Sheldon worked on his laptop furiously typing out code and figuring out his precise location as the train wound its way to the Capitol. "Aaah, my peaceful Padawans." Sheldon sighed watching his tributes asleep on the couch, their arms around each other. "OH MY WORD!" Sheldon yelped as the Capitol came into view. "Get up my little engineers! Get up!" Sheldon shook Beetee and Wiress awake. "We've teleported to another planet! Look at the colors of the buildings and the extremely odd coloring of the life-forms!" All three of them stared at the window with their jaws on the floor as people swarmed around the train as it wound its way around the brightly colored buildings.

"Oh! We've reached the Capitol!" Their escort screeched coming out of her room. "Isn't it lovely?"

"No, it's quite strange." Sheldon said truthfully. He got a glare as the tributes burst out laughing. "I am merely stating a truthful observation."

"Well, get them ready to go to the Training Center!" The escort screeched. Sheldon nodded.

"Are you two ready to go to the Training Center?" Sheldon asked. Beetee and Wiress nodded. The train stopped and Sheldon ushered them out behind the screeching escort. He smiled reassuringly at them as they gripped each other's hands until their knuckles turned white. They walked into the training center and went to the District Three floor. "Well, the lifeforms in this city certainly have a visual cortex suited for this overstimulating amount of color."

"Life forms?" Wiress asked.

"I do not think of them as part of the species homo sapiens." Sheldon said as he crossed his arms. "They've had far too many physical and no doubt mental alterations. For the worse, of course."

"Ahem um - Mr. - I mean - what should I call you?" Beetee asked.

"Dr. Cooper will suffice."

"Dr. Cooper," Beetee said worriedly. He pointed out a camera hidden in all the decor of the room. "I learned about those in school. They see and hear nearly everything." He said quietly.

"Oh. ok." Sheldon said.

"Beetee worked on -" Wiress pointed out and blushed. She held her boyfriend's hand as he blushed.

"I worked on alterations to the cameras as part of my senior project." Beetee finished.

"He's shy." Wiress giggled.

"You're shy about your inventions, son?" Sheldon asked. "Oh, I wouldn't be. In fact, not many people have the intellect, you, me, and presumably your girlfriend have been blessed with. It is a gift the universe has given."

"We have to go to the Remake room now." Beetee said as their escort called them over to another set of rooms.

"Oh no!" Sheldon gasped. "I hope you will not become one of those hideous lifeforms!" He gasped. "Listen, if they want to alter your frontal cortex, you just tell them no!" He said urgently to both of them. "Goodbye, my little engineers!" Sheldon said embracing them before they were hauled off to meet their prep-teams.

He sat down with his computer again. "I think I have it figured out." He did a quick scan of the cameras using some software and discovered that the audio feed in the camera would randomly dub to Klingon. Sheldon laughed. He wondered if that was the result of Beetee's little project. He turned on Skype and logged in. "BAZINGA!" He cheered.

Pasadena, CA 2005

"SHELDON!" Leonard and Raj gasped as their friend appeared in their Skype window.

"Where are you?" Raj asked.

"I am in the barbaric civilization of the nation of Panem." Sheldon explained. "Alas, I did not make it to the Starfleet Academy. In fact, I don't think a civilization such as this could produce such excellent feats of humanity such as the USS Enterprise." He paused. "This nation is over what used to be North America. Its citizens are forced to give their children to what's known as the Hunger Games where they fight to the death. I have the unfortunate responsibility of mentoring two little engineers through these Games." He sighed.

"Oh - wow." Leonard said. "Is there anything we can do?"

"I'm working on it. If I can hack into this country's internet further and figure out how they run the games, they should prepare for the wrath of Dr. Sheldon Cooper."

"I think Leonard means about the kids - little engineers?" Raj asked as he looked at Leonard who had a worried expression on his face.

"Oh yes. I suppose they could be rescued. I'm working on it." Sheldon said. They chatted for a bit about time travel and the the possibility of sending things to Sheldon and his tributes. "I'd better go." Sheldon signed off quickly.

"Wow." Leonard said after a moment. They looked at the cardboard model of the USS Enterprise. They looked at the small working console built into the model closely. A wire went from that to the office chair. "Well, I wonder," He placed a package of twinkies on the chair and pushed a button. They disappeared. He and Raj looked at each other.

"I think it just might work." Raj said slowly.

Hunger Games Training Center, Capitol of Panem 3312

"TWINKIES!" Sheldon cheered picking up the package of twinkies that appeared by his laptop. "I'll have to thank Leonard and Raj!" he put them in a drawer on a table against the wall seconds before the doors to District Three suite opened. "Oh my goodnes! You are little droids!" Sheldon said grinning. He hurried over to Beetee and Wiress who were indeed wearing outfits that made them look like robots. "Well, that's not bad at all!" The escort walked all them down to the bottom of the training center where their chariots were waiting. "There you are, little droids!" Sheldon said helping Beetee and Wiress into the chariot. "This will probably be the nicest part of the whole ordeal. You two enjoy yourselves!" He smiled at them as they began their procession to the city center. He would find a way to get them out of Panem if it was the last thing he did.