the chain - 1986.
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Last published Fri, Jul 11, 2025
when a hockey team based back in 1986 end up winning their hockey nationals, afterwards the group do something that would change their lives forever, and that shifts them through the space time continuum to 2019, where they meet their older selves, theres just one problem...
theirs a killer on the loose trying to kill all of them for what they did in the 1987. the older versions know what happened, but can the younger versions find out what happened, and find out how to stop the killer, before the killer kills all of them, try to get back to their right universe, and potentially save the space time continuum?
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