On a dark stormy night the Head Gamemaker is murdered by a psychopath who seizes control of the preparation of the upcoming Hunger Games. This shadowy figure reveal's their name to be Chess Winchester. He flips the games we know them upside down, destroying the arena and presenting the tributes with a time machine that Chess had invented, sending the tributes on a wild goose chase through time, a goose chase from which only one will come out alive....