A/N: Hello,everyone. This is my first-ever fanfiction. It may not be very good, but I sincerely hope you will like it. Please leave me some comment, whether you like it or not. I'm open to criticism. I'll need all sort of opinions I can get :)

The Game Changer Job is a crossover of Leverage and the Hunger Games.

Chapter 1: Panem

"Alright, guys," said Nathan Ford with a smug, and walked away without further explanation. "Let's go steal some Hunger Games."

"Oh I like that one! Sounds original. 'Steal the Hunger Games'," Parker smiled widely and hopped out of the hotel room. "Wonder why we didn't do that earlier."

Following her out was Eliot Spencer who rolled his eyes at her reaction.

"Something's wrong with her," he complained to the whole room, as if they didn't know about that. Sophie Devereaux had to suppress a giggle when Alec Hardison answered with a that's-Parker-what-do-you-expect look.

And so they had a plan.

Three days ago.

"What are you doing, Nate?" Sophie entered the team's temporary headquarter and found Nate digging himself into a pile of what looked like boring information.

"Checking out our next client," he answered matter-of-factly.

"Oh, c'mon, Nate," Sophie wasn't very enthusiastic about having another job. "We've taken down two CEOs and a billionaire this month already. We deserve a vacation!"

"I know, I know," Nate put up his hands in defense and said. "But this job is a bit different."

He asked before she could say anything. "Ever heard of Panem?"

"Of course. It's a dictatorship due north from here, dangerous place to go to I heard," she answered immediately. "What about Panem?"

Nate smiled a mysterious smile.

"We are going to take down the whole country."

For a moment Sophie just stared at him wild-eyed.

"They're gonna think you're crazy," she sighed and said when she realized she didn't heard that wrong.

"You're crazy, Nate."

It was Eliot who said it first, and he was supported by the quizzical gazes of Hardison and Parker. Sophie just looked at Nate. See?

"Nobody takes down Panem," Hardison added. "You can take down a dozen of CEOs, billionaires, politicians. Hell, you can take down any government you hate, but nobody touches Panem and President Snow. It's just impossible."

"That's why we're doing it," Nate said. "Panem must go down and nobody inside that country would be stupid enough to try."

"Well, somebody did try to do that, seventy-four years ago, and they failed. One of the districts actually got destroyed completely," said Eliot. Everyone turned to look at him.

"And you know that how?" asked Hardison.

"I know someone who is a citizen there," he answered, as if he didn't understand how the other didn't guess that simple fact. "He gave me some history lessons when I happened to pass by that land years ago."

Nate didn't even bother to ask the man why on earth he would pass by the most dangerous land on the entire planet years ago.

"A little correction there," he pointed out. "That district you were talking about? District 13? It wasn't destroyed."

"How do you know that?" This time it was Parker who asked the question.

"I've been studying some propaganda videos made by their government about the consequences of revolution. They keep on stressing the fact that District 13 is still in ruins and that the mines there are too toxic for any human being to approach," he turned to Hardison. "Hardison? Can you put those footages up on the screen?"

Hardison did what he was told.

"See it there? It was the live report about the district, filmed six years ago. Look at the corner there, right after the reporter said 'back to the Capitol'."

Everyone looked hard. Then, they all saw it: A glimpse of a bird flying by in the corner of the screen.

"And now," Nate continued. "This is another live footage of the same story two weeks ago… Right there, see it? The very same bird, a mockingjay, if I'm not wrong, was flying by at the same corner."

"That doesn't mean anything," Sophie questioned. "Like they say, it was still dangerous to enter the zone, perhaps they just don't want to risk their lives."

"Possible, but unlikely," Nate explained. "You see, a government like the Capitol, they are predictable. They don't care if it is harmful or not. They can sacrifice some reporters' health and send them into the area just to make a point, to show how much damage the last uprising had caused; to plant fear into people's mind. If the reporter was sick after that, it would be a bonus. They would have another story to write about, but instead, they didn't even bother to actually send anyone into the district. Clearly, they are hiding something. The best guess? District 13 wasn't destroyed at all. People still live there—underground, maybe—and those people had made a truce of some kind with the Capitol. Basically something like 'if you leave us alone we will keep to ourselves and be good, without causing any problem to your authority'."

They were still skeptical about it when Hardison suddenly said.

"Wow, wow… Man, I've been checking out the frequency status of all the districts in Panem and I've received a huge amount of electrostatic signals, radio signal and stuff from District 13…"

"English, man," snapped Eliot impatiently.

"In other word, Nate is right," he explained. "Not only District 13 exists, but they have the entire system working. Electricity, water supply, security system… Everything. I bet they even have an organized government system, none of those show up in the satellite images though."

"So they really live underground?" Parker suddenly got excited. "That's cool! I've never lived underground before."

Everyone just tuned her out automatically.

"And that," Nate stood up, ready to walk away as he always did.

"Is where we will go."