PROLOGUE

President Snow, newly appointed head of the new grid, sat on his throne thinking about how his race, the race of computer programs, conquered mankind one hundred years ago. A human found a way to open up a portal from the digital world to the real world giving CLU, the former leader of the new grid and now head game maker, the ability to send himself and his forces into the real world. At first he wanted to kill every last human as punishment for their enslavement of the programs Then CLU realized that it would be a more satisfying revenge if he and the programs ruled the humans and treated them terribly.

To mock them further CLU took the human's ability to program his kind and harnessed it himself to make the Hunger Games, the same video game that programs were made to fight in during the years of the old grid, but with more variables and an actual environment. He decreed that every year each district will give up to children to fight in the games as a reminder of how the program's suffering in similar video games.

"The arena is ready", CLU said as he walked into the room. He was wearing regal robes and his identity disk was strapped into an ornate gold sheath.

"Good" President Snow said, "It had better be extraordinary."

"Oh it will" ClU said, "It will."