house so it'll take a while but he was ok with it as he can think on his own. After about 20 minutes there was a truck he noticed in an alleyway but he ignored it and kept moving.

Suddenly an old woman called for him, he walks toward her and asks her what's wrong and she said she needs help putting her groceries in her car. He grabs her bags and put them in her car but as soon as he placed the bags in the back seat he heard a gunshot from behind. He turns around to see the old woman dead on the floor and a man right behind him. Before he could react the man stabbed him with a syringe and Chris punches the man in the face before losing consciousness. He falls to the ground and the man kicks Chris's unconscious body before grabbing it and throwing him into a truck before driving away.

Maria and Harry were surprised that Chris didn't come home but shrugged it off as he's late. Maria ends up opening Netflix ad started watching her favorite show and Harry went to sleep.

The next morning Maria wakes up tired but she gets out of bed and heads to the living room and turned on the tv to watch the news.

"Breaking news. An old woman was found dead next to her car. It appears she was shot in the head. CCTV footage shows she was with a boy and a man shot her and kidnapped the boy in question. The police are trying to find out who this man is and what is the identity of the boy he kidnapped."

She was surprised by the latest report but suddenly the screen turned black. She thought the tv shut down but then a man appears on tv. He was tall with a large physique and black hair and he has an incredibly creepy smile. It wasn't just Maria's tv screen. It was the screens all over the country. Every screen in the country showed the same thing. "Hello everyone! I am Joker. I am a man with a dream and the host of a wonderful experiment." Everyone has their attention on the screen. "Welcome everyone! Now that I have your attention please take a look on screen!"

Suddenly the screens all over the country start showing Hundreds of children unconscious on screen. It's on buildings, people's tv, and all other devices.

"We have over 300 children and teenagers from ages 5 to 17. They will complete a series of challenges and battle royales to survive. Whoever fails dies and the kids that finish all their challenges get to free all the other kids and they can all go back home." Joker adds. The people are shocked and outraged by what they are seeing. "What kind of experiment is this?!", "Those are children! How can you do something so cruel?!" The people cry out but the Joker starts laughing. "I know that some of you might be upset but I will remind you that this isn't about you. All you have to do is hope that the children will survive. If not then I'm afraid we will need to bring in a new batch of children to repeat this over and over until someone wins." Joker says. He smiles before responding. "So hush now the game is about to begin."

Chris finally woke up. He finds himself in an office room. There's no one around and he has a collar on his neck. He tries to take it off but it won't budge. Suddenly he hears a voice coming from a speaker inside the room. "Hello, Chris. How do you feel?" the voice asks. Chris scouts the room looking for a way out but responds to the voice. "Like a sack of shit. Now, where am I?" Chris says. The voice on the speaker started to laugh and the person responds. "Haha. I like you already! Unfortunately, we must cut this short as your test starts soon.". "Test? Isn't it a bit unfair to test someone that just woke up." Chris says. The voice pauses for a moment and responds this time with a more excited tone.

"True. How about we play a game instead? It's called hide and seek. Your mission is to not die from the seeker. He has a gun and to make things a little fair in the cupboard next to you there are 3 knives. Your objective is to kill the seeker before time runs out. Otherwise, your collar will blow and kill you instantly.". Chris didn't know rather or not he was talking to a child or talking to an actual adult. "Wow, thanks for making things fair for me." Chris sarcastically says. "You're very welcome. I was thinking about rather or not to leave you with anything or not but I know a lot of kids will die if not all so might as well give a few some advantages." The voice replies. Chris walks over to the cupboard and opens it. He finds the knives in a box inside. "Wow. Thank you your so nice." he says sarcastically again. "Even I impress myself with how nice I am. Anyway, It doesn't matter grab your knives and get ready to hide because the seeker is coming in 10 seconds.

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Chris quickly grabs the knives, put them in his pocket, and ran to find a hiding spot

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He finds a hiding spot and tries to get into position. He also prepares his knife

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"Ready or not. Here he comes."